Nvidia Broadcast Can Now Deepfake Your Eyes To Make You Look at the Camera

Nvidia's streaming software now has an option to make it appear like you're making eye contact with the camera, even if you're looking somewhere else in real life. From a report: Using AI, the "Eye Contact" feature added to Nvidia Broadcast 1.4 will replace your eyes with "simulated" ones that are aligned with your camera -- an effect that worked really well when we tested it ourselves, except for all the times it didn't. In an announcement post, the company writes the feature is meant for "content creators seeking to record themselves while reading their notes or a script" without having to look directly at a camera.

Pitching it as something you'd use during a public performance, instead of something you'd use socially, does kind of sidestep the dilemmas that come with this sort of tech. Is it rude to use AI to trick my mom into thinking I'm engaged in our video call when I'm actually looking at my phone? Or, to make my boss think I'm not writing an article on my other monitor during a meeting? Nvidia suggests that Eye Contact will try to make your simulated eyes match the color of your real ones, and there's "even a disconnect feature in case you look too far away."

good start

[mobby_6kl]

Can it also use ChatGPT to come up with plausible responses to ridiculous questions?

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[Tim the Gecko]

What if the best response to the question is to roll your eyes?

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[zlives]

and can it do it without me being present...

Better use than teleprompter:

[jonored]

You could also use this to make it look like you're making eye contact when you're, you know, actually looking at the other person you're on a video call's eyes in their image. Normally there's the obvious problem of "look at camera to appear engaged, or look at person as normal if really engaged".

Deepfake?

[CoolCash]

So now any computer modified faces is going to called deepfakes? Is this the new i-something product?

Anti-proctoring feature

[ColoradoAuthor]

This should see great success as a way to defeat test proctoring software.

Re: Anti-proctoring feature

[NagrothAgain]

They'll just require kernel level system access and auto-fail you if they see any "rogue" processes.

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[DarkRookie2]

Doesn't Chrome already have that?

Please integrate it with zoom

[test321]

So I can finally look like I'm paying attention to the zoom meeting. I'm not even sarcastic.

Re:Please integrate it with zoom

[arglebargle_xiv]

Actually this is it's real selling point:

Is it rude to use AI to trick my mom into thinking I'm engaged in our video call when I'm actually looking at my phone?

The minute this goes live it'll be on every phone used to call moms. "Yes mom.... yes mom... I'm sure she didn't mean that... no, I haven't talked to him either... yes mom.... did he really say that?.... yes mom...". Meanwhile you're reading the install notes for the NAS.

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[indytx]

So I can finally look like I'm paying attention to the zoom meeting. I'm not even sarcastic.

This. What a wonderful world it would be if we all looked like we cared during our zoom meetings. Hugs all around.

Microsoft is already doing this

[Tony Isaac]

https://news.thewindowsclub.co... [thewindowsclub.com]

Staring contests

[VeryFluffyBunny]

This'd be great for staring contests... whether intentional or not. Do the developers know that normal people, you know, not on the spectrum, don't look at each other in a fixed stare when they interact socially?

well, thank you strabismus

[argStyopa]

My eyes don't point the same direction, so if they're both looking at the camera, DEEPFAKE!

Hah, suck it ai.

Teeth next?

[CoreDreamStudios]

Good, can it add teeth? I need 4.

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[zlives]

i just need a third eye

Good tech but needs more

[joe_frisch]

Humans are very adept at recognizing and unconsciously signally through eye motion, iteration and feedback. There is a good chance that just looking at the camer, or any significant delay will be uncanny valley. But done right it could be really valuable.

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[MrL0G1C]

But done right it could be really valuable.

Yeah, you could sleep through the next video-conference meeting hah!.... I'd like to see how weird that looks.

Self driving hack

[FatAlb3rt]

Don't the cars with self driving functions monitor your eyes? Now just hack this feed into that camera and you don't have to pay attention at all!

Wfh

[clickclickdrone]

Great, like some bosses aren't already suspicious of people WfH and not doing the hours they should. Now they won't even believe you're paying attention in Teams meetings and the like.