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- We spoke to VFX artist Chris Ume about the time his scarily convincing deepfake of Tom Cruise went viral on TikTok culminating in around 100 million views.
He teamed up with Tom Cruise impersonator Miles Fisher to create the hyper-realistic @deeptomcruise TikTok account, racking up views and sending the internet into a frenzy.
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@@jonathanperry8331 that is creepy
so in the future we can't believe any video 😂 also I wonder what Tom Cruise and SCIENTOLOGY think about it?
@@jinz0 if anything they love it. If Tom Cruise does something stupid they will claim to everybody it was a deep fake and also they could use it to frame people
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Vice you need to stop calling them "Deep fake." The term was invented by Pizzagate/Qanon people, with the purpose of associating this technology with "the deep state," a thing they also made up.
Stop. Legitimizing. Qanon.
"I've been a Navy pilot, a lawyer AND a Navy lawyer" Lmaooooooooo
Had me rolling
this is scary.. there used to be a time when you could tell if a video of a person was fake or real..now its almost impossible to tell...
You seriously can’t tell? It’s pretty visible it’s a deepfake and not the real Tom cruise
@@dubstep101angu
Yeah but In 5 years you won’t be able to tell
@@sherifnabil9663 soon you will have audio modification and facial. More than 90% of people won't be able to tell the difference
I’ve heard of catfish . But this takes it to a whole new level
It's easily possible to tell
This is absolutely horrifying when used in a way not intended by the person who's face is used
whose*
"who's" means 'who is'. You just said 'not intended by the person who is face is used.'
I's totally's understood's it's the's first's time's. I's don't's even's know's what's the's big's deal's is's
I can't imagine anyone ever wanting or needing this
@@boejudden9011 I want to see movies with dead actors as though they are still alive.
@@ErikLiberty why
Imagine someone just made an entire mission impossible movie as a deepfake tom cruise
Ikr 😂
Plot twist: mission impossbile movies are deepfaked
@@jobennebur mind blown!
When he gets too injured or too old for these movies, that’s definitely an option.
challenge accepted
With this technology actors could just live forever on screen
No more pescy sallaries to pay for those arrogant actors. We'll just use the old faces for ever and ever .... (The faces will be property of corporations and agencies like the voices of Michael Jackson and other superstars are)
Yeah. And they could not blink forever too!
and we can also be the actors, change my face to Leonitis
They actually did this with Audrey Hepburn. Her face was in a Dove chocolate commercial. They had to receive permission from her family to use her face super imposed on a actress though
That’s crazy to think about
the ramification for this in the future is super interesting and scary- in my debate class we talked about how eventually its a possibility that celebrities could sell there face or likeness to do ads without even being in them- that's just one example but still so cool and scary
Hell, even after they die, their estate could sell their likeness for commercials and movies.
woah, that's mind-blowing, i've never thought of that but it makes a lot of sense.
watch The Congress - amazing film.
@@1gorSouz4 it’s already happening with peoples voices.
Kpop idols doing this look up AESPA
It’s so weird that people seem to not be able to discern when certain technology isn’t a good idea.
If he doesn't someone else will. It's unfortunately inevitable. We'll hopefully think of a solution. We've been thinking of solutions to new problems for quite some time.
@@cyborgchimpy yea that’s true but I don’t mean him in particular I just mean the technology at large. I can imagine what can be done with this and not just the misinformation but can you imagine the governments of the world implicating you in a crime and having video evidence of it. It’s crazy to think about.
@@angelmujahid2233 it will probably happen, and I try to be hopeful that it'll be a temporary problem we'll face and we will develop counter technology. Maybe AI that can easily spot deep fake?
@@cyborgchimpy yea maybe I wonder if the code in will be different. But a.I to spot it is a really good idea tbh.
@@angelmujahid2233 they don't need to deep fake a video, just tossing drugs into your back pack and arresting you is easier
They should do a deepfake of him denouncing Scientology. That should be interesting...
They would def get sued for that
Best idea ever!!
Dam that would be EPIC!
Sign me up, I’d pay to see that lol
Ahahah! 🙏🏼
I think his impersonating laugh is the most impressive thing :D
I love that you've managed to make Tom Cruise seem more sane through this work. It reminds me of back in the late 90s when he was still mostly sane and I adored him.
lMAO !! SO TRUE!!
He is more sane than you, or a million of your offspring spanning 10,000 years of generations will ever be. A one off, like Elvis Presley. He is a genius at what he does and his films will be around in 100 years
@@roderickthered4981 Cult alert!
Bro he’s been like that since before the late 90s. David Miscavige was literally hanging with him on the set of Days of Thunder.
Plot twist They still haven’t heard back because Tom cruise is working on a class action lawsuit
Damn lol
Sounds anusy.
They would have shaky grounds considering they didn't ask them to remove the videos.
@@philippine2240 whoosh
what is class action?
When I first saw this on TV, Yea I believed it was Tom. Now that I know its fake, I could see the CGI around his face. This gets me thinking we should all reconsider what we see sometimes.
