[TillE]

That sounds like a really bad Obama impersonator. The video is OK but still obviously fake.

If you look at the progression of film CGI, with its persistent flaws despite massive budgets, there's no reason to suspect that indistinguishable fakes are coming any time soon.

[da_chicken]

We've been able to fake voice recordings for decades. Doing it again is not the impressive part of the video. It's a tech demo for the video showing how close it is to working. The point of the video is that this was made with Adobe After Effects and FakeApp and 56 hours of rendering time. COTS software on COTS hardware.

You won't even need a good impersonator, however. The same technology behind FakeApp that blends this video together could be used to blend audio together.

This is supposed to look fake and sound fake because you're supposed to see it as fake. What happens when that isn't true anymore?

[gowld]

Sure, the video is obviously fake. But it's also good enough that it's not "obvious" to anyone who doesn't remember Obama's exact face and voice, and it's good enough that it gives plausibility to anyone calling a real video with slightly distorted audio or video a fake!