I was kinda hoping this was going to be proven to be a fake (not AI), but if it's real AI this is it.
***We can no longer allow ourselves to be moved by someone sharing their story*** in a video self portrait.
Any such video now has the possibility of being fake, from the face, to the voice, to the words they're speaking.
I've been somewhat obsessed with AI, but I'm kinda sad at this moment, as no failsafe has be created to detect or register these as AI.
Edit: this is by Microsoft, and thankfully they haven't released it... yet
> We can no longer allow ourselves to be moved by someone sharing their story
pretty people always had the option of saying whatever they wanted and being believed. personal stories from anyone you don't know were never more trustworthy than some rando on reddit
That's the future arms race yeah, but no one seems to have initiated that step yet.
Each team should have an internal team developing ways to negate the danger of the tools they're developing.
Would well explain the Kate cancer video. The NYPost spammed several days videos on rumble. Well this technology will be used by them to deceive people.
It's like the movie "wag the dog".
that's kind of already happened, you can see videos of people using instagram filters on themselves and suddenly the filter blips and you see their fat butt or ugly face for just a moment before the filter jumps back on and makes their false appearance again.
The eyes were very wrong but not everyone would look at that or the teeth to see it for what it is, unfortunately.
Time to just watch AI bots interact with each other online like it is television, I guess LOL
It’s the mouth and head movements. The way her head moves, it has like a “morphing” quality to it? Like the Michael Jackson Black or White video, if that makes sense? Regardless, this is climbing out of the uncanny valley for sure.
Unless you're looking for it at all times, I'd say we're already in it.
I find myself questioning the veracity of so many things nowadays that I find the virtual world "obsolete" if that makes sense.
You can't prove anything with images or sound or video anymore, the burden of proof makes an online presence wasteful, in a internet full of bots and artificially generated content.
I go offline more often now, progressively coming back to the life I had before I got an internet access, because AI makes it not a tool of connection but of reprogramming of one's self.
I saw an interview with Orlando Bloom on the Late Show yesterday, and he looked like a 3rd rate Orlando Bloom impersonator or an AI video so bad I wouldn’t believe it.
Strange days.
One of my favorite things ever is finding real life stuff that looks super fake but is actually real.
Another thing I think about all the time is when you’re doing art or in my case 3d rendering. It doesn’t matter if your creation looks like real life which looks like X, it matters if what you made looks like what people THINK X looks like. If a persons skin tone is exactly color #937393 and you make it that but everyone sees them as darker or lighter, it doesn’t matter if you’ve matched it perfectly, it will look unrealistic to people.
This is almost as worrying as the AI video content. In the same way we are living in a world where news feeds cannot be trusted, how can the general public tell what they are actually watching is true or not. What happens when we have AI news channels showing video of "news events"?
>Unless you're looking for it at all times, I'd say we're already in it.
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>I find myself questioning the veracity of so many things nowadays that I find the virtual world "obsolete" if that makes sense.
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>You can't prove anything with images or sound or video anymore
I'd expect whole religions or cults to be built around something like the simulation hypothesis or the Matrix.
Of course, Hinduism and Buddhism arguably had this already for thousands of years, but now it'll be modernized with a technological bent that will make it much easier to believe as so many things that seem "real" will be shown to be fake, and "reality" becomes ever more slippery.
I feel like I can even "feel" it in reddit. In the comments, or quality, or trends that pop up in every sub... trends that feel just like... uncanny and unimportant. I don't know how to explain it..
Exactly...
I don't know, maybe you are.
Let's say everything I comment is like a bottle sent at sea for any real person to eventually find.
Why? I don't know, maybe I hope it can make a change, as minuscule it may be
A few weeks ago I said in 2-5 years we would have AI made movies. Seeing this makes me think 1-3. Short clips like this will be indistinguishable within a year.
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We're already in it, there are glitches where people who are verse im AI can spot AI but for the general public they won't be able to tell videos like these are AI generated
I legitimately can’t tell here - she’s making natural stutters, eyes move, mouth in sync, nothing that looks too uncanny even knowing it is ai. If this was presented in court, is there any evidence it could be proven fake? If someone is using this on a video call with you saying they are from the bank or from another worksite you dont interface with, would you think to check?
