AI Will Make Forging Anything Entirely Too Easy

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AI Will Make Forging Anything Entirely Too Easy

Unread post by joe04 » 2017-07-06, 17:19

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-will-mak ... -too-easy/
Audio and video forgery capabilities are making astounding progress, thanks to a boost from AI. In the future, realistic-looking and -sounding fakes will constantly confront people. Awash in audio, video, images, and documents, many real but some fake, people will struggle to know whom and what to trust.

Lyrebird, a deep learning tech startup based in Montreal, is developing technology that allows anyone to produce surprisingly realistic-sounding speech with the voice of any individual. Lyrebird’s demo generates speech, including varied intonation, in the voices of Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton. For now, the impersonations are impressive, but also possess a fuzzy, robotic quality that allows even an untrained ear to easily recognize the voice as computer-generated. Still, the technology is making rapid progress. Creative software giant Adobe is working on similar technology, announcing its goal of producing “Photoshop for audio.”

Researchers at Stanford and elsewhere have developed astonishing capabilities in video forgery. Using only an off-the-shelf webcam, their AI-based software allows an individual to realistically change the facial expression and speech-related mouth movements of an individual on YouTube video. Watch as one researcher edits a video of George W. Bush to insert new facial and speech expression, all in real time.
The referenced video is creepy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmajJTcpNk

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Re: AI Will Make Forging Anything Entirely Too Easy

Unread post by Moonchild » 2017-07-06, 23:21

Not sure about you, but they're not there yet. To me the re-enactment footage is obviously fake.
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Re: AI Will Make Forging Anything Entirely Too Easy

Unread post by John connor » 2017-07-08, 00:41

That's not all because technology is being developed to accurately reproduce a person's human voice. Imagine the implications! Instead of spam callers calling you with a VOIP provider where the number looks like it's from a legit place, they can also fake the human voice to go alone with the spoofed caller ID.

Interesting times are around the corner.

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