Posted on 03/03/2021 6:30:45 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
This technology was built in the name of nostalgia but is being used in the name of nonsense.
Last Thursday, genealogy website MyHeritage announced a new tool for animating photos, called Deep Nostalgia. While the tech was intended to let users “bring beloved ancestors back to life” and “experience your family history like never before,” many internet denizens have been finding far less wholesome applications for it.
“So I wanted to know how the recent #DeepLearning facial animations services do with busts and decided to give that botched Christiano Ronaldo statue a spin,” one Twitter user captioned a “#DeeplyDisturbed” video created with the MyHeritage software to show the bronze bust uncannily moving about.
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Damn... please don’t animate pictures of Hitler or Stalin.
Wow that is really cool, looks like those active Harry Potter paintings.
For example, imagine this sort of tech being used to insert someone into the capitol "riot" videos. And not just their face, but their entire body, The video could be manipulated to show a gun in their hand, show them smashing a window, whatever.
That's pretty scary stuff.
That was great!
Or Hillary!
My thoughts exactly.
Harry Potter Ping!
“Creepy or not, that is amazing technology. Unfortunately, it also suggests that before too long, those with the money and desire to do so, will be able to fabricate videos showing anyone doing anything.
For example, imagine this sort of tech being used to insert someone into the capitol “riot” videos. And not just their face, but their entire body, The video could be manipulated to show a gun in their hand, show them smashing a window, whatever.
That’s pretty scary stuff.”
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When my brother (now deceased) was in the Army, he spent a lot of time out of uniform in South America. Years ago he told me about some secret (at the time) ability to manipulate photos to add/change undesired content to force cooperation from certain necessary people (at the threat of the photos being shown to folks they would not have wanted to see them, even though not real, and the victim knew they were not real. They just understood that whoever saw them would believe they were real, and that was enough to make them behave as you wanted.).
Amazing in the hands of good people interested in what their ancestsors looked like.
Scary when in the hands of the FBI or HLS!
My family has no video footage of my Mom’s parents. I uploaded my grandmother’s picture to the site, and downloaded the animation. My mother cried when I sent it to her. My grandmother died in 1993 when I was in high school.
Ping for later hilarity.
I’ll have to see what it can do with Larry Moe & Curly, for example.
(Someone probably already has)
They already are doing that. They call them "deep fakes".
Mystery Scoop is uploading photos on YouTube a couple of times a week. Not only are the very old pictures (dating back to the 1850s) impressively cleaned up and colorized, he started having them blink and move slightly. His latest has them smiling, aging, getting younger, etc. Very realistic. Some have commented that the teeth are likely too perfect.
The first time when I saw the picture blink, I was pretty surprised.
Here’s yesterday’s posting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bOLxkdb3ls
I found this a week or two ago and remarked the same thing
How long until a woke LGBT Elvis shows up in a Star is Born movie reboot
those with the money and desire to do so, will be able to fabricate videos
I look forward to new Bogart and John Wayne movies
I asked my ex wife to send me pictures of her grandmother as a 25-30 year old to make for her father hoping for the same results
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