Mediatheque

This is a reverse chronological listing of media that are probably to do with synthetic human-like fakes.

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You can find a timeline with also non-media containing recent happenings at Synthetic human-like fakes § Timeline of synthetic human-like fakes.

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Permanent

How vocal organs work explained with MRI video

How your VOCAL ORGANS work: MRI video explained! by Dr Geoff Lindsey at YouTube.com shows through MRI imaging what kind of changes our vocal tract goes through when we produce speech.

2020's

2024

Sora by OpenAI

'Introducing Sora — OpenAI’s text-to-video model' by OpenAI at youtube.com uploaded on 2024-02-17 to Youtube.

2023

Schwer by Paul Kalkbrenner

'Schwer' by Paul Kalkbrenner at youtube.com uploaded on 2023-07-14 to Youtube.

2021

The Matrix Resurrections

• 2021 | movie | w:The Matrix Resurrections is the 4th installment of the w:The Matrix (franchise). Relevancy: High likelihood of relevance, but don't really know as of now as I haven't seen this film and 2nd time yet. People kind of expected more of the same old, but instead this was not just about amazing video graphics.

This is a poster for w:The Matrix Resurrections

This is not Morgan Freeman - A Deepfake Singularity by Diep Nep

'This is not Morgan Freeman - A Deepfake Singularity' at youtube.com uploaded on 2021-07-07 to Youtube.

AI creates models for Instagram by Vecanoi

AI creates models for Instagram by Vecanoi uploaded on 2021-06-08 to Youtube. See e.g. https://thisxdoesnotexist.com/ for more synthetic fakes out there

Orwellian by the Manic Street Preachers

Orwellian by the Manic Street Preachers lyric video uploaded on 2021-05-14 to Youtube from their upcoming new album 'The Ultra Vivid Lament' which will be out 2021-09-03. Available also as Manic Street Preachers - Orwellian (Official Video) music video version or Karaoke version by Scream Queen Karaoke at YouTube with semi-proper instrumental track and lyrics on screen uploaded 1 day after the original.

2020

Appearance of late Queen Elizabeth II was stolen by Channel 4 for Dec 2020 fake Christmas speech video

Appearance of late Queen Elizabeth II was stolen by Channel 4 for Dec 2020 fake Christmas speech video. She was alive at that time.

Helen Mort speaks on getting attacked with synthetic human-like fakes

'My experience of harmful ‘deepfake’ images, a talk and poetry about w:Helen Mort's ordeal uploaded to w:Vimeo by herself on 2020-12-18

Digital sound-alikes by Vocal Synthesis

Six U.S. Presidents Introduce the Vocal Synthesis YouTube Channel (Speech Synthesis) at YouTube.com by the Vocal Synthesis YouTube-channel, that gained attention when w:Jay-Z's company sued it over this and this, basically over making an AI impersonate the artist. Vocal Synthesis responded with this video. The quality does not fool the listener to think that these words were really spoken by the people whose voices were stolen for this.

Digital sound-alikes of Six U.S. Presidents read "Fuck Tha Police" by N.W.A. (Speech Synthesis) at YouTube.com. Text w:Fuck tha Police by w:N.W.A 1988. Synthesis by the Vocal Synthesis YouTube-channel.

Maeil Broadcasting Network AI driven human-like anchor

w:Maeil Broadcasting Network in South Korea published an AI news anchor in November 2020 made in conjunction with MoneyBrain. You can enable YouTube auto-generated English subtitles by enabling closed captioning (cc) and then clicking on the setting icon on the video control bar.

Mork n Mindy by the Sleaford Mods

"w:Mork n Mindy" is a w:single released by the band w:Sleaford Mods on 30 October 2020, featuring Billy Nomates on guest vocals. The song was written in January 2020. The single is accompanied by a troubling w:music video w:directed by w:Ben Wheatley, uploaded by the band to w:YouTube on the release date.. Imaged in the music video are the two band members Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn and featuring artist Billy Nomates performing.

In Event of Moon Disaster

It is recommended that you watch In Event of Moon Disaster - FULL FILM (2020) at the moondisaster.org project website (where it has interactive portions) by the Center for Advanced Virtuality at virtuality.mit.edu of the w:MIT

2010's

2019

Appearance of President Niinistö thieved in 2019 by Yle using publicly available software

This is not a picture of President w:Sauli Niinistö of w:Finland, because it is not Niinistö in this video demonstrating the results of appearance theft of President Niinistö by Yle using publicly available software that this screenshot is from, but a synthetic human-like fake, more precisely moving pre-recorded digital look-alike made to the likeness of President Niinistö by w:Yle using publicly available software in 2019.

