All of us have seen images in the news that make you think, "How is it possible!" We also all know quite well that all kinds of techniques are available for movies in Hollywood. Everyone has seen a TV show by an illusionist like Victor Mids, and everyone knows that the world in film can appear quite realistic.
The reason I mention this is to show you that what you see on TV or in the newspaper is not necessarily reality. This is an under-reported phenomenon, but knowing that people like John de Mol own the most expensive production studios and the latest technology and are also in the news production business (although he sold ANP news agency this year), it is useful to know how you can be played.
Years back I discussed the techniques of green screen and face swapping software. These days it's pretty mainstream and you can even use smartphone apps to replace your face with someone else's. The Tom Cruise face swap below, for example, is pretty realistic (and read on below):
Also, you already had software from NVIDIA that uses AI to create lifelike simulations. Elon Musk's company Tesla now even collects camera footage from cars worldwide to get film footage of all possible roads and turn it into realistic simulations. That is, you can simulate the same road snowy or in a storm, for example. You can hardly recognize the difference between the real footage and that of the simulation anymore.
Please take a look at the clip below and read on underneath, because I want to show you something:
NVIDIA now also has software for an average home-garden and kitchen laptop, with which you can digitally recreate an entire setting and, for example, also add a car to make it move through the image as if you were watching real camera footage. Take a look at how, once you have experience with the software, you can accomplish this in minutes (and read on below):
NVIDIA, Tesla, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and name all the big tech guys. They are all in the AI and digitally created worlds.
Ray Kurzweil (Chief Technical Officer at Google) wrote the book "The Singularity is near" in 2010, in which he predicted that around 2030 we will live in digital worlds, have multiple digital and synthetic avatars, and increasingly merge with AI, to the point that the biological world can be considered redundant. These digital worlds will be so lifelike that we will no longer recognize the difference.
The video below shows how NVIDIA developed Omniverse software. Something reminiscent of Facebook's Metaverse and Google augmented reality. Watch the video and read on below because I want to ask you something important:
Then we have the professional film studios that have now moved away from Greenscreen and can project a high-resolution background onto a kind of dome screen. This allows you to film actors in a real-looking environment. For example, you can (which was also possible with green screen) have a moving car drive through a street full of people through the frame or pilot a spaceship in a simulated space.
The advantage of this new technique is that when you want to redo certain scenes in the film, for example because you did not like the background images, you can simply adjust this digitally. You thus save time and money while the actors stand in a more realistic setting instead of in front of a green screen. This gives them better empathy in how to act. You can thus choose any angle you want.
Watch the video and read on below:
The reason I wanted to show you all this is because I want to ask you an important question. A question that may have been with you for a long time. Here comes the question. And I hope you will allow the question to come to you seriously.
(Meanwhile, keep in mind that cell phone recordings that may come across as shocking, blurred, or images with bewildered voices in the background can also be created via the above techniques. Meanwhile, keep in mind at the same time that this is not specifically about current news).
The question, "What do you think: Could it be that certain images in the news were compiled through the above techniques or do you think that is going too far?"
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just a little more and Bassie and Adriaan catching the crooks will have an age restriction on youtube.
By the way, that software is free, here.
https://github.com/iperov/DeepFacelive
But unfortunately this one is real right?
https://youtu.be/383pLKCVgww?list=LL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZqP8moItcc&t=3s&ab_channel=LaurenRobb
https://911planeshoax.com/2020/09/11/proof-that-no-real-planes-were-used-on-911/