I learned to make Deepfakes... and the results are terrifying

[@FridmanB]

Imagine deepfaking your face into movies and raising your kids thinking you were a massive actor back in the day

[@shitstick-i9h]

honestly not a bad idea

[@WilhelmWilder]

"Dad...why you broke af? 🥺"

[@JonOsterman59]

"I'm gonna tell my kids I am Terminator and Iron Man, Superman, private Ryan..."

[@MrCrazyGameGuy]

Did this to my cousin years ago, she still thinks I'm Robin Williams.

[@jackinsights]

The ultimate gaslighting

[@wooprime3482]

As a computer vision engineer, I approve that our work mostly consists of changing two lines of code, and "Leaving it overnight".

[@Nitrxgen]

as a programmer, we're not so different in that regard

[@argus456]

And optionally chucking it on a g4dn.metal instance to hide shitty optimization

[@LoneBeastYT]

as a person who codes, i would say instead of changing two lines of code...we are doing two actions well (ctrl + c and ctrl + v) i believe that should encompass all the coders out there

[@wooprime3482]

​@@LoneBeastYT Truth be told, changing a parameter from 1e-3 to 1e-4 does not require such a delicate operation.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

"Compiling!"

[@CalamityBaird]

The amount of skills Mike has is pretty unbelievable.

[@izzilarkins3949]

he actually gets other people to learn them and then deep fakes his face onto their videos

[@dishmaco]

*_"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."_* - Bruce Lee It is still very cool, don't get me wrong.

[@findafishf7065]

@@dishmaco "a jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one"

[@dishmaco]

@@findafishf7065 yeah, this has truth in it too. You could be exceptionally good in something. But if no situation occurs where you could apply this skill. It's basically worthless.

[@ConBroChillson]

@@dishmaco your myopia is breathtaking. Enjoy your self-assembled hamster cage lol

[@MikeBoyd]

Comment below your favorite deepfake... 🤣

[@Lukas1950]

My Mom!

[@deeznutzzzzzzzz]

@@Lukas1950 💀

[@billker8295]

Hello

[@isaacgardner7722]

Deepfake of Michael Boyd at the start was convincing.

[@hypercane2023]

queen Elizabeth’s dance moves

[@ultimulcapcaun4766]

You are perfect for a mr. Bean deepfake. I know this because in the beginning I thought you actually did that. It is the first time watching your channel so i didn’t know it was actually you. Great work!

[@aspzx]

Yeah I had the same thought! I'd love to see this.

[@thenightjackal]

@@Coyyyle You know how in movies there's the trope of someone who wants to deny having been recognized somewhere claiming they just have "one of those faces"? It would be nice if Mike had one of those faces.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

That _almost_ sounds like an insult.

[@EzekielDBarrett]

ctrl+alt+deepfake deface?

[@NINJUTSUguy]

yes, I just left a comment saying the same thing but the face swap with female actors is hilarious.

[@Shlonzs]

The Spider-Man one worked surprisingly well It probably helps in that scene that’s the first unmasking in the film and we the viewers take the role of Harry Osborn for this scene who has no clue who spidey actually is…

[@mrgreenguy]

It's nice seeing deepfakes being learnt by other youtubers. You got pretty good results for a month! I've been training breaking bad characters for weeks now lol

[@mysiph]

Hi

[@debunkified]

Hi? Hi? Really? That all you got? Is hi?

[@timuriksanov8506]

I laughed so hard at those first attempts, almost had a bout of hysterics

[@osmia]

+

[@oveja9975]

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[@thenightjackal]

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[@calmocean962]

so did I!

[@GregJoughin]

I am so happy to see Stuff Made Here in your KZbin feed. One of the best channels on the platform (along with this one, of course).

[@casmar2042]

The thing is, if you turn your video quality to 144p at 5:30, it looks pretty convincing, and he learned to make this in about an hour and then just left his computer running for a couple more. Eventually, we will need videos to be 8k and contain many different lightings/settings to know if it's real.