In September 2019 w:Yle, the Finnish w:public broadcasting company, aired this result of experimental w:journalism, a facial digital look-alike of the President in office Sauli Niinistö, made with publicly available deepfakery tools, in its main news broadcast for the purpose of highlighting the advancing disinformation technology and problems that arise from it. Alternatively view film and Finnish language article on it at yle.fi

Face editing with Generative Adversarial Networks

'Face editing with Generative Adversarial Networks' by Arxiv Insights on YouTube] Premiered 2019-09-13

"This eye does not exist" - latent space interpolation

"This eye does not exist" - latent space interpolation on YouTube, uploaded on 2019-04-12 by https://thiseyedoesnotexist.com/

Discourse by the Sleaford Mods

'Discourse' by w:Sleaford Mods was uploaded by the band to Youtube on 2019-03-25

Glass (2019 film)

w:Glass (2019 film) by w:M. Night Shyamalan is recommended viewing for multiple reasons. Released in January 2019.

2018

Digital look-alike made to appear Obama-like

This is not a picture of Obama, because it is not Obama in the video that this screenshot is from, but a synthetic human-like fake, more precisely a pre-recorded digital look-alike.

Click on the picture or Obama's appearance thieved - a public service announcement digital look-alike by Monkeypaw Productions and Buzzfeed to view an April 2018 public service announcement moving digital look-alike made to appear Obama-like. The video is accompanied with imitator sound-alike, and was made by w:Monkeypaw Productions (.com) in conjunction with w:BuzzFeed (.com). You can also View the same video at YouTube.com.

Voice thieving machine by Google Research

Then in 2018 at the w:Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) the work 'Transfer Learning from Speaker Verification to Multispeaker Text-To-Speech Synthesis' (at arXiv.org) was presented. The pre-trained model is able to steal voices from a sample of only 5 seconds with almost convincing results

The Iframe below is transcluded from 'Audio samples from "Transfer Learning from Speaker Verification to Multispeaker Text-To-Speech Synthesis"' at google.gituhub.io, the audio samples of a sound-like-anyone machine presented as at the 2018 w:NeurIPS conference by Google researchers.

Have a listen.

Observe how good the "VCTK p240" system is at deceiving to think that it is a person that is doing the talking.

Video 'This AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds' by '2 minute papers' describes the voice thieving machine by Google Research in w:NeurIPS 2018.

Simulation Theory album by Muse

w:Dig Down was the first single from the album 'Simulation Theory' album by Muse on Youtube ' the w:Simulation Theory (album)' album by w:Muse (band) from 2018. Featured song is the acoustic version of Dig Down. Obs. This album collection contains songs not on the LP

2017

Virtuaalitodellisuus by Möyhy-Veikot

Demo-version music video for the song VIRTUAALITODELLISUUS by the Finnish rock band Möyhy-Veikot published on 2017-08-09 Content warning: Medium Towards the end there is poor quality synthetic porn and one nudity containing picture where one cannot really tell is it real or synthesized. They promise to tell the truth about "virtual reality", so it needs to be there, or they'd be liars "Todellisuus" == "reality", "virtuaali-" == "virtual", "väärinpäin" == "the wrong way around, in wrong order, wrong sequence"

I Promise by Radiohead

'w:I Promise (Radiohead song)' by w:Radiohead was uploaded by the band to Youtube on 2017-06-02. The song is much older than the video.

2016

Adobe Voco premiered by Adobe Inc.

#w:Adobe Voco. Adobe Audio Manipulator Sneak Peak with w:Jordan Peele (at Youtube.com). November 2016 demonstration of a Adobe's unreleased sound-like-anyone-machine, the w:Adobe Voco at the w:Adobe MAX 2016 event in w:San Diego, w:California. The original Adobe Voco required 20 minutes of sample to thieve a voice.

Voodoo In My Blood by Massive Attack

A 2016 music video for 'Voodoo In My Blood' (official music video) by Massive Attack on Youtube by w:Massive Attack and featuring w:Tricky from the album w:Ritual Spirit from 2016.

The Spoils by Massive Attack

A 2016 music video 'The Spoils' by Massive Attack on Youtube by w:Massive Attack featuring w:Hope Sandoval. Wikipedia on The Spoils (song).

Music video for 'w:The Spoils (song)' by w:Massive Attack featuring w:Hope Sandoval from 2016.

2013

The Last Video by Chip Taylor

Music video for 'F**k All The Perfect People Part II (The Last Video) by Chip Taylor on Youtube by w:Chip Taylor. Uploaded by record company on 2013-04-04

In Two by the Nine Inch Nails

2013 music 'In Two' by the Nine Inch Nails (audio) on Youtube by w:Nine Inch Nails from the album w:Hesitation Marks.

Music 'In Two' by the Nine Inch Nails (audio) on Youtube] by w:Nine Inch Nails from the album w:Hesitation Marks released in2013.

