This AI Fakes Footage to Make It Look Like You Have Bruno Mars' Dance Moves

By now we've got lots of worrying examples of how AI-powered image processing software can flawlessly alter faces, or make someone appear to say something they didn't. But there are other, perhaps under-explored uses for this technology: like trying to fake a video of you dancing so it looks like you've got Bruno Mars' moves, instead of Mr. Bean's. As this video shared by Caroline Chan demonstrates, researchers at UC Berkeley have found a way to copy the movements of a subject's body in one video, and then generate a new video of a completely different person's body more or less performing those actions. It's an extension of the research and automated image manipulation that can make someone appear to say something they never did, but with the added challenge of'faking' far more movement--particularly if you're trying to copy the moves of a talented performer like Bruno Mars. Digitally morphing and manipulating the movements of someone's face often requires just subtle changes between the original clip and the modified results.