YouTube videos of 6K celebrities helped train AI model to animate photos in real time.

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.

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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

Great! When will this be included in teams? So that I can deepfake all meetings

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I’ll give it a photo of myself from 10 years ago so that my coworkers don’t realize that I’m getting old.

The hair is the giveaway for me. Though I may not have noticed it unless I was looking for something.

Also the teeth that keep expanding and shrinking. But if you just lowkey watch something it is really hard to notice…

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No. No, they can’t. This shit still takes lots and lots of training data.

It’s just like any job. You can’t just fully fake something in one day. At best, you might get 60% of the way there, maybe 80% after adding on some generic experience. But, you’re not going to fully mimic anything without lots of training and experience.

This is impressive and terrifying as hell… I’m pretty tech savvy and have watched other AI videos, but if you presented this to me as real, I’d totally believe it! Especially I can imagine it being spliced with B roll footage and maybe “real” footage to make it even more believable. I’m floored…

Revenge porn machine go brrrrr.

Parents need to learn this stuff and teach their kids about it. Rumored nudes were enough to ruin kids lives at my highschool, nevermind “real” ones.

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This is the best summary I could come up with:


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.

To show off the model, Microsoft created a VASA-1 research page featuring many sample videos of the tool in action, including people singing and speaking in sync with pre-recorded audio tracks.

The examples also include some more fanciful generations, such as Mona Lisa rapping to an audio track of Anne Hathaway performing a “Paparazzi” song on Conan O’Brien.

While the Microsoft researchers tout potential positive applications like enhancing educational equity, improving accessibility, and providing therapeutic companionship, the technology could also easily be misused.

“We are opposed to any behavior to create misleading or harmful contents of real persons, and are interested in applying our technique for advancing forgery detection,” write the researchers.


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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.

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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.

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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.

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We’ve had email forgery and signatures to prevent it for decades, but barely anyone does that either.

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