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 Continuing to wonder how the good outweighs the bad with this kind of thing
@nutbunnies @stroughtonsmith It doesn’t. We’re already being lied to, now everything is going to be lies and we will literally have zero idea if anything is real or not. What’s the point if there is zero reason to trust anything. This is extremely bad for society.