Imagine one of the wealthiest tech CEOs in the whole world randomly joining a random Zoom call! Did this just happen with the SL System channel on YouTube? The channel recently published a video showing two people having a normal random Zoom call when suddenly, another person was attempting to join the call. Except, this was not just another person--this was an image of Elon Musk!
The big question that should be asked, aside from what Elon Musk was doing, joining a random Zoom conference, is "was this really Elon Musk?" Although it's really tempting to believe what you see, with the use of the right technology, you can actually be able to trick people into believing that they are talking with someone.
Was this really Elon Musk?
There are a few suspicious details that beg the question, "was this really Elon Musk?" The first detail is how the alleged Elon Musk's first words in the video "ummm, hey guys" looked like his mouth was not actually moving.
Another sketchy thing about the video is that the alleged Elon Musk's jawline was still visible despite him turning his head sideways. The eyes were also extremely moving around the screen instead of focusing on a particular target which is pretty peculiar eye movement for a Zoom conference.
The third and final suspicious detail about the video is the voice of Elon Musk himself. Although the voice was able to slightly capture the patterns in which Elon Musk usually speaks by pausing every once in a while, the tone and sound of the voice did not perfectly stick as the voice of Elon Musk when compared to his interviews.
The ongoing facial manipulation meme trend
A recent meme trend goes to prove that facial manipulation is indeed possible and is actually more common than we think. For those who have not been following TikTok, there is actually an ongoing trend right now called Baka Mitai that involves using a particular person's face and modifying it to sing the song.
Although the faces seen in these memes are obviously modified, you can see how the technology is able to work by focusing only on a few crucial aspects of the face as opposed to reconstructing a face completely. Although ineffective most of the time, a more advanced version of this face swap could potentially fool a few people.
A recent video by PewDiePie shows the trend using many different popular and unpopular faces all singing Baka Mitai with the same facial movements, the same sensory movements, and basically the way that the mouth moves.
Although unconfirmed, the video of Elon Musk joining a random zoom call by mistake could possibly be just an edit or a face swap.
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Written by Urian Buenconsejo