Lol you cannot see the cgi around his face
@@carademarcus in the president one it's obvious, but for the golf and magic ones, it's basically hidden. i was fooled as well until i learned they were deepfakes
The news
this tech really needs to be monitored, cause it could be really dangerous
This can do immense harm to the person they are deep faking, and can you imagine trying to prove you are not the person in a video where the person in the video is you!?!? I agree with you.. severe penalties for anyone doing this kind of thing.
As it is at the moment, there's not much to worry about. It takes weeks of work for an experienced special effects profesional to make very short clips look convincing using deepfake and CGI. It's only really practical for use in the movie and TV industry. You can do it at home on a fairly expensive gaming PC, but just superimposing a face doesn't look real at all. It takes huge amounts of time and work at get it looking even remotely real. You also need to have someone who has a similar face structure to the person you want to imitate if you want it to look realistic.
@@igonovabord1342 true, but in 5 years there will be an app that does this in 5 minutes using a cellphone if history teaches anything.
@@Will-if7wp Any apps would still rely on remote servers to process pre-prepared clips, no doubt using paid subscriptions and/or ads.
There was this Swedish skit on TV a few years ago with "Barack Obama".
I knew it had to be fake, but I didn't know about deepfake tech back then.
The eventual ramifications kind of frightens me.
this has been implemented a decade ago. What's new 😂
The future possibilities and implications of this tech is truly terrifying...
Yep, we should have never let the peasants learn to read.
Ayyyy thanks for using my reaction clip in the beginning! Big love!
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I jump on couches because of Tommy Boi.
😕 that's it on couches
I love this comment!
You forgot about Rick James, he’s been jumping on couches since the 1980s prior.
That one where he does the coin trick is just amazing-all the deep fake vids are bonkers but that one I thought was especially good
Great job, very well done lads. The hysterical laugh he does intermittently is really funny. Tom cruise seems like a fairly legit guy and he does take a lot of time to talk with his fans etc and appears to have a good sense of humour.
Back in 1990 I worked with a guy from Cork that was the spitting image of Tom Cruise, it was uncanny how much he looked like him and his name was Tom as well (so is mine), we all told him to join one of those agencies that hire out 'Doubles' of movie stars but this guy was 6'4" so he wouldnt have fooled many Tom Cruise fans. We both worked on the building sites in London that summer to save money for College and it was great going for a beer with him cos the women would always come over and tell him how much he looked like Cruise, he wasnt great with the banter but the ladies loved the two of us (ironically he was a great 'wingman'), lol, two tall well built Irish lads... its a wonder we got any work done at all cos we were kept busy if ya know what I mean. Keep up the good work, peace from Ireland...
This guy is the ULTIMATE Tom Cruise! He is the height that the real Tom would like to be
I bet it was early deepfake.
The fact Tom Cruise is going to space to film a space movie alone should grant him as much publicity as possible.
"we still haven't got a reply.... sooo... we guess it's okay!" 🤦♂️
Public figures should trade mark their likeness and sue the hell out of anyone who deep fakes them.
USA USA USA
they are actually keeping tom at the peak of his attractiveness forever, i bet he's not against it
Heard about this on Corridor Crew!! But glad to see the tiktok guy too 🌟
For a split second, I was hoping it was going to be Corridor!
Corridor did it better
Wow.. Great work !!
I wish Tom was more active on social media, then we would not need to create deep fakes to have more of him :)
He is, it is called some Church of something.
But maybe he doesn’t want to be more active on social media, so just let’s respect that.
When you have serious computer skills
This is terrifying and why books will ALWAYS be important in the age in the internet.
The technology is great and all. But I really hate that someone's likeness is used and manipulated like this without their permission. It's just so creepy to me. And I dread to think what could be created if this was in the wrong hands.
guess someone could use this VFX deepfake to make an another fast and the furious with a Paul Walker deepfake
If TC ever decides to sue, oh there's no way those two guys can argue their way out.
Imagine things that could be done with this, like the bad things 😕😳.. anyone can make any crime
Hey, what's the synth track playing from 2:07?
They went so viral to the point that I'd never even heard of them
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"Oooh! Ahhh! That's how it always starts. Then later there's running and screaming." -Dr. Ian Malcolm, 1997
You just know the dude has used deepfake technology for some naughty questionable stuff that cant be showed on youtube.
When I first saw this, I said to my mom damn Tom Cruise hasn’t aged all! I honestly had no idea it was fake…
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hi dear, thank you so much for your comment
I'm not a fan of Tom Cruise the person, but those Mission Impossible moves are freaking awesome!
All people who know him personally and work with him on set say he's a great guy
Plot Twist: Tom Cruise is actually deep faking Miles Fisher...
Yeah we never know
The one where he's running looks fake, but the ones where he's not moving quickly look much better. The tech is getting better
Corridor Crew have been the first to really capture Deepfakes for a viral audience, I'm surprised you chose this dude :)
what are the vfx programs that one can use?
what's the chiptune used in this video?
😮 that’s effing crazy. imagine somebody putting your head on a bank robber 😮
If these guys can do this imagine what the powers at be are capable of! 👀
People in 1921:Were going to have flying cars by 2022!
