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AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and Were All Fucked

Someone used an algorithm to paste the face of 'Wonder Woman' star Gal Gadot onto a porn video, and the implications are terrifying.

Theres a video of Gal Gadot having sex with her stepbrother on the internet. But its not really Gadots body, and its barely her own face. Its an approximation, face-swapped to look like shes performing in an existing incest-themed porn video.

The video was created with a machine learning algorithm, using easily accessible materials and open-source code that anyone with a working knowledge of deep learning algorithms could put together.

It's not going to fool anyone who looks closely. Sometimes the face doesn't track correctly and there's an uncanny valley effect at play, but at a glance it seems believable. It's especially striking considering that it's allegedly the work of one persona Redditor who goes by the name 'deepfakes'not a big special effects studio that can digitally recreate a young Princess Leia in Rogue One using CGI. Instead, deepfakes uses open-source machine learning tools like TensorFlow, which Google makes freely available to researchers, graduate students, and anyone with an interest in machine learning.

Like the Adobe tool that can make people say anything, and the Face2Face algorithm that can swap a recorded video with real-time face tracking, this new type of fake porn shows that we're on the verge of living in a world where it's trivially easy to fabricate believable videos of people doing and saying things they never did. Even having sex.

So far, deepfakes has posted hardcore porn videos featuring the faces of Scarlett Johansson, Maisie Williams, Taylor Swift, Aubrey Plaza, and Gal Gadot on Reddit. Ive reached out to the management companies and/or publicists who represent each of these actors informing them of the fake videos, and will update if I hear back.

Fake celebrity porn, where images are photoshopped to look like famous people are posing nude, is a years-old category of porn with an ardent fan base. People commenting and voting in the subreddit where deepfakes posts are big fans of his work. This is the latest advancement in that genre.

According to deepfakeswho declined to give his identity to me to avoid public scrutinythe software is based on multiple open-source libraries, like Keras with TensorFlow backend. To compile the celebrities faces, deepfakes said he used Google image search, stock photos, and YouTube videos. Deep learning consists of networks of interconnected nodes that autonomously run computations on input data. In this case, he trained the algorithm on porn videos and Gal Gadots face. After enough of this training, the nodes arrange themselves to complete a particular task, like convincingly manipulating video on the fly.

Artificial intelligence researcher Alex Champandard told me in an email that a decent, consumer-grade graphics card could process this effect in hours, but a CPU would work just as well, only more slowly, over days.

This is no longer rocket science, Champandard said.

The ease with which someone could do this is frightening. Aside from the technical challenge, all someone would need is enough images of your face, and many of us are already creating sprawling databases of our own faces: People around the world uploaded 24 billion selfies to Google Photos in 2015-2016. It isnt difficult to imagine an amateur programmer running their own algorithm to create a sex tape of someone they want to harass.

Deepfakes told me hes not a professional researcher, just a programmer with an interest in machine learning.

read the full article https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gydydm/gal-gadot-fake-ai-porn
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This has been a thing for awhile...
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Whelp

I don't really support this. Id watch it though
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TheVipaGTS posted...

This has been a thing for awhile...

I think the point the article is making is that now it's absurdly easy even for the laymen and the quality is getting better to the point of being difficult to spot, and this has wider implications.

Like it's not just obviously bullshit photoshopped pics, but fully working films that are convincing fakes.
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Niiccee
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The future is fucked
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apolloooo posted...

Gal Gadot having sex with her stepbrother on the internet

welp
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I just saw one, it's still so obvious as a fake

but still, what the fuck that they can make their faces moan like that
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who the hell is Al, and why/how is he assisting with "fake porn?"

shit sounds greasy
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woooooah
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Sexypwnstar posted...

I just saw one, it's still so obvious as a fake

but still, what the fuck that they can make their faces moan like that

I mean if you think about it it's not that far away from the snapchat filters on your phone that track your face and alter its shape.

Expect this to boom quickly I guess.
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apolloooo posted...

Someone used an algorithm to paste the face of 'Wonder Woman' star Gal Gadot onto a porn video, and the implications are terrifying.

I'm literally shuddering at the implications!
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Funbazooka posted...

apolloooo posted...

Someone used an algorithm to paste the face of 'Wonder Woman' star Gal Gadot onto a porn video, and the implications are terrifying.

I'm literally shuddering at the implications!

My hips are moving on its own
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We're a few years away from this being used to make a video of like... Chuck Schumer admitting to child his love of child porn.
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It's like that episode of Futurama with Lucy Liu.
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JustMonika posted...

It's like that episode of Futurama with Lucy Liu.

Lmao i member
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This sounds like an episode of Black Mirror.
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apolloooo posted...

Ive reached out to the management companies and/or publicists who represent each of these actors informing them of the fake videos, and will update if I hear back.

god damn snitches....

Photography technology is literally going to become so advanced that it rolls back to zero because it will be impossible to prove legitimacy of any photograph
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The most scary thing id with these 2 digits IQ trigger happy politicians everywhere
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I'm literally shuddering and shaking after viewing fake Gal Gadot porn. It will take many days to recover from the energy spent fighting this injustice. Be forewarned, these virtual rapists are hard nuts to crack.
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Is anybody actually surprised? The only thing surprising to me is that it didn't happen sooner.
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