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[–]trident765 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I guess it depends on which life you are talking about. If you have bad vision and you get a pair of glasses, this improves your real life. If your computer has poor resolution and you replace it with one that has good resolution, this improves your virtual life.

Deepfakes are a novel technology, here is an example of it:

https://youtu.be/IvY-Abd2FfM

Won't this have a profound impact on the virtual experience?

[–]fschmidt[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Even if this is novel, how does it improve anyone's life? All it does is to enable fake news, so maybe it improves the lives of the evil elite, but that's about it.

[–]wary_observer 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Please explain how deepfakes are a novel technology. I haven't looked into it, but I'm guessing it's just a combination of advanced CGI, multi-layer video editing, voice synthesizing technology, and the like. Just more computing power combined with manipulative media techniques.

[–]trident765 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Please explain how deepfakes are a novel technology. I haven't looked into it, but I'm guessing it's just a combination of advanced CGI, multi-layer video editing, voice synthesizing technology, and the like. It's just more computing power combined with manipulative media techniques.

I believe the point of deepfakes is that it fully automates the things you mentioned. You give the program a skeleton video of the actor moving around. And then you give the program a set of videos of Queen Elizabeth, and then the program does the rest. So now you no longer need a team of skilled graphical artists to do the CGI.