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The user need only enter a simple text prompt and — hey presto! — out comes the picture. The most popular programs are Stable Diffusion and DALL-E — and both are now free of cost and available open access.
This points to troubling potential: these tools are a dream for a disinformation actor who need only to be able to imagine the 'evidence' they need to support their narrative, and then create it.
These technologies are already starting to penetrate social media and images are only the beginning.
Just recently in September, Meta released 'Make-A-Video' that enables users to create "brief, high-quality video clips" from a text prompt. Experts warn that synthetic video is even more troubling than synthetic images, given that today's social media landscape already favours fast and clipped videos, over text or images.
https://euobserver.com/digital-eu/156482
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https://dot.la/deepfake-tom-cruise-2657988402/particle-2
jul22
Tom Cruise has been thriving, as Top Gun: Maverick is still breaking records for Paramount. And while the star finds success, Miles Fisher, who's become famous for his Cruise deepfakes is getting considerable buzz a well. Of course, going viral for his uncanny recreations of the actor has helped raise his profile. But as Fisher now tells it, fooling people into thinking he’s Cruise has proved to be a burden, even around A-listers like Leonardo DiCaprio.
Miles Fisher definitely seems appreciative of the attention and work he's received, thanks to his resemblance to the Mission: Impossible star. However, whenever he's working with Hollywood titans, there's something that he just can't seem to shake. As Fisher explained:
https://www.cinemablend.com/movies/man-whos-the-face-behind-tom-cruise-deepfakes-talks-about-how-huge-of-a-burden-its-been-even-around-a-listers-like-leonardo-dicaprio
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Few deepfakes are done well. "It's easy to make bad ones, but very difficult to make ones that are truly successful," he told Le Monde. Although there are several free tools available online, making this technology accessible to as many people as possible depends on several factors: "You need a very powerful machine, time, patience, but, above all, skills. "
https://worldcrunch.com/tech-science/slovakian-artist-ctrl-shift-face-king-of-deepfakes