Copy of A by the Nine Inch Nails

2013 music 'Copy of A' live by the Nine Inch Nails on Youtube by w:Nine Inch Nails from the album w:Hesitation Marks.

Live performance of 'Copy of A' live by the Nine Inch Nails on Youtube by w:Nine Inch Nails from the album w:Hesitation Marks from 2013. Karaoke version by Doom Karaoke

Before Your Very Eyes by Atoms for Peace

2013 music video 'Before Your Very Eyes' by Atoms For Peace (official music video) on Youtube by w:Atoms for Peace (band) from their album w:Amok (Atoms for Peace album). Video was made by Andrew Thomas Huang (.com)

Music video for 'Before Your Very Eyes' by w:Atoms for Peace (band) from their album w:Amok (Atoms for Peace album). This 2013 video was made by Andrew Thomas Huang.

2000's

2006

John The Revelator by Depeche Mode

• 2006 music video 'John The Revelator' by Depeche Mode (official music video) on Youtube by w:Depeche Mode from the single w:John the Revelator / Lilian.

Music video for 'John The Revelator' by w:Depeche Mode from the single w:John the Revelator / Lilian. from 2006.

2005

Only by the Nine Inch Nails

Music video 'Only' by Nine Inch Nails at Youtube.com.

Music video 'w:Only (Nine Inch Nails song)' by the w:Nine Inch Nails from 2005.

Doll Face by Andrew Thomas Huang

A short film 'Doll Face' by Andrew Thomas Huang (.com). There are various unofficial videos using 'Doll Face' as graphics, but with different music. from 2005. Short film 'Doll Face' by Andy Huang on youtube.com was uploaded on 2007-02-19 by Andrew Thomas Huang (.com). There are various unofficial videos using 'Doll Face' as graphics, but with different music.

2003

The Matrix sequels

This is a poster for w:The Matrix Revolutions.

w:The Matrix Reloaded was the first demonstration of moving synthetic human-like fakes so convincing that they can be called digital look-alikes.

2002

Bullet by Covenant

Music video for Bullet by w:Covenant from 2002. Here you can observe the classic "skin looks like cardboard"-bug that stopped the pre-reflectance capture era versions from passing human testing. Karaoke version by Belovig Karaoke (no timings)

2001

Evolution Revolution Love by Tricky

'Evolution Revolution Love' by w:Tricky (musician) from the w:Blowback (album) and featuring w:Ed Kowalczyk from 2001. Music video 'Evolution Revolution Love' by Tricky on Youtube

Plug In Baby by Muse

'w:Plug In Baby' by w:Muse (band) from their album w:Origin of Symmetry from 2001. Music video 'Plug In Baby' by Muse on youtube.com

1990's

1999

Windowlicker by Aphex Twin

Music video for w:Windowlicker by w:Aphex Twin from 1999.

Superbeast by Rob Zombie

Music video for 'w:Superbeast', a w:promotional single from w:Rob Zombie's solo debut, w:Hellbilly Deluxe from 1999.

Reflectance capture and separation by Debevec et al

Original w:light stage used in the 1999 reflectance capture by w:Paul Debevec et al at the w:University of Southern California.

It consists of two w:rotary axes with w:height and w:radius control. A w:light source and a w:polarizer in front of the light source were placed on one arm and a camera and the other polarizer on the other arm. See picture below, for what they did to the captured reflection.

Original image by Debevec et al. – Copyright ACM 2000 – https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=311779.344855 – Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page.

Image 1: Separating specular and diffuse reflected light

(a) Normal image in dot lighting

(b) Image of the diffuse reflection which is caught by placing a vertical polarizer in front of the light source and a horizontal in the front the camera

(c) Image of the highlight specular reflection which is caught by placing both polarizers vertically

(d) The difference of c and b yields the specular highlight component

Images are scaled to seem to be the same luminosity.

Original image by Debevec et al. – Copyright ACM 2000 – https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=311779.344855 – Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page.

1998

New Model No. 15 by Marilyn Manson

Music video for 'New Model No. 15' by w:Marilyn Manson (band) from the album w:Mechanical Animals from 1998. Music 'New Model No. 15' by Marilyn Manson (lyrics in video) on Youtube

The Dope Show by Marilyn Manson

Music video for 'w:The Dope Show' by w:Marilyn Manson (band) from the album w:Mechanical Animals from 1998. Music video 'The Dope Show' by Marilyn Manson (lyric video) on Youtube (official music video)

Rabbit in You Headlights by Unkle

Music video for 'w:Rabbit in You Headlights' by w:Unkle and featuring w:Thom Yorke on the lyrics from 1998. Music video 'Rabbit in Your Headlights' by UNKLE on Youtube Wikipedia on 'Rabbit in Your Headlights' music video.

