I posted this over on Twitter a couple of weeks ago, but it looks like yesterday somebody put it up on Reddit too. So I might as well throw it up here too.
Somebody, presumably an Ilbe bug, made a "deep fake" version of President Moon Jae-in's campaign poster (well, I guess he wasn't president back then). I got hold of it when a coworker buddy put it in our group chat. Is it tasteless? Yes. Creepy? Yes. Inappropriate? Yes. Borderline illegal? I sure hope not.
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| President Moon showing some... charm? |
But it is an incredibly rich and detailed creation. It's disturbing to think that some basement dweller made this in his spare time for a gag. If this level of detail can be made so casually, we can truly no longer trust anything we see online, even video content. Already I hear tell that deep fakes of K-pop singers are making their way onto porn sites. It's only a matter of time before some algorithm will take your friends' Facebook photos and stick their heads on some X-rated video.
To paraphrase a great philosopher, "our computer guys have been so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they haven't stopped to think if they should."
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