Deep fakes showing up

About 3 years ago, NVDA introduced “raytracing”, a technology that promised CGI that creates images that are indistinguishable from real world. One of the predictions was for deepfakes that would fool people into believing a high rank individual “said” or “did” some FAKE thing.
Here are 2 examples from the last week:

March 16, 2022. Ukraine.
Deepfake footage purports to show Ukrainian president capitulating
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/deepfake-footage-purpor…

LONDON/LVIV, Ukraine, March 16 (Reuters) - A poorly edited video purporting to show Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy publicly capitulating to Russian demands drew widespread ridicule on Wednesday, but experts said it could be a harbinger of more sophisticated deceptions to come.

March 7, 2022. South Korea. This one is an official, approved use.
South Korea candidates woo young voters with ‘deepfakes,’ hair insurance
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/skorea-candidates…

A digital avatar of Yoon, his campaign says, is the world’s first “deepfake candidate”, explaining policy ideas and taking digs at his rival. Lee’s team responded with its own AI-powered character.

Other tech…
GoofyHoofy mentioned DYI AI. 5 recs and no comments?
https://discussion.fool.com/diy-ai-35074798.aspx?sort=username

Uipath, Palantir, Unity, etc. are creating software platforms that do NOT require “coding” skills, in order to create a product. Drag and drop “functional modules” or “apps” make it fast and easy.

WFH was successful cause several “technologies” had matured to some threshold that allowed successful WFH.
AI, raytracing, Tesla FSD… deepfakes. More tech is crossing that threshold.

:alien:
ralph

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WFH was successful cause several “technologies” had matured to some threshold that allowed successful WFH.
AI, raytracing, Tesla FSD… deepfakes. More tech is crossing that threshold.

My human intelligence can’t figure out what the heck ‘WFH’ might be? Something you eat? Something you output after eating?

Like all tools, technology can be used for good and evil, don’t blame the technology, blame the perp.

‘Raytracing’ is so successful that Tesla is using it to train neural networks. There are many very dangerous situations on the road that no one wants to enact live. ‘Raytracing’ to the rescue. And the technology is a lot faster and cheaper than humans evaluating images to train neural networks.

The Captain

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WFH=work from home

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WFH=work from home

Thanks! With Covid and Zoom everybody is gaga over WFH. I have been WFH for over a quarter of a century with clients on three continents. My design parter was in New Zealand. We met over the Internet.

Intellectual work can be done from anywhere, only physical work needs specific locations.

Around 1985 I bought a MODEM to connect from Caracas with Apple in Cupertino. I had to make a long distance call to Puerto Rico. It kinda worked, almost.

The Captain

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WFH was successful cause several “technologies” had matured to some threshold that allowed successful WFH.

My human intelligence can’t figure out what the heck ‘WFH’ might be? Something you eat? Something you output after eating?

Same here.

Y’all take your pick:

https://www.bing.com/search?q=WFH&go=Search&qs=ds&am…

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