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Well I’m this case the results are pretty good locally but have pretty obvious artefacts too. Especially the synthesised road videos, look at the trees or even more at the Lane change in the linked video.


Can't you easily obfuscate that by making the video intentionally grainy and low-res and passing it off as "caught by CCTV" or "found footage"?


Probably much simpler to get a lookalike, and that's been possible for a long time.


You say 'pretty obvious artifacts' but that is because you have some clue about the process and know what you are looking for and are interested enough to look.

I tried pointing out to some friends some really bad artifacts in a video we watched, and they just could not grasp it. They couldn't see what I was seeing as it didn't look out of place to them. It isn't for lack of intelligence, they just didn't care enough to understand. That pretty much describes vast swathes of the population.

You show a video using the above technique to anyone with strongly held political/ideologic beliefs and an inclination to accept 'alternative facts' over actual facts and videos using these techniques will be like a wildfire and almost impossible to refute!




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