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"I think we’ve entered a game over scenario for consensus reality"

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Jul 29, 2021
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Hi.

Back in March the guy who made the Tom Cruise deepfakes, Chris Ume, said the public doesn’t need to be worried about “one click deepfakes”:

“You can’t do it by just pressing a button,” says Ume. “That’s important, that’s a message I want to tell people.” Each clip took weeks of work, he says, using the open-source DeepFaceLab algorithm as well as esta…

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