Updated 2 years ago
https://tranceam.org/trance/photos/ai-images/
Finally, my evil clone army is assembled and world domination is finally within my grasp. Don’t laugh. Remember that time we shook hands? Or that time I handed you a cup to drink from? DNA baby!
After much tweaking, I finally present the AI Deep Fake website gallery. I am quite pleased with so many small details – the labels!! – the speed, the responsiveness, the UI/UX, the autoplay. Should work on both mobile and desktop. And Facebook was giving me grief, glad I went DIY. And note the “unidentified” link at the bottom. These are the in bin.
And it should be obvious to everyone involved, calling all these people from across Europe and northeast US/Boston/Philly “New Yorkers” is a semantic shortcut.
Notes on the AI
You can try it free here:
https://www.myheritage.com/deep-nostalgia/
This tech was initially developed by Israeli company D-ID to hide your face from facial recognition, but the social uses quickly became apparent. So they licensed the tech to MyHeritage for genealogical purposes.
You get 24 hours with MyHeritage but then they lock you out.. it wasn’t enough time, and I even have all my photos organized, retouched, and ready to go. For the average person it won’t be near enough of a time window and you will be left wanting more, and reaching for your credit card.
If you try to be sneaky and sign up with different email/gmail/FB on same IP address (presumably) they have a sliding scale thing but the best as far as I can detrmine is that you can squeak through with getting 2 weeks, but with cheesey watermarks.
Otherwise, its $200 a year… something I am desperately trying to circumvent because they got data hacked 4 years ago in a massive breach, and besides, I am frankly a cheap bastard and hate spending money on anything.
I suppose I could try to get a VPN, but I’d still have to juggle the accounts thing and keep coming up with new email addresses/accounts which is not sustainable long term. And besides, VPNs that are worth it easily cost the membership in MyHeritage.
There is a very convoluted Youtube hack but it’s still very clunky… doing a lot of photos is a non-starter.
So… there is sadly no long-term solution other than paying the Mormons. But let’s be real, it’s definitely worth it for many. They earned it. Sadly, their UI is dogshit and the free version had me manually deleting photos from their database to make room for more.
I bet we will see more use of AI as a selling point for companies, because this worked out so well for them. I bet most people who give them money are using it only for the AI and not the ancestry part.
If anyone finds any new ways let me know.
Edit: I went for it and bought it
Choosing which photos to use
Old portraits are best suited for this, such as 1800s-1960s. Frontal faces work best, but depending on the angle sometimes looking aside can work. Although the website is super fast – it took me about 15 seconds tops for each photo – it is ultimately time consuming, as you will find that it’s kinda like fishing – you have to throw many back, because you never know if the AI will bork and make things look too weird and you dip too far into the Uncanny Valley.
And this doesn’t even take into account the workarounds you will have to employ to rid yourself of watermarks, which is a nightmare even if you just run them through video editing software.
…so it all stacks up. That’s how they get you.