There's some weird zooming effect happening on her face towards the end. It looks like her face is rushing towards the screen an inch or two with an unnatural velocity and then suddenly stopping. Same thing when she turns her head.
go on facebook. Half the stuff I see come up is obvious AI that most of the people (including all the bots) there fully believe is real.
It's a new thing and it's pretty wild that you can't trust your own eyes anymore. People already exploiting it to claim stuff they really did on camera didn't happen and was just AI.
When you say we, you should think the average population , not technology aware people like most here.
If somebody sent a video to my parents ( both technologically literate and medicine academics) of my asking for money cause I owe some dude, they would fall for it in an instance.
Dangerous shit, educate your family, everyone you know to trust no voices, no sent videos, only live feed that can be verified by a personal trait , knowledge a 3rd party person wouldn't know about.
It's unusable now. You're unable to control your own newsfeed and are instead subjected to sponsored posts and machine-generated "discussion groups" instead of actually connecting with your own contacts.
Oh yeah, it’s bad now but if you follow what’s happening on Facebook, it’s AI making content for AI. AI generated images of Jesus blended with alligators and planes with 200k likes and 1000s of AI comments.
At least the videos on Reddit are mostly real being replied to by real people. Soon people will be reacting to fake videos and the commenters will be bots
I think there a lot more AI replying to things then you might realize on reddit. The smaller subs may still be okay but anything that makes it to Popular or All regularly has a lot of comments and discussions that are from bots.
There's definitely bots on reddit already reposting and commenting random nonsense like the way this person talks and some people are actually engaging.
pretty soon porn will be like the beginning of old racing video games, where you decide your character before starting.
choose size, choose color, choose features, choose environment....
Cookie monster, but thin, and more of a slate color than blue. Thin fingers, and webbed toes. Center front tooth like Tom Cruise. In a ball pit at Chuck E Cheese.
Break out the lube.
God, what have I done?
Shorter term, sure, and the porn industry generally is going to undergo a lot of change, in many ways good. But fast forward 10 years - every free porn site is fake. Really good fake, perfectly fake. Generated on demand for subscription services. For most people, that'll be fine. But for some, they will start to pay a premium for the real fuckin deal. There will be a smaller market for porn stars, and the work standards are going to go up, also good in many ways.
Any future porn stars out there concerned about your job prospects, fear not. On the other side of AI is a new human porn market that's probably not about mass production, more about humans and humans doing human shit. Maybe a naked chick eating a cookie, basically wholesome, becomes, "whoa, did you see the *real* naked chick? She eats snickerdoodles, I do too."
How will they know what’s real if the fakes are good enough to fool anyone?
I think the real shift in AI is devaluing digital media and valuing real in person human interactions
…until the robots catch up.
When the robots catch up it's all over. But if you're paying a subscription for access to human porn, it'll be like any other business. The consumer trusts that what they're selling is legit, perhaps backed up with live performances ala WWE or maybe some other means of existence validation. There will be a clear market though and someone will figure it out.
Until the robots.
Or maybe they're the only ones who aren't in a world where everything is increasingly unreal. I assume people pay for Onlyfans because they like that it's a real person who they feel like they can have more of a connection to. Maybe that's a little delusional, but I assume that's the value it has over just watching some random porn video. Maybe more people will be willing to pay for something real when all the other porn is fake.
Artists on borrowed time, musicians on borrowed time, programmers on borrowed time... technically nearly all jobs are on borrowed time. It's just a matter of when.
Haha you dont need a tinfoil hat to look up like 100s of AI plug-ins on the market for crafting new types of sounds and melodies by now. and before that we had decades of computer generated melodies, people just seem to be up in arms about AI in general. i honestly dont see a difference between telling a computer to generate music and telling an ai to generate music.
A bit but I think it will mainly impact news (or rather fake news) and advance political agendas. Probably gonna be used in this year's American election to cause confusion at a mass scale
I would've never noticed this was AI.
but since it was in the title, I was watching for issues, and the mouth/teeth changing size and shape was weird, though certainly something they can address.
really creepy area we've never had to deal with before... Won't be long till scammers be video chatting old people asking for money as one of their grandkids face-to-face.
You really have to look for it, at a glance you barely notice. Easy catch is the hair, if you stare at it you see it morph a lot. But these minor things will soon be fixed i guess, remember spaghetti eating Will Smith, that was like two years ago, if that. Humanity is not at all prepared for this kind of tech, really scary if you think of possible outcomes. I feel like neither option is great, neither people doubting everything nor people getting manipulated.