People in 2021:
Even though the future seems to be awfully scary, I wish I could see it. If only people could live longer..
The amazing part would be it the real Tom Cruise made a collab with them doing some stunts..... mind blown....
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This is like the corrupt tech used in the futuristic movie The Running man
Hell, any of us could be labelled the “Butcher of Bakersfield !”
And they said the movie The running man movie would never come to life..
00:52 "They were talking about people misusing the technology in pornographic videos," so I thought of Tom Cruise!
Same technology was used to replace Paul Walker in Furious 7, right?
whats is the name of the application for the deep fake
Of course Tom is okay with it, you’re doing extra work to keep his brand and image relevant for free.
Thank you so much for your comment
That guy doesn't need this kind of relevancy
He doesn’t even need a deepfake he’s already a doppelgänger
Alot of actors will loose their job. Its like why pay a pornstar if you can deepfake a kangaroo
Has Tom Cruise commented on these? Interested to know his thoughts!!
Jordan Peele explained it very well. I understood it then and I understand it now..
There are other, more deceptive practices in plays outside of technology and pharmacia that I don't understand...but will in due time.
That's crazy ngl
Oh the damage you could do using this technology. Trafficking comes to mind. And all while the real celebrity is 'blissfully'
unaware.
Crazy what’s possible nowadays
And to think our phones have gathered all the thousands of images of every single one of us it takes to do this... any one of us is susceptible to this
the jumping over the bush is great hahaha
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Would be interesting to see the estates of deceased actors license their image to create new movies. I'm sure the attorneys and production companies are all over this.
What actors would you want to see?
@@WilliamPeroncik Gene Kelly!
I think it’s okay as long as you keep it respectful and the person being faked is okay with it.
My man's got his steam account open in the background. What a g 😂
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This looks dangerous. They could deep fake anyone doing anything.
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This is genius when used ethically. The problem occurs, when criminals use this technology for malicious purposes. For example, a cartel COULD pretend to kidnap a child of a POLITICIAN, when in reality the child is safe.
Wow… this can be used in movies if it isn’t already.
If only people knew how " deep " this technology REALLY is being used......
Yea, like a fake president....
Man, this Vanilla Sky sequal looks wild fam... #Maverick
I'm so glad people just did this thinking there couldn't be a single misuse of it.
This can do immense harm to the person they are deep faking, and can you imagine trying to prove you are not the person in a video where the person in the video is you!?!?
@@devoid24 this was meant to be incredibly sarcastic.
I'd kind of like to see someone make one of these videos where he renounces Scientology, but anyone who did that would probably just get the crap sued out of them.
You mean denounces
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What is with you weirdo's obsession with this that you want him to offend his own religious beliefs when he's clearly not doing that on his own?
Why would you stoop so low that you'd try to pull something like that?? It's up to every individual to decide their own beliefs and associations.
Yeah but that guy looks so much like Tom a cruise it’s insane , you can really tell because of his high pitched voice
Corridor crews: hmm
Nice work 🎆🎇✨
i can already imagine this tech will manipulate court cases in a few decades
the future is more uncertain than ever
"So I guess it's okay?"
Tom Cruise should link up with that guy and do a video, it would be hilarious.
pointless
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Since Tom does all his own stunts, he’s probably thinking go ahead and do those fake videos of me doing boring stuff! 🤣
I really want to ask the experts in this who's in charge for the politician scandals in Malaysia and why the videos outcome all sucks with 3gp quality. But, many gave their attention into them. It's kinda work actually.
Can you deep fake the voice? Seems like you would be able to. I've read that the voice is Miles'.
The Tom Cruise impersonator looks like Christian Bale.
Imagine the price he'd get if he NFT'd them.
How do you change the sound of his voice?
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So how do you guys do Toms voice tho ?
It goes to show you can't trust anything anymore.
Don't take anything for face value. Research. Research. Research.
_Ctrl Shift Face_ has joined the chat long time ago
so in the future we can't believe any video 😂 also I wonder what Tom Cruise and SCIENTOLOGY think about it?
what makes you think that state organizations aren't already using a much more refined version of this, or why can we still trust images and videos online? we can't
@@lit_for_20 people need to get outta their cages we call homes and see the world in real time sometimes
Why would they care? It's just more attention around Tom
Tom (The Reaql) is loving this because it humanizes him. He comes off as a great fun guy who is just like us. It's like we are all in on the joke.
The deep fake lacks some motion blur and softer edges. But very nice anyway
And the lighting looks off
The model himself already looks ALOT like Tom Cruise. Damn.
Ok, but how do they do the voice so seamlessly?
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tom cruise must be yelling!!! lmfao
O how deep is this rabbit hole?
This is important message for people to know all these media tricks we are treated every day.
It seems like innocent joke but its higher level of deception our public life
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I lost it when he said "one big Tom cruise" lol ... because tht dude is small lol
2150 ... mission impossible 34 on cinemas! off course with a young tom cruise , LOL
Miles fisher is the og tom cruise impersonator from Dragonfly.