Shallow Deepfakes circumvent legal/licensing issues streaming Australian Tennis … as done by the *organisers*
We should call this what it is, and it’s fascinating: using “live deepfake” technology is used to re-skin actual tennis players as Wii animations, so it’s not really “their” tennis-match being streamed to YouTube. Goodbye, licensing issues.
Where are the anti-AI, anti-Deepfake activists?
Tennis Australia has transformed the world’s best tennis players into animated versions of themselves in an ingenious effort to bypass broadcasting restrictions at this year’s Australian Open.
https://www.espn.co.uk/tennis/story/_/id/43432686/australian-open-wii-animations-tennis-players-youtube
https://twitter.com/TrungTPhan/status/1881916067100156128 ⊞
#ai #deepfake #tennis
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