Meta's New 'Movie Gen' AI System Can Deepfake Video From a Single Photo (arstechnica.com)
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- News link: https://meta.slashdot.org/story/24/10/04/2041210/metas-new-movie-gen-ai-system-can-deepfake-video-from-a-single-photo
- Source link: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/metas-new-movie-gen-ai-system-can-deepfake-video-from-a-single-photo/
> On Friday, Meta announced a preview of [1]Movie Gen , a new suite of AI models designed to create and manipulate video, audio, and images, including [2]creating a realistic video from a single photo of a person . The company claims the models outperform other video-synthesis models when evaluated by humans, pushing us closer to a future where anyone can synthesize a full video of any subject on demand. The company does not yet have plans of when or how it will release these capabilities to the public, but Meta says Movie Gen is a tool that may allow people to "enhance their inherent creativity" rather than replace human artists and animators. The company envisions future applications such as easily creating and editing "day in the life" videos for social media platforms or generating personalized animated birthday greetings.
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> Movie Gen builds on Meta's previous work in video synthesis, following 2022's Make-A-Scene video generator and the Emu image-synthesis model. Using text prompts for guidance, this latest system can generate custom videos with sounds for the first time, edit and insert changes into existing videos, and transform images of people into realistic personalized videos. [...] Movie Gen's video-generation model can create 1080p high-definition videos up to 16 seconds long at 16 frames per second from text descriptions or an image input. Meta claims the model can handle complex concepts like object motion, subject-object interactions, and camera movements.
You can view example videos [3]here . Meta also released a [4]research paper with more technical information about the model.
As for the training data, the company says it trained these models on a combination of "licensed and publicly available datasets." Ars notes that this "very likely includes videos uploaded by Facebook and Instagram users over the years, although this is speculation based on Meta's current policies and previous behavior."
[1] https://ai.meta.com/research/movie-gen/
[2] https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/metas-new-movie-gen-ai-system-can-deepfake-video-from-a-single-photo/
[3] https://ai.meta.com/research/movie-gen/
[4] https://ai.meta.com/static-resource/movie-gen-research-paper
and the plot's no problem (Score:1)
because people don't expect movies to have an interesting plot anymore.
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I've already given up on that. I pretty much just watch old movies and new skate videos.
The only bit of excitement left is feeding my intense desire to see celebs get fucked over and shown the door by greedy movie studios and the fickle public. The smart ones will "betray" the rest and sell their image and voice. Either that, or a lot of dead actors (John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, those types) family will sell their rights off and that'll trigger the cascade. Why would anyone put up with those divas and their
What a gift! (Score:2)
What a wonderful gift to vindictive ex-spouses and divorce attorneys everywhere! Who wouldn't believe your ex cheated on you, why, when we have the video right here ?
Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. There have always been ways of faking photographs, etc..., but those generally required advanced skills and substantial amounts of time and money. This makes it possible for anyone with a grudge and a lawyer to use the legal system to punish anyone they dislike.
Nothing is real anymore (Score:2)
Great. We have finally been able to get to the point where nothing you see online is real. It will all be AI generated. Congratulations to us. We have just destroyed the human race and given in to our robot overlords.
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We're just moving the internet from being an historical non-fiction to being an absurdist semi-fiction, where there's just enough reality to make everything tangentially less real.