App That Makes You a Movie Star ‘Will Throw Your Privacy to the Crematorium’

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App That Makes You a Movie Star ‘Will Throw Your Privacy to the Crematorium’
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A Chinese app called Zao lets users upload selfies and insert themselves into famous movie scenes. But the app’s fine print sparked privacy concerns.

Users can place themselves in scenes from iconic movies by uploading a selfie; ‘I’m scared, and hurried to delete it’

Computer-generated videos are getting more realistic and even harder to detect thanks to deep learning and artificial intelligence. As WSJ’s Jason Bellini finds in this episode of Moving Upstream, these so-called deepfakes can be playful, but can also have real, damaging consequences for people’s lives.

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