Scary deepfake tool lets you put words into someone's mouth simply by typing them

If you needed more evidence that AI-based deepfakes are incredibly scary, we present to you a new a tool that lets you type in text and generate a video of an actual person saying those exact words. 

A group of scientists from Stanford University, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Princeton University, and Adobe Research created a tool and presented the research in a paper (via The Verge), titled "Text-based Editing of Talking-head Video." The paper explains the methods used to "edit talking-head video based on its transcript to produce a realistic output video in which the dialogue of the speaker has been modified." Read more...

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