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 this is awful. It should be illegal to create software to do this.

@danedeasy @stroughtonsmith this is really horrible to see, you are right.
How can any serious developer/scientist work in such a shit?

PS: The internet will be flooded with such easy to produce fake videos, this will end terrible for all of us.

@herbsti72 @danedeasy @stroughtonsmith

The good thing i see coming from Ai-generated videos is the bankruptcy of Hollywood.
#ChatGpt will spit out a #script customized to each viewer and the #video platform will create an individualized #movie.

@madeindex

I don´t think Hollywood would be the big issue.

I think this technology will be used to destroy trust in media, people and democratic structures.
Which such technology it is quite easy to flood the internet with much more fake videos about politicians and other people to discredit them.

@danedeasy @stroughtonsmith

@herbsti72 @danedeasy @stroughtonsmith
Yeah that's the bad side, the trust in anything not by an old, "trusted" source like a newspaper or popular influencer will be shattered, which might lead to an even further centralization of "truth" online.