Deepfakes are everywhere these days, from Tom Cruise TikTok impersonations to fake video of former president Donald Trump resisting arrest. Because the AI engine behind deepfakes is relatively complex and technical, there is a fair amount of misinformation about how these videos are created.
Continue reading “Deepfakes Don’t Use GANs”I Make Deepfakes: How to Keep Yourself Safe
Unless you live under a rock, you’ve heard about deepfakes. Deepfakes are videos that blend reality with fiction by training a generative neural network to replace a person’s face with someone else’s. These videos are making news, and not always in a good way. They can create the idea that a person — usually a celebrity or political figure — is doing something they did not do. And sometimes, they are made and distributed with malicious intent.
Continue reading “I Make Deepfakes: How to Keep Yourself Safe”How we failed to replace a Logo Designer with AI
As a brand-new startup, we found ourselves in need of a company logo. Unfortunately, the graphic designer we were relying upon had recently moved on, leaving us with no internal design expertise.
Instead of scrambling to replace our former designer, we decided to try generating a logo using AI. We’re AI experts, after all, so it made sense to give AI a shot.
Continue reading “How we failed to replace a Logo Designer with AI”Why Meta Can’t Understand ChatGPT
Since its introduction late in November 2022, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has taken the world by storm. The internet sensation became the fastest-growing app in history, far surpassing the adoption rates of chart-topping social media giants like Instagram and TikTok.
Continue reading “Why Meta Can’t Understand ChatGPT”Faceswap Devoxx talk video
Thanks to the lovely people at Devoxx, we have a video of our talk for everyone to watch!
In this videos, several of our developers went to talk about Faceswap, it’s history, and the process of deepfakes. We go deep for those who want to know how Faceswap and deepfakes works, but we tried to keep it useful to a non-technical viewer. Hopefully this talk has interesting information for everyone!
Thanks to Stephan and all the people at Devoxx who made this talk possible.
If you want more information about Faceswap, check out our forum at https://forum.faceswap.dev/ . We welcome questions and have some great guides.
Faceswap Devs at Devoxx Belgium
Several of our devs will be at Devoxx Belgium for a talk on Faceswap and deepfakes! If you’re in Belgium you can meet us there. The talk is Thursday Nov 7th at 10:40-11:30 AM CET ( GMT+1 ).
We’ll be talking about Deepfakes, the tools, our development decisions and the future of the technology and the project. We’re really excited to talk to everyone and look forward to the talk.
The talk will be broadcast on Youtube as well so if you can’t make it to the site, you can still see us talk about the technology and it’s future.
For more information see the talk link here https://devoxx.be/talk/?id=103201
Faceswap featured in Corridor Digital video
Faceswap software and techniques have been featured in a video on the Corridor Digital and Corridor Crew channels. Both videos are worth a check. You can find them both below.