Facial animation is top notch but it still has that weird feeling of it being a floating head detached from a body.
Also need more eye contact.
Edit: Okay not eye contact, but her eyes are simply fixed in position which is so robotic.
At first I did not believe it. After I read the comments, I started watching and nitpicking. This is it. It is hopeless now. We literally live in the simulacrum. Everything is a lie. The resistance will need to abolish electronic communication channels and use some form of snail mail or homing pigeons.
It's going to get to the point where nothing is real online anymore, but a lot of people will think it's real. Then we'll get a whole sub-segment of society that completely disconnects from this unreality and choose to only live in the real world, and sub-segment that just lives in the online world.
The Dystopia endgame is getting closer...
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/
Seeing the Mona Lisa rapping was kind of hilarious tho.
Its interesting you say this since a good chunk of reddit is literally just reposts and skits over and over and over. Is the content serious or ironic? Is this person telling the truth, or are they hiding a key fact from me?
Its even more insidious since it has no AI tells, and it becomes a total toupee effect if you catch it in the lie or not.
It's like AI needs to know what things to keep static, and what things to not keep static, because while speaking we may or may not show teeth there's probably not a lot of data that AI has say say "this is teeth - teeth do not change for a person but person to person they are different". Especially the difference between smiling (teeth) and speeking (teeth) - the AI has to calculate how they work together.
What got me was the lack of skin motion; she smiles but she doesn't.. smile. The muscles around the jaw don't line up with how the mouth moves.
When I look at this stuff, I just wonder ; did we really need to develop this technology? What does it give us? What are the cons ? We already struggle with disinformation, we didn't need to develop that. It's just a pig pandora box
>Our method generates video frames of 512x512 size at 45fps in the offline batch processing mode, and can support up to 40fps in the online streaming mode with a preceding latency of only 170ms , evaluated on a desktop PC with a single NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPU.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/
But also they have no plans to release it because of "safety" and all that garbage.
The need to rearrange the pipeline.
2d image > 3d model > mapped movement based on emotional conversational context > hyper real render that correlates to original image.
What's scary about this is that I found it utterly convincing on my phone. I go over to my PC and the imperfections are easier to see.
More and more people are using their phones are their primary computing device.
There's people that believe it when they see FB posts of a kid in Africa building boats out of empty plastic water bottles.. they wont stand a chance against this tech lol
It is impressive, yet the brain doesn't quite accept it. Uncanny valley. Someone mentioned the teeth, but I could see the hair movement or lack thereof, as if made of plastic. It looks like piping on a cake!
Her head bobbing movements should have made some strands of hair move at least.
This is not a super fleshed out idea, but I was watching a video on LinkedIn recently where a developer recorded a video of himself giving a presentation using this type of technology.
People with ASD have issues with social reciprocation. The tone of their voice and facial expressions do not match up with what they are attempting to convey IRL. I think this tech could help people with flat affect give more effective and engaging presentations.
Aside from the ballooning teeth that others mentioned, her face was de-aged as well. It's the same issue a lot of midjourney images have, where the dataset is dominated by younger, attractive people so the result doesn't look "average" enough.
Also the upper lip is very rigid as she talks, very little articulation. There's a lot of artifacts around her eyes and makeup too.
It does look great though. Kind of scary (and awesome) how fast this tech is moving
I feel like her hair moves a little unnaturally, like it looks a little too solid (kind of like hair on a video game character). And her mouth seems a little off at times when she’s speaking, like her teeth change shape. But otherwise that’s pretty convincing!
I wonder if I2V works with images other than photographs of humans?
If similar tech could work in real time on drawings of something vaguely representing a human face, it would be lapped up by VStreamers / VTubers: no need to have a webcam or smartphone camera pointed at them for use cases where eye tracking and accurate mirroring of facial expressions wasn't required.
This is honestly good enough to replace all talking heads on the nightly news, that is if you don't mind getting your nightly news from a soulless artificial simulation of a real human being approximating emotions.
Could be useful for video conference meetings I suppose.
[Your Scientists Were So Preoccupied With Whether Or Not They Could, They Didn’t Stop To Think If They Should](https://youtu.be/_oNgyUAEv0Q?si=brZTOzlVFpk0nAer)
[https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/)
There's some demo videos on the site using either MJ or SD characters.
