Deep fakes and Face-Swap – the lies behind it
Who does not know it from childhood days, the face of a friend or a fierce enemy will be cut, and more or less professionally on a other part of the body is positioned. Of course, that the Person concerned is then in a funny or embarrassing Pose.
- Deep fakes is basically the Same as the age-old Gag from your children. However - and this makes all the difference - is deep fakes much more professional. Deep fakes scissors and glue are not used, but Artificial intelligence.
- This Artificial intelligence created Fake pictures and Videos deep fakes look realistic, what do you dangerous. Be widely used in this way, manipulated images, or Videos then over the Internet, you can easily reach an audience of millions. And we like to believe what we see with our own eyes. Not for nothing the saying is still true that A picture says more than 1000 words.
- For the persons concerned, however, it is prove all the more difficult later, that the images or Videos, where you are supposedly to see have been manipulated. A little further thought, may not be such manipulations only unpleasant for the Affected. It might also put heavy processes in motion, for example, in the political or legal areas.
- The term deep fakes goes back to a User of the Internet portal Reddit. On this Portal User post including pictures and Videos. A user published in the past year, under the Pseudonym deep fakes on the Internet portal a few Porn movies. The special feature of these films was that the faces of the Porn actors had been replaced by the faces of well-known media stars. A number of celebrities were affected, including Scarlett Johansson, Emma Watson and Gal Gadot.
- For this kind of very realistic Manipulation, is used a as a Face-Swap technology known.
Reddit user "deep fakes" managed to design a new Face-Swap program (image: Pixabay)
After "FakeApp"
As the user "deep fakes" and his Face-Swap technology, which was broadcast by several media, such as the Motherboard in the focus of Public attention, was also the appropriate sub-forum on Reddit ("r/deep fakes") of known. In the meantime, the Forum has been blocked by Reddit, and is no longer accessible. However, there are still consequences:
- Turned out to be the beginning of 2018, the focus is on another Reddit user who created the program "FakeApp". Thus, it is also users without technical Know-how, faces in porn to "swap".
- So also other Users could take advantage of deep fakes the technology to produce porn films with Actresses"".
You want to have the Face-Swap method try it yourself, you can us the FakeApp download. With the artificial intelligence of FakeApp you can achieve quite amazing results, but require lots of computing Power.
