I used to think AI avatars are cool and look so real. Then, as a perfectionist and the advocate for openness I started to think: It's not real - so it's not good. Why should we vote for fakeness? I don't like the direction we are heading with generative AI. I understand the things that helps us do our jobs faster, like erasers, fine tuners. But faces? Nope.
@rolle Faved this last night cause I totally agree with this at face (kek) value, but just watched the full leaked ad and it's not really generative AI.
It's just using AI to mask out a face IF there's a similarly framed photo roughly at the same moment in time with a different face you want to replace it with.
It's still fake, but I wouldn't call it an "AI avatar". It's an AI masking tool, and lots of pro photographers mask and swap faces, especially in the event/wedding space.
@rolle I never liked camera filters but this is next level discomfort. When Samsung added face smoothing by default on some of their phones camera apps I was outraged. This is even worse. What's even real anymore... #nofilter
@rolle At the end, it's the same representation on which people have built their “social lives”, showing that their life is a false representation of a smile that is better than others.
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