My Voice Your Face
AI
deepfake video generation
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
4 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 12 critical, out of 21 comments about the project. Thread score -0.40.
Idea: 3 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 4 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 3 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Fun for personal use, such as a family birthday video
From 2 comments
One of the sample videos has a baby wishing someone on their birthday. I am not sure if I would pay $20 for this, but would really like to do something like this for my wife's…
hunter-2 on HNI just tried it for fun, and it was fun. I uploaded a photograph of my six-month-old grandson and then I videoed myself saying something profound in a deep serious-adult voice.…
tkgally on HN
Objections
Wrapper around First Order Model whose code licence is non-commercial
From 2 comments
This just looks like a simple web app wrapper around First Order Model: https://github.com/AliaksandrSiarohin/first-order-model The license for the code specifically states…
forgingahead on HNI am not the OP nor a lawyer, but this case looks like clear violation of CCNC license, i.e. it's piracy.
drran on HN
Output quality too low to fool anyone
From 2 comments
I don't think that very low quality would fool anybody or could be used in a commercial setting. I can only see it being used for memes or jokes.
realusername on HNIf the results were 4 to 5 orders of magnitude better, maybe it could fool somebody :)
tiborsaas on HN
Uploaded videos are publicly shown on the site
From 3 comments
It looks as if the site is showing recently uploaded videos unfortunately.
TheTaytay on HNWell, if you uploaded it to this site then you shared it with everybody potentially. They seem to be choosing videos that come out well as the demo videos.
kc0bfv on HNWorth noting that there is a recent videos at the bottom of the page. Be careful what you upload!
sleepychu on HN
Fails or crashes on uploads
From 2 comments
Failed on the first image I dropped. https://i.imgur.com/UE9wuOP.png
starik36 on HNIt crashes after a couple seconds. https://i.imgur.com/L9gLEck.png I've tried cropping the image and the video several times to make sure only the head is visible but it doesn't…
Darmody on HN
Potential for misuse and harm
From 2 comments
Just because you can build it doesn't mean you should.
ARandomerDude on HNIt's funny memes until it's a weapon. That said, funny memes have become a weapon too. One of the worst things about the modern Internet, IMO.
papito on HN
Requests
Privacy policy and data handling details
From 1 comment
What are you doing with the data collected? I don't see anywhere a privacy policy, gdpr or anything
phatbyte on HN
Manual filtering of offensive content
From 1 comment
Looking at the recent videos, albeit not knowing the original videos used as source, I'd assume this needs a lot of work still to be of any practical use, even if you just aim at…
numlock86 on HN
Questions
Is the code something other than the First Order Model code?
From 1 comment
This just looks like a simple web app wrapper around First Order Model: https://github.com/AliaksandrSiarohin/first-order-model The license for the code specifically states…
forgingahead on HN
Who is the target audience and use case?
From 2 comments
Your pricing plans: https://myvoiceyourface.com/pay/ $20/mo for 20 videos. While the technical output you've achieved is notable, just curious, who is your target audience? How…
tech-historian on HNWhen I hear “deepfake” I usually think both video and audio being fake. This is cool but I’m not sure what the use case is of my friend having my voice.
jedberg on HN
Alternatives named
First Order Model Colab notebook
From 1 comment
If anyone wants to play around with this in a hosted gpu supported jupyter notebook, check out:…
bko on HN