Some time ago, a man known as "Ma Yilong" sent several short videos. In recent days, it has spread all over the Internet, known as "Chinese musk". Apart from the difference in skin color, fat and thin, he and musk can't be said to look very similar. They are carved in the same mold.
↑ left: "Chinese musk"; Right: musk
And even the expression and expression are almost 100% matched with the foreign version.
Some netizens said: "it's not uncommon for billions of people to look alike.".
Even musk himself felt a little incredible.
On May 9, foreign netizens tweeted and posted photos of "Chinese musk" and @ asked musk himself, "should we hire Chinese musk as a double?"
Then musk himself replied: I would like to meet this "Chinese musk" (if he is true). It's hard to tell whether AI has changed its face.
Musk's own reply is still relatively rational and raised the suspicion of "Ai face change".
Some sharp eyed domestic netizens said categorically: "this is an AI face change. If you look carefully, you can see it.".
Things began to get interesting. Is "China musk" a coincidence of one hundred million or a 100% fraud?
Let's keep digging.
What is AI face changing technology?
AI face changing is a "cosmetic technique" invented in the digital age. People can replace the target face in pictures or videos through artificial intelligence technology.
In the movie "speed and passion 7", the star Paul Walker died unexpectedly in the middle of the film. If you can't find someone similar to him to continue acting, the film is likely to run aground.
The film production team let Paul Walker "participate" in the whole film through face changing technology, which is the first time that AI face changing technology is widely known all over the world.
At present, it is not difficult for everyone to make an AI face changing video by themselves.
On Taobao, many businesses provide AI face changing video production services, which can customize a face changing video for only tens of dollars.
Compared with other people's facial expression, I can't see that the facial expression and shadow are not easy to be changed, especially the facial expression and shadow are not easy to be changed in the later stage of the film and television, because I can't see the difference between the normal facial expression and the normal facial expression.
The video of "Chinese musk" can't see the trace of AI face change at a glance. Even if it is AI face change, it must also apply the latest generation technology and have been "refined". Some netizens said, "even if AI changes face, the human face should be very close to musk, otherwise it won't be so natural."
Careful Netizens found evidence that "Chinese musk" was suspected of using AI to change face:
Netizens put forward evidence of suspected face change of "China musk"
It is reported that a netizen picked out the true face of the "Chinese version of musk" from the "Avatar" photo album of his microblog account. From the exposed photos, his appearance is irrelevant to musk.
In addition, you can also find flaws by watching its video frame by frame. At the moment he took off his glasses, or because his face was blocked, the "Ai face change" failed instantly, revealing his original face. Whether he looked like musk himself or not, he made a decision.
A "Chinese version of musk" has aroused a burst of public opinion on the Internet. If there are hundreds of such "Chinese version of musk" and "foreign version of Ma Yun" on the Internet... Wouldn't the world be in disorder long ago?
AI face changing is a double-edged sword
It is not difficult to generate an AI face changing video that can easily "block people's ears and eyes", but it is becoming more and more difficult to distinguish whether it is true or false.
Foreign commentators said: "it's easy to generate an AI face changing content, but it's difficult to detect whether it's AI face changing content, because AI face changing technology is constantly iterative".
If the threshold of AI face changing technology is continuously reduced and is not subject to any constraints, the hidden dangers it brings are close to infinity.
Face change scam
Last year, Mr. Chen received a friend request on wechat, which claimed to be his friend abroad. After a brief greeting, she said that she was going to return home recently, but she encountered difficulties in buying air tickets. Subsequently, Mr. Chen received a video call from "A Cheng" and fell into the trap of fraudsters after "confirming" that he was himself
A mother suddenly received a blackmail video of her son being "kidnapped". Whether it was confirmed by voice or facial expression, both parents believed that the person crying and beaten in the video was their own son. The flustered mother immediately remitted the money to the fraudster
"Face change" indecent video
The most worrying thing is the application of AI face changing in pornographic films.
Ex girlfriends, even passers-by photographed casually, can be easily "stripped to the public". An Indian? Check? Two days after revealing a sexual assault on Kashmir and girls, Rana ayyub saw a pornographic film of AI face changing with her as the protagonist in the community on WhatsApp. Her social platform was washed by screenshots of indecent films, and she? S doesn't know how to explain to others that she is not the person in the film.
"Face changing" embezzles personal information
In 2019, American companies cheated the online payment platform by using AI face change, and paid others' money by using face recognition.
"Face change" confuses the public
Before that, someone combined AI face changing and AI voice changing to forge a false video of Obama's speech. This video is a completely fake video of Obama's speech. Both his face and voice are fake
↑ AI face changing video
Among the "shocking" videos, trump is a "fool". This video has caused a sensation abroad. If it is not specially marked, I'm afraid many people will believe it. If it is used by criminals, it is likely to cause a political crisis in diplomacy and other aspects.
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AI face changing technology should be strictly controlled
Is it illegal to use AI face changing technology
At the end of 2021, teacher Luo, who was jokingly called "crazy man outside the law" by netizens, opened a special course to explain whether AI face changing and deep forgery will break the law.
Mr. Luo mentioned that the United States has a special bill "deep forgery Liability Act", which stipulates a variety of legal disposal means, including requiring those who intend to spread to watermark deeply forged videos or knowingly forged videos. In addition, it has also formulated the legal liability that may be borne, which can be imprisoned for up to five years.
In terms of law, China has also introduced a civil code in recent two years, in which article 1019 stipulates that "no organization or individual shall infringe upon the portrait right of others by using information technology forgery and other methods". In 2019, the State Administration of radio, film and television of the network information office launched the regulations on online audio and video information services, which also requires the identification obligation, technical guarantee obligation, stop transmission obligation, necessary mechanism and other aspects.
In addition, if AI face changing content is used to commit illegal and criminal acts such as fraud and intimidation, it will inevitably violate the relevant provisions of the criminal law.
In the face of face changing content with a variety of tricks, foreign websites have issued a "ban" early. Foreign communities, such as Facebook, will offer a sacrifice in January 2021?? Hard measures to remove the deepfake film, and twitter followed up in February.
Back to domestic websites, there are still many AI face changing videos on the current mainstream video platform BiliBili. Clicking on a video at random is more than hundreds of thousands of playback volume, which seems to be very popular with the audience.
In only a few recently released AI face changing videos, the video suspected of using AI technology is marked to remind people that the video is untrue and avoid confusing the viewer's eyes.
However, there are still a lot of unmarked AI face "fish out of the net", which obviously infringes the copyright of the original video and the right of portrait.
Back to the "Chinese version of musk", we can see that there are several keywords "virtual lighting up reality" on his Tiktok profile. Some people admit in disguise that they have adopted AI face changing technology, and may also want to take this to avoid legal issues to a certain extent.
As of May 12, "Chinese version musk" has not publicly recognized AI face changing technology, but its microblog account has been banned for some reason.
Summary:
AI face changing technology is a product of scientific and technological development. It is a "tool" that can be well used. In film and television works, it can help creators achieve ideas that are difficult to achieve in the past. At the same time, the degree of social confusion and even the collapse of the information system can make it a great possibility.
With the continuous iteration of science and technology, it is more and more difficult to distinguish the face changing content of today's AI. When the criminal claw of new technology extends to us, how should we prevent it?