The rise of AI technology, especially over the past decade, has been revolutionary. On the one hand, it feels as though we’ve adapted to AI developments accordingly. Yet on the other, there’s still so much to learn from recent AI advancements. One sector we’re still speculating about is the creative arts. Moving forward, how will AI’s growing popularity impact contemporary art?
jul23
Los Angeles-based video editor and political satirist Justin T. Brown has found himself at the center of a contentious debate thanks to his AI-generated images that portray prominent politicians such as Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden engaged in fictional infidelities.
His provocative series, christened “AI will revolutionize the blackmail industry,” quickly came under fire, leading to Brown’s banishment from the Midjourney AI art platform, which he used to generate the pictures.
Brown said the images were envisioned as a stark warning about the potential misuse of artificial intelligence.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/political-satirist-slammed-creating-deepfakes-120103536.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHFVDjMw8auK-p7Cz-o9pfgphkACHGyxpSL2oH3LZFHknvARRstLWDkJ2cSZ4rXvelzrYQuSakE-3z7iQQjzkMmienY7LfR8AvCQkt5p_XMUd1MayU1yDy-1ukpkNuZZaeoKyMvoJkjhtG2AckFPousHDLjvLcBYdBoFvtmd82wZ
https://www.tomorrowsworldtoday.com/2023/06/26/deepfakes-is-the-ai-phenomenon-terrorizing-the-art-world/
ab23
(ARTISTA a favor desde que lhe paguem...)
While some music artists and their labels are
increasingly becoming wary of those using AI models to clone their voices, others are choosing to ride the wave and embrace an AI-filled future.
Experimental artist and futurist Claire "Grimes" Boucher, for one, is looking at the new trend as an opportunity.
"I'll split 50 percent royalties on any successful AI-generated song that uses my voice," the artist
tweeted in response to a
story about Aubrey "Drake" Graham's voice being cloned for a viral song. "Same deal as I would with any artist I collab with."
"Feel free to use my voice without penalty," she added. "I have no label and no legal bindings."
In fact, Grimes admitted she was already "making a program that should simulate my voice well" in a
followup, "but we could also upload stems and samples for people to train their own."
https://futurism.com/the-byte/grimes-split-royalties-deepfake
mar23
MAR23
MUSICA
https://gizmodo.com/ai-deepfake-evolution-music-videos-kendrick-ye-eminem-1850209990/slides/5
fev23 MUSICA
Move over, autotune. Deepfake vocals could be the next big tool for musical manipulation.
This week, Grammy-winning artist David Guetta claimed the crowd at a Feb. 3 performance “went nuts” when he played a track featuring the voice of Eminem — despite the fact that the 50-year-old rapper never recorded the song.
The French DJ shared his computer-generated Marshall Mathers impression on social media, in which a voice eerily similar to that of the “Not Afraid” rapper’s sings: “This is the future rave sound / I’m getting awesome and underground.”
Guetta, 55, also stated that he won’t release the song commercially, but is “opening a conversation about how AI is going to change the music industry.”
“There’s something I made as a joke, and it worked so good I could not believe it,” Guetta said about the track in a video shared to his social media followers.
https://nypost.com/2023/02/14/david-guetta-deepfakes-eminems-voice-in-new-song-future-of-music-is-in-ai/
fev23
We need to accept that deepfakes are here to stay in film and TV
Last week saw the launch of Deep Fake Neighbour Wars, the first ever deepfake comedy. We need to start talking about the legal and ethical implications of this technology, says New Scientist's television columnist Bethan Ackerley
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734240-800-we-need-to-accept-that-deepfakes-are-here-to-stay-in-film-and-tv/
jan23
(antigo?)
Melhor do que o cinema
YouTuber usa Deepfake para melhorar a tecnologia de antienvelhecimento usada em “O Irlandês”
Um youtuber utilizou uma ferramenta gratuita de DeepFake, para provar que consegue resultados mais realistas que a tecnologia de antienvelhecimento que a Netflix usou em "O Irlandês".
https://www.pcguia.pt/2023/01/youtuber-usa-deepfake-para-melhorar-a-tecnologia-de-antienvelhecimento-usada-em-o-irlandes/
nov22
MUSICA
This Singer Deepfaked Her Own Voice—and Thinks You Should Too
Self-described “computer musician” Holly Herndon explains why AI vocal clones can help give fellow artists sovereignty over their work.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/holly-herndon-ai-deepfakes-music
nov22
CINEMA
These companies are responding to explosive demand for video production driven by internet trends. Social media platforms are pivoting to video in an effort to replicate the success of TikTok, and Cisco estimates video will make up more than 82 per cent of consumer internet traffic this year (15 times higher than in 2017). Traditional video production, however, is expensive, complex and unscalable. These companies hope to make it more accessible using AI to replace cameras, editors, actors and other elements of traditional video production.
