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<big>'''Welcome to Ban Covert Modeling! wiki''' - [[BCM:About|A wiki about]] '''[[Glossary#Appearance and voice theft|why]]''' and '''[[Law proposals to ban covert modeling|how]]''' '''covert modeling''' of the '''human appearance''' and of the '''naked human voice''' should be '''outlawed''' urgently.
[[File:Screenshot at 27s of a moving digital-look-alike made to appear Obama-like by Monkeypaw Productions and Buzzfeed 2018.png|thumb|right|480px|link=Mediatheque/2018/Obama's appearance thieved - a public service announcement digital look-alike by Monkeypaw Productions and Buzzfeed|{{#lst:Mediatheque|Obama-like-fake-2018}}]]


Problems are naked '''[[digital look-alikes]]''' and '''[[digital sound-alikes]]''' and an '''[[Adequate Porn Watcher AI]]''' would seem to help a lot with the former.
[[File:Appearance of Queen Elizabeth II stolen by Channel 4 in Dec 2020 (screenshot at 191s).png|thumb|right|480px|link=Mediatheque/2020/Appearance of Queen Elizabeth II stolen by Channel 4 in Dec 2020 for fake Christmas speech video|{{#lst:Mediatheque|Queen-like fake 2020}}]]


'''[[How to protect yourself and others from covert modeling]]''' | '''[[Law proposals to ban covert modeling]]''' | '''[[Biblical explanation - The Book of Revelations]]''' | '''[[Atheist explanation]]'''
[[File:Appearance of Richard Nixon stolen by the Center for Advanced Virtuality of MIT for their awareness raising project In The Event of Moon Disaster 2020 screenshot at 376s.png|thumb|rightr|480px|link=Mediatheque/2020/Nixon's appearance and voice stolen - a public service announcement digital look-alike and sound-alike by MIT's Center for Advanced Virtuality|{{#lst:Mediatheque|Nixon-like-fake-2020}}]]


'''[[Current laws and their application]]''' | '''[[Resources]]'''  | '''[[Glossary]]''' | '''[[BCM:About|About this wiki]]'''</big>
[[File:Appearance-of-President-Niinistö-thieved-in-2019-by-YLE-using-publicly-available-software-screenshot.png|thumb|right|480px|link=Mediatheque/2019/Appearance of President Niinistö thieved by Yle using publicly available software|{{#lst:Mediatheque|Niinistö-like-fake-2019}}]]


= Covert what?!!??! =
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[[File:Deb-2000-reflectance-separation.png|thumb|460px|left|Image 1: Separating specular and diffuse reflected light
[[File:Deb2000-light-stage-low-res-rip.png|thumb|right|400px|Original [[w:light stage]] used in the 1999 [[Glossary#Reflectance capture|reflectance capture]] by [[w:Paul Debevec]] et al at the [[w:University of Southern California]].<br /><br />


