Thursday, April 27, 2023

"Tencent Cloud announces Deepfakes-as-a-Service for $145"

From The Register, April 28:

Three minutes of video, 100 sentences of speech, and 24 hours gets you a bot to front your livestreams and answer questions

Tencent Cloud has announced it's offering a digital human production platform – essentially Deepfakes-as-a-Service (DFaaS).

According to Chinese media and confirmed to The Reg by Tencent, the service needs just three minutes of live-action video and 100 spoken sentences – and a $145 fee – to create a high-definition digital human.

Gestating the creation requires just 24 hours. Making people hasn't been that quick since Eden....

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