Mina Samaan, a partner at MMC Ventures, says he sees new use-cases for synthetic video every day. He points to innovation in text-to-video – generating video from a text prompt, rather than an existing video – as an exciting trend in the area: “Today, because there’s so much capital going into [this space], the innovation is shifting from taking an existing video and maybe doing some lip-syncing to taking a completely blank slate and creating a video from scratch. That [...] wasn’t really possible three to four years ago.”
[AUDIO] Flawless is a London-based AI company specialising in ‘visual dubbing’ for entertainment. “We focus on visual translation,” explains Pablo Garrido, head of research at the company. “So, we try to move the mouth according to a new audio track. It’s quite novel.”
When films are prepared for a foreign-language market, they may be dubbed. However, this results in the mouth not moving with the words, creating a distracting mismatch between video and audio for the audience.
Although some researchers have experimented with manually editing the video to fit the new audio, Garrido explains that Flawless is the first to do it with a fully automated process.
He hopes that the company can provide the tools to prepare films for foreign-language markets, rendering the process “simpler and less costly” than before.
https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2022/11/synthetic-video-don-t-call-them-deepfakes/
out22
CINEMA
What Does Hollywood Have To Fear With Deepfakes?
https://www.newsy.com/stories/what-does-hollywood-have-to-fear-with-deepfakes/
Out22
CINEMA
Jean-Luc Godard once claimed, regarding cinema, “When I die, it will be the end.” Godard passed away last month; film perseveres. Yet artificial intelligence has raised a kindred specter: that humans may go obsolete long before their artistic mediums do. Novels scribed by GPT-3; art conjured by DALL·E—machines could be making art long after people are gone. Actors are not exempt. As deepfakes evolve, fears are mounting that future films, TV shows, and commercials may not need them at all.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/bruce-willis-deepfake-rights-law
out22
The ambient music pioneer is back with ForeverAndEverNoMore, an album that wants to get you in touch with your climate emergency feelings.
Can you tell me about the birds we hear on the album?
Brian Eno: The British Library’s National Sound Archive has a huge collection of bird recordings, some of which are now extinct. We settled on the Yellowhammer, an increasingly rare bird. I also like trying to make deepfake birds, so several of the birds you hear on the album are not real.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/brian-eno-q-and-a
set22
Action movie legend Bruce Willis has just become the first Hollywood actor to sell his rights to the possibility of a "digital twin" to the US firm Deepcake, according to The Telegraph. With the use of deepfake technology, Willis has offered his likeness to be used onscreen for future projects, following his first experience with the digital media manipulation in a commercial for Russian phone service, MegaFon, last year.
Deepfake technology allows for the use of a person's likeness to be superimposed over another individual. Through the use of machine learning and AI, it's possible to create a visual and audio "twin" of someone in videos. Though the ability to recreate someone so nearly-flawlessly does raise a few ethical questions, the technology has already been utilized within the Star Wars universe with Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, as well as The Mandalorian Season 2. In 2021, Willis gave permission to Deepcake in order to appear in a commercial, allowing his face to be "digitally transplanted onto another performer." Now, the actor has officially sold the rights to his likeness to be essentially "hired" by Deepcake for future productions.
https://collider.com/bruce-willis-sells-rights-to-deepfake-firm-deepcake/
Bruce Willis has denied reports that he’d licensed the use of his image to a deepfake company, after formally announcing his retirement earlier in the year. Last week, the Daily Mail reported that Willis sold his likeness to Deepcake – a Russian company specialising in AI-powered content optimisation – shortly before he learned of his aphasia diagnosis. The actor’s condition was made public back in March, when a statement confirming it was shared alongside the news that Willis would retire from the film industry after 44 years.
https://www.nme.com/news/film/bruce-willis-denies-selling-likeness-to-deepfake-company-3321266
ag22
CINEMA
Lionsgate's Fall Used Deepfake-Style Tech to Remove More Than 30 F-Bombs, Seeking its PG-13 Rating
https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/technology/lionsgate-fall-movie-f-word-fuck-deepfake-removed-technology-scott-mann/
DEEPFAKE TECHNOLOGY IS NOW BEING USED TO “VISUALLY DUB” MOVIES TO REMOVE PROFANITY FOR PG-13 RATINGS
https://www.diyphotography.net/deepfake-technology-is-now-being-used-to-visually-dub-movies-to-remove-profanity-for-pg-13-ratings/
ag22
CINEMA
Ever-experimental Russian formalist Alexander Sokurov drolly hints at the answer in his eccentric new film “Fairytale,” though not exactly in a dinner party context: Most of us aren’t hungry to spend an evening clinking glasses with Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, after all. Still, this brief, dreamlike musing assembles them — along with other daunting dead men of history, from Churchill to Mussolini to Jesus himself — in a kind of misty purgatory where they’re at liberty to converse. That they talk and talk and talk and talk, while ultimately saying very little, is perhaps the driving joke of “Fairytale,” a film of considerable technical expertise and artistry that uses gauzy deepfake technology to reanimate these blustering ghosts of the past — only to present them as vain, droning dullards, each hung up on petty personal fixations that torment them far more than their larger political actions. https://variety.com/2022/film/reviews/fairytale-review-1235335214/
juk22
CINEMA
As the capabilities of AI-generated content, including what is commonly referred to as deepfakes, continue to evolve, it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish the real from the synthetic.