It consists of two [[w:Rotation around a fixed axis|w:rotary axes]] with [[w:height]] and [[w:radius]] control. A [[w:Light#Light_sources|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'''.
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<small>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.</small>]]
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[[File:Deb2000-reflectance-separation-2-rows.png|thumb|360px|right|link=Synthetic human-like fakes#Digital look-alikes|Image 1: Separating specular and diffuse reflected light
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(a) Normal image in dot lighting
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(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
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(c) Image of the highlight specular reflection which is caught by placing both polarizers vertically
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(d) The difference of c and b yields the specular highlight component
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Images are scaled to seem to be the same luminosity.
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<small>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.</small>]]
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Welcome. [[SSF:About|This is a wiki]] about discovering ways of minimizing or stopping the damage from <big>'''[[synthetic human-like fakes]]'''</big> i.e <big>'''[[Synthetic human-like fakes#Digital look-alikes|digital look-alikes]]</big> and <big>clothed [[Synthetic human-like fakes#Digital sound-alikes|digital sound-alikes]]'''</big> that result from  '''covert modeling'''  i.e. [[Glossary#Appearance and voice theft|thieving]] of the '''human appearance''' and of the '''naked human voice''' and synthesis of malicious media.
Join the struggle, demand <big>'''[[Laws against synthesis and other related crimes]]'''</big> from your legislators, support <big>'''[[organizations, studies and events against synthetic human-like fakes]]'''</big> and push for technological solutions and also cultural awkening.
SSFWIKI is an '''open [[w:non-profit]] [[w:copyleft|w:copylefted]] [[w:public service announcement]] wiki''' that contains <font color="red>no pornography</font>.
Anybody with a computer or a smartphone can edit this wiki anonymously after passing a CAPTCHA. Also free accounts are available upon reasonable request.
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'''Definitions'''
{{#lst:Synthetic human-like fakes|definitions-of-synthetic-human-like-fakes}}
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''' Introduction '''
Since the early 00's it has become (nearly) impossible to determine in still or moving pictures what is an image of a human, imaged with a (movie) camera and what on the other hand is a simulation of an image of a human imaged with a simulation of  a camera. When there is '''no camera''' and the target being imaged with a simulation looks deceptively like some real human, dead or living, it is a '''[[digital look-alikes|digital look-alike]]'''.
Now in the late 2010's the equivalent thing is happening to our '''voices''' i.e. they '''can be stolen''' to some extent with the 2016 prototypes like [[w:Adobe Inc.]]'s [[w:Adobe Voco|w:Adobe Voco]] and [[w:Google]]'s [[w:DeepMind]] [[w:WaveNet]] and '''made to say anything'''. When it is not possible to determine with human testing or testing with technological means what is a recording of some living or dead person's real voice and what is a simulation it is a '''[[digital sound-alikes|digital sound-alike]]'''. 2018 saw the publication of Google Research's sound-like-anyone machine 'Transfer Learning from Speaker Verification to Multispeaker Text-To-Speech Synthesis' at the [[w:NeurIPS]] conference and by the end of '''2019''' Symantec research had learned of 3 cases where digital sound-alike technology '''had been used for crimes'''.<ref name="WaPo2019">
{{cite web
|url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/04/an-artificial-intelligence-first-voice-mimicking-software-reportedly-used-major-theft/
|title= An artificial-intelligence first: Voice-mimicking software reportedly used in a major theft
|last= Drew
|first= Harwell
|date= 2020-04-16
|website= [[w:washingtonpost.com]]
|publisher= [[w:Washington Post]]
|access-date= 2021-01-23
|quote= Thieves used voice-mimicking software to imitate a company executive’s speech and dupe his subordinate into sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to a secret account, the company’s insurer said}}
</ref>
{{#lst:Synthetic human-like fakes|GoogleTransferLearning2018}}
'''Covert modeling''' poses growing threats to
# The right to be the only one that looks like me (compromised by [[digital look-alikes]])
# The right to be the only one able to make recordings that sound like me (compromised by [[digital sound-alikes]])


(a) Normal image in dot lighting
And these developments have various severe effects on the right to privacy, provability by audio and video evidence and deniability.


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Therefore it is high time to '''act''' and to '''[[Laws against synthesis and other related crimes#Law proposal to ban visual synthetic filth|ban unauthorized synthetic pornography]]''', build the '''[[Adequate Porn Watcher AI (concept)]]''' to protect humanity from visual synthetic filth and to '''[[Law proposals#Law proposal to ban unauthorized modeling of human voice|criminalize covert modeling of the naked human voice and synthesis from a covert voice model]]!'''


(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
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(c) Image of the highlight specular reflection which is caught by placing both polarizers vertically
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(d) Subtraction of c from b, which yields the specular component
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'''Brilliant stuff by others'''


Images are scaled to seem to be the same luminosity.
* <big>'''[[FacePinPoint.com]]'''</big> was a countermeasure to non-consensual pornography in 2017-2021, '''invented by Lionel Hagege in 2015''', that would protect humanity against the destructive effects of malicious synthetic pornography, if it were revived and purveyed as a public good.


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* <big>''''[[Detecting deep-fake audio through vocal tract reconstruction]]''''</big> is an epic scientific work, against fake human-like voices, from the [[w:University of Florida]] published in August 2022.
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.]]


[[File:BlV1999-morphable-model-till-match-low-res-rip.png|thumb|right|460px|Image 2 - Sculpting a morphable model to one single picture (low resolution rip)
'''Stop Synthetic Filth! wiki original content'''
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<br/><br/>(1) Sculpting a morphable model to one single picture
* <big>'''[[Synthetic human-like fakes]]'''</big> are sources of problems for humanity.


