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title: "19-deepfakes"
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- comp210
- lecture
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# what, origins, how
- issue with trust politics etc
- essentially better face swapping
- replaces traditional studio artist with ML
- open source
- easy to do
- point and click
- more widely available
- in early stages so quality varies
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# related concepts
- voice faking c.f., impersonation
- lip syncing (replaces mouth no whole face)
- take actual footage of e.g., politician and change words
- can be done using only text
- natural language processing
- uncanny valley
- ![](https://i.imgur.com/Jd8Vpv1.png)
- "something not quite right"
- some people dont realise
# how
- auto encoders
- take image an reduce to a base representation
- e.g., of the face
- decorder
- takes base and produces image
- deepfake
- takes base of two differnet people and combines them
- two decoders
- one for each person
- a pathway and b pathway
- both decode from the same combined base representation
- to swap
- ![swap process](https://i.imgur.com/Z0oWuOk.png)
- deep face lab
- ml workflow
other requiremtns
- need a lot of data
- video - extract individual frames
- similar facial structures
- source content cleanup
- remove images with two or more faces
- crop images
- resample/distort/skew image to create new instances
- post processing tools to touch up afterwards
# concerns and solutions
- genuine concern about video being distict
- we expect images and text to be fake
- do not expect videos to be fake
- more damaging
- politically weaponised
- e.g., deep fakes of biden declare war on russia
plausible deniability
- porn
- swap actors onto porn scenes
- hard to deny
- how to prove its a deepfake
- revenge porn
- lack of trust
- only from the existense of deepfakes
- true things become more suspicious
should "you" be concerned
- for your personal integrity no
- likely not enough data for you to be faked
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