<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr">Deep fakes are a real threat:</div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/robtoews/2020/05/25/deepfakes-are-going-to-wreak-havoc-on-society-we-are-not-prepared/">https://www.forbes.com/sites/robtoews/2020/05/25/deepfakes-are-going-to-wreak-havoc-on-society-we-are-not-prepared/</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I’m not so worried about the adult entertainment uses of this technology however:</div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://thenextweb.com/neural/2020/06/01/new-ar-app-will-let-you-model-a-virtual-companion-on-anyone-you-want/">https://thenextweb.com/neural/2020/06/01/new-ar-app-will-let-you-model-a-virtual-companion-on-anyone-you-want/</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/arworld/650999899?ref=46nkc0&token=d946d61d">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/arworld/650999899?ref=46nkc0&token=d946d61d</a></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></p></div><div dir="ltr">-Henry</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jun 10, 2020, at 5:00 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal">> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] new catalog<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">>…<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">That is the most dispirited dancing I ever saw</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Sure, so dancers’ careers are safe. For now. But you notice the dispirited dancing of the group was in perfect unison: not one avatar was screwing up. Software spirited dancing is coming.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">I can already imagine that avatars would do all the background stuff, while the modern Fred Estaire does his thing with a software-generated troupe behind him.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>…<span style="color:black">I don't know what they got but they ain't got rhythm. bill </span>w<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">They don’t yet. Stand by sir. The future doesn’t need us.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">spike</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>extropy-chat mailing list</span><br><span>extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</span><br><span>http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</span><br></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>