El good Elon Musk has already warned us on occasion that we should be more careful with Artificial Intelligence than we are having. The truth is that watching movies like Terminator gives food for thought, but not everything should be bad news, sometimes technology is put at the service of man, and that is precisely what we hope will happen here.
Be that as it may, there will always be an intrepid hacker who takes an extra leg off the cat, in this case We are faced with an Artificial Intelligence capable of putting the face of whoever you want in a video with pornographic content.
The question is… what is the problem? Well, the problem is precisely that it does it too well, so much that it would cost us a lot to know that the video is totally false, and of course, many of you are already rubbing your hands thinking that you could take the photos of Instagram and Facebook of those who wish to create this totally bogus pornographic content. Anyone with basic knowledge and a good graphics card could create these videos. The dove flew once more in Reddit where a user created this Artificial Intelligence and shared the knowledge necessary to make it work, and surprisingly well.
The algorithm has been called Face2Face and the user Deepfakes He has been the one who has opened Pandora's box. Ultimately, this could become too dangerous a weapon, so we do not doubt that the authorities will limit this quite quickly. Be that as it may, Artificial Intelligence is making enormous strides, leaving us in no doubt that it is focused on changing the way our mind works, meanwhile we have no choice but to observe how the bosses turn to fake pornography and other bullshit, something good will come out of all this, we hope ...