Generating a New Reality: From Autoencoders and Adversarial Networks to Deepfakes

© Micheal Lanham 2021

M. LanhamGenerating a New Reality https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7092-9_10

10. Cracking Deepfakes

Micheal Lanham¹  

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Calgary, AB, Canada

 

Throughout this book we have considered numerous strategies for generating content that will match the reality we know or perhaps even surpass it. While most of that time has been spent exploring the realm of faces and creating realistic faces, the same techniques can be applied to any other domain as we see fit. However, it is perhaps being able to generate realistic faces that is the most frightening to so many.

Faces are, after all, the heart and soul of how we communicate and convey emotions. Being able to create real faces or swap faces, as it were, opens a world of possibilities ...