[dubin]

To add a data point, a friend and I made one of these over the weekend (with Trump and Michael Scott https://youtu.be/0Rexuh-VY6E)

It was shockingly easy to do. We're technical, but neither of us know a lick about machine learning. It took a couple hours to collect training data (we turned speeches/interviews from each of them into thousands of photos), and 20 hours to train the model.

In the future you could automate the data collection for a person even more, to the point where they just need to film a selfie of themselves for a couple of minutes in a couple of different lightnings, and boom, after you train their decoder, you could put them on any celebrity.

EDIT: This is what we used https://github.com/deepfakes/faceswap Would be happy to walk anyone through how to do this

[michaelbuckbee]

A question for the lawyers: If I build a model of a celebrity, do they have copyright on that? Could I sell it?

[some-guy]

IANAL, but Crispin Glover sued the creators of Back to the Future II for using a mold his face as George McFly without permission [1]. While he starred in the first film, the second film used a mold of his face since he ended up not joining the project.

[1] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/back-future-ii-a-l...

[berberous]

Depends on the jurisdiction. The term of art is generally 'right of publicity', not copyright. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights

As you might expect, California leads the way in this area in the U.S., given their interest in protecting Hollywood / celebrities.

[Someone]

I’m not a lawyer, and don’t know what jurisdiction you are talking about, which celebrity you’re talking about (alive/dead/long dead, where do/did they live), etc, but I think the model copyright will be yours, but you will be restricted as to where you can use it because others have the right to make money with its looks.

Law works similar with copies of physical objects. For example, you are free to make a 100% copy of an iPhone, the Mona Lisa or a pop song and enjoy them at home, but you can’t display them in public or sell copies, or even give them away (did I say I’m not a lawyer?)

[gspetr]

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/30/16945494/deepfakes-porn-f...

Without any precedents YMMV.

[rmc]

Places like the EU, which have a "constitution" right to personal data protection, will have something to say about this.

[joshschreuder]

Ha, saw someone had ripped your video and it got pretty popular on /r/youtubehaiku

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-6IRuCaDw0

Nice work, it's a pretty amusing and somewhat worrying video of what's to come.

[howToLearnSpark]

the Trump clip is gold! Please do more!

[dubin]

Heh, thank you! Any suggestions welcome :)