11-02-2018 18:00 via theverge.com

I’m using AI to face-swap Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, and I’m really bad at it

I spent last night staring into a hypnotic grid of fuzzy Travis Kalanicks, as reconstructed by an AI.
For the last couple of days, I’ve been experimenting with FakeApp, a program that uses Google’s TensorFlow machine learning to morph faces in videos. The app is mostly associated with pornographic “deepfakes,” where celebrities’ faces are pasted onto a porn actor’s body. (That’s been widely deemed nonconsensual pornography and banned everywhere from Por
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