Everyone loves face changing, everyone is afraid of face changing.
Editor’s note: This article is from WeChat public account “Hedgehog Commune” (ID: ciweigongshe) , Author Park Chief, Editor Shi Can. Reprinted with permission.
At the end of November, three departments, including the State Cyberspace Administration, the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and the General Administration of Radio, Film and Television, jointly issued the “Administrative Regulations for Network Audio and Video Information Services”, which clearly stated that “the use of false images, audio and video generation based on deep learning, virtual reality, etc. Those who make, publish, and spread rumors of technology … should take appropriate measures to remove rumors in a timely manner “and other new regulations on face-changing technology.
This is also the first domestic regulatory measure on “AI face swapping”, which aims to combat false audio and video produced using AI technology and control the spread of such “new rumors”.
In the past, there have been several popular AI face swaps in China.
“How to make Yang Mi have Zhu Yin’s acting skills?”
At the beginning of the year, a 94-edged version of “The Legend of the Condor Heroes” produced with the help of AI face-changing technology became popular. The face of Huang Rong’s actor Zhu Yin was changed to Yang Mi by face-changing technology. Although the features are very different, The expressions and movements after the face change are very natural and smooth. Someone kept lamenting in the barrage, “If only the power of the power had such acting skills.”
AI face-changing video “Yang Mi Edition Huang Rong”
This video is from station B. Up’s main title is “Change Face Brother”. Using the face-changing technology DeepFake, ordinary people can also make real and fake face-changing videos after simple learning. In September, an app called “ZAO” further changed the face-changing technology to “cabbage.” Just install this app on your phone and you can “change your face” with one click in the video template.
But at the same time when the fire broke out, ZAO was exposed to disrespect for user privacy and other issues; including the DeepFake face-changing technology prevailing abroad, since the day it was born, it has faced the problem of technology abuse-the public is worried that someone may use almost fake information. Face-changing technology, scams and slander and even make porn videos.
In fact, the latter has been “widely used”, and stars including Scarlett Johansson and Emma Watson have become “victims” of this technology.tps: //img.36krcdn.com/20191203/v2_758c44568a874f99ae2b29df9de09292_img_000 “data-img-size-val =” 720,480 “>
AI anchor to host the conference This is already a mature technology, Photo source:
At the same time, it is also difficult to guarantee that this technology will not be used for evil—such as making rumors, scams, making pornographic videos and fake news, etc. It is even more difficult for people to distinguish between a video that is “incomparably real” with sound and pictures If false, the parties’ cost of rumors will also increase sharply.
“In the traditional sense, the boundary between ‘true’ and ‘false’ will be broken.” Professor Li Sheng of the Chinese Academy of Science and Technology Law believes that the real problem of DeepFake is here.
Some studies have counted over 14,000 DeepFake videos, 96% of which contain pornographic elements. “Mostly, the actress’ face is transferred to the body of a porn star.” Cyber security company Deep Trace Lab said. It is not difficult to see from this ratio that DeepFake technology is not useful in most cases.
This is also an ethical problem faced by many image processing algorithms-advanced technology greatly reduces the potential cost of evil.
In June, DeepNude, an image processing program that claims to be able to “undress”, went online. At the same time, there were many users and the server was squeezed out of the way.
DeepNude interface Picture source: IT House
The abuse of technology can only bring harm to society, and many people, especially women, are deeply disturbed.
“The probability that people will abuse it is too high, and we don’t want to make money like this.” Soon after, the developer Alberto had to take the program offline with a curse, but the consequences have already been caused, and those were produced Pictures have been spread to all corners of the Internet.
More disturbing is the combination of false audio and video.
In March, criminals successfully imitated the voice of the CEO of a parent company of a British energy company, deceived many colleagues and partners, and scammed 220,000 euros (about