Here’s your AI astonishment/nightmare fuel for today:

"TL;DR: single portrait photo + speech audio = hyper-realistic talking face video with precise lip-audio sync, lifelike facial behavior, and naturalistic head movements, generated in real time.”

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/

VASA-1 - Microsoft Research

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@stroughtonsmith

OMG. "Nothing that could be problematic here! Moving along...."

@mattdm @stroughtonsmith The "women" have very similar eyebrows, eyes, noses and mouths, all just a tiny bit imperfect - but all in the same way. That pattern is still too visible.