Bill Hader's face, our sense of reality, is melting in a wild new deepfake video

[Recursion]

2020 is going to be awful. This is just the beginning of what the tech can do.

https://news.avclub.com/bill-haders-face-our-sense-of-reality-is-melting-in-a-1837205286

[Leghorn21]

1. OHHH, now I get it!! I saw this, what, yesterday or day before and I swear to you I thought,

”oh dayam, I never noticed how much Hader looks just like Cruise!” —- (I’M SUCH A DUMBASS) I totally missed that it was the result of some high tech “sorcery”

Thanks, Rec, now I get it and...yeah, yikes - been hearing this kind of tech was in the pipeline for quite some time and....voila

Oh my

[Beartracks]

2. I did that, too, on the first impression! The blend is subtle...

... but the result is unmistakable. Fascinating effect, but yes this is scary.

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[renate]

3. Wow, that's so subtle

Which makes it even spookier.

I thought it would be a gradual morph from Bill Hader into Tom Cruise... which would be easy to detect by comparing the beginning and end of the video. But no. Nothing as obvious as that.

Pretty soon we will have to doubt anything and everything, at least a little bit.