Source: Visual China
I believe that since childhood, many people have been instilled countless times in learning the cognition of things that "hearing is virtual, seeing is believing", and gradually formed their own "pictures and pictures." The basic cognition of the truth. But things are fickle, In today's era of artificial intelligence, people have to put a big question mark on the four words "seeing is believing".
On August 28, the domestic "rice circle", which was already a bit precarious, made waves again. The male star Liu Haoran , who was troubled by the dissemination of insulting videos due to AI face-changing technology, had no choice but to protect his legal rights by calling the police. , And this is not the first time AI has changed faces in the entertainment industry.
Liu Haoran studio official blog released an announcement
As the name suggests, AI face change is to replace the face in the dynamic video with the face of other people, is replaced with the facial expressions under the blessing of AI technology The look is very similar to the original video, even hard to distinguish with the naked eye.
AI face-swap technology was first applied in the film and television industry. In order to solve the corner-changing needs of some semi-finished films, it can be regarded as a successful model of the application of AI technology. energy".
In 2020, the TV series " wind sound " adopts AI face-changing technology. Source: Douban
After the magic of AI technology is fully demonstrated in the film and television industry, some criminals have "brained" to come up with ideas to make stars "AI undress". They replaced the faces in obscene videos. The face of the star is then sold on the Internet. has already had actresses whose faces have been changed by AI. Nearly 200 adult porn videos have been posted on the Internet and sold for 5 yuan and 10 yuan each.
In addition, some social and e-commerce platforms openly sell face-changing technology teaching phenomena are everywhere. Even some face-changing software that has swiped the screen on social apps were interviewed and rectified by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Office of Cyberspace Affairs after a short period of time. Black and gray products such as AI face-changing and AI stripping still exist on the Internet. Some media have conducted surveys, and can still search for simple and low-cost AI face-changing tutorials and other links on some e-commerce and social platforms. Under the chaos, the original "black technology" quickly fell from the altar and became a "weapon" for online black and gray production.
As a technical "xiaobai", the general public must think that in order to replace one person in the video with another person, a lot of facial information of this person must be needed. But the actual situation is that the omnipotent AI only needs three or four face information of the target person, which is enough to generate a picture or video that can change the face. The worse news is that 's AI face-changing technology, which can take effect in real time and act on video chats, has also appeared.
On the Internet, you can easily find the app for face changing
At the moment, careful people may be able to find the difference between "Liu Haoran" in the AI face changing video after being processed by technology, but the technology is ultimately the same. With continuous progress, As hardware technology and algorithms become more and more powerful, there will definitely be more perfect AI face-changing technologies in the future. Just ask if you are afraid? In the social network that has penetrated into all aspects of people's work and life, "there are pictures but the truth" has become a joke. The communication between family and friends needs to be confirmed by cryptic words to the password. Just ask if you panic?
The rapid development and popularization of science and technology are more to make people's lives better. But in a strict sense, the application value of AI face-changing in daily life is not great, and at most it is only a way of processing big data information. The biggest application value of AI face change is still in the video industry, but the premise must be safe and legal, because this technology has become a breakthrough in changing industry rules.If it is enlarged to the social level, 's potential in the field of crimes is immeasurable.
Many media have reported that AI face-swap is used for fraud
Technology is not divided into likes or dislikes, but whether it can be good or not must be controlled. For AI face-changing technology, the ultra-low threshold for popularization has become inevitable. Before it has completely become a "cross-street rat", it is the right way to prevent it from continuing to do evil and help it to be good.
In this regard, the government management department should also be vigilant and timely fill up the loopholes in supervision. The experience of face recognition technology from barbarous growth to rapid introduction of supervision is actually worth learning; developers should clarify the direction of technology application, and don’t hype The gimmick, and the technology is clear; those social and e-commerce platforms that have become a distribution center for buying and selling face-changing software and disseminating related sales information should be awakened, and these filth should not be allowed to dirty the platform environment and eventually lose the hearts of the people; and those coercion Those who do not have good intentions with technology need to remember that the Internet is not a place outside the law, and traces of "doing evil" with technological means are more likely to be found.
Source: Popular Science Times
Author: Chen Jie
Editor: Mao Mengnan
Review: Wang Fei
Final review: Chen Lei
