It is “A strong reminder that we can no longer trust our eyes,A spokesman for Britain’s Channel 4 television said the Guardian. Every year, the BBC broadcasts a special Christmas address from Queen Elizabeth II to the nation. But it’s 2020 and that means everything has to be extra weird. So, Channel 4 took the opportunity to broadcast own deepfake the version of the queen’s holiday message.
Played by the actress Debra Stephenson, the deepfaked The queen began her speech thanking Channel 4 for giving him the opportunity to speak from the heart. Then she continues to crack about Harry and Megha starting Brit The Royal Family and health workers taking their own lives treat Prime Minister Boris Johnson. She too he makes a not-so-subtle dig at Prince Andrew relationship with the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
If you have poor eyesight and limited hearing, you may could, be fooled by the fake queen on a Christmas day. But until he starts talking about Netflix and embarks on a dance routine, you’ll definitely know something is going on. Channel 4 makes little effort to hide its deception, but that hasn’t stopped some critics from expressing their discomfort with the stunt.
“We should be very careful to make people think they can’t believe what they see.” Sam Gregory, the director of the human rights program Witness, told The Guardian. “If you haven’t seen them before, this might make you think that deep fakes are a more common problem than they are. “
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Deepfakes uses machine learning to analyze a batch of images and stream a video approximation of what it might look like if you say, Office space played in the cast matrix. But the technique requires a lot of processing power and artistic nuances from a creator to manageAnybody. Earlier this year, the creators of South Park released a deepfake web series which included forged portraits of Mark Zuckerberg and Jared Kushner. Even with the resources and talent available for the showrunners of the most successful TV series of all time, the deepfakes were still pretty weird.
But the method of counterfeiting is becoming more and more convincing and easier for novices to leave. If deepfakes do not prove to be a significant source of danger misinformation, will allow at least Channel 4 to have its own annual Christmas address from the Queen for years to come.