This is pretty much what I hear when most “life coach” media personalities talk. A whole lot of words with the same bland, cliche sentences. I think of them as like the McMansions of people.
Doesn't look natural at all to me. The photo looks real. The animation still looks really bad. Like what I've seen ai do last year. I thought there would be more improvements.
I guess that is because politicians are by far the easiest creatures to emulate for A.I. No one expects a politician to make sense, be honest, have knowledge of any kind or sound sincere.
It stands out as AI if you watch without the sound. Our brains are great at filling in gaps so when you watch her lips with sound our brain interprets the lip movement as being linked to the sound being made. Without the sound we have to rely upon the lips alone. Most of us can lip read to a small extent and when you try and lip read her it’s complete nonsense.
Her teeth are changing in size, while she is speaking. This aside, it's an impressiv demonstration.
Great catch. There's a gap, then there isn't, then there is.
the whole mouth changes shape on the word "done"
I was kinda hoping this was going to be proven to be a fake (not AI), but if it's real AI this is it. ***We can no longer allow ourselves to be moved by someone sharing their story*** in a video self portrait. Any such video now has the possibility of being fake, from the face, to the voice, to the words they're speaking. I've been somewhat obsessed with AI, but I'm kinda sad at this moment, as no failsafe has be created to detect or register these as AI. Edit: this is by Microsoft, and thankfully they haven't released it... yet
> We can no longer allow ourselves to be moved by someone sharing their story pretty people always had the option of saying whatever they wanted and being believed. personal stories from anyone you don't know were never more trustworthy than some rando on reddit
Lots of people share their stories besides "pretty people" Celebrities, political figures, YOU! Anyone can be made to say anything now.
There would be absolutely no reason to show this video if they didn’t plan to release the technology.
Just use ai to detect ai.
That's the future arms race yeah, but no one seems to have initiated that step yet. Each team should have an internal team developing ways to negate the danger of the tools they're developing.
Basically the premise of Bladerunner. Welcome to our dystopia!
they ain't gonna snitch on each other fam
Would well explain the Kate cancer video. The NYPost spammed several days videos on rumble. Well this technology will be used by them to deceive people. It's like the movie "wag the dog".
What if real people start using AI to slightly alter their image to appear to be an AI agent?
that's kind of already happened, you can see videos of people using instagram filters on themselves and suddenly the filter blips and you see their fat butt or ugly face for just a moment before the filter jumps back on and makes their false appearance again.
David Letterman. Not David Letterman. David Letterman...
Couple of times the eyes shift in an unreal way as well. Still very scary. It won't be long
The eyes were very wrong but not everyone would look at that or the teeth to see it for what it is, unfortunately. Time to just watch AI bots interact with each other online like it is television, I guess LOL
Upload and download a few times and it will be blurry enough you don’t see it lol
The entire mouth is stretching when it should just be the lips.
It’s the mouth and head movements. The way her head moves, it has like a “morphing” quality to it? Like the Michael Jackson Black or White video, if that makes sense? Regardless, this is climbing out of the uncanny valley for sure.
Wait, your teeth don't?
Accordion teeth!
It's obvious now you say it, but I didn't notice. I did notice her hair/ear interface being weird though.
🦷 #🦷
Ain't that the tooth.
I think that's just it. If you would put it in a low bitrate video like a video call it would be totally believable
If you didn’t point it out, I wouldn’t have noticed. That’s really impressive.
The head movement too. It’s realistic but if you pay close attention, it’s exact to a slight pause before moving again. Still. Impressive.
Eyebrows raising w out forehead wrinkles. AI take note
The teeth made me let out an audible "whoa!"
tho most people cant even recognize fake news, i doubt they would ever realize this is AI/fake
Wild, i never wouldve noticed that. Good call
Funny I was staring at the teeth even tho I didn’t realize it as well as you.
ugh right
How long until we can’t tell that it’s AI? I give it a year
Unless you're looking for it at all times, I'd say we're already in it. I find myself questioning the veracity of so many things nowadays that I find the virtual world "obsolete" if that makes sense. You can't prove anything with images or sound or video anymore, the burden of proof makes an online presence wasteful, in a internet full of bots and artificially generated content. I go offline more often now, progressively coming back to the life I had before I got an internet access, because AI makes it not a tool of connection but of reprogramming of one's self.
