Very
light day. Apparently most journalists refuse to work on Labor Day.
The
implications for political Tom Foolery (Henceforth to be called Don
Trumpery) are staggering.
Another
convincing deepfake app goes viral prompting immediate privacy
backlash
Zao,
a free deepfake face-swapping app that’s able to to place your
likeness into scenes from hundreds of movies and TV shows after
uploading just a single photograph, has gone
viral in China.
Bloomberg
reports
that the app was released on Friday, and quickly reached the top of
the free charts on the Chinese iOS App Store. And like the FaceApp
aging
app before it, the creators of Zao are now facing a backlash over a
perceived threat to user privacy.
Twitter
user Allan Xia posted a neat demonstration of what the app is capable
of yesterday with a 30 second clip of their face replacing Leonardo
Dicaprio in famous moments from several of his films. According to
Xia, the clips were generated in under eight seconds from just a
single photograph, however Bloomberg notes that the app can also
guide you through the process of taking a series of photographs —
where it will ask you to open and close your mouth and eyes — to
generate more realistic results.
… The
privacy policy includes a clause which says that its developer gets a
“free, irrevocable, permanent, transferable, and relicense-able”
license to all user-generated content, according to Bloomberg. The
company has been forced to quickly respond to the criticism, and now
says it won’t use its users’ photos or videos for anything other
than app improvements without their consent.
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