On Tuesday, Microsoft Research Asia unveiled VASA-1, an AI model that can create a synchronized animated video of a person talking or singing from a single photo and an existing audio track. In the future, it could power virtual avatars that render locally and don’t require video feeds—or allow anyone with similar tools to take a photo of a person found online and make them appear to say whatever they want.

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    6 months ago

    I mean the opposite scenario, where if there’s no signature we assume it’s fake.

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      6 months ago

      We’ve had email forgery and signatures to prevent it for decades, but barely anyone does that either.