▲ ▼ Deep Fake video generating SW for ethical usage
Deep Fake video is where the facial expression, speech of the person shown in the video aren't real and is computer generated using Machine Learning. Though the generation of deep fake videos fairly simple with right ML tools and setup, it is not yet available as a commercial grade software; though it may change soon.
There's lot of controversy surrounding deep fake videos for right reasons, as it could accelerate the Fake News/ Misinformation problem, but this need gap is for the ethical usage of deep fake (needs better name?) videos.
Online video consumption is growing at unprecedented rate, people spend inordinate amount of time (6hrs-8hrs/week) watching videos. Traditional content formats such as text, has already fallen out of favour. For someone who cannot indulge in the physical effort of creating videos can only rely upon deep fake video tech to generate video for them when a script is fed to it.
Besides, deep fake videos can save video production cost for all.
Google's paper on "Tune-A-Video: One-Shot Tuning of Image Diffusion Models for Text-to-Video Generation" - https://tuneavideo.github.io/ shows generating simple YouTube videos with just text prompts is going to be a reality soon.
Deepfake Offensive Toolkit offers real-time deep fake web cam videos, An ethical usage I can think of using it for is for faking smile on my videos as remembering to smile on videos is cognitively exhaustive to me.
DeepFaceLive - Is providing real-time face swap for PC streaming or video calls if the system is powerful enough. I think we're starting to see mainstream deep fake software addressing this need-gap in ethical use cases.
THE IRISHMAN(2019) uses deep fake for de-aging the actors. As the main actors are all old in real life, the CGI team generated deep fake videos of the actors by using the data from their old movies when they were younger.
@Abishek Muthian - what a cool wayback machine :) The Irishman was impressive, but still unreachable to the average podcaster. Wouldn't it be nice to start typing and have your past videos auto-adjust? (!)
If https://www.descript.com/
gets married with https://www.ohadf.com/projects/text-based-editing/
and has an affair with https://cloud.google.com/translate
content creators of the world would rejoice 🙌🏻
YouTuber EZRyderX47 has deep faked 'Back to the Future' movie scene with Robert Downey Jr and Tom Holland - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OJnkJqkyio using commercial software such as DeepFaceLab, Hitfilm Express 13 and hardware such as Geforce GTX 1070 SC respectively.
True, it will take years for this million dollar tech become mainstream.
A ‘beautiful’ female biker was actually a 50-year-old man using FaceApp. After he confessed, his followers liked him even more. - The Washington Post
https://www.myheritage.com/deep-nostalgia animates family photos, excellent ethical usage of deepfake to add life to old photographs.