{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "the thing about the deepfakes videos (some hobbyist trained publicly available machine learning so that given an archive of...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/168496812338/", "html": "<p>the thing about the deepfakes videos</p><p>(some hobbyist trained publicly available machine learning so that given an archive of celebrity photos it could paste that face into porn videos, surprised you guys weren\u2019t more interested)</p><p>is that a face isn\u2019t really THAT much. I guess people were photoshopping celeb faces into nude photos circa AOL (and also, photoshopping superhoeroine costumes onto them? dunno, man) and that worked</p><p>But back then there were porn lookalikes, that was maybe more of a thing, but they\u2019d try. Like, if you really looked like ScarJo (or anywhere close), you\u2019d come done up the Black Widow hair and outfit, not looking like a Florida sorority stripper</p><p>he says doing just the face saves cycles on a consumer rig, he does the Taylor Swift and Emma Watson ones on the same substrate and more than the body it\u2019s weird watching them matched to the same hair</p>"}