<br/><br/>(2) Produces 3D approximation
* <big>'''[[Organizations, studies and events against synthetic human-like fakes]]'''</big> lists organizations, events and services that have an aspect of being against the synthetic human-like fakes.


<br/><br/>(4) Texture capture
* <big>'''[[Laws against synthesis and other related crimes]]'''</big> is an ongoing effort to chart out what kind of laws exist, or are in the works or could exist to counter the problems.


<br/><br/>(3) The 3D model is rendered back to the image with weight gain
* <big>'''[[Help against appearance and voice theft]]'''</big> is an ongoing effort to find help against problems of appearance and voice theft


<br/><br/>(5) With weight loss
* <big>'''[[Adequate Porn Watcher AI (concept)]]'''</big> #SSF! wiki proposed countermeasure to synthetic porn: Adequate Porn Watcher AI is a 2019 concept for an AI to protect the humans against synthetic filth attacks by '''looking for porn that should not be'''.


<br/><br/>(6) Looking annoyed
* <big>'''[[How to protect yourself and others from covert modeling]]'''</big>


<br/><br/>(7) Forced to smile
* <big>'''[[Biblical connection - Revelation 13 and Daniel 7]]'''</big>, wherein [[Biblical connection - Revelation 13 and Daniel 7#Daniel 7|Daniel 7]] and [[Biblical connection - Revelation 13 and Daniel 7#Revelation 13|Revelation 13]] we are warned of this age of industrial filth, is for those who believe in Jesus. We have a list of <big>'''[[Bibles and churches‎|list of Bibles and churches‎]]'''</big> if you want to join in studying and spreading the word against the beasts.


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* <big> '''[[Mediatheque]]'''  | '''[[Glossary]]''' | '''[[Resources]]''' | '''[[Marketing against synthetic filth]]''' | '''[[Quotes]]''' | '''[[Atheist explanation]]''' | '''[[SSF:About|About this wiki]]'''</big> | [[Scratchpad]] for quick drafting, [[sandbox]] if you want to try editing.


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Since the early 00's it has become (nearly) impossible to determine in still or moving pictures what is an image of a human, imaged with a (movie) camera and what on the other hand is a simulation of an image of a human imaged with a simulation of  a camera. When there is '''no camera''' and the target being imaged with a simulation looks deceptively like some real human, dead or living, it is a '''[[digital look-alikes|digital look-alike]]'''.
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Now in the 2010's the equivalent thing is happening to our '''voices''' i.e. they '''can be stolen''' to some extent with the 2016 prototypes like [[w:Adobe Inc.]]'s [[w:Adobe Voco|w:Adobe Voco]] and [[w:Google]]'s [[w:DeepMind]] [[w:WaveNet]] and '''made to say anything'''. When it is not possible to determine with human testing or testing with technological means what is a recording of some living or dead person's real voice and what is a simulation it is a '''[[digital sound-alikes|digital sound-alike]]'''.
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As of '''2019''' Symantec research knows of 3 cases where digital sound-alike technology '''has been used for crimes'''.<ref name="WaPo2019">
'''Get in touch'''
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/04/an-artificial-intelligence-first-voice-mimicking-software-reportedly-used-major-theft/</ref>
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Therefore it is high time to '''act''' and to '''[[Law proposals to ban covert modeling|criminalize both covert modeling of the human appearance and the covert modeling of the naked human voice!]]'''
== Thank yous for free tech ==
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== Threats posed by covert modeling ==
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'''Covert modeling''' poses growing threats to
# The right to be the only one that looks like me (compromised by [[digital look-alikes]])
# The right to be the only one able to make recordings that sound like me (compromised by [[digital sound-alikes]])


And these developments have various severe effects on the right to privacy, provability by audio and video evidence and deniability.
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== References ==
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Latest revision as of 20:34, 19 October 2024

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.[1]
Appearance of late Queen Elizabeth II was stolen by Channel 4 for Dec 2020 fake Christmas speech video. She was alive at that time.
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
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


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.


Welcome. This is a wiki about discovering ways of minimizing or stopping the damage from synthetic human-like fakes i.e digital look-alikes and clothed digital sound-alikes that result from covert modeling i.e. thieving of the human appearance and of the naked human voice and synthesis of malicious media.

