A cheap PC and some AI outdid Justice League’s mustache cover-up

Deepfakes are created by training an AI with thousands of pictures of a source’s face, trying to capture every possible angle of that face, and then applying it to a different video source. That might be some actress’s face over that of another… actress, or Nic Cage over Harrison Ford. In this case, though, the user applied an AI thoroughly trained with Henry Cavill’s face to that of footage of him as Superman in Justice League.

And as you might guess, someone with an AI on a home computer outdid millions of dollars of visual effects from professional level studios. Warner Bros. mustache itself, could it have done better?

Watch the video above to see just how impressive this tech is. Its application is shady, as those corners of the internet have proven, but it’s powerful, and it shows how far AI has come and how difficult human faces still are for CG to handle even in relatively straightforward situations.

And I’m sure we’ll have a video of Nicolas Cage as every character in Justice League before too long.

Article source: https://www.technobuffalo.com/2018/02/08/deepfakes-justice-league-superman-henry-cavill-mustache/