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<big>'''Welcome to Stop Synthetic Filth! wiki''' - [[SSF:About|A wiki about]] discovering ways of stopping and minimizing the damage from '''[[Glossary#Appearance and voice theft|appearance and voice theft]]''' into '''[[digital look-alikes and sound-alikes]]''' that result from  '''covert modeling''' of the '''human appearance''' and of the '''naked human voice'''.

'''[[Adequate Porn Watcher AI]]''' is a concept for an AI to protect the humans against synthetic filth attacks.

'''[[How to protect yourself and others from covert modeling]]''' | '''[[Law proposals to ban covert modeling]]''' | '''[[Biblical explanation - The Book of Revelations]]''' | '''[[Atheist explanation]]'''

'''[[Current laws and their application]]''' | '''[[Resources]]'''  | '''[[Glossary]]''' | '''[[SSF:About|About this wiki]]'''</big>

= Covert what?!!??! =

[[File:Deb-2000-reflectance-separation.png|thumb|460px|left|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) Subtraction of c from b, which yields the specular component

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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)

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<br/><br/>(2) Produces 3D approximation

<br/><br/>(4) Texture capture

<br/><br/>(3) The 3D model is rendered back to the image with weight gain

<br/><br/>(5) With weight loss

<br/><br/>(6) Looking annoyed

<br/><br/>(7) Forced to smile

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Image 2 by Blanz and Vettel – Copyright ACM 1999 – https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm? doid=311535.311556 – 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.]]

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 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]]'''.

As of '''2019''' Symantec research knows of 3 cases where digital sound-alike technology '''has been used for crimes'''.<ref name="WaPo2019">

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/04/an-artificial-intelligence-first-voice-mimicking-software-reportedly-used-major-theft/</ref>

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!]]'''

== Threats posed by covert modeling ==

'''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.

{{:Digital look-alikes and sound-alikes}}

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