Intriguing but potentially thorny technolgy...

The work could be a boon for video editors and producers but does raise concerns as people increasingly question the validity of images and videos online, the authors said. However, they propose some guidelines for using these tools that would alert viewers and performers that the video has been manipulated.

“Unfortunately, technologies like this will always attract bad actors,” said Ohad Fried, a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford. ”
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You think? Guidelines are always followed by the bad actors.

So now we just need to hijack a person, force them to say a specific set of phrases, and boom, we have them to where we can make them say anything we want (digitally). Stuff of science fiction becomes science fact... Again.
 
Yeah, I imagine the performing guilds will have something to say about this. This video should freak out every voice artist--

 
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