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Malicious Life Podcast: GAN and Deepfakes Part 1

Written by Malicious Life Podcast | Dec 19, 2019 8:37:00 PM

Over the past two years, the internet has been inundated with celebrity Deepfakes videos of all kinds: Obama, Putin, and Trump deliver speeches they never gave, Gal Gadot "stars” in a pxxn video, and professional comedians such as Bill Hader eerily turn into the people they impersonate, like Tom Cruise and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

What all of these videos have in common is that they were mostly created by amateur developers or small startups with tight budgets - but their quality is surprisingly good, and in some cases as good as what the biggest movie studios were able to produce with huge budgets just a few years ago...