[HN Gopher] Pa. woman created 'deepfake' videos to force rivals ...
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       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)
        
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       | 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
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       | > The affidavit says Spone last year created the doctored images
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       | > were also sent photos that appeared to depict
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       | > victims were sent photos of themselves
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       | And of course, most confusing:
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       | > 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.
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       | Is the word "images" interchangeable with "videos"?
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       | Another article[1] clarifies:
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       | > 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.
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       | [0] https://www.inquirer.com/news/bucks-county-raffaela-spone-
       | cy...
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       | [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"
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         | 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.
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       | [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26447471
        
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