Watch the short talking head video below. Granted, it is in French, and close inspection of it may raise suspicions but perhaps caught unaware it could well fool people into believing it is a real video and not AI-generated.
The clip is from OmniHuman-1, an AI video system created by ByteDance — the Chinese company behind TikTok — which can deepfake a person using just one photo and one piece of audio.
OmniHuman-1 is just a research paper, for now, but the demos ByteDance is showing off are mightily impressive and appear to be an improvement on other deepfake apps that suffer from uncanny valley syndrome.
Tech Crunch reportsthat OmniHuman-1 has been trained on 19,000 hours of video content from “undisclosed sources” which you can guarantee means any video ByteDance found on the internet or any other platform — copyrighted or not. The AI tool can also edit existing videos and can change the …