Okay, emerging market space: MyHeritage.com, but for dick pics
― chillin' like Emperor Maximilian (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 1 March 2021 00:44 (three years ago) link
That throb in all the wrong ways/places
― Chokeslamming A Memory (Old Lunch), Monday, 1 March 2021 01:13 (three years ago) link
"Damn, great-great-grandpa Jebediah was HUNG!"
― chillin' like Emperor Maximilian (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 1 March 2021 01:28 (three years ago) link
this new technology really is an amazing breakthrough in taking historical photos and making it look like the person is in an elevator awkwardly trying to avoid smalltalk
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 1 March 2021 01:43 (three years ago) link
Yup. The animation adds movement to the photo, but they are completely empty and meaningless motions. They reveal nothing about the person that was not already in the photo. They just blink and strike slightly different poses.
― Judge Roi Behan (Aimless), Monday, 1 March 2021 01:56 (three years ago) link
― chillin' like Emperor Maximilian (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, February 28, 2021 4:44 PM (three hours ago)
― Chokeslamming A Memory (Old Lunch), Sunday, February 28, 2021 5:13 PM (two hours ago)
Wait, did that dick smile at me?
― nickn, Monday, 1 March 2021 03:54 (three years ago) link
that fred douglass tweet has a whole bunch of others in the thread including this particularly uncanny one of a young Ida B Welles
pic.twitter.com/3UKOjBtLNu— Queena (@luvscure1) February 28, 2021
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 1 March 2021 03:55 (three years ago) link
anyways, as promised, this is blowing uphttps://twitter.com/search?q=myheritage
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 1 March 2021 04:04 (three years ago) link
Some of these are absolutely killing me
So I ran a film still of Nicolas Cage through MyHeritage's Deep Nostalgia thing. pic.twitter.com/y0kq0MtLIp— Mark Yarm (@markyarm) February 28, 2021
― Chokeslamming A Memory (Old Lunch), Monday, 1 March 2021 04:28 (three years ago) link
this myHeritage thing is unquestionably one of the signs of the apocalypse pic.twitter.com/RxRZLUioEg— Tony Corsentino (@corsent) March 1, 2021
― Chokeslamming A Memory (Old Lunch), Monday, 1 March 2021 04:30 (three years ago) link
The portraits with weird expressions perfectly illustrate how this software is simultaneously sophisticated, complex, shallow and perfunctory.
― Judge Roi Behan (Aimless), Monday, 1 March 2021 04:32 (three years ago) link
this myHeritage thing is unquestionably one of the signs of the apocalypse
Still more lifelike than the real Pete though.
― mirostones, Monday, 1 March 2021 04:35 (three years ago) link
I did one of my late grandmother and it clicked so i called my mother and explained to her what this is and then asked if she wanted to see it and she was like why not? Then i hit send and waited on the phone for her to click through and i hear her scream OH MY GOD so I am afraid I just traumatized my mother.
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 1 March 2021 05:18 (three years ago) link
i think the myheritage thing i gonna blow up this week, nyt trend piece ahoy
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Sunday, February 28, 2021 9:33 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Already got a sore thumb just this weekend blocking everyone slinging this 'OMG LOOK AT THIS' into my tl ffs. The thinkpieces and longreads are being cranked out at top speed as we speak.
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 1 March 2021 08:18 (three years ago) link
xp The Good Son
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 1 March 2021 08:19 (three years ago) link
every single one of these posted in the thread is making me lol irl
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 1 March 2021 20:34 (three years ago) link
inevitably crashed
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 1 March 2021 20:56 (three years ago) link
Good one:
Ran Donald Sutherland (from Invasion of the Body Snatchers, natch) thru Deep Nostalgia and it totally caught the creepiness of this technology... pic.twitter.com/yvHrnB3HXk— 𝕊𝕥𝕒𝕟 𝕋. 𝕄𝕒𝕟 (@swmerrell) March 1, 2021
― Darin, Monday, 1 March 2021 21:52 (three years ago) link
wombo is amusing
/r/paradolia + Wombo = My weekend plans pic.twitter.com/r0lkBODPbb— David Eisner (@DavidGEisner) March 11, 2021
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 13 March 2021 00:05 (three years ago) link
I’m uncomfortable @WOMBO pic.twitter.com/6FERAp2zyB— (trsh) birschbox (@birschbox) March 11, 2021
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 13 March 2021 00:10 (three years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/22/european-mps-targeted-by-deepfake-video-calls-imitating-russian-oppositionDutch MPs fell for it as well
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 23 April 2021 22:34 (three years ago) link
The poor resolution on video calls would explain in part why the prank wasn’t immediately apparent to the targets.
seems like a misguided word in this situation
― sharpening the contraindications (Aimless), Friday, 23 April 2021 23:50 (three years ago) link
you know what? fuck this
thanks I hate it https://t.co/xuRftW7p4y pic.twitter.com/f08wHXuroE— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) July 15, 2021
― rob, Friday, 16 July 2021 13:49 (three years ago) link
fuck
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 16 July 2021 14:11 (three years ago) link
really awful
― treeship., Friday, 16 July 2021 14:29 (three years ago) link
We can have a documentary ethics panel afterwardIf you want
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 16 July 2021 14:44 (three years ago) link
Even worse, the director claimed that he checked with his widow and literary executor first and, uh:
I certainly was NOT the one who said Tony would have been cool with that. https://t.co/CypDvc1sBP— Ottavia (@OttaviaBourdain) July 16, 2021
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 16 July 2021 14:48 (three years ago) link
cool, we're only a few steps removed from Gotcha documentaries that intentionally make dead celebrities say things they actually never said to ruin their legacies.
