China has a flourishing market for deepfakes that clone the dead
www.technologyreview.com
The same technologies are being used by Chinese people to make replicas of themselves, their children, and famous public figures.
    • electric_nan@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      It does have high creepy potential (all deepfakes do), but I can understand the appeal. Make sure you take some nice videos of the people you love, and let them take some of you. Death doesn’t always come with a warning, and you don’t want to be wishing you had some recordings.

  • Lugh@futurology.todayMEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I wonder how long it will be before we see people purposely create these so they can influence their descendants. There might be a future where people have “relationships” with a collection of long dead people.

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    If there is one thing the Chinese government does well it is law enforcement. If you make a deep fake that isn’t in line with the public narrative you disappear.