Samsung developing algorithm that only needs one picture to create a fake video

As if the world of deep-faked pictures and video wasn't scary enough, researchers from Samsung's AI center in Moscow have demonstrated an algorithm that can fabricate videos using only one image. In a video demonstration and a paper published in the pre-print journal ArXiv, the researchers show the capabilities of what is described as'one-shot' and'few-shot' machine learning. The results of their system bring to life popular faces like those of surrealist painter Salvador Dali and actress Marilyn Monroe using a single still image. The more images that are fed into the program, the more realistic the resulting video becomes. Though a single image translated into a moving face may look noticeably altered, a sample of 32 images produces a moving picture with near lifelike accuracy.