DevCentral Connects - November 15, 2022 - DevSecOps in Blockchain

Yep - this stinks. The clues we may get that something like this is a scam (such as render quality) are getting increasingly difficult to discern. I saw a VFX artist yesterday illustrating what he can do with NeRF (Neural Radiance Fields). 

"A neural radiance field (NeRF) is a fully-connected neural network for generating novel views of complex 3D scenes, based on a partial set of 2D images. NeRF takes input images representing a scene and interpolates between them to render a complete scene."

Quick snippet from someone reviewing the possibilities on YouTube (https://youtu.be/WSfEfZ0ilw4?t=133)

An awful lot like deepfake but the upshot is using even less inputs a render can be made that is near photo-realistic down to specular highlights (reflections) and opacity (seeing through glass). This basically resolves all those issues that tend to be associated with 'low quality' content that may set off alarm bells.

Could be an interesting update to the old DevCentral Connects episode on DeepFakes I suppose.