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The human brain is very skilled at recognizing faces, it's the result of evolution. While deepfake are high quality, I think most people can notice that it's n
by jokoon 7y ago
The human brain is very skilled at recognizing faces, it's the result of evolution.
While deepfake are high quality, I think most people can notice that it's not entirely authentic. A deepfake cannot really account for the shape of the skull, face mimics, face muscles, how the head and jaw move, etc, there are many things that the human brain works on to identify a face. I'm not really sure that deepfakes measure and render all those things reliably.
So I'm not really convinced by deepfakes in general. It's mostly a glorified silicon mask, nothing more: it will trick people if they're far away enough. Those might be able to fool face recognition softwares, but not humans, even those who are aware of deepfakes.
- mbel 7y agoWhile it's true that there are some artifacts, I think that they can be mitigated with some tricks like: avoiding sudden head movements by the actor or artificially decreasing the quality of the video. Low quality photos of big foot entertained people for years. I generally agree though that with time we will learn to see red flags like this and treat video as probably fake.
- giarc 7y agoI think people are mostly able to tell because they are told "this is a deepfake video of arnold schwarzenegger" (and the technology is early). Now imagine someone deepfakes a video of a gathering of people taken from across the room. It purportely shows a politician talking to some constituents and espousing some whacky ideas. It gets posted and before the politician can address it, it's already gone viral and there are pitchforks at their door. The video quality issues are hidden by the fact that it is a grainy cell phone video in a dimmly lit room with digital zoom enabled.
- danlugo92 7y agoActors with similar skull shapes might be used for more convincing deep fakes.