Be careful that your face is “privately customized.”
Editor’s note: This article is from WeChat public account “Zhongxin Jingwei” (ID: Jwview), author Chang Tao.
Recently, a face-changing software called “ZAO” suddenly became popular, and behind the “ZAO” heat, the AI-changing gray industrial chain began to surface. The investigation of Zhongxin Jingwei found that on the network platform, obscenity video selling star-changing faces, providing customized video face-changing services, and teaching face-changing technology have become a business.
Lawyers pointed out that the production and sale of AI for face-changing videos has constituted the crime of spreading obscene articles for profit, and is suspected of infringing on the rights of portraits and reputations of others. In addition, lawyers also reminded that the video that was changed face may be used for fraud or extortion, causing greater harm and should be brought to the attention of the whole society.
More than 40 actresses were changed faces, and hundreds of videos sold for 49 yuan
On the afternoon of September 2, on a second-hand trading platform, Zhongxin Jingwei (micro-signal: jwview) searched for the keyword “AI face change”, the system prompts “cannot search for violation information”, but when the search “change When you are in the face, you can retrieve the information that the seller has printed, such as “Love for the face, the whole network is the most complete, the lowest price”, “Change face collection can be tried”. Zhongxin Jingwei communicated with two of the merchants and found that they sold the indecent videos of the stars on the platform.
Seller Yu Yu (pseudonym) told Zhongxin Jingwei that he had hundreds of AI face-changing video resources for 45 female stars in his hand. Subsequently, Yu Yu sent a screenshot of the above video to Zhongxin Jingwei. “Network disk delivery, online viewing, package price of 49 yuan. Worried not like free to try, the content of the popular first line (star) is better, the content of the third and fourth line (star) is general.”
▲Video Face Change Operation Page for Respondents
Another seller also said that you can package and sell more than 40 female stars in hundreds of AI face-changing videos, the price is 75 yuan, you can try it for free, the network disk delivery.
The above two sellers all proposed not to communicate content on the second-hand trading platform, but asked to chat on QQ. One of the sellers on Zhongxin JingweiSaid: “The platform is more strict with this kind of information monitoring. Product information may be deleted at any time. We are also holding a lucky one. We can sell one order alone.”
Zhongxin Jingwei noted that on the evening of September 2, the information of the above two items has been deleted by the platform, but the search for “changing face” can still see many other similar product information.
Change face video can be customized, 10 yuan for one minute
In addition, on other e-commerce platforms, there are also sellers who can provide video customized face-changing products. Only the buyer needs to provide some photos of the face-changing person, and the seller can “turn” the face in the photo to a specific person in the specific video.
“Provide five to ten photos and video footage of people who are being changed. The charge is 10 yuan a minute, five minutes to start, one to two hours to ship, if the video is longer, it can be cheaper.” The seller said, “You can provide the video yourself or use it, but the clearer the video, the better. Don’t face your face and cover your face.”
The seller emphasized that the video was done by himself and he had many fixed customers in his hand. “When doing video, the computer can’t do anything, and it also loses the graphics card, so my price is very fair.” The seller said, “The one who is looking for me is to do ‘small yellow film’, but more is to do some product promotion. Short films, everyone has their own uses.”
▲Source: QQ group screenshot
In addition, in some QQ groups related to “AI face change”, there are some sellers who can teach AI face change technology, “teaching package, fair price”, and can also give a full set of star face-changing videos. Resources. It is understood that the tuition fee for “learning” AI face-changing technology is about 500 yuan, and it can be learned in four or five hours.
Some users have expressed concern about this. Netizen “Hee Hee” said: “Will anyone use my self-portrait on social platforms to make face-changing videos? That would be terrible.” There are also comments that this simple application may be misunderstood. Users use it to create a variety of pornographic, violent, fake videos.
Lawyer:The risk of AI changing face being abused cannot be ignored
The sudden popularity of the ZAO App sparked this wave of attention and discussion about AI face changing technology, but in fact, this technology has not appeared recently. At the beginning of this year, a section of actor Zhu Yin’s face in “The Legend of the Condor Heroes” was replaced by AI technology.