Facebook AI can reverse engineer deepfakes and figure out their source, but the Intel FakeCatcher is the world’s first real-time deepfake detector. How does it work? This technology runs on Intel hardware and software, both of which interface through a web-based platform. Optimized FakeCatcher architecture consists of teams using OpenVino to run AI models for face and landmark detection algorithms.
While Lucasfilm hired the VFX artist who created Star Wars deepfake videos on YouTube, NVIDIA’s neural talking-head synthesis took a different approach. This model takes deepfakes to the next level as it’s capable of synthesizing a talking-head video using a source image containing the target person’s appearance and a driving video that dictates the motion in the output.
Bob de Jong knew that a computer-generated Morgan Freeman would not be complete without a competent voice actor, and this amazing AI-generated model was the result. It may look like Morgan Freeman, but the real star is voice actor Boet Schouwink who could make you think the actor is actually speaking. This particular deepfake was most likely created with the help of a generative adversarial network (GAN).
“Stranger Things” star Millie Bobby Brown is set to star in many upcoming films, but some Star Wars fans wouldn’t mind her playing Princess Leia, and these AI-generated deepfakes show why. Deepfakes make use of a neural network called an autoencoder, which reduces an image to a lower dimensional latent space, and a decoder, which reconstructs the image from the latent representation. They use this technique to encode a person into the latent space.
Television fanatics most certainly know that The X-Files series revolved around Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny), and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. What better way to merge the 1997 film Men in Black with the series than with deepfake technology. Read more to see the clip that ensued.
It’s scary to think that in just a few years, we could be seeing full-length movies made entirely with artificial intelligence. Actor Jim Meskimen teamed up with deepfake artist Sham00k to give us a preview of what it might be like. Meskimen’s voices were spot on, and when the facial features of 20 celebrities, including George W. Bush, George Clooney, Nicholas Cage, Colin Firth, Robert De Niro, and even Arnold Schwartzenegger, things got strange really quickly. Read more for the video and additional information.