On Tuesday, Microsoft Research Asia unveiled VASA-1, an AI model that can create a synchronized animated video of a person talking or singing from a single photo and an existing audio track. In the future, it could power virtual avatars that render locally and don’t require video feeds—or allow anyone with similar tools to take a photo of a person found online and make them appear to say whatever they want.
Great! When will this be included in teams? So that I can deepfake all meetings
Why did they make this
Someone is always bound to make this someday. At least the maker is announcing it which is decent enough. Actually, I have always thought that if AI can generate image and voice, what is stopping someone from identity theft? And BAM, we are now in an age where digital data will soon be unreliable unless we have protocol in-place to prove the origin of the data.
We’re going to need strong digital signatures on everything, and we need it fast, else we won’t be able to believe anything we see. It will be Steve Bannon’s “flood the zone with shit” dream come true.
We’re going to need strong digital signatures on everything
That won’t help anything considering how easy it is to strip metadata.
I mean the opposite scenario, where if there’s no signature we assume it’s fake.
That lip sync is scary good. It’s still a little off, the teeth are weirdly stretchy, but nobody would notice it’s a deepfake on first glance.
Seems very similar to Nvidia’s idea of only having a moving photo for video calls to reduce bandwidth needed. Very nice.
It’s terrifying and super cool at the same time. I think all of the execs at these big tech companies need to rewatch the Terminator.
Here’s Gizmodo’s take: https://gizmodo.com/weird-teeth-fake-microsoft-vasa-1-ai-free-video-creator-1851420514