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This is one of those technologies where I struggle to think of beneficial use cases, but my mind fills with ways this could abused. That's not to say it should
by freyr 6y ago
This is one of those technologies where I struggle to think of beneficial use cases, but my mind fills with ways this could abused.
That's not to say it shouldn't be researched, or people more creative than me won't think of beneficial use cases.
- jaggirs 6y agoThis whole post is a beneficial use case of deepfake-ish tech.
- freyr 6y agoAnd that is what, exactly? From the abstract: "Our system can generate novel points between professional tennis players that resemble Wimbledon broadcasts, enabling new experiences such as the creation of matchups between players that have not competed in real life, or interactive control of players in the Wimbledon final." I don't believe academic researchers needs to justify their work by providing real life applications. But if that were the extent of deepfake's utility, I'd be underwhelmed.
- hobofan 6y agoNot sure if the deepfaking here is necessary step, but I think it could be useful towards creating humanoid robot assisted tennis training.
- pawelmurias 6y agoInteractive deep faking of real people in video games seems insanely impressive at least to me. What more could you expect?
- tux1968 6y agoEducation and entertainment use cases abound.
- freyr 6y agoYes, simulating real people for entertainment value seems to be the primary use case at this point. I'm just unsure that the value tradeoff between "simulating real people for entertainment" and "simulating real people for fraud, propaganda, misinformation, etc." is in our favor. It's inevitable, we'll just need to adapt. I recently lost my dog. The idea of interacting with a virtual model of her to help ease the grief is interesting and scary, and ripped straight from a Black Mirror episode.
- pytmand 6y agoYour comment about your dog reminded me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uflTK8c4w0c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uflTK8c4w0c A mother meeting her dead daughter again through VR. It's a video that fills me with all sorts of emotions. It feels so wrong but at the same time it is very touching and beautiful.
- Tepix 6y agoThink about stuntmen who risk their lives.
- nmca 6y agoI don't think it's too unlikely that the cost of producing the CGI for a film like "The Avengers" could go from ~1e7 USD to ~1e3 USD over the next ~10 years. Seems like that could have some creative uses.