Is it like that “A powerful reminder that we can no longer trust our own eyes,”Said a representative of the British station Channel 4 the guardian. Every year, the BBC broadcasts a special Christmas speech to the nation of Queen Elizabeth II. But it’s 2020 and that means everything has to be extra weird. Therefore, Channel 4 has taken the opportunity to broadcast its own deepfake version of the queen’s holiday message.
Played by the actress Debra Stephenson, the deepfaked Queen began her speech thanking Channel 4 for giving him the opportunity to speak from the heart. He then proceeds to crack on Harry and Megha marching the British Royal Family i health workers taking life in their hands treat Prime Minister Boris Johnson. She too makes a not so subtle excavation at Prince Andrew’s relationship with the the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
If you have bad eyesight and limited audience, you could, I could, let yourself be fooled by the fake queen on a busy Christmas day. But when you start talking about Netflix and throwing yourself into a dance routine, you’re sure to know that something has happened. Channel 4 makes little effort to hide his deception, but that hasn’t stopped some critics from expressing discomfort with the trick.
“We should be very careful to make people think they can’t believe what they see,” Sam Gregory, the human rights organization program Witness told The Guardian. “If you haven’t seen them before, that might lead you to believe that deep forgery is a more widespread problem than not. “
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Deepfakes uses machine learning to analyze a batch of images and generate a video approximation of what it might look like if we said, Office space starred in the cast of The matrix. But the technique requires a lot of processing power and artistic nuances on the part of a creator to be able to do itl any. Earlier this year, the creators of South Park released one deepfake web series which included fake portraits of Mark Zuckerberg and Jared Kushner. Even with the resources and talent available to the most successful TV series showrunners of all time, the deepfakes were still quite nasty.
But the method of counterfeiting is only more convincing and easier for novices. If deepfakes don’t they prove to be an important source of danger misinformation, will at least allow Channel 4 to have its own annual Queen’s Christmas address for years to come.