Chinese deepfake app ZAO goes viral

[anonreaper69]

https://bgr.com/2019/09/02/zao-deepfake-iphone-app-goes-viral-in-china-sparks-privacy-concerns/

This app generates deepfake video in 8 seconds with just a single pic.

 

[jamechung]

Wow! Very impressive indeed. Too bad it's only SFW only lol.

 

[TMBDF]

Cool but it only works with already pretrained/learned clips, can't use your own, also it sends your pictures to a server... and it's Chinese... no thank you, I'd rather prefer facebook to have all my data than send my face to Chinese

 

[iperov]

Cool but it only works with already pretrained/learned clips, can't use your own

hm yes you are right.
Every clip is GAN model that is trained at least 2 or more weeks on super cards.
I think they used recent "Few shot adversarial ..." papers and modified them.

Also I cannot estimate quality of faceswapping using chinesse face in the demo. I would like to see Cage faceswap by this app.

 

[dpfks]

Cool but it only works with already pretrained/learned clips, can't use your own, also it sends your pictures to a server... and it's Chinese... no thank you, I'd rather prefer facebook to have all my data than send my face to Chinese

Between all the creators in this community we would have a large amount of trained data and clips   
Would be neat to be able to use a single image.

How does one get this app to test?

 

[iperov]

How does one get this app to test?

download android apk https://shouji.baidu.com/software/26342119.html
and you must have a +86 china phone to register and use the app

 

[TMBDF]

Cool but it only works with already pretrained/learned clips, can't use your own

hm yes you are right.
Every clip is GAN model that is trained at least 2 or more weeks on super cards.
I think they used recent "Few shot adversarial ..." papers and modified them.

Also I cannot estimate quality of faceswapping using chinesse face in the demo. I would like to see Cage faceswap by this app.

You think it would be possible to implement something similar as a new model into DFL or create a new app we could use in similar way even if it would take us like you say 2 or more weeks to train single scene?

 

[iperov]

china's company MOMO has unlimited $$$$$ to buy unlimited computer and human resources to research such ML models.
but I don't have.

 

[zhangm]

Some users can upload their own videos.It's just as fast to convert, but I didn't get it.

 

[zota123]

dove hai trovato i numeri cinesi per autenticare ZAO app?

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where did you find Chinese numbers to authenticate zao app?

 

[Fearganainim]

I have had some interesting results with fooling the verification software using face swaps. I even managed to verify one by using two phones. One to scan and one with the verification image on it. The app itself produces some very convincing deepfakes in seconds. The possibilities...

 

[oneduality]

This app apparently has major privacy concerns as well.. I'm not going to touch it.