[HN Gopher] Pa. woman created 'deepfake' videos to force rivals ... ___________________________________________________________________ Pa. woman created 'deepfake' videos to force rivals off cheerleading squad Author : pseudolus Score : 18 points Date : 2021-03-14 22:17 UTC (43 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (www.pennlive.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.pennlive.com) | neogodless wrote: | Article links several times to this[0], but it's a confusing | switch in text between "text and images" and "video". | | > fake photos and videos | | > The affidavit says Spone last year created the doctored images | | > were also sent photos that appeared to depict | | > victims were sent photos of themselves | | And of course, most confusing: | | > After analyzing the videos, detectives determined they were | "deepfakes" -- digitally altered but realistic looking images -- | created by mapping the girls' social media photos onto other | images. | | Is the word "images" interchangeable with "videos"? | | Another article[1] clarifies: | | > In the videos, the victim's bikini is digitally removed and | overlaid with skin-toned bars creating what Weintraub described | as Barbie doll-like effect. | | [0] https://www.inquirer.com/news/bucks-county-raffaela-spone- | cy... | | [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/13/cheer- | mom-d... | rexreed wrote: | This sounds more like photoshop and less like deepfake despite | the article title. | joe_the_user wrote: | Enough AI hype and we'll hear sentence like this: "it seems he | actually used 'photoshop', an obscure tool allowing the user to | manually create deepfakes" | | That said, the minimal skill and the 30-60 minutes required | probably has been a barrier to malicious photoshopping in the | past and so a deepfake site might still serve to propagate | nasty schemes like this. | kjrose wrote: | that was my impression as well. | kjrose wrote: | "Spone last year created the doctored images of at least three | members" | | That screams to me of bad photoshops. There's no reason to | deepfake a bad photoshop. | reificator wrote: | From the last time this was posted[0] it seems as though these | were photoshops, not deepfakes. | | [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26447471 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-03-14 23:00 UTC)