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!"

[@MikeBoyd]

Comment below your favorite deepfake... 🤣

[@Lukas1950]

My Mom!

[@deeznutzzzzzzzz]

@@Lukas1950 💀

[@billker8295]

Hello

[@isaacgardner7722]

Deepfake of Michael Boyd at the start was convincing.

[@Hypercane2025]

queen Elizabeth’s dance moves

[@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

[@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?

[@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.

[@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.

[@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 🌟

[@wedman101]

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

[@calmocean962]

same for me 😂

[@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.

[@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!

[@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!

[@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

[@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?

[@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

[@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

[@chadderton]

Great work! Especially Will Young at 13:48

[@ago5022]

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

[@flyme-z7b]

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.

[@mystin1088]

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

[@arnaudlemay6297]

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

[@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

[@toffinabof1353]

Happy 3 Mill Mike!!!

[@darky9111]

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

[@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

[@Steaky007]

This was super interesting, always wondered how deepfakes worked

[@PinkeySuavo]

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

[@______IV]

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

[@Chriva]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@br3npatterson]

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

[@sk1tzerr903]

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

[@FroggyNight]

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

[@colinharris9802]

This aged really well after the Atrioc thing

[@Haluna11]

care to elaborate on context

[@sebastianperger1344]

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

[@Cimlite]

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

[@trashcaster]

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

[@andrewcamagay6255]

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

[@andytaylor3590]

Happy new year Mike! Glad to see another video!

[@mattwuk]

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

[@rockaholictom]

Dude the Inglorious Basterds clips were amazing!!

[@nathanvanderpool1175]

This aged well...

[@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

[@MartinWiderlov]

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

[@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.

[@KiraandtheSurvivalPod]

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

[@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!

[@lastremain7867]

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

[@8-BitEngineer]

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

[@grahamelbert4569]

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

[@NeroPop]

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

[@yaboytpoo9083]

Lol this didn't age well xD

[@sirvere4840]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@johndavidpuckeridge1559]

Love ur vids Mike! Been watching since you posted that kickflip videos yearrssss ago

[@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.

[@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.

[@haydthenation]

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

[@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.

[@NinaM-qu8kf]

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

[@f0nt_]

congrats on 3m subscribers!

[@VeryRGOTI]

Can your next video be about learning how to juggle three balls? i've been trying to learn but found that going from two to three balls is quite difficult also keep up the videos! i really enjoy them, they make everyone believe that you can learn as long as you stay persistent.

[@modest1989]

I think the problem would be he can already do that or he would be and to learn in a day or two so it wouldn't be much content for him

[@feedbackzaloop]

There is already such video and also a video how he teaches his wife to juggle.

[@VeryRGOTI]

@@feedbackzaloop oh thank you for telling me, i didnt know that!

[@VeryRGOTI]

@@modest1989 even if mike still manages to learn something that quick, he still makes engaging videos

[@feedbackzaloop]

@@VeryRGOTI No problem, not sure if you find them very useful though. Entertaining and inspiring - maybe

[@spnyp33]

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

[@jennytulls5516]

Yo mike I have a suggestion on what you could learn next, maybe it’s a bit more physical and less technology involved but I think you should learn how to flip a balisong

[@aavya6787]

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

[@mahmudaakter6415]

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

[@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

[@JessWLStuart]

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

[@MattBeardless]

The Jaws one has genuinely killed me off.

[@souarbrahim8857]

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

[@brick_m]

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

[@garryfield]

Congrats on 3mil!

[@GaresMusicOfficial]

Amazing video as always Mike :) Keep it up!

[@ThePastaManCan]

Desktop background was a nice touch.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@snowkracker]

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

[@grey1185]

What was that awesome guide you used. The big one. I am curious on playing around with this and learning more.

[@chuckgrimsey2572]

Love your videos! Keep up the great work! From the us

[@LauRaian]

I literally loved the garbanzo content it was funny as hell! love it, even in the fail is such great product!

[@BobBob-xs6em]

Hello Mike Boyd! I was deeply moved by your fantastic video. Could you please provide the link to the guide document mentioned at 10:50 (the one you mentioned you read 10 times)? Thanks again for creating such amazing content!

[@-Timpa-]

Really cool video Mike, could you make a video with DeepFaceLive too?

[@the-secrettutorials]

Always love your videos, but this time I even love the topic 😍 More please

[@dandymcgee]

I was pretty surprised at the end of the video when the sponsor wasn't Ctrl Shift Face. :D

[@Mister0Eel]

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

[@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

[@elliothed8927]

try learning fast typing and set a goal like 100 - 150 wpm, its really satifying when you get the hang of it

[@28th_St_Air]

That was very entertaining. @8:18 Luke can’t understand why a really bad deep fake of Mike Boyd is behind the mask.

[@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.

[@michelletong1976]

I swear I was high when Mike’s face morphed at the start of the video 😂