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Funny, I kind of got the opposite message. The Tom Cruise bits were poking fun at the fact that all of these deepfakes are every bit as obvious as the puppet. A
by modeless 6y ago
Funny, I kind of got the opposite message. The Tom Cruise bits were poking fun at the fact that all of these deepfakes are every bit as obvious as the puppet. And they didn't even try deepfaking the voices because it doesn't work at all. Just listen to the latest state of the art voice mimicking samples. They're terrible! It says a lot that the only actually convincing fake in the entire video was a human impersonator's voice.
That said, this stuff will improve over time. But before you label it the end of the world you really have to think about how much has always been possible with impersonators and makeup/prosthetics.
- nucleardog 6y agoThe podcast Twenty Thousand Hertz did an episode on deepfake voices[1], which is my only real exposure to the audio side of this that I know about. Certainly wouldn't say it didn't work or was terrible. [1]: https://www.20k.org/episodes/deepfakedallas https://www.20k.org/episodes/deepfakedallas
- modeless 6y agoI guess it's a matter of opinion, but it's obvious to me that the quality in that episode and in the state-of-the-art models is very, very far from the quality of that Michael Caine impersonation. If they had deepfaked Michael Caine's voice, nobody would have been fooled.
- dwd 6y agoI would have to agree that impersonations still come off as far more convincing at the moment, and some are really good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Btb8gLy3-E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Btb8gLy3-E