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March 15, 2021 2:49 PM

... as long as it involves relatively low quality deep-faked lip-syncs on your mobile device. Wombo.ai.
posted by Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug (23 comments total)

Cute, but does not appear to handle facial hair very well. Also, you probably want to have a pretty sparse backdrop when you take the selfie for it, because otherwise objects will stretch and move along with your face.
posted by hanov3r at 3:05 PM on March 15, 2021

lip sync? how about some old school and some very old school
posted by robbyrobs at 4:30 PM on March 15, 2021 [2 favorites]

It's reassuring that Zombo.com still exists...

You can do anything at Zombo.com
posted by Windopaene at 4:34 PM on March 15, 2021 [12 favorites]

Perhaps inevitably, there was a goatse one on twitter yesterday.
posted by the duck by the oboe at 5:13 PM on March 15, 2021 [6 favorites]

(And if that term doesn't mean anything to you, it's most definitely NSFW.)
posted by the duck by the oboe at 5:14 PM on March 15, 2021 [3 favorites]

> It's reassuring that Zombo.com still exists...

Not only still exists, but actively maintained - it's been updated for the post-Flash era.
posted by dmd at 5:42 PM on March 15, 2021 [4 favorites]

How do you use a photo instead of your camera?
posted by Joe in Australia at 5:43 PM on March 15, 2021

Zombo.com is the only one of the original dotcoms that hasn't yet betrayed us.
posted by thatwhichfalls at 6:31 PM on March 15, 2021 [11 favorites]

Thanks, Floam.

Hmm. I can see there's a hypothetical problem someone might have if they wanted to animate a photo of their cat, because the AI can't recognise its mouth. Couldn't recognise it. It might be necessary to like, draw a mouth onto its photo. Hypothetically. More study is needed.
posted by Joe in Australia at 6:36 PM on March 15, 2021 [3 favorites]

Poet Jay Hulme has done the good work of making deepfakes of every Diocesan Bishop in the Church of England singing 'Every Time We Touch' by Cascada.
posted by stray at 6:51 PM on March 15, 2021 [3 favorites]

Worth the smile my 12 year old gave me as I rickrolled him with his baby self.
posted by BigBrooklyn at 7:12 PM on March 15, 2021

and some very old school

Jerry Lewis in "The Patsy" best part

If that is indeed the best part, I have some YouTuber to thank for saving me a lot of time and effort.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 7:23 PM on March 15, 2021 [1 favorite]

have if they wanted to animate a photo of their cat

Max.
posted by klausman at 7:52 PM on March 15, 2021 [2 favorites]

Worf, son of Mogh
posted by blakewest at 7:55 PM on March 15, 2021 [7 favorites]

Claudette Morel will survive, hon
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 8:59 PM on March 15, 2021

Pope Innocent X would like to have a word.
posted by thatwhichfalls at 10:19 PM on March 15, 2021 [1 favorite]

does not appear to handle facial hair very well

Neither does the Android device unlocking face recognizer on my cheap new mobile phone, to my huge amusement. With a full beard and lips that tend to hide behind a moustache, the poor thing can't see me at all unless I push my reading glasses up from the tip of my nose so the frames actually surround my eyes from its point of view.

A bit disconcerting to have a $100 device teliing me I haven't got a face, but I do feel quite pleased with my completely inadvertent success at literally homegrown dazzle camouflage.
posted by flabdablet at 3:16 AM on March 16, 2021 [2 favorites]

I'll have you know my full beard and reading glasses were quite adequately sheveled at the time, tyvm.
posted by flabdablet at 3:50 AM on March 16, 2021 [3 favorites]

Cartoon characters are not immune to such disorders.
posted by delfin at 8:30 AM on March 16, 2021

... low quality deep-faked

So, "shallow-faked" IOW?
posted by Aardvark Cheeselog at 10:02 AM on March 16, 2021 [2 favorites]

Hey! I got it to work with the dead presidents on the One and Five dollar bill. George as James Brown was the best. Try it!
posted by njohnson23 at 5:24 PM on March 16, 2021

Yeah, non-photographic source material does a lot to alleviate the uncanny valley effect for me. Like this (cw: violence) Max Payne one, which I can't stop watching. It's... nice to see him looking so happy.
posted by McBearclaw at 9:50 PM on March 16, 2021

Jerry Lewis in "The Patsy" best part

If that is indeed the best part, I have some YouTuber to thank for saving me a lot of time and effort.

Having a similar reaction, that led me to this for which I am grateful.

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Edit: OMG the entire issue!
posted by mazola at 8:46 AM on March 17, 2021