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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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1 posted on 03/07/2018 8:38:30 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

To go with the fake Steele dossier?


2 posted on 03/07/2018 8:39:24 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Hey, Rocky--Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!)
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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

DO NOT WANT.

3 posted on 03/07/2018 8:40:30 AM PST by thesharkboy (Charter member of the Basket of Deplorables)
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To: 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.”

Then the scene proceeded to cause widespread projectile vomiting!


4 posted on 03/07/2018 8:40:59 AM PST by GoDuke
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To: RoosterRedux

Michelle Obama stripping ???

Barf alert, indeed, please!


5 posted on 03/07/2018 8:42:15 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: RoosterRedux

The left is establishing plausible deniability for any future videos of themselves in compromising positions.


6 posted on 03/07/2018 8:42:21 AM PST by Rebelbase ( Hillary, DNC, DOJ and FBI colluded with a British National to influence the 2016 Pres. election)
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To: RoosterRedux

There’s a rumor flying around of some raw Hillary footage about to drop. The autists are speculating this article is a preempt to say “fake video”.


7 posted on 03/07/2018 8:42:31 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: RoosterRedux

We will soon learn that young Donald Trump was on the grassy knoll in 1963.


8 posted on 03/07/2018 8:43:44 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (The government cannot protect you and isn't even trying. Self-defense is a right.)
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9 posted on 03/07/2018 8:44:24 AM PST by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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To: RoosterRedux
Preparing the sheeple for the upcoming release of kiddie porn videos starring certain Democratic political figures.

So sez Q.

10 posted on 03/07/2018 8:44:52 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Tench_Coxe
There’s a rumor flying around of some raw Hillary footage about to drop.

DO NOT WANT.

11 posted on 03/07/2018 8:45:24 AM PST by thesharkboy (Charter member of the Basket of Deplorables)
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To: RoosterRedux

It didn’t bother them when they did that to Sarah Palin


12 posted on 03/07/2018 8:46:37 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Michelle Obama stripping ???

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

My question (but I wouldn’t watch to find out) ... is the video so realistic that it’s anatomically correct? Hmmmm?


13 posted on 03/07/2018 8:47:25 AM PST by Qiviut (Obama's Legacy in two words: DONALD TRUMP)
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To: Yo-Yo

14 posted on 03/07/2018 8:47:57 AM PST by thesharkboy (Charter member of the Basket of Deplorables)
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To: Tench_Coxe

And do you notice that they use a high profile democrat woman as an example?

If the Hillary! video is anything like this I expect to soon be at my target weight.


15 posted on 03/07/2018 8:48:14 AM PST by freedomlover
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To: RoosterRedux

There was a short clip of this technology a couple of years ago that “showed” Lincoln walking and interacting with other people. It was very realistic and kind of creepy.


16 posted on 03/07/2018 8:49:29 AM PST by hanamizu
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17 posted on 03/07/2018 8:51:02 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Did it show his wee-wee?


18 posted on 03/07/2018 8:51:53 AM PST by 3boysdad (The very elect.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

So, does Big Mike “whip it out”?


19 posted on 03/07/2018 8:54:27 AM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Progressivism is socialism. Venezuela is how it ends.)
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To: Mr. K
"It didn’t bother them when they did that to Sarah Palin."

Yep, and they were all yucking it up when "artists" started setting up those nude statues of Trump in major cities.
20 posted on 03/07/2018 8:54:54 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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