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Here Come the Fake Videos, Too
NYTimes ^ | March 4, 2018 | Kevin Roose

Posted on 03/07/2018 8:38:30 AM PST by RoosterRedux

The scene opened on a room with a red sofa, a potted plant and the kind of bland modern art you’d see on a therapist’s wall.

In the room was Michelle Obama, or someone who looked exactly like her. Wearing a low-cut top with a black bra visible underneath, she writhed lustily for the camera and flashed her unmistakable smile.

Then, the former first lady’s doppelgänger began to strip.

The video, which appeared on the online forum Reddit, was what’s known as a “deepfake” — an ultrarealistic fake video made with artificial intelligence software. It was created using a program called FakeApp, which superimposed Mrs. Obama’s face onto the body of a pornographic film actress. The hybrid was uncanny — if you didn’t know better, you might have thought it was really her.

Until recently, realistic computer-generated video was a laborious pursuit available only to big-budget Hollywood productions or cutting-edge researchers. Social media apps like Snapchat include some rudimentary face-morphing technology.

But in recent months, a community of hobbyists has begun experimenting with more powerful tools, including FakeApp — a program that was built by an anonymous developer using open-source software written by Google. FakeApp makes it free and relatively easy to create realistic face swaps and leave few traces of manipulation. Since a version of the app appeared on Reddit in January, it has been downloaded more than 120,000 times, according to its creator.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: disinformation; fakeapp; fakenews; fakingit; fauxtography
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To: RoosterRedux

and so when the gritty videos of Hillary from Weiner’s seized laptop are revealed. the cover story is being established

“fake video”


21 posted on 03/07/2018 8:54:56 AM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: Tench_Coxe

dis


22 posted on 03/07/2018 8:55:14 AM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: Yo-Yo
Preparing the sheeple for the upcoming release of kiddie porn videos starring certain Democratic political figures.

This. Pay attention folks. We are at war. Time to get your heads out of the sand and take the red pill.
23 posted on 03/07/2018 8:58:14 AM PST by rickomatic
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To: thesharkboy

24 posted on 03/07/2018 8:59:55 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: RoosterRedux
Then, the former first lady’s doppelgänger began to strip.....


25 posted on 03/07/2018 9:01:22 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Did they use a wide angle lens?


26 posted on 03/07/2018 9:02:22 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Screw The NFL!!!!!! My family fought for the flag!)
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To: RoosterRedux
In the room was Michelle Obama, or someone who looked exactly like her. Wearing a low-cut top with a black bra visible underneath

So it was a transvestite movie?

27 posted on 03/07/2018 9:02:37 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: RoosterRedux

Just like her official portrait.


28 posted on 03/07/2018 9:03:13 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: silverleaf

Yeah because everyone knows the Wieners are video editing/photo shop experts.


29 posted on 03/07/2018 9:03:47 AM PST by shotgun
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To: RoosterRedux
"Then, the former first lady’s doppelgänger began to strip."


30 posted on 03/07/2018 9:04:12 AM PST by freedomlover
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To: rickomatic

There’s no market for this type of software - it’s antithetical to the narcissistic instincts that social media caters to - or it would have existed long ago. Deep state has been pushing this on social media for a few months.... expect some doctored footage of some high-profile people before HRC’S film hits the theaters.


31 posted on 03/07/2018 9:04:58 AM PST by txhurl (The Final Thunderdome: Two Americas enter, One America leaves.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Photographic evidence means nothing these days.


32 posted on 03/07/2018 9:08:39 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: Rebelbase

Yep. They know those videos exist.


33 posted on 03/07/2018 9:14:04 AM PST by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Make that unmistakable smirk.


34 posted on 03/07/2018 9:14:23 AM PST by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: Rebelbase

This article is to set up the major denial in the Hellary/Huma/underaged girl sex video found on Huma’s computer under “Insurance.”


35 posted on 03/07/2018 9:16:58 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Qiviut

Hey, make that Queen Obama.


36 posted on 03/07/2018 9:17:57 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: rickomatic

No need for any red pills. If I had any sand left on me in ‘08, it was blown off with a sand blaster the minute McRINO said we didn’t have to be afraid of the Kenyan.


37 posted on 03/07/2018 9:22:30 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Tench_Coxe

Disinformation serves the DNC well

Recall how ALL of the Obama truthfile was ‘divsproven’ by including a few bio details from Keith Ellison’s past


38 posted on 03/07/2018 9:37:47 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Deep State is preping the soil for the soon to be released Hillary’s child abuse video........

Wait for it.


39 posted on 03/07/2018 9:40:21 AM PST by stockpirate (TYRANNY IS THY NAME REBELLION IS OUR ANSWER. HANG THEM ALL!)
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To: RoosterRedux
This bunch did not mind that ‘fake’ video, Obama and Hillry touted causing the mayhem and death, in Benghazi by the sea.
40 posted on 03/07/2018 9:40:44 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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