[@wedman101]

This video was golden. Thank you, Mike. I laughed more these 15 minutes than the entire 2022. Love Zach

[@calmocean962]

same for me 😂

[@LauraTryUK]

That was an incredible video! I howled with laughter at some of those faces - the bad ones and the good ones 😂 You are so dedicated and an inspiration 🌟

[@bendishots8183]

Mike I’m just impressed and proud of how you stay relevant just by being you !! Love ya

[@Hellloooooooooo5]

Sounds lowkey backhanded LMAOO

[@incription]

27k views in an hour is not relevant, also deepfakes like this were popular like 5 years ago

[@SquareBoxHead]

@@incription that’s kinda bad considering his subscribers

[@funky555]

the hell is that supposed to be

[@michellelee8933]

I hope you take this as a compliment. But amongst the 'productive' channels of youtube, you really draw me in lately as your approach to learning is somewhat more relatable. Something along the line of going to youtube and fumbling along the way.

[@NigelMelanisticSmith]

He actually made me really confident using a 2060, it shows how even modern but not bleeding edge products can still make convincing deepfakes.

[@SenkJu]

He said he was using multiple computers and a laptop running simultaneously. But I suppose you can use pretty much any GPU, it will just take longer.

[@desmond-hawkins]

Definitely not bleeding edge, this GPU came out 4 years ago and you can easily find one for under $200.

[@NigelMelanisticSmith]

@@desmond-hawkins that was the point of my comment. I have a 2060 Super, and was happy to see a video that didn't just focus on something like a 4090.

[@handyman4everyman]

Mike- you have been an inspiration to me and my family. Learning new skills no matter what age - having the ‘growth’ mindset. The only beef I have with you is that you are not actually ‘average’ mike. You are highly intelligent and creative and have determination to follow things through. Thanks again for the inspiration!

[@nschive]

as much as i liked the movie versions of you, I have to say the introduction where u did the deep fakes was the most impressive by far :) well done!

[@Ozvideo1959]

Like you, I have spent loads of time learning DeepFace Lab. It's a pretty steep learning curve, but it's fun to do. I've found the most important, and most difficult thing is, finding a source and destination face that match. If they both don't have similar face shape, particularly the jaw line, you won't get good results. Sometimes a source and destination will look similar in frontal view, but different in profile. Other than that, the most important thing is patience.

[@natsufg4339]

Hello is there a way i can contact you?

[@BUSSINJUSTIN10M]

Pre training machine learning before running a deepfake on Omegle would be hilarious 😂

[@jamestaylor7969]

I always love how well edited your videos are - absolutely incredible

[@mystin1088]

The Sparta One actually legitimately looked realistic, like I could see you as the actor literally

[@Chriva]

It went from bad (bad) to even worse but absolutely awesome. Had a really good laugh watching this video.

[@sk1tzerr903]

I looked away for 1 second in the intro and the Jim Carrey face scared the crap out of me

[@grimreaper-dp6ly]

Good video that cleared up many wrong assumptions about deepfaking. Real truth is if you really wanna make it on profesional level without glitching and pixel and coloring ghosting first you need to spend many hours in try and error loops. Second more important thing you need a powerhouse PC,with at least one RTX 3090/4090 gpu and top of the line CPU and machine would most likely run for 24 hours maybe even days if you want to reach perfection. You need very expensive cooling system to avoid overheating on this long hours,it's very possible that in the process of making this deepfakes your GPU would fail and need a replacement. Deepfaking is very stresfull on GPU,on the same level with mining so be prepare to costly repairs. Other then that yea,you need a lot of patience and talent but if you are really good results can be terrifying.

[@natsufg4339]

Hello is there a way i can contact you

[@colinharris9802]

This aged really well after the Atrioc thing

[@Haluna11]

care to elaborate on context

[@FroggyNight]

Yo, that jaws one wasn’t terrible. Would love to see more iterations of that one.

[@SteakBoss1]

This was super interesting, always wondered how deepfakes worked

[@PinkeySuavo]

I am not sure if it is that easy to understand how they work

[@rhidiandavies1991]

Okay the jaws one actually wasn't bad, was hilarious, and also I think chain smoking and/or working a fishing boat would unironically suit mike stylistically.

[@darky9111]

Trying to deepfake Jim's face would be a nightmare, that dude's rages are huge.

[@ago5022]

When you looked up from the shark I spit out my food 😂 so good!

