There's now an AI app that Making AI-Generated Pornfake smut vids using celebs' faces , II AI-created Gal Gadot XXX video goes viral on Reddit, hints fake celebrity porn is going to flood web soon
The faces of celebrities, politicians, children, or pretty much anyone, can be pasted over faces of porn stars in X-rated movies using freely available machine-learning software.
The resulting flicks look convincing, and effectively allow miscreants to place people – from the rich and famous to the powerful to ex-partners – into highly compromising and believable positions on moving video footage.
Although there are innocent use cases for this software – such as pasting your face onto a blockbuster movie character's head so you can star in a Hollywood film – the potential for blackmail, embarrassment, and harassment is astounding.
The process to create these incredibly damaging faked videos is, thankfully, not trivial, but not impossible. You need the software – a desktop program dubbed FakeApp – plus a big batch of photos of your victim to train the application's deep-learning neural network, the video to paste the face onto, and a little tweaking here and there to render the output believable.
A Reddit message board, /r/deepfakes, where miscreants can discuss the warped tech, appeared two months ago, and has racked up more than 17,000 followers. There, pervs post their fake porn of Alison Brie, Scarlett Johansson, Taylor Swift, and other women, and swap tips and tricks.
The subreddit was created by a Redditor called Deepfakes, who developed the machine-learning algorithms at the core of FakeApp. That program was built and packed up by another individual – Deepfakeapp – who uses the chat board to distribute the code along with instructions for creating bogus footage. Deepfakeapp told us they are not Deepfakes; it appears the two collaborated to some degree on this project.
The software is based on face-swapping algorithms. A deep-learning neural network is trained to identify someone's face in a still video frame – such as an adult actress in a blue movie – and swap it with someone else's face – such as a TV celeb or singer. Repeat this at 30 or 60 frames per second, and you've got an AI-doctored video.
For example, in this safe-for-work video, the app has pasted Star Wars actress Daisy Ridley onto someone else's body.
So far, most of the villains have used it to map the faces of women celebrities onto their favorite smut stars. That's incredibly horrible already – but who’s to stop anyone from using it to create child pornography, or revenge porn? A video of the victim – from a TV show or film or home movie – will produce enough frames to train the model, once cropped and processed.
"Ultimately, for better or worse, it's impossible to stop anyone from doing what they want with this tool, and unfortunately that means some will abuse it," the developer told The Register on Wednesday.
"However, I'm optimistic that the community is going to continue to by and large use it make creative, innovative, and positive work, as they have so far."
But why make a desktop Windows app that's so obviously going to be used for evil? "It's because I want to spread this incredible face swapping technology to users who don't necessarily have a tech background," Deepfakeapp replied.
All it requires is an Nvidia GPU to train the program's neural network, Nvidia’s CUDA software to run the TensorFlow code, and about three to four GB of space on your PC to store the data and results.
You don’t need to be an AI whiz to wield this, since you don’t need to mess around with much coding. “This app is intended to allow users to move through the full deep-fake creation pipeline—creating training data, training a model, and creating fakes with that model—without the need to install Python and other dependencies or parse code,” according to the program's documentation.
You have to be quite the pervert to bother collecting hundreds or thousands of images of your desired target, and then wait several hours for the algorithm to finish training, though.
But the internet is crawling with creeps. There are countless threads of people posting their results, or asking for advice on how to make the faces less blurry or how to align the eyebrows.
Overall, there are some pretty convincing results. Deepfakeapp told El Reg one user was able to paste Carrie Fisher's face on another actor's head better than Hollywood artists were able to do in Star War: Rogue One.
The resulting flicks look convincing, and effectively allow miscreants to place people – from the rich and famous to the powerful to ex-partners – into highly compromising and believable positions on moving video footage.
Although there are innocent use cases for this software – such as pasting your face onto a blockbuster movie character's head so you can star in a Hollywood film – the potential for blackmail, embarrassment, and harassment is astounding.
The process to create these incredibly damaging faked videos is, thankfully, not trivial, but not impossible. You need the software – a desktop program dubbed FakeApp – plus a big batch of photos of your victim to train the application's deep-learning neural network, the video to paste the face onto, and a little tweaking here and there to render the output believable.
A Reddit message board, /r/deepfakes, where miscreants can discuss the warped tech, appeared two months ago, and has racked up more than 17,000 followers. There, pervs post their fake porn of Alison Brie, Scarlett Johansson, Taylor Swift, and other women, and swap tips and tricks.
This is a convincing still taken from a AI-doctored FakeApp video – it is singer Katy Perry's face on the body of a p0rno star – it took Reddit user DaFakir two attempts to make, apparently
The software is based on face-swapping algorithms. A deep-learning neural network is trained to identify someone's face in a still video frame – such as an adult actress in a blue movie – and swap it with someone else's face – such as a TV celeb or singer. Repeat this at 30 or 60 frames per second, and you've got an AI-doctored video.
For example, in this safe-for-work video, the app has pasted Star Wars actress Daisy Ridley onto someone else's body.
So far, most of the villains have used it to map the faces of women celebrities onto their favorite smut stars. That's incredibly horrible already – but who’s to stop anyone from using it to create child pornography, or revenge porn? A video of the victim – from a TV show or film or home movie – will produce enough frames to train the model, once cropped and processed.
Accessible
These moral quandaries have not deterred Deepfakeapp, however. In their mind, we should expect such code to emerge in public as powerful AI technology becomes more and more accessible – and this tech will be used for good, and bad."Ultimately, for better or worse, it's impossible to stop anyone from doing what they want with this tool, and unfortunately that means some will abuse it," the developer told The Register on Wednesday.