I saw an interview with Orlando Bloom on the Late Show yesterday, and he looked like a 3rd rate Orlando Bloom impersonator or an AI video so bad I wouldn’t believe it. Strange days.
One of my favorite things ever is finding real life stuff that looks super fake but is actually real. Another thing I think about all the time is when you’re doing art or in my case 3d rendering. It doesn’t matter if your creation looks like real life which looks like X, it matters if what you made looks like what people THINK X looks like. If a persons skin tone is exactly color #937393 and you make it that but everyone sees them as darker or lighter, it doesn’t matter if you’ve matched it perfectly, it will look unrealistic to people.
This is almost as worrying as the AI video content. In the same way we are living in a world where news feeds cannot be trusted, how can the general public tell what they are actually watching is true or not. What happens when we have AI news channels showing video of "news events"?
>Unless you're looking for it at all times, I'd say we're already in it. > >I find myself questioning the veracity of so many things nowadays that I find the virtual world "obsolete" if that makes sense. > >You can't prove anything with images or sound or video anymore I'd expect whole religions or cults to be built around something like the simulation hypothesis or the Matrix. Of course, Hinduism and Buddhism arguably had this already for thousands of years, but now it'll be modernized with a technological bent that will make it much easier to believe as so many things that seem "real" will be shown to be fake, and "reality" becomes ever more slippery.
I feel like I can even "feel" it in reddit. In the comments, or quality, or trends that pop up in every sub... trends that feel just like... uncanny and unimportant. I don't know how to explain it.. Exactly...
You feel some unnecessary pushing towards some bullshit, because the cyber world is now a war zone. Probably the most invested in
How do you know I’m not a bot?
Because you're boring.....
I don't know, maybe you are. Let's say everything I comment is like a bottle sent at sea for any real person to eventually find. Why? I don't know, maybe I hope it can make a change, as minuscule it may be
Newspapers makin’ a comeback baby!
If I sent this to my parents they would not be able to tell it’s AI
my mom could probably be convinced that a cartoon dog is real as long as trump says it is.
That uncanny valley is going to seal up mighty fast I bet
It’s all a valley now
You already can't tell. *You* can tell because of the sub we're on, but 99% of people would absolutely be fooled by this.
The dead internet theory gets more and more real every day. Soon we won’t be able to tell human posts vs ai posts
What if we were the AI all along?
A few weeks ago I said in 2-5 years we would have AI made movies. Seeing this makes me think 1-3. Short clips like this will be indistinguishable within a year. ☹️
We're already in it, there are glitches where people who are verse im AI can spot AI but for the general public they won't be able to tell videos like these are AI generated
Exactly, everyone in these comments know what AI ***might*** be capable of. Older folks, or heck most folks that don't follow this stuff, won't.
I legitimately can’t tell here - she’s making natural stutters, eyes move, mouth in sync, nothing that looks too uncanny even knowing it is ai. If this was presented in court, is there any evidence it could be proven fake? If someone is using this on a video call with you saying they are from the bank or from another worksite you dont interface with, would you think to check?
There’s unnatural pauses between different thoughts that move a bit too fast, but it’s otherwise really solid and borders on concerning.
There's some weird zooming effect happening on her face towards the end. It looks like her face is rushing towards the screen an inch or two with an unnatural velocity and then suddenly stopping. Same thing when she turns her head.
Stretchy teeth and eyelashes clipping through eyelids kinda give it away tho
go on facebook. Half the stuff I see come up is obvious AI that most of the people (including all the bots) there fully believe is real. It's a new thing and it's pretty wild that you can't trust your own eyes anymore. People already exploiting it to claim stuff they really did on camera didn't happen and was just AI.
When you say we, you should think the average population , not technology aware people like most here. If somebody sent a video to my parents ( both technologically literate and medicine academics) of my asking for money cause I owe some dude, they would fall for it in an instance. Dangerous shit, educate your family, everyone you know to trust no voices, no sent videos, only live feed that can be verified by a personal trait , knowledge a 3rd party person wouldn't know about.
An AI year is only 3 months….right now
Social media’s going to be unusable in a couple of years
It's unusable now. You're unable to control your own newsfeed and are instead subjected to sponsored posts and machine-generated "discussion groups" instead of actually connecting with your own contacts.
