A new type of Sexual Harassment! Neural networks undress women unhindered. How Deepfake invades privacy.
On a typical working day in March, colleague Ketty called her to his desk. He did not say why, but from his strained face, she realized that something had happened. When she glanced at his computer screen, she was shocked. She saw herself, completely naked with her legs raised, next to her was a man and penetrated her repeatedly. Other employees gathered at the moans coming from the computer, they immediately shut up when they saw the video and began to look at Ketty.
She felt sick, her legs weakened and stopped holding. The video looked real, but it wasn’t her. It was obvious — she never did porn.
She did not know what was happening, the body was not hers, only her face was. But from the outside everything was real.
It should have been some kind of deception … but would her colleagues believe it?
“It was the worst day of my life,” Ketty told our publication.
It turned out that there were other videos on the Internet with her participation. All of them had tens of thousands of views.
After letters to the sites, some videos were deleted, but now several porn videos can be found on the Internet. “Apparently, I have to live with this for the rest of my days,” the poor girl says.
The video on which Ketty is captured is a fake that is created using a neural network
Merry did not even suspect that anyone could do this to her.
She tried to fight, but there were still a lot of fake videos with her
Deepfake algorithms use a set of video data and images of a person to create a virtual model of his face, which can be superimposed on the body of another person. In the case of Ketty, her face was laid on a porn actress.
“When it’s Photoshop, it’s a static picture, and it can be obvious that it’s not real,” said Kate, who had been the subject of previous misogynistic attacks. “But when your own face reacts and moves, such a panic arises because you cannot know whether the people who watch it will believe”
Deepfake technology quickly broke into the Internet industry a few years ago. Developed by specialists from a technological institute in the framework of research into machine learning technologies, Deepfake algorithms began to be used to create fake videos.
Deepfake videos with President Trump and Obama, as well as other politicians, made a lot of noise.
Many experts sounded the alarm, believing that this technology will be used in dirty political games. But it turned out that they started shooting fake videos with completely different actors
Specialists from the Dutch company Deeptrack found that 96% of all Deepfake videos on the Internet are porn fakes.
In all the Deepfake porn videos that Deeptrace found, faces change for celebrity women; their appearance on television and in the cinema gave the creators of the video a lot of material for work. Such videos with famous actresses receive millions of views.
We chatted with eight women who were digitally inserted into porn without their consent. They did not call themselves by their names to protect their privacy, and speak out to draw attention to a problem that has remained in the shadows. They all say that their life will never be the same again.
Neural networks achieve stunning similarities
Today, major porn sites are filled with deepfakes, despite promises to ban them.
Other technology platforms have hesitated in their approach to the fake fakes posted on their websites, torn between calls to eradicate misinformation and protect freedom of speech.
Without such intervention or effective policies in place, deepfake porn will continue to evolve because the demand for such videos is growing daily.
In addition to the deepfake application, services began to appear that allow users to upload photos of people to find porn actresses with similar characteristics to achieve optimal results for a person with a permutation.
All sites are approximately similar, but all cope with their task and help to choose convenient options for porn models.
Porn sites with fake videos are very popular. Daily visits them, about 700 thousand users and this figure is constantly growing.
The largest sites are filled with deepfake videos with celebrities that anyone can watch.
Almost every site has a forum where people make paid requests for professional-looking videos of specific women, and also share links to women’s social media profiles for the original image.
At one of these forums in March, someone asked for a sex video of 24-year-old Canadian woman Tina and gave a link to her YouTube channel. Four days later, a deepfake video surfaced that seemed to show that she was leaning naked on the bed when one man shoved behind her and another stroked his cock near her head. The video, which is almost seamless, still has thousands of views.
“I was definitely shocked,” said Tina, who learned about the video when a friend sent her a link. “It was very disturbing to see my face as it should not be.”
The site shows that this video has been uploaded — a middle-aged man, according to his profile. Tina has no idea who he is. She thought about trying to ban the video, but did not see the point as soon as she realized that it was already transferred to other websites.
“You know how the Internet works — if something is downloaded, it can never be deleted,” she said. “It will just be saved forever.”
A fully automatic face-change service that allows you to work even with 1 photo.
Progress does not stand still and FaceShifter, a new generation neural network, enters the scene. It uses updated algorithms and FaceShifter is several times faster than previous (GAN) and (FSGAN) networks.
Now to create fake videos you can use not a large number of photos from different angles, as happened before, but only 1 photo!
Amazingly, even with one photo, the neural network builds a fully finished deepfake video. The quality is much better than in previous versions.
So today we have the technology to realize the erotic dream of every person.
“Now, all that you secretly suppressed in yourself can be expressed using FaceShifter.” — say the creators of the neural network. You can get around any taboos that were previously inaccessible: incest with mother, sister, daughter. Secret sex with the wife of a best friend, submission of his boss, sex with his strict teacher or frivolous student.
In the archives of the site now there are about 50 different stories that make up the most common male fantasies. New stories are already under development. Also, work is underway on LGBT + topics and very soon we can see high-quality gay stories.
New technologies are also being actively developed to add and or erase tattoos and various scars on the bodies of models. The voice replacement system (VST) is being tested, which means that in the stories the models will start talking in familiar voices.
All this allows us to say that now immersion in a new reality will be complete. You can choose any person and create an erotic storyline with him in the title role, the final result will be indistinguishable from the original!
Of course, all of this will still have to be given a legal assessment, but is this not what each of us would like? Have sex with the person you dreamed about? I do not know about you, but I look forward to it with increasing impatience!
Even now, without the new voice replacement technology (VST) and the visual patch system (SPS), the ready-made video dipfake looks amazing. Made in the POV style with the user in the title role, they allow you to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of erotic imagination completely.
Well, what do you want to say in the end? Progress cannot be stopped, whether we want it or not, but fake video technologies are penetrating deeper and denser into the media sphere.
And fight this is pointless, you just have to accept it and start living in the light of the changed situation.
The disadvantages of this technology are many, but there are plenty of pluses.
Well, what will happen next we can only observe, but for now enjoy a unique chance and experience new sensations and emotions with the unique FaceShifter technology.
David cruz
specially for Synthyage 2020