[@SpectreMkTwo]

The timing is impeccable. Just yesterday, I swear. I'm 21 years old and i finally decided what i want to study and persue as a career. Yesterday, within 24hrs ago i decided i wanted to be a machine learning engineer. Then you drop this video and you drop me a place to begin looking towards as i begin my first steps into learning computer science. You're one hell of a messenger

[@arnaudlemay6297]

The sparta one was actually quite impressive. Grwat video as usual!

[@Cimlite]

The Jaws one was a masterpiece. You could have stopped there. 😂

[@PJ-ee5mc]

This was wonderful in every way. Your end result was so much fun to watch and reflects your delightfully twisted sense of humor in all of the very best ways! Best success to you moving forward.

[@werewolf39]

As AI evolves I can imagine how dangerous deepfakes could become. You could create blackmail on someone with just a few images.

[@nichtsistkostenlos6565]

The concept of deepfakes is already common knowledge. So, the problem is actually that as the technology gets better, everything recorded now has plausible deniability. You can't really blackmail people, because the video or audio evidence isn't enough to prove they did it. Basically, we may need to build AI to fight deepfakes by detecting AI manipulation.

[@kierandaniels9374]

Or it could discredit actual blackmail material. People could just say its clearly a deep fake

[@sdfopsdmsdofjmp7863]

Its surprisingly easy to detect AI. You can run AI checkers on deepfakes

[@A_Simple_Neurose]

Break up with your gf and have no homemade video but tons of pics? Free AI revenge porn! Thank god the average person is computer illiterate - especially those who would actually consider using it that maliciously - so I'm not that fussed but yeah, the danger is not inexistent.

[@emeraldbonsai]

you have to remeber as ai evolves Everyone will have easy access so at that point video just because useless as a source of truth which it already is but not every one knows that. it would be good for some people since it means people can no longer blackmail with video since you could just claim its a deepfake if anything its a good thing

[@johnnybpena]

The key to making deepfakes is PRETRAIN PRETRAIN PRETRAIN. If you cant pretrain your own model with millions of iterations, there are a ton of available pretrained models online. Great video! I wish I had this when i started a few years ago.

[@andrewcamagay6255]

This whole video was nestled very deeply into uncanny valley 😂It was soo hard to stop laughing and cringing at the same time

[@NeroPop]

those last ones were actually seriously good!!! congrats!!

[@mattwuk]

That made me burst out laughing a few times and I'm at work 🤣🤣🤣🤣 nice one Mike, absolutely brilliant.

[@br3npatterson]

I've watched every single one of your videos. They're all great... but this was incredible. Loved it!

[@mundanestuff]

Well done, Mike, interesting video that really gives us a feel for the level of effort involved. Surprisingly hard, yet surprisingly difficult to get right. But not so difficult as an amateur couldn't do this convincingly! Spooky.

[@toffinabof1353]

Happy 3 Mill Mike!!!

[@nathanvanderpool1175]

This aged well...

[@watermelonhelmet6854]

I had a play around with deepfakes when they first became a thing. Garbage in, garbage out is exactly right, but for me the biggest stumbling block was the compute time. The longer it has to learn, the better the result and even with what was a very high-end PC at the time, it would take days just to get something that vaguely worked and literally weeks to get something convincing. Like you said, it's as much art as it is science....we're still years away from deepfakes being the 'one click' process they tend to get represented as.

[@MartinWiderlov]

Your deepfake worked really well with robert downey jr actually! Would love to see more of that :)

[@rockaholictom]

Dude the Inglorious Basterds clips were amazing!!

[@KiraandtheSurvivalPod]

This is terrifying. And should be illegal. The amount of misinformation that can be spread is incredibly concerning.

[@abkx019]

after watching the montage at the end, my brain was tricked into it looking like your face was deepfaked onto yourself for a few seconds.

[@grahamelbert4569]

Mike: How can someone be that handsome? Also Mike: Someone that looks like me…

[@jameswoodlake541]

The JAWS one was pretty good, then I LOL'd at LOTR. Great results in the end for how long people spend really learning this skill. Great job as always.

[@lastremain7867]

I feel like where in a time where AI can be great and also horrifying. I call it "Suspension of Disbelief VS Deception"

[@trashcaster]

8:20 I don't know about you Mike, but I think this was perfection out of the gate

[@yaboytpoo9083]

Lol this didn't age well xD

[@erik4177]

Really impressive. Fixing the difference between the resoutions and the different skin tones would make these basically indistinguishable

[@chernobog8948]

It has an edit file there where you run it and can change the skin tone blending and feathering edges to make it better, also there are 3 modes i remember that have different results, this is just the tip of the iceberg, basic stuff

[@erik4177]

@@chernobog8948 interesting, thx for the response

[@vko.]