Join the struggle, demand Laws against synthesis and other related crimes from your legislators, support organizations, studies and events against synthetic human-like fakes and push for technological solutions and also cultural awkening.

SSFWIKI is an open w:non-profit w:copylefted w:public service announcement wiki that contains no pornography.

Anybody with a computer or a smartphone can edit this wiki anonymously after passing a CAPTCHA. Also free accounts are available upon reasonable request.

Definitions

When the camera does not exist, but the subject being imaged with a simulation of a (movie) camera deceives the watcher to believe it is some living or dead person it is a digital look-alike.

In 2017-2018 this started to be referred to as w:deepfake, even though altering video footage of humans with a computer with a deceiving effect is actually 20 yrs older than the name "deep fakes" or "deepfakes".[2][3]

When it cannot be determined by human testing or media forensics whether some fake voice is a synthetic fake of some person's voice, or is it an actual recording made of that person's actual real voice, it is a pre-recorded digital sound-alike. This is now commonly referred to as w:audio deepfake.

Real-time digital look-and-sound-alike in a video call was used to defraud a substantial amount of money in 2023.[4]

Introduction

Since the early 00's it has become (nearly) impossible to determine in still or moving pictures what is an image of a human, imaged with a (movie) camera and what on the other hand is a simulation of an image of a human imaged with a simulation of a camera. When there is no camera and the target being imaged with a simulation looks deceptively like some real human, dead or living, it is a digital look-alike.

Now in the late 2010's the equivalent thing is happening to our voices i.e. they can be stolen to some extent with the 2016 prototypes like w:Adobe Inc.'s w:Adobe Voco and w:Google's w:DeepMind w:WaveNet and made to say anything. When it is not possible to determine with human testing or testing with technological means what is a recording of some living or dead person's real voice and what is a simulation it is a digital sound-alike. 2018 saw the publication of Google Research's sound-like-anyone machine 'Transfer Learning from Speaker Verification to Multispeaker Text-To-Speech Synthesis' at the w:NeurIPS conference and by the end of 2019 Symantec research had learned of 3 cases where digital sound-alike technology had been used for crimes.[5]


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.


Covert modeling poses growing threats to

  1. The right to be the only one that looks like me (compromised by digital look-alikes)
  2. The right to be the only one able to make recordings that sound like me (compromised by digital sound-alikes)

And these developments have various severe effects on the right to privacy, provability by audio and video evidence and deniability.

Therefore it is high time to act and to ban unauthorized synthetic pornography, build the Adequate Porn Watcher AI (concept) to protect humanity from visual synthetic filth and to criminalize covert modeling of the naked human voice and synthesis from a covert voice model!

Information about this wiki as of now

Currently it is week #47 and today is Sunday 24 November 2024 and this wiki has 23 articles with 4,557 edits. 105 files have been uploaded. See more information about this wiki.

The domain Stop-Synthetic-Filth-org-icon.pngstop-synthetic-filth.org is currently registered till Sunday 2034-01-15 (check) and the registration will be extended as long as needed.

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  1. ↑ "You Won't Believe What Obama Says In This Video!". w:YouTube. w:BuzzFeed. 2018-04-17. Retrieved 2022-01-05. We're entering an era in which our enemies can make anyone say anything at any point in time.
  2. ↑ Boháček, Matyáš; Farid, Hany (2022-11-23). "Protecting world leaders against deep fakes using facial, gestural, and vocal mannerisms". w:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 119 (48). doi:10.1073/pnas.221603511. Retrieved 2023-01-05.
  3. ↑ Bregler, Christoph; Covell, Michele; Slaney, Malcolm (1997-08-03). "Video Rewrite: Driving Visual Speech with Audio" (PDF). SIGGRAPH '97: Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques: 353–360. doi:10.1145/258734.258880. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
  4. ↑ "'Deepfake' scam in China fans worries over AI-driven fraud". w:Reuters.com. w:Reuters. 2023-05-22. Retrieved 2023-06-05.
  5. ↑ Drew, Harwell (2020-04-16). "An artificial-intelligence first: Voice-mimicking software reportedly used in a major theft". w:washingtonpost.com. w:Washington Post. Retrieved 2021-01-23. Thieves used voice-mimicking software to imitate a company executive’s speech and dupe his subordinate into sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to a secret account, the company’s insurer said
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