Jay-Z: not amused.
A mere sample of the potential of deep fake audio – a minor digital polish away from indistinguishable replication. In each case, the voices are entirely computer generated by Tacotron 2, a neural network architecture developed by Google.
Copyright infringement? Jay-Z’s record company thought so.
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An experimental short by Turkish artist Muryat Sayginer using deepfake algorithms to present a scrolling gallery of famous faces.
An impressive deepfake ‘recasting’ of Back To The Future with Tom Holland and Robert Downey Jr in the roles of Marty and Doc Brown by Ezyryderx47.
Impressionist Jim Meskimen performs his poem ‘Pity the Poor Impressionist’ in the voices of 20 celebrities enhanced by SHAM00K using deepfake imaging.
The video required 1,200 hours of footage, 300,000 images and nearly a terabyte of data to create.
Previously: Jim Meskimen’s Nano Impressions
Sly Stallone’s face deftly mapped onto Arnold Schwarzenegger’s body in the famous biker bar scene from Terminator 2 by deepfake expert Ctrl Shift Face.
The iconic lightsaber battle of Vader and Obi Wan from ‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ (1977) impressively enhanced and extended with deepfake technology by Christopher Clements of FixItInPost.
And here’s the 42-year-old original for comparison.