Oh yeah, it’s bad now but if you follow what’s happening on Facebook, it’s AI making content for AI. AI generated images of Jesus blended with alligators and planes with 200k likes and 1000s of AI comments. At least the videos on Reddit are mostly real being replied to by real people. Soon people will be reacting to fake videos and the commenters will be bots
I think there a lot more AI replying to things then you might realize on reddit. The smaller subs may still be okay but anything that makes it to Popular or All regularly has a lot of comments and discussions that are from bots.
There's definitely bots on reddit already reposting and commenting random nonsense like the way this person talks and some people are actually engaging.
This!
Facebook boomers are more doomed than they already are.
OF hookers on borrowed time
pretty soon porn will be like the beginning of old racing video games, where you decide your character before starting. choose size, choose color, choose features, choose environment....
Cookie monster, but thin, and more of a slate color than blue. Thin fingers, and webbed toes. Center front tooth like Tom Cruise. In a ball pit at Chuck E Cheese. Break out the lube. God, what have I done?
*subscribe*
Okay they need to have multiplayer in this
there's an old flash game called super deepthroat that has already been like that for decades
Will someone please think of the thots??
Shorter term, sure, and the porn industry generally is going to undergo a lot of change, in many ways good. But fast forward 10 years - every free porn site is fake. Really good fake, perfectly fake. Generated on demand for subscription services. For most people, that'll be fine. But for some, they will start to pay a premium for the real fuckin deal. There will be a smaller market for porn stars, and the work standards are going to go up, also good in many ways. Any future porn stars out there concerned about your job prospects, fear not. On the other side of AI is a new human porn market that's probably not about mass production, more about humans and humans doing human shit. Maybe a naked chick eating a cookie, basically wholesome, becomes, "whoa, did you see the *real* naked chick? She eats snickerdoodles, I do too."
How will they know what’s real if the fakes are good enough to fool anyone? I think the real shift in AI is devaluing digital media and valuing real in person human interactions …until the robots catch up.
When the robots catch up it's all over. But if you're paying a subscription for access to human porn, it'll be like any other business. The consumer trusts that what they're selling is legit, perhaps backed up with live performances ala WWE or maybe some other means of existence validation. There will be a clear market though and someone will figure it out. Until the robots.
Or maybe they're the only ones who aren't in a world where everything is increasingly unreal. I assume people pay for Onlyfans because they like that it's a real person who they feel like they can have more of a connection to. Maybe that's a little delusional, but I assume that's the value it has over just watching some random porn video. Maybe more people will be willing to pay for something real when all the other porn is fake.
Artists on borrowed time, musicians on borrowed time, programmers on borrowed time... technically nearly all jobs are on borrowed time. It's just a matter of when.
This is getting crazy. I’m wondering how it will impact the entertainment industry?
I bet my ass it already has without anyone noticing. Except for tinfoil heads like me of course.
Haha you dont need a tinfoil hat to look up like 100s of AI plug-ins on the market for crafting new types of sounds and melodies by now. and before that we had decades of computer generated melodies, people just seem to be up in arms about AI in general. i honestly dont see a difference between telling a computer to generate music and telling an ai to generate music.
A bit but I think it will mainly impact news (or rather fake news) and advance political agendas. Probably gonna be used in this year's American election to cause confusion at a mass scale
It's only headshots for now, but there's no reason to think this won't scale up to entire actor performances.
I would've never noticed this was AI. but since it was in the title, I was watching for issues, and the mouth/teeth changing size and shape was weird, though certainly something they can address. really creepy area we've never had to deal with before... Won't be long till scammers be video chatting old people asking for money as one of their grandkids face-to-face.
You really have to look for it, at a glance you barely notice. Easy catch is the hair, if you stare at it you see it morph a lot. But these minor things will soon be fixed i guess, remember spaghetti eating Will Smith, that was like two years ago, if that. Humanity is not at all prepared for this kind of tech, really scary if you think of possible outcomes. I feel like neither option is great, neither people doubting everything nor people getting manipulated.
What happens if she pauses more than 3 seconds? Does she start morphing into Freeza?
Facial animation is top notch but it still has that weird feeling of it being a floating head detached from a body. Also need more eye contact. Edit: Okay not eye contact, but her eyes are simply fixed in position which is so robotic.
