Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track (arstechnica.com)

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On Tuesday, Microsoft Research Asia unveiled VASA-1, an AI model that can create a synchronized animated video of a person talking or singing from a single photo and an existing audio track. In the future, it could power virtual avatars that render locally and don't require video feeds—or allow anyone with similar tools to take a photo of a person found online and make them appear to say whatever they want.

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[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 15 points 7 months ago

Why did they make this

[-] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 5 points 7 months ago

If you pump out enough research papers, maybe Microsoft won't move you over to the Office team.

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