"However, I'm optimistic that the community is going to continue to by and large use it make creative, innovative, and positive work, as they have so far."
But why make a desktop Windows app that's so obviously going to be used for evil? "It's because I want to spread this incredible face swapping technology to users who don't necessarily have a tech background," Deepfakeapp replied.
All it requires is an Nvidia GPU to train the program's neural network, Nvidia’s CUDA software to run the TensorFlow code, and about three to four GB of space on your PC to store the data and results.
You don’t need to be an AI whiz to wield this, since you don’t need to mess around with much coding. “This app is intended to allow users to move through the full deep-fake creation pipeline—creating training data, training a model, and creating fakes with that model—without the need to install Python and other dependencies or parse code,” according to the program's documentation.
You have to be quite the pervert to bother collecting hundreds or thousands of images of your desired target, and then wait several hours for the algorithm to finish training, though.
But the internet is crawling with creeps. There are countless threads of people posting their results, or asking for advice on how to make the faces less blurry or how to align the eyebrows.
Reddit user yu78156853 clearly hasn't spent long enough training the algorithm ... this is an example of a poorly faked vid
Honestly, I continue to be amazed by how realistic much of the work produced by this technology is. Community members create new material every day that looks completely real. Just today a user released a recreation of the CGI Princess Leia from Star Wars: Rogue One that was almost identical to the original — that really impressed me.
Deepfakes and Deepfakeapp's work was first spotted by Vice's Samantha Cole. This week, after discovering FakeApp, she summed it up perfectly: "We are truly fucked: everyone is making AI-generated fake porn now." ®
This is not real Gal Gadot in this porn video. It's just her face.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is dangerous. And seems that it is going to be doubly dangerous for Hollywood and Bollywood actors that may find themselves morphed into porn videos. While morphed photos of actors in porn photos isn't something new -- blame it on Photoshop -- on the web, an AI-powered video app can now apparently create fake porn videos so thorough that it may blur lines between what is imaginary and what is real. The example of such videos are already available on a Reddit community called Deepfakes (NSFW) where porn videos "featuring" Hollywood celebrities are going viral.
The news originally came out in December when someone created a fake porn video that "featured" Gal Gadot -- yes, the Wonder Woman -- using an AI-powered app. Apparently the app, which uses neural networks to do its job, is so through at face-swap that it is difficult to tell that if the video is fake or real. As a proof of concept, some people took a porn video and replaced the face of the actor in it with Gal Gadot's. The video was later posted on the web.
Now, over at Deepfakes, some enterprising users have simplified the whole process to creating fake porn videos and have come out with an app that allows almost any tech savvy web-user to create a fake porn video "featuring" almost any celebrity. The Deepfakes community on Reddit has over 15,000 members.
The app, along with how-to-use-it manual, is available on Reddit. It's called FakeApp. "This app is intended to allow users to move through the full deepfake creation pipeline -- creating training data, training a model, and creating fakes with that model -- without the need to install Python and other dependencies or parse code," notes the app creator, who calls himself "deepfakeapp" on Reddit.
Even as the app goes viral, along with some of the stuff that has come out of it, its creator wants to simplify it even more. "I think the current version of the app is a good start, but I hope to streamline it even more in the coming days and weeks," the man behind FakeApp tells Motherboard. "Eventually, I want to improve it to the point where prospective users can simply select a video on their computer, download a neural network correlated to a certain face from a publicly available library, and swap the video with a different face with the press of one button."
In a world where already it is difficult to tell apart fake from real, the FakeApp points towards a scary future where anyone can find himself or herself in a fake porn video. Or find himself or herself in any kind of video, that may then be used with scary consequences. Imagine the kind of videos that may go viral on the web once this technology is more widely available and is easier to use.
The technology to use AI to create "real videos" already exists and Hollywood uses it all the time in its movies. But now as more and more people get access to powerful neural networks, it seems the technology is going end up in the hands of people who will have enough free-time on their hands to play with footage and photos of famous people to create fake porn videos.
The news originally came out in December when someone created a fake porn video that "featured" Gal Gadot -- yes, the Wonder Woman -- using an AI-powered app. Apparently the app, which uses neural networks to do its job, is so through at face-swap that it is difficult to tell that if the video is fake or real. As a proof of concept, some people took a porn video and replaced the face of the actor in it with Gal Gadot's. The video was later posted on the web.
Now, over at Deepfakes, some enterprising users have simplified the whole process to creating fake porn videos and have come out with an app that allows almost any tech savvy web-user to create a fake porn video "featuring" almost any celebrity. The Deepfakes community on Reddit has over 15,000 members.
Even as the app goes viral, along with some of the stuff that has come out of it, its creator wants to simplify it even more. "I think the current version of the app is a good start, but I hope to streamline it even more in the coming days and weeks," the man behind FakeApp tells Motherboard. "Eventually, I want to improve it to the point where prospective users can simply select a video on their computer, download a neural network correlated to a certain face from a publicly available library, and swap the video with a different face with the press of one button."
In a world where already it is difficult to tell apart fake from real, the FakeApp points towards a scary future where anyone can find himself or herself in a fake porn video. Or find himself or herself in any kind of video, that may then be used with scary consequences. Imagine the kind of videos that may go viral on the web once this technology is more widely available and is easier to use.
The technology to use AI to create "real videos" already exists and Hollywood uses it all the time in its movies. But now as more and more people get access to powerful neural networks, it seems the technology is going end up in the hands of people who will have enough free-time on their hands to play with footage and photos of famous people to create fake porn videos.
No comments
Post a Comment