Ok that spiderman one was insane. Like the way the mask came off, the expression, i thought it was really you for a second

[@chadderton]

Great work! Especially Will Young at 13:48

[@Dan-oj4iq]

The most interesting part of this video had nothing to do with face changing, but for me it was your pronunciation of the words "learn and learned". I could listen to that all day. The face thing was alright, too.

[@iggysixx]

Thx Mike. Fan for YEARS and years now. (You always seem to find things I wanna know myself) About this one, my comments / suggestions: One difficult thing about YOUR face: the beard. It makes it difficult for the AI to see the contours, and match it to (in particular) beardLESS individuals). Also, I think specifying which part of the face = "a face" matters a lot. (A lot of the (super janky) fake looking ones involve people with bangs, for instance. I reckon you defined the face up to the bangs in those. My suggestion is to define it until where the hairline SHOULD start, even when you can't see it.... > GUESS-TIMATE < basically) In your case, I would suggest feeding it lots and lots and lots of images of people WITH BEARD (or 'facial hair' / douchebag chin strap / stubble / mustache / handlebars / sideburns / unibrows, etc etc.), and to really take some time defining where the chin and jaw line would be UNDERNEATH the facial hair. (Otherwise the AI will try to put your 1/1 face onto 3/4 of a face because hair is in the way...) - In general, I think the main trick to quality here is just building and building and BUILDING the amount of references the AI has to work with.

[@aavya6787]

The I am iron man part was so real!! Great job 👏👏

[@haydthenation]

this is the hardest i’ve laughed at one of your videos haha this was so funny. but equally kind of terrifying

[@brick_m]

that first elon one could have fooled me if the whole thing was down scaled to the same resolution ngl

[@MattBeardless]

The Jaws one has genuinely killed me off.

[@sebastianperger1344]

Never seen a Video from you before. Thanks for the work put in. Highly interesting topic

[@souarbrahim8857]

I love the moment u chose for the end result xD. Epic

[@n4meless24]

,.,., 22,513-1h The summary of all the films with your face over weird characters, now that has to be the most fascinating piece of media I've seen so far.

[@8-BitEngineer]

NGL, I missed the Day One Hour Zero line. Feels good. Great video btw

[@f0nt_]

congrats on 3m subscribers!

[@Icantthinkofanameman]

I think the thing is that the best looking deepfake is always going to be a combination of both deepfakes and vfx to "clean up" and mistakes that are output. I think right now we dont have the compute power to make something that is very convincing yet even though what we have is leagues and bounds from what it started from. Probably needs a couple more years to hone it in but what we have now is still really good.

[@christianhernandez8519]

THANK YOU MIKE! I can always count on you to keep me entertained and sparking ideas and inspiration in me. I Appreciate you! PLEASE KEEP CREATING! We love it!

[@rivendoto]

I was so focused on spotting the imperfections of your deepfake face on the clips that my mind still did it even when you are just talking as yourself on the sponsor segment.

[@MrMattie725]

First mistake: searching KZbin tutorials without an extension that enables the dislike counter... No seriously, I can't imagine having to watch more than a few seconds to know that it's shit.

[@NINJUTSUguy]

OMG "Here's Johnny "I wasn't expecting that and I got a great laugh out of it :) Besides that, you made another great documentary. (yes I subscribed with a thumbs up ) thank you

[@JessWLStuart]

LOL! I lost it over the Mike Boyd / Gandalf mashup!