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 July 2021 14:52 (three years ago) link
kudos to Ottavia for shutting down the "it was blessed" lie
yeah im not a big expert on bourdain but he didnt strike me as a "please fake my voice" type of dude
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 16 July 2021 14:59 (three years ago) link
Same and hopefully the lie sparks some real outrage about the technique in general. Frankly I don't think it would mitigate things to have gotten permission from survivors anyway. Like is this something to now specify in your will?
The director sounds like a total asshole tbrr: https://www.gq.com/story/anthony-bourdain-morgan-neville-roadrunner-documentary
In that context, I was little surprised by how much you decided to lean into drawing a parallel between his trip to the Congo and Apocalypse Now.That story, to me, was about, Is he Willard or is he Kurtz? Is he the rational journalist? Or is he the one who has become the protagonist and gone insane? I feel like that’s the dialectic he wrestled with whether the story took place in the Congo or anywhere. I actually think that episode is one of the best depictions of life in central Africa that’s ever been on American television, but that’s the part I was leaning into and, yeah, it’s dancing up against some pretty racist tropes.
That story, to me, was about, Is he Willard or is he Kurtz? Is he the rational journalist? Or is he the one who has become the protagonist and gone insane? I feel like that’s the dialectic he wrestled with whether the story took place in the Congo or anywhere. I actually think that episode is one of the best depictions of life in central Africa that’s ever been on American television, but that’s the part I was leaning into and, yeah, it’s dancing up against some pretty racist tropes.
― rob, Friday, 16 July 2021 15:02 (three years ago) link
jesus christ
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 16 July 2021 15:14 (three years ago) link
It's kinda cool the way that technology has provided novel ways for total ghouls to violate the dead.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Friday, 16 July 2021 15:26 (three years ago) link
To rob's point, I'm glad this high profile example is getting pushback so publicly and vociferously right away so maybe it will help stem the tide of further ghouls attempting this stuff.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 16 July 2021 15:29 (three years ago) link
i am cool with an ai version of my simulated voice living on after i'm dead, but i would like to produce the texts for it to speak right now while i'm still living
from now on, my life's work shall be my death's life
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 16 July 2021 15:58 (three years ago) link
just point it to ilx tbh
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Friday, 16 July 2021 16:02 (three years ago) link
that's true for all of us! hmmm
maybe this tech could specify certain years or decades that it should NOT draw upon for the text
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 16 July 2021 16:03 (three years ago) link
ai is so smart and powerful now i'm sure it could be like, "hmmmm that sounds painful and awkward, imma skip that one"
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Friday, 16 July 2021 16:05 (three years ago) link
If I were a famous public figure I would record tons of random footage/speeches/whatever to be used after I die, scenes for movies not yet written and so on. Heck, if Bruce Willis can record all his scenes in one day for boilerplate action movies, yet alone Yul Brynner for posthumous smoking PSAs, the sky is the limit. Like, whenever I was bored I'd record three minutes of myself talking about, I dunno, frogs or something and just add it to the pile. then after I die, if someone has a use for it and wants to pay my estate, go for it.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 July 2021 16:06 (three years ago) link
the painful ai rejection
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 16 July 2021 16:06 (three years ago) link
xp josh if i understand correctly, bruce willis wouldn't even have to record him saying his scenes. they could just take the boilerplate action movie text and apply the voice of bruce willis to it.
"get in the car!""i'm fine""he's getting away!""fuck!"
bruce willis is sitting pretty right now in other words
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 16 July 2021 16:08 (three years ago) link
the question is, would bruce's literary executor sign off on it
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 16 July 2021 16:15 (three years ago) link
*voice of bruce's literary executor, formless but clearly heard in surround sound*
"yes, the willis estate hereby signs off on that"
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 16 July 2021 16:16 (three years ago) link
Yeah, but Bruce could sell official, verified posthumous content. Like, you could get a cheap knockoff off AI Bruce saying "get in the car," or exclusive unseen footage of Bruce saying "get in the car" for big, big bucks.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 July 2021 16:19 (three years ago) link
"fuck, i need to reload! get in the car! we've got to get out of here - to go to the ANNUAL CONVENTION OF HONDA SALES REPS, WESTERN GREAT LAKES REGION, WELCOME SALES REPS, PICK UP YOUR FREE GIFT BAG AT CHECK-IN DESK!"
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 16 July 2021 16:29 (three years ago) link
some artschool wag is going to release an indie film with the voices of The Rock and Emily Blunt and get it into MOMA
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Friday, 16 July 2021 21:05 (three years ago) link
That movie already exists, it's called The Jungle Cruise.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 July 2021 22:38 (three years ago) link
but does it exist REALLY
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 17 July 2021 06:59 (three years ago) link
the dead speak! it’s ghastly, dead people should be left alone unless they’ve clearly specified that they want their voices used for hilarious pranks or whatnot. the tech could be a godsend for living people who have lost their voice tho!
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna42782115
not that that’s likely to be its primary function when there are dead singers to milk. countdown to billie holliday’s rendition of 1-800 cars 4 kids has begun, the future is some weird shit.
― person (cat), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 08:05 (three years ago) link
there's a "singing for Pepsi" line available in Neil Young's voice already
― StanM, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 08:21 (three years ago) link