Microsoft teases easy video deepfake tool, declines to release it

Microsoft is the latest tech giant to tease an AI product so good at producing deepfake humans that it poses a threat to real ones. In a striking demonstration of how quickly generative AI is advancing, VASA-1 can generate “hyper-realistic talking face video” from nothing but a single static image, an audio clip and a text script. A research paper from Microsoft says VASA-1 produces “lip movements that are exquisitely synchronized with the audio,” plus “a large spectrum of facial …

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