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I was thinking the same thing, is there a word for a computer generated person? The whole article felt off to me because of what I interpreted as a misunderstan
by werber 6y ago
I was thinking the same thing, is there a word for a computer generated person? The whole article felt off to me because of what I interpreted as a misunderstanding of what a deepfake is
- phpnode 6y ago> is there a word for a computer generated person? Maybe "infomorph"?
- pvaldes 6y agoI would suggest "compuppet"
- AndrewUnmuted 6y agoThis should be the answer, even if there is a more accepted term already in use. The etymology is undeniable and it very effectively describes the concept in question without it possibly making references to any other adjacent concepts. Also it reminds me of Animorphs!
- RealityVoid 6y agoSadly, apparently, the name is taken over by another concept. For now.
- Cyabra 6y agoThat sounds so close to a Pokemon name... :)
- EamonnMR 6y agoCGI?
- WiseWeasel 6y agoAn avatar; placeholder for identity.
- Cyabra 6y agoIt's a good one too! From our experience, an avatar is commonly used in relation to information warfare operations and can be similarly compared to sockpuppets, or deep socially engineered identities that have the will to skew with the public opinion.
- basch 6y agoThe opposite will happen. I doubt the call for preciseness wins out. Reuters and other media will fetch deepfake to mean more things, and it will become a category of related frauds. I have to wonder when the meaning change occurred. It's hard to tell if they got it from an interview, or a misunderstanding introduced it into the article. >A generative adversarial network is the name given to dueling computer programs that run through a process of trial and error, according to Hao Li, chief executive and cofounder of Pinscreen, a startup that builds AI avatars. >One program, the generator, sequentially fires out millions of attempts at a face; the second program, the discriminator, tries to sniff out whether the first program’s face is a fake. If the discriminator can’t tell, Li said, a deepfake is produced. https://graphics.reuters.com/CYBER-DEEPFAKE/ACTIVIST/nmovajgnxpa/index.html https://graphics.reuters.com/CYBER-DEEPFAKE/ACTIVIST/nmovajg...