This mash-up of Jennifer Lawrence and Steve Buscemi is funny, weird and kind of terrifying
Here’s a journalist called Mikael Thalen who plunged into the world of ‘deep fakes’ and found this mash-up of actors Jennifer Lawrence and Steve Buscemi.
I've gone down a black hole of the latest DeepFakes and this mashup of Steve Buscemi and Jennifer Lawrence is a sight to behold pic.twitter.com/sWnU8SmAcz
— Mikael Thalen (@MikaelThalen) January 29, 2019
Not only is it very funny and very, very weird, it is also cause for serious alarm, as Mikael goes on to explain.
Speaking of DeepFakes, lawmakers are currently sounding the alarm over concerns that such techniques will be used during the 2020 election https://t.co/aUIrlSRtMi
— Mikael Thalen (@MikaelThalen) January 29, 2019
Many feel the issue is more hype than substance though. People already believe in outlandish conspiracies based on far, far less. This take feels pretty spot on: https://t.co/540IWm2Xeh
— Mikael Thalen (@MikaelThalen) January 29, 2019
As some have pointed out, the potential for this to be used against everyday people as a form of blackmail is probably, at least in some ways, much more worrisome than a video involving a well-known politician. https://t.co/wKUUSFZ6hM
— Mikael Thalen (@MikaelThalen) January 29, 2019
For those interested, the above Lawrence-Buscemi video was made by an individual who used a I5-8500K processor, a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card and free DeepFakes tool available online. I believe they made this video just weeks after watching a tutorial on YouTube.
— Mikael Thalen (@MikaelThalen) January 30, 2019
If you want to know the history of how this technology became accessible to more or less everyday people, @samleecole over at @motherboard I believe was the first to cover its emergence on Reddit back in late 2017 https://t.co/KE7XG1Olev
— Mikael Thalen (@MikaelThalen) January 30, 2019
Researchers have developed different ways to detect DeepFakes. One way is to analyze how often the individual in the video blinks using AI. While it is accurate now, researchers say they will need new methods as DeepFakes become more advanced https://t.co/4rrP2jHPOS
— Mikael Thalen (@MikaelThalen) January 30, 2019
And people had questions.
So my question is–how tech savvy do you have to be to make these? Is it relatively easy? Or is it time-consuming and require loads of skill? Because I'm likely to base my panic levels on that.
— Phetasy (@BridgetPhetasy) January 30, 2019
The tool to do this is freely available online. The individual who created this video allegedly learned how from a YouTube tutorial. Practice and time are the big factors. I believe they had a fairly high-end graphics card and processor that made the process quicker (few days).
— Mikael Thalen (@MikaelThalen) January 30, 2019
Oh cool so in other words, we should all be terrified.
— Phetasy (@BridgetPhetasy) January 30, 2019
This is hilarious but the implications of this technology continue to be horrifying.
— Nash W. (@nashwins) January 30, 2019
https://twitter.com/corybarlog/status/1090484765914935297
Buscemi's skin looks great! https://t.co/NOvSTXJv88
— alan tudyk (@AlanTudyk) January 30, 2019
computers are too good now. time to stop making them more good. that's enough. https://t.co/1Kev9YoUbq
— libby watson (@libbycwatson) January 30, 2019
Oh, and there was this, which made us smile but really shouldn’t.
This was tough to jerk off to
— The Vulgar Chef 🐝 (@TheVulgarChef) January 30, 2019
