{"id":195085,"date":"2021-03-05T20:34:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T17:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/tom-cruise-deepfake-creator-on-how-he-made-viral-tiktok-video\/"},"modified":"2021-03-05T20:34:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T17:34:05","slug":"tom-cruise-deepfake-creator-on-how-he-made-viral-tiktok-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tom-cruise-deepfake-creator-on-how-he-made-viral-tiktok-video\/","title":{"rendered":"#Tom Cruise deepfake creator on how he made viral TikTok video"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Tom Cruise deepfake creator on how he made viral TikTok video<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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He\u2019s sorry for faking us out.<\/p>\n

The creator of recent, viral deepfake videos showing Tom Cruise practicing his golf swing, doing a magic trick and laughing at his own pratfall now says he did not mean to freak anyone out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like to show people the technical possibilities of these things. I don\u2019t intend to use it in any way where I would upset people \u2014 I just want to show them what\u2019s possible in a few years,\u201d Belgian visual effects artist Christopher Ume told the Guardian<\/a> of the videos, which employ a Cruise impersonator, Miles Fisher, to pull off the ruse.<\/p>\n

The series<\/a> of startlingly lifelike videos \u2014 posted on a TikTok page titled \u201cdeeptomcruise\u201d<\/a> \u2014 featuring the faux action star emerged last week and have since accumulated millions of views and become a viral sharing sensation. <\/p>\n

\u201cI just strongly think that there should be laws to help with the responsible use of\u00a0AI and deepfakes,\u201d Ume said in the wake of his eye-opening \u2014 and eye-deceiving \u2014 endeavor. <\/p>\n

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Ume and Fisher had previously worked together<\/a> on a YouTube<\/a> web series that imagined a 2020 presidential campaign run by the 58-year-old \u201cMission: Impossible\u201d actor. <\/p>\n

\u201cA month later, he contacted me again, and said: \u2018Let\u2019s make a funny video \u2026 I\u2019ll film myself in my garden and then you just make me look like Tom Cruise,\u2019 \u201d Ume remembered. \u201cAnd so we did that and he posted it \u2014 but he also created a TikTok account. He doesn\u2019t know anything about the app<\/a>, I don\u2019t either, but then two days later, he sends me a screenshot: \u2018Dude. Two and a half million views.\u2019 \u201d <\/p>\n

The rest is fake history.<\/p>\n

But Ume said he never intended to pull one over on the public; he simply wanted to step up his work game<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I started doing video and working on my projects, just in general<\/a>, I always had a dream. I would like to work for Peter Jackson on \u2018The Lord of the Rings,\u2019 \u201d he told the Guardian. \u201cI\u2019m saying this in every interview: Hey, Peter, if you\u2019re reading this, contact me.\u201d<\/p>\n

So-called deepfake technology<\/a> has perplexed the public for years. In 2019, a freaky video fused Cruise\u2019s face on that of \u201cBarry\u201d star Bill Hader during a 2008 interview on \u201cLate Night with David Letterman.\u201d And deepfake porn has even found a peculiarly specific pop culture target: K-pop stars<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, technology experts are slamming the infusion of deepfakes into pop culture and the world in general.<\/p>\n

\u201cDeepfakes will impact public trust, provide cover & plausible deniability for criminals\/abusers caught on video or audio, and will be (and are) used to manipulate, humiliate, & hurt people,\u201d Rachel Tobac, the CEO of online security company SocialProof, said in a recent tweet<\/a>, adding they had \u201creal world safety, political etc impact for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

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