Near the end of September, a series of videos were posted to social media that purported to show some familiar figures in Calgary’s political and legal worlds taking turns performing racist Indigenous caricatures. They would later claim those videos were fake. Experts say claims of falsity in situations like this are hard to prove because the technology is debatable, even unreliable and hints at a more significant problem to come.
The face behind the Tom Cruise deepfakes talked about how difficult his role has been, even when it comes to Hollywood A-listers like Leonardo DiCaprio.
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The idea of being able to modify images is nothing new, and has been a staple of the fashion and beauty industry for decades. While many such tools are standard, they have become so ubiquitous in even our phone’s selfies, that to say a picture was ‘
photoshopped’ requires no further explanation, except maybe to our grandparents. Video modifications have been much slower and facial changes or outright creations have still been the domain of make-up artists, while visual effects were more concerned with the environments.
In recent years, the combination of technology and AI has allowed greater freedom in not only modifying live actors but in actually bringing back the dead to the silver screen. Martin Scorcese’s 2019 film, “The Irishman” famously rejuvenated Robert de Niro by decades to portray his character s life as a gangster. Traditionally, younger actors are portrayed with gradual layers of makeup to show their increasing age, since making