ByteDance’s InfiniteYou lets users generate unlimited variations of portrait photos – The Decoder
ByteDance has developed a new approach to AI portrait generation that tackles common problems like inconsistent facial features and poor prompt following. Unlike previous solutions such as PuLID-FLUX that directly modify AI model attention, InfuseNet processes facial features as a parallel information layer. This keeps the core AI model intact while improving portrait generation quality.
Faking It: Deepfake porn site’s link to tech companies – Bellingcat
“It’s par for the course that you’ll have a parent company and then a very long list of subsidiaries that are registered in Hong Kong, because Hong Kong has a different legal structure than mainland China,” she said. “You want six or seven levels of distance between the main parent company and then whatever company is doing the main business. This is how many Chinese companies engage in questionable behaviour.”
Deepfake videos are getting shockingly good – TechCrunch
Researchers from TikTok owner ByteDance have demoed a new AI system, OmniHuman-1, that can generate perhaps the most realistic deepfake videos to date. … According to the ByteDance researchers, OmniHuman-1 only needs a single reference image and audio, like speech or vocals, to generate a clip of an arbitrary length. The output video’s aspect ratio is adjustable, as is the subject’s “body proportion” — i.e. how much of their body is shown in the fake footage. […]
The implications are worrisome. Last year, political deepfakes spread like wildfire around the globe. On election day in Taiwan, a Chinese Communist Party-affiliated group posted AI-generated, misleading audio of a politician throwing his support behind a pro-China candidate. In Moldova, deepfake videos depicted the country’s president, Maia Sandu, resigning. And in South Africa, a deepfake of rapper Eminem supporting a South African opposition party circulated ahead of the country’s election.
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