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Recursion

(56,582 posts) Thu Aug 15, 2019, 12:55 AM Aug 2019

Bill Hader's face, our sense of reality, is melting in a wild new deepfake video

2020 is going to be awful. This is just the beginning of what the tech can do.

https://news.avclub.com/bill-haders-face-our-sense-of-reality-is-melting-in-a-1837205286

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Bill Hader's face, our sense of reality, is melting in a wild new deepfake video (Original Post) Recursion Aug 2019 OP

OHHH, now I get it!! I saw this, what, yesterday or day before and I swear to you I thought, Leghorn21 Aug 2019 #1

I did that, too, on the first impression! The blend is subtle... Beartracks Aug 2019 #2

Wow, that's so subtle renate Aug 2019 #3

Leghorn21

(13,524 posts)

1. OHHH, now I get it!! I saw this, what, yesterday or day before and I swear to you I thought,

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Thu Aug 15, 2019, 01:17 AM

Aug 2019

”oh dayam, I never noticed how much Hader looks just like Cruise!” —- (I’M SUCH A DUMBASS) I totally missed that it was the result of some high tech “sorcery”

Thanks, Rec, now I get it and...yeah, yikes - been hearing this kind of tech was in the pipeline for quite some time and....voila

Oh my

Beartracks

(12,809 posts)

2. I did that, too, on the first impression! The blend is subtle...

Reply to Leghorn21 (Reply #1)

Thu Aug 15, 2019, 02:07 AM

Aug 2019

... but the result is unmistakable. Fascinating effect, but yes this is scary.

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renate

(13,776 posts)

3. Wow, that's so subtle

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Thu Aug 15, 2019, 03:33 AM

Aug 2019

Which makes it even spookier.

I thought it would be a gradual morph from Bill Hader into Tom Cruise... which would be easy to detect by comparing the beginning and end of the video. But no. Nothing as obvious as that.

Pretty soon we will have to doubt anything and everything, at least a little bit.

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