ByTedance erased the line between the dipteum and reality-the AI-model Omnihuman-1 is represented

The Chinese technological giant BYTEDANCE, the owner of the Tiktok platform, today demonstrated the new Omnihuman-1 artificial intelligence system, which can create fake videos that are practically indistinguishable from reality. The ability of artificial intelligence to generate Deepfake-video causes delight and mystical horror.

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Video created by Omnihuman-1 look amazingly realistic. It is enough to look at the video below, demonstrating the speaker’s performance at the popular annual conference on the spread of unique ideas TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design – technology, entertainment, design), which was not in reality.

The Omnihuman-1 system is enough for one photo and voice recording to generate such a video. The user can configure elements such as the ratio of the parties and personnel. Moreover, AI is able to change the movements of the body and gestures in real video materials. Of course, the results are not always 100 % perfect. Some poses look a little unusual. For example, at this lecture by Einstein, completely generated AI, the face looks almost perfect, but the movements of the hands are unnatural.

Omnihuman-1 “watched” 18,700 hours of video data using the new “Omni-Conditions” approach, which allows the model to study on several input sources, such as text hints, audio and body poses at the same time. BYTEDANCE researchers say that such a teaching method helps AI “significantly reduce data loss”.

The possible application of Deepfake technology cause serious concern. Recently, it has been used more than once for misinformation, fraud and other unsuccessful goals. So, during the 2024 election campaign in the United States, many cases of the distribution of audio and video recordings with dipfaces for misleading voters were recorded.

Last year, financial fraud deprived people of billions. For example, a fraudster who used AI, to impersonate the actor Brad Pitt, managed to deceive the woman to divorce her husband and send him $ 850,000 allegedly for treatment.

Currently, hundreds of ethics experts advocate the regulation of dipfaces. It is possible that ByTedance should not be accessed by Omnihuman-1 to the general public, as this can lead to catastrophic consequences. Although the genie has already been released from the bottle and the process of introducing AI into all spheres of life, including criminal, no longer stop.