cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/18066953
On Tuesday, Microsoft Research Asia unveiled VASA-1, an AI model that can create a synchronized animated video of a person talking or singing from a single photo and an existing audio track. In the future, it could power virtual avatars that render locally and don’t require video feeds—or allow anyone with similar tools to take a photo of a person found online and make them appear to say whatever they want.
It’s weird to always see these dismissals about how easy it is to pinpoint generated media, like we haven’t already seen an insane jump in ability in just the last year. There is no future where this tech doesn’t start to become a problem with its realism, and personally I think it’s much closer than most seem to think it is.