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have you ever wanted to be Lou from unbox therapy or anyone else for that matter today's video a little bit different this is a fun one there's this software in the news right now that's gained a little bit of attention it's something called deep fakes and for the uninitiated it's this software that basically allows for face swapping so we've seen face swapping before at a low level we've seen on the Instagram app we've seen it on snapchat but this thing has some pretty high-level face swapping it's machine learning to create face swap to videos now in the past you needed a little bit of knowledge of coding and just an understanding of how all this stuff works to be able to work with it but a user on reddit created this application that totally simplified the process you basically shove some images into this thing it uses your GPU and it spits out a fake video so I took one of Lou's videos a loop from unbox therapy took one of his videos took one of my videos ran it through the program and I let it do its thing now the computer used to do this was the most powerful computer have access to it's a thread Ripper system 16 cores 64 gigs of ram a pair of gtx 1080p eyes it's a pretty powerful system so this particular application is called fake app and it does three things the first thing is extraction it identifies and pulls faces out of your source files so I'm using video footage here it'll find the faces and then take a snapshot of them the second thing this app does is something called Train and this is where the magic happens I think this is where the deep machine learning takes your reference images from different facial angles different facial expressions lighting conditions a whole bunch of different types of facial images and then through deep learning it creates a model and this process takes a very long time basically the longer it runs for the better the image quality will be so I've been running the training for about nine or ten hours with the two videos now the last thing this thing does is converting and this is where it takes the model that that's created and creates still images with that model so I've been running this application overnight I literally ran it overnight and I have not looked at these images before I'm about to I've done the conversion and we're about to go in and see this for the first time now I was actually gonna go through these images first just to make sure that it worked but I just trusted the process because it looked like the algorithm was doing its thing and I really want to share this reaction with you guys okay let's do this so what I've setup right now is I have my macbook it's obviously not running on this I have this running TeamViewer and we're gonna access the PC that did all the another thing to keep in mind as I did this in 720p obviously the higher resolution would have been better but it will just killed the training and rendering time so I'm just gonna go with what we have your wanna see what this looks like okay so it obviously didn't do a perfect job we're seeing like some artifacts obviously oh my gosh okay I'm gonna convert this into videos we it strings out properly and I'll take a look at it then okay so I've run the still images through premier just to string it into a video file we're gonna take a look at it I don't think it came out that great oh my god I have a feeling that lose face and the way that his lighting conditions are on a set are so different from my kind of typical for the algorithm to kind of read it properly and do it properly but it's so okay no the application allows you to actually reverse it so if they can take my face and put it on lose face and lose video so I'm gonna be right back do the same thing but on his videos okay we're back now keep in mind this is 720p I really wish this was like high res but [Laughter] they got the glasses and everything oh man this is so good okay I like this one more I don't you guys do but this one looks better to me then when lose face was in my videos this is so good from a functionality standpoint I mean you noticed the battery pack you're kind of a weary I mean it feels like you have a wallet in your pocket sort of oh I feel like it will hurt this pretty days all right I've been to another run so I'm gonna do someone else I want to do someone who's got like a bigger facial prescence on their scene like Jon from TLD he's really close to the camera I want to see if it's like better image quality now I don't have that much time for the end of the workday probably like six seven hours before I have to leave so I'm gonna run it and at before I leave work today I'm just gonna play it just to see what it looks like I'm so curious okay this is so weird well see you later okay so it's been around five hours of training with John and my footage I really wish you'd make it go longer but it's pretty late in the workday ready and I got to get home so I just had to end it short five hours I mean looking at the clips the still images it looked okay it's not I'm gonna be amazing but I want to see what it looks like and here we go John on my face this one's pretty convincing like John's eyes are I think he has bigger eyes than is weird it looks like a mutated version of John my channel so it looks like this program did a better job putting John's face on my head than lose face I think it's because John and I look more alike not that we looked the same or anything but because Lou has glasses he's got a beard it's just more difficult for the program to kind of figure everything out but it's somewhat convincing with John's face I mean it's obviously fake but it looks more believable than lose but it's pretty cool I think it's so weird still this is crazy I feel like I could download all of John's videos and just put my face on them because it's reasonably convincing I think with enough training time this would look pretty good a couple things if you're interested in doing this thing first you need NVIDIA it won't work with an AMD card you need CUDA Corso and video card secondly and the big one is be responsible with your content obviously you can do some fun stuff with it like this but you can do some terrible malicious stuff with it as well so be just be responsible understand that this is people's privacy and stuff John and Lou and my friends so they're obviously cool with this but don't be a jerk with it okay hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs be liked it subs if you loved it see you guys next time you