Obama voiced by Jordan Peele in PSA video warning about fake videos
Source: The Hill
A startling video of former President Obama calling President Trump a complete dipshit is a coordinated stunt from filmmaker Jordan Peele as a public service announcement to warn about fake videos.
The video appears to show Obama beginning to issue a warning. However, viewers don't hear the former president's voice; instead, Obamas lips move in sync with Peele's voice.
Were entering an era in which our enemies can make it look like anyone is saying anything at any point at time even if they would never say those things, Peele says voicing the former president.
So, for instance, they could have me say things like, I dont know, [Black Panthers] Killmonger was right! Peele says as Obama. Or, Ben Carson is in the sunken place! Or, how about this: Simply, President Trump is a total and complete dipshit.
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/383525-obama-voiced-by-jordan-peele-in-psa-video-warning-about-fake
California_Republic
(1,826 posts)thesquanderer
(11,998 posts)Putting new words into someone's video. It's a thing. Kinda brilliant.
Exultant Democracy
(6,594 posts)Jordan isn't trying to speak when Obama is, he is making the Obama Algorithm Bot move it's mouth to match his own.
JohnnyRingo
(18,673 posts)...but what a nice piece of work. I'm glad Peele is on our side.
It bears stressing though, that such fakery may be rampant in upcoming elections. It's hard to believe our eyes and ears in the digital age.
K&R
iluvtennis
(19,897 posts)Canoe52
(2,949 posts)C Moon
(12,225 posts)I can't help but wondering if Trump will use this argument to defend himself from the pee tape.
That was my first thought when I heard about this.
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Ukrainian Yankee
(89 posts)That's the difference between us and them.
hexola
(4,835 posts)He's pretty funny...he says very un-obama stuff.
FakeNoose
(32,854 posts)Is this total fakery without his participation? Or did Obama know this video was being made as a demonstration of fakery? I hope he knowingly took part in this so that people could understand how the fake videos get made.
hexola
(4,835 posts)I hope he had nothing to do with it!
xor
(1,204 posts)This video is demonstrating the technology and techniques used to make the facial movements to create fake videos. I've heard about this for awhile, but haven't seen any actual videos from it.
If your question is if Obama signed off on this fakery being made, then I do not know. But either way, he would not have to be involved in the actual production of the video.
thesquanderer
(11,998 posts)FakeNoose
(32,854 posts)Did Jordan Peele take an old video of Obama and make a new (fake) audio track? Or was this done with Obama's participation where the script was provided to him in advance? I can't believe BO would say those things unless he knew the purpose of this video.
Exultant Democracy
(6,594 posts)it uses a base of old videos (not just one you need a wide) but then the algorithm trains itself to mimic the movement of the principle. The more video they have to train on the better (hundred of hours works best.)
Then once the algorithm is trained you can have it watch Jordan speak and then make the Obama bot match his movements. Then the bot can be slid right into an older video as an overlay. So this is probably taken from an old video, but is in effect a new video and Obama wouldn't have had anything to do with it for it to work and he probably didn't.
Oneironaut
(5,538 posts)There's was a segment about it on a news program (forgot which). They took the journalist's picture and made his face + mouth move as if he was talking as well. The voice is from the voice actor.
The point is, there will be a point when any video and audio can be convincingly faked to the point that it's impossible to tell CGI videos from real videos. We're probably a couple years away from that point. People will be able to create CGI videos of Obama attending a Nazi rally, and they will be indistinguishable from a real video to a human.
keithbvadu2
(37,011 posts)jimmy2.0
(13 posts)and only half of what you see.
-Benjamin Franklin, Printer
Cha
(297,935 posts)right.. trump is a fucked up dipshit.. or something. lol
Thank you, JE