On Tuesday, Microsoft Research Asia unveiled VASA-1, an AI model that can create a synchronized animated video of a person talking or singing from a single photo and an existing audio track. In the future, it could power virtual avatars that render locally and don’t require video feeds—or allow anyone with similar tools to take a photo of a person found online and make them appear to say whatever they want.
We’re going to need strong digital signatures on everything, and we need it fast, else we won’t be able to believe anything we see. It will be Steve Bannon’s “flood the zone with shit” dream come true.
We’re going to need strong digital signatures on everything
That won’t help anything considering how easy it is to strip metadata.
I mean the opposite scenario, where if there’s no signature we assume it’s fake.
We’ve had email forgery and signatures to prevent it for decades, but barely anyone does that either.
That lip sync is scary good. It’s still a little off, the teeth are weirdly stretchy, but nobody would notice it’s a deepfake on first glance.
Seems very similar to Nvidia’s idea of only having a moving photo for video calls to reduce bandwidth needed. Very nice.
Revenge porn machine go brrrrr.
Parents need to learn this stuff and teach their kids about it. Rumored nudes were enough to ruin kids lives at my highschool, nevermind “real” ones.
It’s terrifying and super cool at the same time. I think all of the execs at these big tech companies need to rewatch the Terminator.
Here’s Gizmodo’s take: https://gizmodo.com/weird-teeth-fake-microsoft-vasa-1-ai-free-video-creator-1851420514
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Also the teeth that keep expanding and shrinking. But if you just lowkey watch something it is really hard to notice…
This is impressive and terrifying as hell… I’m pretty tech savvy and have watched other AI videos, but if you presented this to me as real, I’d totally believe it! Especially I can imagine it being spliced with B roll footage and maybe “real” footage to make it even more believable. I’m floored…
No. No, they can’t. This shit still takes lots and lots of training data.
It’s just like any job. You can’t just fully fake something in one day. At best, you might get 60% of the way there, maybe 80% after adding on some generic experience. But, you’re not going to fully mimic anything without lots of training and experience.