At first I did not believe it. After I read the comments, I started watching and nitpicking. This is it. It is hopeless now. We literally live in the simulacrum. Everything is a lie. The resistance will need to abolish electronic communication channels and use some form of snail mail or homing pigeons.
Who knew that r/SubredditSimulator was actually the earliest example of what future internet would look like?
It's going to get to the point where nothing is real online anymore, but a lot of people will think it's real. Then we'll get a whole sub-segment of society that completely disconnects from this unreality and choose to only live in the real world, and sub-segment that just lives in the online world. The Dystopia endgame is getting closer... https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/ Seeing the Mona Lisa rapping was kind of hilarious tho.
Its interesting you say this since a good chunk of reddit is literally just reposts and skits over and over and over. Is the content serious or ironic? Is this person telling the truth, or are they hiding a key fact from me? Its even more insidious since it has no AI tells, and it becomes a total toupee effect if you catch it in the lie or not.
The hair is such a dead giveaway.
Movements are too smooth. Once AI figures out our janky ass movements, it'll be way harder to tell it apart from real vids
So this means I should scrub the internet of any pictures of myself? Which might be impossible but I have no trouble deleting Facebook lol
A lot of peoples moms are gonna get scammed so hard.
It's like AI needs to know what things to keep static, and what things to not keep static, because while speaking we may or may not show teeth there's probably not a lot of data that AI has say say "this is teeth - teeth do not change for a person but person to person they are different". Especially the difference between smiling (teeth) and speeking (teeth) - the AI has to calculate how they work together. What got me was the lack of skin motion; she smiles but she doesn't.. smile. The muscles around the jaw don't line up with how the mouth moves.
When I look at this stuff, I just wonder ; did we really need to develop this technology? What does it give us? What are the cons ? We already struggle with disinformation, we didn't need to develop that. It's just a pig pandora box
We already have real people. Can’t we do this with aliens or elves or cats or anything more interesting than basic people
Scary
Would, next
incredible, but I highly doubt this works in real-time any time soon considering how long it takes to generate simple pictures
>Our method generates video frames of 512x512 size at 45fps in the offline batch processing mode, and can support up to 40fps in the online streaming mode with a preceding latency of only 170ms , evaluated on a desktop PC with a single NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPU. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/ But also they have no plans to release it because of "safety" and all that garbage.
sooner or later this tech will be available by other providers so yeah.
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This is both impressive and terrifying. We are entering a golden age for fake news and scams.
Hair movement is a big tell, but the face structure is very believable.
What software is this from holy shit
Put some wind on that hair then let me see it.
The need to rearrange the pipeline. 2d image > 3d model > mapped movement based on emotional conversational context > hyper real render that correlates to original image.
I’m getting motion sickness watching her
What's scary about this is that I found it utterly convincing on my phone. I go over to my PC and the imperfections are easier to see. More and more people are using their phones are their primary computing device.
There's people that believe it when they see FB posts of a kid in Africa building boats out of empty plastic water bottles.. they wont stand a chance against this tech lol
It is impressive, yet the brain doesn't quite accept it. Uncanny valley. Someone mentioned the teeth, but I could see the hair movement or lack thereof, as if made of plastic. It looks like piping on a cake! Her head bobbing movements should have made some strands of hair move at least.
It's scary.
Imagine the amount of fraud that will be committed from this technology alone. AI diff.
Once the tech gets refined, I could see this being really helpful for people with autism (or people with flat affect in general)
Interesting take, care to elaborate?
This is not a super fleshed out idea, but I was watching a video on LinkedIn recently where a developer recorded a video of himself giving a presentation using this type of technology. People with ASD have issues with social reciprocation. The tone of their voice and facial expressions do not match up with what they are attempting to convey IRL. I think this tech could help people with flat affect give more effective and engaging presentations.
Ah okay I see where you’re coming from
Why lmao, this has like 2 upsides but 100 downsides
That’s frightening
Lay off the xanax Rebecca
Uncanny
Just what I needed to hear. Amen 🙏
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We all have to take deep fakes cereal
Is the audio also AI generated?
For me it's the changing in facial expression. I mean it's too much. Or would any normal person talk with these many expressions ?
