Everyone’s trying Deep Nostalgia to bring old photos alive
MyHeritage genealogy platform introduces a wildly popular made-in-Israel feature enabling users to animate faces from the past.
Screenshot from MyHeritage Deep Nostalgia
Only two weeks after online genealogy platform MyHeritage
debuted its jaw-dropping Deep Nostalgia photo-animation feature, more than 43 million faces have come to life and a few thousand more photos are being animated every minute.
The Israel-based MyHeritage licensed this sophisticated Live Portrait technology from another Israeli company, D-ID.
“When we released Deep Nostalgia last week at RootsTech Connect 2021, we knew that lovers of family history would be thrilled to see their beloved ancestors’ faces come to life. We also knew that it had the potential to go viral, and we hoped that would happen, but the extent of its success exceeded our expectations,” Esther of MyHeritage blogged on March 4.
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By Jim Polito
The genealogy website
MyHeritage.com has created a tool that can make any picture appear to be a short video clip. People upload a portrait photo and the software does the rest. It has become increasingly popular because it can take a picture of a relative you never met and make them appear to be alive by smiling, blinking, and moving their head. This is the same technology that is utilized for deep fakes. These are very real looking video clips of a person doing and saying things created all by artificial intelligence. Deep fakes are often spread on social media to make it appear as if a politician or celebrity has said or done something awful. Tech Talk Guru Craig Peterson has a warning about Deep Nostalgia. Click below for the podcast.