This can offer creative opportunities for actors and filmmakers — allowing Mark Hamill to regain his youthful appearance as Luke Skywalker on The Book of Boba Fett, for example. But there also are nefarious uses, as Jordan Peele proved in a 2018 deepfake of President Barack Obama describing how the technology can facilitate disinformation.
SAG-AFTRA wants to help members maintain control of their likenesses in content, whether that be in a movie, TV series or video game — including after their death
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/sag-aftra-deepfakes-performers-threat-1235182933/
jun22
Today, deepfakes in film and entertainment are so common they have the simultaneous effect of going completely unnoticed ― mistaken for the real thing ― or going viral for that very reason: the effect is so real, many recent examples of deepfakes have hit headlines and tallied millions of views on TikTok and YouTube.
https://www.thenationalnews.com/weekend/2022/06/24/how-deepfakes-are-blurring-the-lines-in-art-and-film/
ma22
Performing artists push for copyright protection from AI deepfakes
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/performing-artists-push-copyright-protection-ai-deepfakes-2022-05-18/
mai22
MUSICA
There’s a new Kendrick Lamar song in the world. It’s called “The Heart Part 5.” It’s the rapper’s first single prior to his long-awaited Damn. follow-up Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers and his first new track as a lead artist since 2018. In the video, directed by Dave Free and Lamar, the rapper’s face morphs into several deepfakes, including OJ Simpson, Will Smith, Jussie Smollett, Kobe Bryant, Kanye West, and Nipsey Hussle. The lyrics often align with the person he’s resembling, discussing bipolar disorder when he’s West and murder when he’s the late Hussle. It opens with this quote attributed to Oklama: “I am. All of us.” Watch it below. Update: Around 6 a.m. Eastern (May 9), the video disappeared from YouTube. Listen to audio of the song below. https://pitchfork.com/news/kendrick-lamar-shares-new-song-the-heart-part-5-listen/
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https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%E2%80%9CThe+Heart+Part+5.%E2%80%9D
“The Heart Part 5” solidifies Kendrick Lamar as one of rap’s most selfless storytellers. The video for the single, which arrived on Monday ahead of his highly anticipated fifth studio album, Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, finds the Pulitzer Prize-winner making a case for empathy. At a glance, the visual seems bare-bones: Lamar with hair longer than we remember jolting sporadically. But before you know it, his face morphs into some of Black America’s most controversial figures—including Kanye West, O.J. Simpson, Jussie Smollett, and Will Smith. These men are heroes, villains, or anti-heroes. The classification may vary depending on who you ask. https://www.vice.com/en/article/akvxwa/kendrick-lamar-deepfake-music-video-the-heart-part-5
abr22
CINEMA
How a Polish Film’s Use of AI to Create an English Version Could Bolster the Foreign Movie Market (Exclusive Video)
https://www.thewrap.com/polish-foreign-film-the-champion-ai-english-video/
mar22
CINEMA:
The uncanny valley is a point in the continuum of facial realism where we start to feel creeped out by artificial human faces. Some films, such as the Polar Express, are notorious for it. Advances in processing power and rendering methods, as well as machine learning solutions like facial deepfakes, are changing this situation. Even real-time graphics on modern gaming consoles can get very close to photorealistic faces.
The Matrix Awakens Unreal Engine 5 demo shows this off in a stunning fashion. It runs on a humble home console, but in many scenes both reproduction of real actors and original CG characters look real. Another fantastic example is the Netflix anthology series Love, Death + Robots. Some of the episodes have CG faces that are impossible to class as CG or real.
https://www.howtogeek.com/787494/synthetic-deepfake-actors-are-coming-to-a-screen-near-you/
Fev22
Rodchenko.LIVE is a collection of deepfake movies during which the artist talks concerning the legacy of the visionary Russian artwork and design college Vkhutemas (the Greater Artwork and Technical Studios) – the Soviet counterpart of the German Bauhaus. Rodchenko taught development and metalwork at Vkhutemas, pioneering design concepts in Russia. https://www.massnews.com/legendary-russian-avant-garde-artist-teaches-his-creative-concepts-in-deepfake-video-analysis/
