How To Make A Deepfake With AI for Free

00:01 Very good to all and to all! Welcome to another video on the iSocialWeb channel. In this case, we bring you a somewhat challenging script, right? Because in the end, what we’re going to do is generate deepfakes, meaning generate images or changes within a video by replacing one person’s face with another. So, depending on the use that can be given to it, obviously, it is dangerous because it could be used for malicious purposes, to impersonate another person or something like that. But we understand that it is an educational material.

00:32 that is interesting to see, interesting to understand, interesting to know how it works. And well, we simply leave it in your hands for the responsible use of this type of content. An important disclaimer to make beforehand is that if you generate this content from Google Colab, we recommend that you do it not with your personal account, but with an account created specifically for this purpose or one that you can easily delete, okay? Because Google doesn’t particularly like this script and all things related to deepfakes, and they might ban your account.

01:03 And if you upload it, don’t upload it to YouTube, upload it to Vimeo or another platform, because you could also face removal issues. So, having said that and clarified all this, we’ll explain a bit how the process works. It’s super simple. All you have to do, as always, is execute the three blocks that are here. Okay, in the first block, you’ll make a call to Colab to be able to store everything in Drive.

01:34 And in the second block, you’ll clone the repository of the person who has shared this tool. And then we’ll make a call to the process. Just to be clear, I didn’t create this script; it was made by the folks at SiCurses. They have a bunch of videos and subjects in stable circulation. They have quite a bit of content and such. So, if you want to explore their channel a bit, it’s pretty good. And once you execute the first and second modules, what you’ll need to do here is have an image of the face you want to replace and the video you want to modify.

02:09 Okay, just use an image that’s clear, with no glasses or odd things. Got it. And then, inside the video, if the face can be seen at all times, even better. Note that if there are several people in the video, it will replace the face of all the people who appear. So, be careful, you may want to split it. I’ll show you an example of a video that I created the other day. This would be my video, in this case, recording the Test of Turing podcast, and this would be Arnau’s video recording the Test of Turing podcast.

02:42 In my case, I replaced it with Obama, and in Arnau’s case, I replaced it with Mark Zuckerberg, and to be honest, Arnau nailed it, right? I mean, you can see that it looks quite good. There are some occasional blinks and odd things, but in general, it’s quite good. I watch this video and think it’s me. So, it does quite well. And as I mentioned, you simply need to upload it here, everything is explained in the post, the image with the name of the image.

03:12 Here, you can modify the image name and the video name as you wish. Then, depending on the length of the video, which I estimate to be about 8 minutes, it takes approximately half an hour for processing. With this, you’ll be able to generate these deepfake videos directly. So, I hope you find it useful, and well, see you on the channel.