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Somebody’s taken Childish Gambino’s music video This is America (original, YouTube) and used some AI face-swapper software…

childish gambino, nicholas cage, matt webb, faceswap, glitch, 2023


Somebody’s taken Childish Gambino’s music video This is America (original, YouTube) and used some AI face-swapper software called FaceFusion to sub in Nicolas Cage. You don’t need to watch the whole thing – just the moment at 2m40s where Cage/Gambino turns his face sideways and the face swap glitches out, back, out again and sits on Gambino for a beat, then back to Cage looks unnatural, settings in, then lights up and walks off.

The timing is perfect.

It seems to me like this is a visual trope we’re going to see more and more? It’s the paranoia and glitching in A Scanner Darkly (2006), the visual glitch when your trust in subjective reality is shaken loose. I’m looking forward to this being a commonplace shorthand for doubt; a quick glitch in a romcom when somebody is acting out of character, say.

ANYWAY:

It reminds me that AI face swaps are not (in 2023) much good at ears.

(via https://interconnected.org/home/2023/09/22/wards)