Mona Lisa Talking: New Deepfake Video Makes Da Vinci's Classic Speak, Twitter Says 'Cool but Creepy'
It means that now, Deepfakes could even be created with still images instead of videos and that opens up a world of problems.
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You've seen Mona Lisa smile. Now watch her speak. Researchers at the Samsung AI Research Centre in Moscow have come up with a study in which they managed to use Deepfake to create a video in which they made they Mona Lisa talk.
In a paper titled "Few-Shot Adversarial Learning of Realistic Neural Talking Head Models," researchers have used a single image to create a Deepfake video of Leonardo Da Vinci's famous "Mona Lisa" painting. In the video, the woman in the painting could be seen talking, reaffirming once more that we have only just reached the tip of the iceburg in terms of Deepfake technology. The researchers used other still images such as those of Salvadore Dali, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and a print of "The Girl with the Pearl Earring".
According to a report in Motherboard, the researchers ran several videos of talking heads through "deep convolutional networks" to create the simulated movements out of the still image. While the videos are still not of the best quality and can easily be identified as Deepfakes, the implications of the study are disturbing. It means that now, Deepfakes could even be created with still images instead of videos and that opens up a world of problems.
Deepfakes are essentially morphed videos that realistically superimpose a person's face and body on videos that did not originally contain them. The system is already in use by a vast network of publishers and proprietors of fake news and pornography.
The video of Mona Lisa talking turned several heads on Twitter with some referring to it as "cool" while others called it "scary". Some found it both.
Watch the full results of the study here.
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In a paper titled "Few-Shot Adversarial Learning of Realistic Neural Talking Head Models," researchers have used a single image to create a Deepfake video of Leonardo Da Vinci's famous "Mona Lisa" painting. In the video, the woman in the painting could be seen talking, reaffirming once more that we have only just reached the tip of the iceburg in terms of Deepfake technology. The researchers used other still images such as those of Salvadore Dali, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and a print of "The Girl with the Pearl Earring".
Samsung Deepfake AI makes Mona Lisa talk pic.twitter.com/xmpeLC8M7y
— Space Explorer Mike (@MichaelGalanin) May 24, 2019
According to a report in Motherboard, the researchers ran several videos of talking heads through "deep convolutional networks" to create the simulated movements out of the still image. While the videos are still not of the best quality and can easily be identified as Deepfakes, the implications of the study are disturbing. It means that now, Deepfakes could even be created with still images instead of videos and that opens up a world of problems.
Deepfakes are essentially morphed videos that realistically superimpose a person's face and body on videos that did not originally contain them. The system is already in use by a vast network of publishers and proprietors of fake news and pornography.
The video of Mona Lisa talking turned several heads on Twitter with some referring to it as "cool" while others called it "scary". Some found it both.
Creepy but cool.
— ⚡️Vasy Is My Tampa Bae⚡️ (@LuvTheLightning) May 24, 2019
I've been saying this a lot lately: the future is going to get really weird.
— Michael Arnovitz (@MichaelArnovitz) May 25, 2019
...So, how long before the Mona Lisa Sex Tape drops?
— 🐉Kayrosis🐉 (@Kayrosis) May 24, 2019
With that image in your head, now remember how many pictures of your kids are on the internet. Yeah... gonna be fun times ahead. pic.twitter.com/rryztXwoWI
Watch the full results of the study here.
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