DeepFake App – On Reddit they create porn videos with celebrity faces

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A rather unhealthy trend is taking hold on Reddit right now: a powerful app allows just about anyone to create fake porn videos featuring celebrities.

The tool, called FakeApp, uses an artificial intelligence-based technology called machine learning and essentially lets people embed celebrities in porn videos by replacing an actress’ face.

While the videos aren’t perfect, they’re realistic enough to raise concerns about how quickly this technology is developing. While 99% of the content created is entirely “Not Safe For Work”, its creator posted this example where he was able to recreate a scene from the Rogue One movie but using his own software. The top is the original, and the bottom is the home version.

The app and its creator (known as Deepfakes) were first revealed after Motherboard had the chance to speak to them anonymously in December 2017. At the time, Deepfakes was just experimenting with this technology, but it now there is a tool that anyone can download with full instructions on how to use it. When asked why he created the videos for The Verge, he replied, “You could say that my motivation is obsession, porn and the internet fantasy and solving these problems.” Now, before you think anyone can do this, there are a few important caveats.

First of all, the processing power required to literally deal with transposing a person into a moving video is considerable, as such it requires a significantly powerful computer. More powerful than most of the computers people have in their homes.

Then we’re not quite at the stage where any of us can download it, choose any video, and immediately have faces swapped. Some complex requirements must be met, including the type of video used.

Needless to say, the implications here are huge, not only can you manipulate existing videos of people to say whatever you want, but now you can edit people’s faces directly on the live video so that ‘it is more and more realistic. Much of this technology is Open Source, it is available to anyone wishing to use this process and should continue to evolve in the years to come.

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