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by pkalinowski 1243 days ago
Unreal Keanu: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FeHzQizPDNg

people in the comments have no idea it's a deepfake. Without knowing beforehand, I wouldn't recognize it too.

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Looks completely fake to me. The face moves very unnaturally and doesn't even stick to the body properly. It looks like a super realistic mask (meaning it has many of the same problems a mask has).
I was about to downvote you until I read your comment after watching the video.

This video leads me to believe that there will soon be a time when popular people will just pick some pre-made advertisements. No need to go and film it since that has already been done without that person. We'll then accept deep fakes as a valid marketing strategy (or whatever purpose may come up), until some protests require them to be watermarked.

It will never be watermarked. Photoshop edits also are not labeled as such.
In Slovakia we've already had a deepfake ad of a well-known news anchor.

The ad starts as a news segment where she says that it turns out the covid vaccines don't work and then pivots to awareness campaign about hoaxes and misinformation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zg0_bRoj1U

In fairness, Keanu Reeves, like Kristen Stewart, isn't the hardest person to deepfake…
Is this because both are actors and therefore there is lots of available training data? Or something even more specific to these two people?
I assume the point is that, like Lindsay Lohan [1], they have limited ranges of facial expression.

[1] https://lohanfacial.ytmnd.com/

Keanu Is weaved into the source code of this simulated world.
Really, this is one of the most unconvincing deepfakes I've seen.
I love Keanu, but he’s sort of “easy mode” for a deep fake, isn’t he?
For clarity, is it only the face that’s faked?