[James]

Click the attachment.

None of those people really exist.

Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You? By Kashmir Hill and Jeremy White
Nov. 21, 2020

There are now businesses that sell fake people. On the website Generated.Photos, you can buy a “unique, worry-free” fake person for $2.99, or 1,000 people for $1,000. If you just need a couple of fake people — for characters in a video game, or to make your company website appear more diverse — you can get their photos for free on ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com. Adjust their likeness as needed; make them old or young or the ethnicity of your choosing. If you want your fake person animated, a company called Rosebud.AI can do that and can even make them talk.

These simulated people are starting to show up around the internet, used as masks by real people with nefarious intent: spies who don an attractive face in an effort to infiltrate the intelligence community; right-wing propagandists who hide behind fake profiles, photo and all; online harassers who troll their targets with a friendly visage.

We created our own A.I. system to understand how easy it is to generate different fake faces.
The A.I. system sees each face as a complex mathematical figure, a range of values that can be shifted. Choosing different values — like those that determine the size and shape of eyes — can alter the whole image.....

From https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...ple-faces.html

[LeatherTrumpet]

chilling

[bitontheslide]

the technology in this area has been advancing very quickly and its now used in video manipulation too. You basically can't trust anything anymore

[LeatherTrumpet]

in like 20 years we will create a new species of human that has not been the result of natural selection and 4 billion years of evolution, its mental to think but its out there

[Zizu]

Trump could do with some artificial intelligence !!


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[parmnion]

Some people dont need to!

[Toy Soldier]

Games will be photorealistic within a couple of decades, so you will have AI generated people who do not exist, never have existed, yet look like actual video footage of a real person walking around, talking and communicating with you.

Sometimes I do wonder if it would be harder to shoot a character in a game who looks and sounds like a real human being. The ethical implications ARE sort of interesting once you actually venture all the way across the uncanny valley.

[parmnion]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Games will be photorealistic within a couple of decades, so you will have AI generated people who do not exist, never have existed, yet look like actual video footage of a real person walking around, talking and communicating with you.

Sometimes I do wonder if it would be harder to shoot a character in a game who looks and sounds like a real human being. The ethical implications ARE sort of interesting once you actually venture all the way across the uncanny valley.

If I bought a ps5, would I be able to walk about in a game like fable or res evil with my face on a body unlike mine?

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by parmnion

If I bought a ps5, would I be able to walk about in a game like fable or res evil with my face on a body unlike mine?

Not yet Parmy. I'd say by maybe PS7 or PS8 though - so sometime in the 2030's would be my bet.

[parmnion]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Not yet Parmy. I'd say by maybe PS7 or PS8 though - so sometime in the 2030's would be my bet.

Saving the best till last.fingers crossed.


how you keeping TS? Not spoke for a while. Hope you're good my man.

And you James...Can you pm me please.

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by parmnion

Saving the best till last.fingers crossed.


how you keeping TS? Not spoke for a while. Hope you're good my man.

No complaints here Parmy, muddling through lockdown 2.0. but I have a lazy-arse job I can do from right here on the PC so I can't whinge too much.

And you James...Can you pm me please.

This sounds ominous...

[Oliver_W]

Normally with CGI faces I think "yeah they look quite real, but something's not quite right?" but with those, they just look like photos as far as I'm concerned... and that makes it creepier, somehow

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Normally with CGI faces I think "yeah they look quite real, but something's not quite right?" but with those, they just look like photos as far as I'm concerned... and that makes it creepier, somehow

It's easier because they're still images, usually when things start moving is when you get that "off" feeling that something isn't quite right.

Just wait until the catfishes get their hands on this tech though .

"They're using someone else's pictures, let's find out who the real person in the photographs is..."

"NOPE they don't exist lol!"

[GoldHeart]

The funny thing is catfish fool people with obvious stolen photos of real people, they don't need to use these CGI photos.

The amount of things I've seen where it's clearly a model or celeb image ,yet people are gullible enough to believe it .

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by GoldHeart

The funny thing is catfish fool people with obvious stolen photos of real people, they don't need to use these CGI photos.

The amount of things I've seen where it's clearly a model or celeb image ,yet people are gullible enough to believe it .

I did that to catch the TL. I used one of Danny Dyer. The downside is i have been having to speak all cockney like for the past 3 years.

In the end it did not work as the TL and I are sadly no more

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

I did that to catch the TL. I used one of Danny Dyer. The downside is i have been having to speak all cockney like for the past 3 years.



In the end it did not work as the TL and I are sadly no more

I'm really sorry to hear that LT

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I'm really sorry to hear that LT

Yes thankyou its a royal pain in the rear and i am devastated to leave the 2 dogs as they will not understand and think i just went away and left them. Its awful and it makes me very sad and feel sick.

[parmnion]

A quick word on the dogs..

I had the same situation LT..I had to make a visit 3 years later and to be honest...the dogs didnt even look at me when I came the door.

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Yes thankyou its a royal pain in the rear and i am devastated to leave the 2 dogs as they will not understand and think i just went away and left them. Its awful and it makes me very sad and feel sick.

Get your own, better dogs LT. Train them to do amazing tricks and then walk past the house, making everyone jealous.

[parmnion]

[Ammi]

....I really am so sorry, LT...that’s such a difficult thing for you anyway but with the dogs as well, just horrid for you...I really am sorry that it’s something you’re going through atm......

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Ammi

....I really am so sorry, LT...that’s such a difficult thing for you anyway but with the dogs as well, just horrid for you...I really am sorry that it’s something you’re going through atm......

thankyou Ammi - it is

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Yes thankyou its a royal pain in the rear and i am devastated to leave the 2 dogs as they will not understand and think i just went away and left them. Its awful and it makes me very sad and feel sick.

aw Will you have your kids around for Christmas?

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

aw Will you have your kids around for Christmas?

yes and my girls have been really great with support and being positive as has ex-mrs LT who has been very kind.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

yes and my girls have been really great with support and being positive as has ex-mrs LT who has been very kind.

Ah good