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I've seen a deep fake with Putin "surrendering" on 28th of February: https://youtu.be/ZbudZw1LlHg https://youtu.be/ZbudZw1LlHg I guess the video itself was made

I've seen a deep fake with Putin "surrendering" on 28th of February: https://youtu.be/ZbudZw1LlHg https://youtu.be/ZbudZw1LlHg I guess the video itself was made even earlier than that. The video is not excellent, but the audio is pretty spot on, if you ask me. Edit: re-worded the first sentence.

zionic 5y ago
-258 views -nonsensical title -no comments -all videos on account are unlisted -you just found it Hmmm. How did you “find” this?
- BeefWellington 5y ago
  To add on: - Largely inactive since 2019 until ~15 days ago. - Ukrainian with ML background[1] [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20083793#20093381 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20083793#20093381, Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210224044558/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20083793#20093381 https://web.archive.org/web/20210224044558/https://news.ycom...
  - yznovyak 5y ago
    That's my old gmail account that I've since abandoned because I moved to yuriy@znovyak.com (my first name @ my last name). My google apps account (znovyak.com) doesn't have youtube enabled, so I uploaded this to youtube channel associated with my old (since high school) gmail.
  - yznovyak 5y ago
    > - Largely inactive since 2019 until ~15 days ago. I'm a lurker, sorry for that. > - Ukrainian with ML background[1] Thanks. I did finish Yandex's school of data science (2015-2018). I've been to Moscow in 2018 for their graduation ceremony. Edit: My remark about me visiting Moscow is to demonstrate that I did not harbor any anti-Russia sentiments.
    - BeefWellington 5y ago
      No need to apologize for being a lurker! The explanation that you found it and uploaded it makes perfect sense and clarifies things for me anyway. Similar to GP, I read your post as though that Youtube video was the initial source, rather than something you uploaded.
- eagleal 5y ago
  Most communities and bot network coordinators these days organize through Telegram. There's ton of easily fake materials (propaganda stuff, staged fakes, deceptively out of context or material first claimed to be something then appearing on another channel as something else). After the initial piloting fake information spreads like virus.
- kuschkufan 5y ago
  dude, the youtube channel name is the same as his profile here. maybe he just uploaded it, but got it on telegram or whatever. it's not about how he found/made it. but the quality compared to OP.
- yznovyak 5y ago
  > Hmmm. How did you “find” this? To be clear: the video is not mine. I simply uploaded it to youtube as an unlisted video to support my point. This original video was posted on Feb 28th to one of telegram channels I'm subbed to. The channel is https://t.me/wildwildhack https://t.me/wildwildhack which is a channel for "wild wild hack" hackathon organized by the reface.ai guys.
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yznovyak 5y ago
Give it a couple of years and the tech will spread A LOT.
- Cthulhu_ 5y ago
  The tech is already good enough for anyone to make a convincing deepfake, I think, and especially state actors - or people with deep enough wallets - can perfect it. I mean some of the memes of e.g. Obama saying something he never did are convincing enough.
  - gnulinux 5y ago
    The Tom Cruise ones going around a while ago were indistinguishable from reality for me. Granted I'm not intimately familiar with Tom Cruise, just watched some of his movies, but I could see believing them if I didn't know they're deep fake.
  - yznovyak 5y ago
    I think right now only a single-digit number of people in the world can produce a convincing fake. And while they could be working for the government, I don't think they do.

zionic 5y ago

-258 views -nonsensical title -no comments -all videos on account are unlisted -you just found it Hmmm. How did you “find” this?

BeefWellington 5y ago
To add on: - Largely inactive since 2019 until ~15 days ago. - Ukrainian with ML background[1] [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20083793#20093381 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20083793#20093381, Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210224044558/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20083793#20093381 https://web.archive.org/web/20210224044558/https://news.ycom...
- yznovyak 5y ago
  That's my old gmail account that I've since abandoned because I moved to yuriy@znovyak.com (my first name @ my last name). My google apps account (znovyak.com) doesn't have youtube enabled, so I uploaded this to youtube channel associated with my old (since high school) gmail.
- yznovyak 5y ago
  > - Largely inactive since 2019 until ~15 days ago. I'm a lurker, sorry for that. > - Ukrainian with ML background[1] Thanks. I did finish Yandex's school of data science (2015-2018). I've been to Moscow in 2018 for their graduation ceremony. Edit: My remark about me visiting Moscow is to demonstrate that I did not harbor any anti-Russia sentiments.
  - BeefWellington 5y ago
    No need to apologize for being a lurker! The explanation that you found it and uploaded it makes perfect sense and clarifies things for me anyway. Similar to GP, I read your post as though that Youtube video was the initial source, rather than something you uploaded.
eagleal 5y ago
Most communities and bot network coordinators these days organize through Telegram. There's ton of easily fake materials (propaganda stuff, staged fakes, deceptively out of context or material first claimed to be something then appearing on another channel as something else). After the initial piloting fake information spreads like virus.
kuschkufan 5y ago
dude, the youtube channel name is the same as his profile here. maybe he just uploaded it, but got it on telegram or whatever. it's not about how he found/made it. but the quality compared to OP.
yznovyak 5y ago
> Hmmm. How did you “find” this? To be clear: the video is not mine. I simply uploaded it to youtube as an unlisted video to support my point. This original video was posted on Feb 28th to one of telegram channels I'm subbed to. The channel is https://t.me/wildwildhack https://t.me/wildwildhack which is a channel for "wild wild hack" hackathon organized by the reface.ai guys.
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yznovyak 5y ago

Give it a couple of years and the tech will spread A LOT.

Cthulhu_ 5y ago
The tech is already good enough for anyone to make a convincing deepfake, I think, and especially state actors - or people with deep enough wallets - can perfect it. I mean some of the memes of e.g. Obama saying something he never did are convincing enough.
- gnulinux 5y ago
  The Tom Cruise ones going around a while ago were indistinguishable from reality for me. Granted I'm not intimately familiar with Tom Cruise, just watched some of his movies, but I could see believing them if I didn't know they're deep fake.
- yznovyak 5y ago
  I think right now only a single-digit number of people in the world can produce a convincing fake. And while they could be working for the government, I don't think they do.