Artificial Intelligence (AI)
A few years ago, special advanced software and computers with powerful graphics cards were required, today a smartphone and a specialized application are enough, and with artificial intelligence it is even easier to create fake images that look real.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Georgia Meloni sings in a caramel pink convertible with a huge bow in her hair, Matteo Salvini in a gold suit and platinum hair goes crazy on the track lit by stroscopic lights. It’s all fake and yet it feels real. But it’s not so strange now that a synthetic reality creates a parallel universe where everything is possible with one click. A new trailer for the film directed by Greta Gerwig has been released, but instead of actors, the faces of the Italian government appeared in it. melons becomes Barbie, Salvini ken, Ignatius LaRussa this is another Ken, rival, Daniela Santanche, other Barbies. Joseph Conte plays the role of Allan E. Maurice GaspardI am the CEO of Mattel. It also appears Ellie Schlein instead of America Ferrara. At the end, there is a headline in shocking pink raised font: “Georgie.”
The parody was made by artificial intelligence “with the help of a human,” the credits say. The author of the clip is the account “Ceci n’est pas une AI”, active since April 2023, the title is a reference to “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” by René Magritte, working symbol of images that betray the eyes. The name fits. In fact, the author used deepfake technology to create the video, some clips return very realistic images, others expose the hand of the machine. The result is still remarkable, given that the AI has a hard time handling long movies. Stephen Zaneroprofessor of information processing systems at the Politecnico di Milano and an expert in cybersecurity, explained to Fanpage.it that “generative artificial intelligence works by comparison, the longer you stretch the video, the higher the risk of making logical errors, and therefore we understand that there is no human mind.”
How the trailer was created
Fake photos and videos are products from “deep” neural networks, which work similarly to our neurons, are trained using a deep learning process that teaches networks to create fake videos or images that look real. For example, it could show someone performing an action they never did, creating people who never existed, or by superimposing faces on different bodies while maintaining proportions and movements, as in the case of the trailer for the movie Barbie with Italian Face Swap. government.” . Thanks to artificial intelligence, it is now easy to create deepfake content. Just choose the right application and the machines will do most of the work.
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Whereas a few years ago particularly advanced software and computers with powerful graphics cards were required, today a smartphone and a specialized application such as Reface, Jiggy, Facemagic and Impressions. Xpression Camera was also launched which creates deepfakes in real time. Apps let you take selfies and upload images which are then used to create videos.
Bringing in new technology
In recent months, technology capable of creating fake yet lifelike images has become the go-to tool for creating online. pornographic material. “Deepfake has become a technology to destroy women, especially in porn. There are a lot of sites that replace people’s faces with pornstar bodies, it’s humiliating and offensive,” Chinese artist Yu Chungju, who is experimenting with deepfake techniques in the arts, explained to Fanpage.it.
For example, FaceMegaan app that replaces faces and bodies using artificial intelligence was launched in March. provocative advertising campaign by uploading 127 videos of Emma Watson and 74 of Scarlett Johansson in provocative poses to social networks. The app also showed in a short tutorial how to put a celebrity’s face on a porn actress’s body. Through a series of intuitive clicks, the app provided the perfect recipe for using high-end technology in the worst possible way.
He also appeared on Reddit, Michelle Obama deepfake porn, which showed the former first lady in a porn room. Again, her face was mounted on the body of a pornographic actress. Browsing Reddit deepfake groups that have been closed, one can read headlines such as “3D face reconstruction for more angles” or “(Not) Olivia Wilde playing herself.”
Amount of deepfake porn
In 2019 DeepTrace, an Amsterdam-based company that monitors synthetic online media, has found that 96% of deepfake material online is pornographic in nature. Analyst Genevieve Oh found that since 2018, the number of deepfake porn videos has almost doubled every year. In February 2023, the most deepfake porn was created and uploaded in a single month.