1997

Come to Daddy by Aphex Twin

Music video for w:Come to Daddy (song) by w:Aphex Twin from 1997.

1996

Dead Cities by The Future Sound of London

Music 'Dead Cities' by w:The Future Sound of London is the title track from the 1996 album w:Dead Cities (album) from 1996.

1990

Daydreaming by Massive Attack

Music video for 'w:Daydreaming (Massive Attack song)' by w:Massive Attack from 1990. Music video 'Daydreaming' by Massive Attack on youtube.com.

1980's

1986

Paranoimia by Art of Noise

Music video for 'w:Paranoimia' by w:Art of Noise featuring a synthetic human-like character, w:Max Headroom from the 1986 album w:In Visible Silence. The 1986 music video 'Paranoimia' by Art of Noise on Youtube.

1983

Musique Non-Stop by Kraftwerk

Music video for w:Musique Non-Stop by w:Kraftwerk from album w:Electric Café. The music video was made in 1983, but published only in in 1986. 'Musique Non-Stop' by Kraftwerk on Youtube.

1970's

1972

A Computer Animated Hand by Parke and Catmull

w:A Computer Animated Hand is a 1972 short film by w:Edwin Catmull and w:Fred Parke. This was the first time that w:computer-generated imagery was used in film to animate likenesses of moving human appearance.

1971

First known geometry-capture of human appearance and renderings by Henri Gouraud

See 'Images de synthèse : palme de la longévité pour l’ombrage de Gouraud' at interstices.info for the images as they may not present right here, probably due to interstices.info having had an adverse reaction to linking their images here.

• Image1: First known geometry capture made of a human face made by w:Henri Gouraud of his wife Sylvie Gouraud
• Image 2: First known visual synthetic human-like fake by Gouraud made of his wife Sylvie Gouraud (non-shaded)
• Image 3: The synthetic human-like fake shaded with w:Gouraud shading

1960's

1961

Daisy Bell sung by an IBM 704

In 1961 the first singing by a computer was performed by an w:IBM 704 and the song was w:Daisy Bell, written in 1892 by British songwriter w:Harry Dacre. View 'Daisy Bell' performed by an IBM 704 on Youtube.

1890's

1896

Le Coucher de la Mariée - earliest known pornographic film

w:History of erotic depictions § Moving pictures states that w:Le Coucher de la Mariée from 1896 is the earliest known erotic or pornographic film that is known to exist. Content warning: neglible, nude legs can be seen in one frame le coucher de la mariée at vimeo.com, with music and narrative (?) titling (runtime 48s) or le coucher de la mariée at vimeo.com, without titles or music (runtime 18s)

1895

Cinematograph - popular breakthrough of film

The poster advertising the Lumière brothers cinematographe, showing a famous comedy (w:L'Arroseur Arrosé, 1895).

1870's

1877

Temporal limit of digital sound-alikes - the invention of the phonograph

w:Thomas Edison and his early w:phonograph. Cropped from w:Library of Congress copy, ca. 1877, (probably 18 April 1878)

The temporal limit of whom, dead or living, the digital sound-alikes can attack is defined by the w:history of sound recording.

The article starts by mentioning that the invention of the w:phonograph by w:Thomas Edison in 1877 is considered the start of sound recording.

1st century

• w:1st century | scripture | w:Jesus teaches about things that are yet to come in
  1. w:Matthew 24
  2. w:The Sheep and the Goats and
  3. w:Mark 13.

• 1st century | scripture | w:2 Thessalonians 2 is the second chapter of the w:Second Epistle to the Thessalonians. It is traditionally attributed to w:Paul the Apostle, with w:Saint Timothy as a co-author. See Biblical connection - Revelation 13 and Daniel 7 § 2 Thessalonians 2 Caution to reader: contains explicit written information about the beasts

• 1st century | scripture | w:Book of Revelation. The task of writing down and smuggling out this early warning of what is to come is given by God to his servant John, who was imprisoned on the island of w:Patmos. See Biblical connection - Revelation 13 and Daniel 7 § Revelation 13. Caution to reader: contains explicit written information about the beasts.

2nd century BC

• w:2nd century BC | scripture | The w:Book of Daniel was put in writing.
• See Biblical connection - Revelation 13 and Daniel 7 § Daniel 7. Caution to reader: contains explicit written information about the beasts.

6th century BC

Image taken from Silos Apocalypse. Originally published/produced in Spain (Silos), 1109.

Daniel 7, Daniel's vision of the three beasts ^{Dan 7:1-6} and the fourth beast ^{Dan 7:7-8} from the sea and the w:Ancient of Days^{Dan 7:9-10}

• w:6th century BC | scripture | w:Daniel (biblical figure) was in w:Babylonian captivity when he had his visions where God warned us of synthetic human-like fakes first.
• His testimony was put into written form in the #2nd century BC.

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