[@TimLongson]

Using Deepfake to open up the world to films recorded in only 1 language is an amazing leap forward in allowing people to experience other cultures, by being able to hear the original actors speaking in a language which they can understand, with lip-synch matching the words, it will engage people who cannot keep up with reading subtitles (such as dyslexics) and people who cannot tolerate dubbed films with lips not matching words (such as autistics), as well as bringing the original actors world wide fame. Also being able to allow computer games to have an infinite ability to communicate with players with real-person like avatars lip movement matching & human voice takes the depth of immersion to a new level of virtual reality gaming! And don't forget, the computer games industry makes MANY times more than the entire film industry every year, and has done so for quite a long time now! As with any tool, it could be misused, but in the same way that a knife could be used to kill someone, it is also necessary to feed people. So, the tool, deepfake, should be allowed to progress and be embraced within the creative industry. It is those end user individuals who try to misuse it who should be punished for their choice to abuse a tool which can bring joy to others. And a key point here - as the technology for Deepfake gets better, so will the software which can be used to identify a video has been altered, & the use of "check its real and unaltered" software will become widely available for people to use, if they worry that some footage has been tampered with, in the same way that there is software which can spot when a photo has been photo-shopped.

[@Mister0Eel]

Thet ‘this is sparta’ one is actually very convincing!

[@______IV]

6:35 Looks like a mashup of Johnny Depp, Sean Penn, & Steve Buscemi. Great video! Thanks for your hard work.

[@The_Empty_Shadow]

Hey Mike, I've had an idea for a kind of trick bouncing around my head for a while now, but I don't have the skill to test it. Basically, it combines spinning a pen with something similar to the front flip throws seen in soccer to launch an object like a pen or pencil. The idea would be to flip a pen/pencil around your fingers, back and forth across your hand, and to time that with a kind of front or diagonal flip in such a way that it minimizes the loss of momentum on the pen before launching it.

[@andytaylor3590]

Happy new year Mike! Glad to see another video!

[@miketkong2]

Dude you are hilarious. And congrats on going 10x over your time budget! I can relate 😭😭😭

[@crimsonkarma13]

so what i learned from deepfake is that you get to become a father, teach your kid about the world and then when its old enough and knows what to do, it will do your taxes

[@Nonchillante]

the matrix deepfake is kind of fitting considering what the matrix is about. I did get a good laugh at the Jaws one. haha good stuff!

[@garryfield]

Congrats on 3mil!

[@mahmudaakter6415]

Love your videos .. Keep the good the work ..

[@TrumpeterSwanLofi]

the fact that after just leaving it over night makes a better animation than any video game character from ten years ago is nuts

[@harrisoncrosley2131]

Dude I was rolling around laughing about how bad some of these were. Thank you!

[@larsloghum9398]

That spider man one was very clean

[@spnyp33]

The Shelly Duvall caught me off guard for an LOL moment. You should try Dave Matthews... that would probably blend seamlessly.

[@theaidanator]

I foresee an upcoming collaboration with Corridor Crew…

[@NinaM-qu8kf]

How has this been up for over a year with less than a million views? This video is amazing work

[@mmicoski]

We are again in a time where the only trustable way of communicating is in person, face to face.

[@snowkracker]

And suddenly me avoiding cameras for so many years is finally paying off and making sense.

[@TonisFilmClub]

The Spiderman one was pretty good!

[@spamuel98]

I just gotta say, the little eye movement in the Iron Man clip was perfect, even if not much else was.

[@sirvere4840]

i love your videos Mike, you try learning to juggle knives, im sure past skills will help you

[@GaresMusicOfficial]

Amazing video as always Mike :) Keep it up!

[@SamuelCoupland]

Face montage was so trippy

[@puddingface334]

you should make a video on re-trying the skills youve aquired and see which ones you struggle at now after a while of (not?) using them.

[@technicalscience]

The Spiderman one is bloody brilliant :)) This is so interesting, I'm gonna give this a go - I have a decent PC and many hours to kill.

[@firstnamelastname1748]

Just a few weeks ago, a podcast I listen to did an episode about ChatGPT and other similar AI. They made one really interesting point that I think applies here as well. If someone with nefarious intent, for example, wanted ChatGPT to spit out a ton of misinformation to be quickly copied and spread online, the goal wouldn't be for the writing to seem real enough to fool the smartest people out there. Rather, the goal would be to make something convincing enough to get 1,000 people of average intelligence and critical thinking to share it on Facebook or whatever. I think the same could be said of deepfakes. Overall, I think ChatGPT is closer to that critical point than this deepfake software you featured. But there were a couple images I saw in there that if I didn't have the context of this being a video about deepfakes, they may have fooled me. It'll be equal parts interesting and terrifying to see where this technology goes in the not too distant future.

[@jkomelettes6609]

Congrats on 3 Million!!