It has begun !!! Now we need passwords for each other !!

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It has begun !!! Now we need passwords for each other !! - Lemmy.world

The time has come for us to make passwords for identifying each other…

Right now deepfakes doesn’t work well when the face is viewed from extreme angles, so you can ask them to slowly turn their face to the side or up/down as far as they can until the face is not visible. It also doesn’t work well when something obstruct the face, so ask them to put their hand in their face. It also can’t seem to render mouth right if you open it too wide, or stick out your tongue.

But as the tech improves, it might be able to handle those cases in the future.

Right now deepfakes doesn’t work well when the face is viewed from extreme angles, so you can ask them to slowly turn their face to the side or up/down as far as they can until the face is not visible.

or, you know, you can just pickup the phone and call them.

You might not be aware of it, but in India (and SEA), using whatsapp video call is a lot more common than calling using your carrier’s phone service. No one would think twice when receiving a whatsapp video calls there.
I guess that also allows for some ‘benefit of the doubt’ from the point of view of the victim, it’s probably harder to spot artifacts that would be obvious on a TV or monitor screen when the image is v small, and any glitches could be due to the video stream / compression