Gregory's ServerAnyone else kind of creeped out by that trend of apps that animate faces on still photographs?
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  To elaborate, to me it's because what you see is a computer model wearing a dead person's face as a mask. And I'm convinced that if you had an actual video of the real person to compare with, their face would not move like that.  @Gargron When I animated my late fathers face, it did not move like him, and was definitely suffering from “uncanny valley” But animating late relatives I’ve never seen seemed ok to me - presumably coz I Know no better. Next step would be AI that incorporates video footage of the person when alive to “train” it how to move  @gargron The weirdest part, besides the whole concept, is the animations themselves. They kind of just bobble their heads, cycle through a few expressions, then blink twice. Like they're a game character that's waiting for input. I guess they have to do that because they don't have the context to create realistic, context-dependent movements tied to what the person is doing. @Gargron can't wait to see what kind of use our trusted pornographers will make of this technology.
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@Gargron I am too, though in a different (but related?) way to you. To me, it creeps me out just because it likely gives you a plausible but wrong impression of having seen them move. And it just seems disrespectful, in a way, to do that. @Gargron Well it is very creepy especially when you see dead loved ones face moving.  |
@Gargron is this a subpost lol?