Creating a deepfake took two weeks and cost $552
A few weeks ago my girlfriend made me discover Instagram filters. Obviously they're not in "deep fake" territory but I was still massively impressed by the quality of the face recognition and tracking coupled with some rather advanced 3D reconstructions on top.<p>15 years ago that would've been science fiction, today it's a free gimmicky feature in an app running on commodity hardware. There are also apps that will smooth your skin or change the shape of your eyes in real time.<p>All these technologies are evolving at a ridiculously fast pace, I'm sure that a decade from now you'll be able to do a much more convincing fake in a fraction of the time. We're getting deeper and deeper into a post-truth world.