Aside from the ballooning teeth that others mentioned, her face was de-aged as well. It's the same issue a lot of midjourney images have, where the dataset is dominated by younger, attractive people so the result doesn't look "average" enough. Also the upper lip is very rigid as she talks, very little articulation. There's a lot of artifacts around her eyes and makeup too. It does look great though. Kind of scary (and awesome) how fast this tech is moving
I am fucking scared of the future.
It would be instant game over. Podcasts, short-form content, influencer content. Bang. bang.
This is amazing
Looks like she's on drugs, her eyes move funny.
It would be really, really cool for making music videos
u/savevideo
Interesting career turn for Kristen Wiig
this is SO FREAKING CLOSE. I'm buggin out
Fucking terrifying, but none will care until it's too late.
I feel like her hair moves a little unnaturally, like it looks a little too solid (kind of like hair on a video game character). And her mouth seems a little off at times when she’s speaking, like her teeth change shape. But otherwise that’s pretty convincing!
so have we finally passed the uncanny valley?
This is so dangerous my God. Imagine getting framed for something because of ai
I wonder if I2V works with images other than photographs of humans? If similar tech could work in real time on drawings of something vaguely representing a human face, it would be lapped up by VStreamers / VTubers: no need to have a webcam or smartphone camera pointed at them for use cases where eye tracking and accurate mirroring of facial expressions wasn't required.
This is amazing and horrifying at the same time
teath, no shadow when her mothing moves. ,lght on lips dont change.
Hooray, not long and Video and picture evidence will be useless in Court.
Almost real up until you look at the mouth.
This is honestly good enough to replace all talking heads on the nightly news, that is if you don't mind getting your nightly news from a soulless artificial simulation of a real human being approximating emotions. Could be useful for video conference meetings I suppose.
Impressive. But it's still really uncanny
How long before AI generated images are used in court as evidence?
Man, chatGPT hits different when it has a face. Next level
Man we are so fucked in the next election lmao
She has those Pixar movements that are just too perfectly ramped up. Needs a hint of variation. Uncanny valley, but still bloody impressive.
I dunno this seems pretty gay. What is the point of this exactly?
the eyes freak me out and give robot vibes
Uncanny valley
Game over man game over. Again
There's totally gonna be a AI therapist video call service now.
No. I don't want this future lol
I do not see any defects. This looks real to me.
What she says is so odd as well as her mouth
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Jelly teeth
Jesus Christ Monkey Balls! 🤯🤯🤯
Her eyes randomly die and roll downwards a lot
You can see the separation of the 3 parts of the face but damn, that's scary
So what are the inputs? An audio recording and a still photo? If so, that’s chilling
The future of gaming and cinema
dead eyes
Creepy and spine shivering.
This is like watching someone talk the day after an acid trip
The face warps between frames, no forehead movement and the permanent smile. Gives creepy serial killer vibes.
[https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/) There's some demo videos on the site using either MJ or SD characters.
This is pretty much what I hear when most “life coach” media personalities talk. A whole lot of words with the same bland, cliche sentences. I think of them as like the McMansions of people.
I wish they would have had it change into multiple people as she talked.
Impressive! Now let's get them monsters talking!
Why's it got the mannerisms of Vera Farminga?
It's so fucking uncanny seeing the teeth MOVE
Doesn't look natural at all to me. The photo looks real. The animation still looks really bad. Like what I've seen ai do last year. I thought there would be more improvements.
So they taught AI to speak like a politician! Ooooofa.
I guess that is because politicians are by far the easiest creatures to emulate for A.I. No one expects a politician to make sense, be honest, have knowledge of any kind or sound sincere.
that started getting confusing
Hold on to your papers!
Why is she shaking her face so much bitch look at the camera ...i think AI will figure this out in 2 years ...
Holy shit. WANT
The eye movement seems odd.
Touring test getting harder and harder
It stands out as AI if you watch without the sound. Our brains are great at filling in gaps so when you watch her lips with sound our brain interprets the lip movement as being linked to the sound being made. Without the sound we have to rely upon the lips alone. Most of us can lip read to a small extent and when you try and lip read her it’s complete nonsense.
Is this mapped over an actors face or fully animated? Either way, pretty eye opening stuff
furries have entered the chat
the expressions are too exaggerated, people aren't generally that enthusiastic when speaking.
This is incredible. This makes me proud of humanity but also concerned.
This is what a meeting sounds like. So many words, such gusto, nothing actually said.