![]() A separate accompanying video Ume created shows some of the technical process he used to create the deepfake.Īlthough Fisher has not publicly acknowledged playing Cruise in the three viral TikTok videos, the actor has been flagged by another Cruise impersonator and social media sleuths as the person whose hands, body, and voice are used to depict the celebrity. The YouTube video, written, directed, and edited by Stephen Vitale, according to the credits posted alongside it on YouTube, shows Fisher as Cruise conceding a fictional election bid for the U.S. ![]() In it, Ume morphed the face of Cruise impersonator Miles Fisher into a deepfake of Cruise’s face at the end of the video. Few people noticed that Ume had quietly posted links to the videos on his LinkedIn profile with the winking comment “never thought I’d be sharing a tiktok channel on my linkedin ).” Ume is, however, credited by name for applying “deepfake effects” to a video published in mid-January, before the latest batch, that also depicted Tom Cruise. ![]() “We’re looking for the correct way to communicate about this,” Ume told Fortune.īecause of the highly polished special effects involved, and because of the virtuoso impression of Cruise, the videos gained huge traction online, garnering more than 11 million views so far on TikTok.įiguring out who was behind the videos became somewhat of a parlor game because no name was attached to the TikTok account that published the videos. But he declined to answer further questions about the videos, saying he and the others who had worked on them were not yet ready to talk to the press. Ume took credit for having created the deepfake portions of the videos in a post on his LinkedIn page and in a message exchange with Fortune. The videos, which were posted last week, without an explanation or credits, from a TikTok account simply called have drawn attention from experts and nonexperts alike for being among the most convincing examples of the genre of fake videos yet produced. However, the platform will remove digital forgeries ‘that mislead users by distorting the truth of events and cause harm to the subject of the video, other persons or society’.Three mysterious deepfake videos of Tom Cruise that have gone viral on TikTok are the high-tech handiwork of Chris Ume, a video visual effects specialist from Belgium. TikTok said it had not removed the videos as they did not violate its policy, saying that the account’s username provided context for the content being a deepfake. Over the past few years, deepfakes of celebrities and politicians have gone viral, with a deepfake of the Queen being used for Channel 4’s alternative Christmas speech.Īway from the comedic videos and celebrity morphing, deepfakes have also been used to transplant the faces of famous women like Scarlett Johansson into porn videos. This copy of a person can then be superimposed onto the body of a stand-in actor – placing a person in situations they’ve never been in and saying things they have never said. The first network then tries to generate new images to fool the second into thinking they are real. Tom Cruise randomly pops up in Stormzy’s new music video and couldn’t look happierĭeepfake technology first emerged in 2017, resulting in highly realistic fake videos created using a kind of artificial intelligence.Ī machine-learning technique called a GAN (generative adversarial network) is used, with a person feeding one network hours of real video and images of a person to give a machine an understanding of what a person looks like from different angles, while another network is trained how to pick out the target person from a database of many different people.
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