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Computers dream of Porn
The program FakeApp appeared seemingly out of nowhere in early 2018. It lets users swap the faces in videos for the faces of other people. The lighting and facial expression is matched with the original video. Of course, the first mayor use people found for this has been to create porn videos. It is always porn. The faces of certain film and Internet stars are used to replace the faces of porn actors.
This has created some uproar, since it seems as if this would violate privacy rights of the actresses. But does it? I am not so sure though. The faces, replacing the faces of the porn actresses, are not place in via copy and paste, but rather they are an interpretation of an artificial intelligence that tries to match a face over another. Done manually, by a human being, this would be seen as a highly creative act.
So maybe we should say that the faces shown here, are not the faces of the women shown. But that might always be true. For every image. I am slightly confused.