Disney has their own take on Deep Fake tech - and its can produces 1 megapixel results

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How close are deepfakes to being used in big-budget films and TV shows? Pretty damn close, if a new demo from Disney is anything to go by. In a video and paper being presented at a computer graphics conference this week, researchers from the House of Mouse show off what they say is the first photo-realistic deepfake at a megapixel resolution.

And the results are... pretty good! They’re not mind-blowing, certainly, and not good enough to be used in the next Marvel movie, but it’s a solid step up from deepfakes we’ve seen in the past.

As the researchers suggest, what’s new here is the megapixel resolution. Megapixels may no longer be the byword for high-quality images that they used to be. (The camera on your phone probably has a double-digit megapixel count for a start.) But so far, deepfake tech has focused on smooth facial transfers rather than amping up the pixel count.
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This tech kind of scares me since this tech in the wrong hands could produce shit to convince joe sixpack of even more fake news. Maybe we won't get to that point since its just too much power. Applications like what I mentioned below are probably the future of this tech.

The 1 megapixel (1024x1024) results are news because the open source equivalent to deep fake tech can only produce results in 256x256 pixels.

Can't wait for every actor to lose their jobs so that all of Hollywood just becomes rendering farms so they can produce movies with stars of old. And any new stars just get their likeness bought out, so that they can't ever act again. That'll probably be the next big racket, ownership of actor's likenesses. And they can make they say / do anything they want. All it takes it one big hit movie and it'll be the new fad.
 
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If actors are smart at all, they'd be against this. This will progress enough that they won't ever need real actors for anything. The computers can just generate everything and even invent new "actors". And has been brought up with deep fake tech before, this could end up being a real problem for video evidence. Glowies can use it to frame someone for murder.
 
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When you see the DeepFakes version next to theirs, it looks like GTA IV graphics for the face.

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If actors are smart at all, they'd be against this. This will progress enough that they won't ever need real actors for anything. The computers can just generate everything and even invent new "actors". And has been brought up with deep fake tech before, this could end up being a real problem for video evidence. Glowies can use it to frame someone for murder.
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Right on the money. It was weird how fast it took off when it popped up on reddit and then everyone banned deepfakes in a few weeks. It was a really fast response, even for the internet. Maybe I'm just paranoid. Chasing the money to bring actors back from the dead so fanboys can squeal, Peter Cushing in Star Wars etc. All of it seems really wrong. They've done it plenty of times before, like in Gladiator when Oliver Reed died. I think it may have been one of the earliest uses of CGI for a dead person. Then Paul Walker too, but I'm sure there's plenty of others. Cushing had been dead for about 15 years by the time the movie was made, seems even more tasteless than trying to finish a movie because of an accident. Then again, it's Hollywood, nothing is off the table when it comes to making a buck, Mouse Inc. seems to be particularly heinous though.

@Megaroad 2012 it may be because the actors are just babbling for the video and making funny faces, it's especially bad around three minutes in. Disney pretty much has the world's most expansive CGI experience with ILM and Pixar, and probably other companies I don't know about. It's only going to get better every day. Tinfoil hat time, what if they start getting .gov contracts like Amazon and Microsoft? What if this isn't a cool tech video, but an advertisement that Mickey Mouse is ready to branch out into the military industrial complex again? The face of warfare is always changing, pun intended.
 
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I wonder if the mouse is strong enough to take on the actors guild.
Any Hollyweird actor under 30 or aspiring actor should be nervous.
 
That'll probably be the next big racket, ownership of actor's likenesses.
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Futurama did it.
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There's a bit more to good acting than a face, although with the cookie cutter crap Disney produces, yeah, I guess you could swap actors like the users want and nobody would even notice. They know their target audience.

I wouldn't be so worried about this being misused for fake news though. My impression in life is that people mostly believe what they want to believe. How believable and credible the source seems doesn't really matter if it confirms what people were already wanting to believe to begin with. That's why information campaigns and "fact checks" are so ineffective. You have to start early and implant a good education and a critical mindset in kids so that they don't even go down that road to begin with. When they're 30 and share "articles" on facebook how illuminati hebrew lizards inject covid20 via microwaves then no blurb that this information source isn't credible will convince them otherwise. It's simply too late then.
 
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This tech kind of scares me since this tech in the wrong hands could produce shit to convince joe sixpack of even more fake news. Maybe we won't get to that point since its just too much power. Applications like what I mentioned below are probably the future of this tech.
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You have a decade spanning belief in climate change killing us any minute now based on simple edits and half truths. Deep fake won't really change how dumbfuck the average person acts for information that is represented neatly by authority figures.

Sam Losco said:
If actors are smart at all, they'd be against this. This will progress enough that they won't ever need real actors for anything. The computers can just generate everything and even invent new "actors". And has been brought up with deep fake tech before, this could end up being a real problem for video evidence. Glowies can use it to frame someone for murder.
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Hollywood is already a bastion of talentless hacks who only got where they are by fucking/being-related/both the right people. Even the need for actresses to be physically appealing has been eroded.

Anyways I can see the use of this tool to rewrite wrongthinkers out of past movies, preferrably without telling anyone and just changing the records in imdb and wikipedia. Not so much for making new films, where it's not really worth it considering:
1. People create bonds for specific actors, so having NPC(er) actors might lead to public disinterest.
2. A team of engineers to inspect frame by frame isn't that much cheaper than just getting a random actor that looks passable.
3. Those kind of effect fail spectacularly the millisecond you start having an unconvetional scene appearing, which is very likely in a movie.
 
Necroing this thread b/c Disney signed a 20 year agreement with Stan Lee's estate to use his likenesses in the MCU.
 
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