An Artificial Intelligence (AI) online tool that helps to bring the dead alive by animating images has created fear and brought excitement at the same time.
A new online tool is helping to create pictures of the deceased using AI. A Genealogy company MyHeritage launched its “Deep Nostalgia” feature in the last week of February.
However, it has stirred a new debate about the misuse of technology as animated photos could be used with malicious intentions.
The tool allows the users to convert photos into short clips where the dead would have facial expressions.
After virtual reality tools for animating dead ones, Deep Nostalgia is just another addition to spooky inventions.
The AI technology behind so-called ‘deepfake’ videos is helping people bring images of lost relatives back to life by animating still photographs pic.twitter.com/gXZv8nxcXU
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“Seeing our beloved ancestors’ faces come to life … lets us imagine how they might have been in reality, and provides a profound new way of connecting to our family history,” MyHeritage founder Gilad Japhet said.
Deep Nostalgia uses algorithms to bring stills into life with moving facial expressions.
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The online tool has given birth to a debate besides triggering excitement for some but fear for others as they believe it could be ill-used.
However, the company has come with a clarification and said it has taken preemptive measures to prevent such mishaps.
“The Deep Nostalgia feature includes hard-coded animations that are intentionally without any speech and therefore cannot be used to fake any content or deliver any message,” MyHeritage Public Relations Director Rafi Mendelsohn asserted.