{"id":4277,"date":"2020-02-23T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/?p=4277"},"modified":"2020-03-07T16:45:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T11:15:08","slug":"putting-words-into-any-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/putting-words-into-any-mouth\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting words into any mouth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">The ability to realistically put words into your mouth could be a serious invasion of privacy and new technology is capable of pulling off astonishing level of originality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ACoAAAVRdLkBls5slBlW0L5E_K-6GRK2OWQNuKo\/\">Samantha Cole<\/a> wrote this piece for Vice describing the alarming progress in AI assisted deepfake capabilities now accessible to any one.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The process according to the paper  &#8220;Everybody\u2019s Talking\u2019: Let me Talk as You Want,\u201d by researchers at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore is.. \u201dTo .. first create a three-dimensional face model on every frame of the target video to extract the geometry, pose, and expressions of the face,\u2026They then reconstruct a 3D face mesh to match lip movements that match source audio phonemes, or individual sounds\u2014similar to how recent text-to-video methods work.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"810\" height=\"456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tNPuAnvijQk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So why should you be concerned? According to the author.. \u201cSenseTime, one of the companies that developed this research, was recently implicated in developing technology that helped the Chinese government profile a Muslim minority group.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One way is to stay aware of the changes else we will not have \u201cthe ability of citizens and decision makers to separate truth from fiction.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where I learnt this #420 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Deepfake Method Can Put Words In Anyone&#8217;s Mouth <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/g5xvk7\/researchers-created-a-way-to-make-realistic-deepfakes-from-audio-clips\">https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/g5xvk7\/researchers-created-a-way-to-make-realistic-deepfakes-from-audio-clips<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everybody\u2019s Talkin\u2019: Let Me Talk as You Want <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/tNPuAnvijQk\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/tNPuAnvijQk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ability to realistically put words into your mouth could be a serious invasion of privacy and new technology is capable of pulling off astonishing level of originality.<\/p>\n<\/p><div class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/putting-words-into-any-mouth\/\" class=\"btn btn-small btn--dark btn-hover-shadow\"><span class=\"text\">Continue Reading<\/span><i class=\"seoicon-right-arrow\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ub_ctt_via":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,247],"tags":[70,180],"class_list":["post-4277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-learnt-today","category-privacy","tag-alwayslearning","tag-privacy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Subhanjan Sarkar","author_link":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/author\/subhanjan\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paX7jg-16Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}