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Deep fake is a great term. Facial masking hides all the other uses of deep fakes. You can fake anything with these techniques based on deep learning. The term
by wodenokoto 4y ago
Deep fake is a great term. Facial masking hides all the other uses of deep fakes. You can fake anything with these techniques based on deep learning.
The term is just spot on.
- nashashmi 4y agoThat's exactly why there should be a distinction made. The term is too broad for a specific subset of deep fake technology that has matured far beyond its fun monster phase. Facemask and soundmask are good terms for a democratized warping of visual and audio data.
- SubiculumCode 4y agoDeep Fake tech needs to puncture the public's consciousness ASAP, diluting terms will be counterproductive
- smoldesu 4y agoThose terms seem a little broad to me. If the news reported that Barack Obama's likeness was used in a "facemask", nobody would know what happened. If they said it was used for a "deepfake", most people still probably wouldn't know what happened, but at least they could look it up and get a general idea. Considering how facemasking and soundmasking have multiple contextual meanings, I think deepfake is the perfect word. If you need more precision, then you can use the phrase "visual deepfake" or "audio deepfake".
- dkonofalski 4y agoI agree with this mostly in the sense that we need a specific word without any other context that defines what these are. I'm not sure that "deepfake" is that word but it definitely fits the bill based on what we're looking for. Deepfake has the advantage of being a word that's already in common usage that a good number of people recognize as "Oh, that's a fake done by a computer" so adding "audio" or "video" in front of it also fits the requirement of being easy to distinguish without being cluttered by other meanings or contexts. While we may be able to come up with a better word (in the same sense that a "tweet" is now unambiguous in context), I think it would be a misstep not to take the snowball that is "deepfake" and continue to use it in this context especially as a means to educate people on fake, computer-generated audio and video. People can barely keep up with tech buzzwords as it is so the fact that "deepfake" is already something in the public consciousness means a lot.
- c22 4y agoWouldn't that be a voicemask?
- bsenftner 4y agoWithin VFX the terms are actor, object and background replacement. Rarely mentioned in any of the deep fake literature is the requirement for a non-facial skin skin tone correction for most deep fakes to begin to look natural. Everybody ignores the fact that you nor I have the same skin tone, and that needs to be touched up for any face replacement to start to look correct.
- Melatonic 4y agoA good VFX artist can also do a hell of a better job than any of these deepfake automated platforms. And has been able to do that for a long, long time now. So while deepfakes becoming more available to everyone worries me the fact that we have not yet seen tons of well done face swap videos done by malicious actors paying a decent VFX artist makes me wonder how big this will really become. That being said for smaller countries with less internet access (and less education) this has already become a big problem (lots of cases in elections in Africa) so I think once again it comes down to education: we must inoculate people to bullshit like this by giving them the tools to spot it and future things like it.