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Would love to have some people test this out and let me know what you think! It's currently available on ubuntu systems. it works best with 4070 or 3080 gpus and up! basically anything with about 30TFLOPS on fp16. It runs totally on your device for 100% privacy too.\n\nJust looking for people to test this out and let me know what they think! 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I think about this scene…",[90,105,119,127],{"value":91,"source":83,"evidence":92},"Likely to enable scams, impersonation and bullying",[93,97,101],{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},"43522666","pjmlp","I think this will be a security mess, get misused for bullying with even worse outcomes, and hopefully there will be legislation that will tame these kind of applications,…",{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"43520577","bglazer","Thanks for the sincere reply. However, I feel that you avoided the question. There are plenty of projects, actually an infinite variety of things that are fun to build. I make…",{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},"43528900","concerndc1tizen","Not a critique, but: Wouldn't using this software constitute a crime if using it to \"appear as literally anyone\"? 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What’s the use case?",{"id":166,"by":167,"text":168},"43523942","52-6F-62","Why?",{"value":170,"source":83,"evidence":171},"Does it work in Microsoft Teams?",[172],{"id":173,"by":174,"text":175},"43519087","Giorgi","what about Ms Teams?",{"value":177,"source":83,"evidence":178},"Does it use the camera?",[179],{"id":180,"by":181,"text":182},"43519080","windsignaling","I haven't installed this yet, but does it require camera access? i.e. does it \"transform\" your own image to the target image while maintaining facial expression, pose, etc.?…",[184],{"value":185,"source":83,"evidence":186},"LivePortrait and faster-liveportrait",[187],{"id":188,"by":189,"text":190},"43519160","mentalgear","liveportrait or faster-liveportrait are the libraries probably.",{"comments":40,"answered":192,"key":193},4,[194,197,198],{"id":195,"text":196},"43517859","hmm not sure yet on the open source thing, but how do people normally verify downloadable software has no malware? 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