'Deepfake' Tom Cruise takes over TikTok: Three videos with more than 11 million views spark

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'Deepfake' Tom Cruise takes over TikTok: Three videos with more than 11 million views spark

By STACY LIBERATORE

 

 

Tom Cruise has gone viral on the popular video-sharing app TikTok, but the clips featuring the 'Mission Impossible' star are deepfakes that experts are calling the 'most alarmingly lifelike examples' of the technology.

 

An account appeared on the app last week, dubbed 'deeptomcruise,' which shows a number of videos depicting Cruise doing a magic trick, playing golf and reminiscing about the time he met the former President of the Soviet Union.

 

The series of clips have been seen more than 11 million times on TikTok as of Tuesday, with many millions more on other social media platforms.

 

Full Story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9318267/Deepfake-Tom-Cruise-takes-TikTok-11-million-views-raises-alarms-experts.html

[rasmus5150]

Holy Cow.

 

Now every corrupt politician, police, etc etc claim that they have been set up by Deepfake.

 

 

[RanongCat]

So funny ! Deepfake?  Is this  Mister Cruise  who has had  much cosmetic  surgery  already  or  another one who has? If two people who has spend so much money  someone else saying thanks ! 555

[Kerryd]

The tech (for the video emulation) isn't new and the programming is considerably more advanced than it was in the past. You know, back when scammers and lame-o's would cut and paste someone's head onto someone else's body and you could see the distinct edges, difference in lighting and even in out of whack sizing.

Nowadays they can do it so seamlessly that it would take professional investigation to determine which are real and which are fake, although in many cases it should be pretty obvious. (Like when you see hard core XXX rated photos of some actress or singer who's never even done any topless stuff. Yet many will still believe it's really her in those photos.)

And yeah, you can imagine all manner of people will try to claim any negative video of them is fake. Probably a lot of people will also try to use the tech to extort people as well. A lot of people wouldn't know about that tech, or have the wherewithal to fight any extortion claims.

Especially in today's society where it seems everyone (male at least) is automatically judged to be guilty of any allegation levelled against them, often being judged, convicted and sentenced (i,e, labelled, fired and/or sued) with no proof or even a trial.

And thanks to a certain former President, literally any news today that you don't agree with can be labelled as "fake" and a large percentage of the population will believe it.

You can imagine stuff like that will get used a lot in the future. 

[thaibeachlovers]

Nothing new, but fakes are just getting better.

Even last century we could not trust a photo to be telling the truth.

 

Originated in the Final Fantasy, the Spirits Within movie long ago. I read the cost of developing the technology bankrupted the company, but it's been developed to the stage of making fully digital movies without live actors like Avatar that look as good as live movies.

[CharlieH]

CGI will continue to evolve to a point when you have no idea whats "real" anymore.

 

If it on a screen, assume its manufactured.