faceswap

plural faceswaps

1. alternativeAlternative form of face swap.

   A Salmond/Cameron faceswap from @JimboLoony.

   2014 June 7, The Stooshie, number 3, London: D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd, →ISSN, page 3

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   A seamless faceswap should give a viewer the uncomfortable feeling of “Oh jeez! He’s so pretty!” or “Oh jeez, she’s hideous!” instead of “Oh jeez! It’s a mutant!”

   2006, “How ‘Not’ to Faceswap”, in I’ve Got a Human in My Throat: Create More Optical Delusions with Adobe Photoshop, Boston, Mass.: Thomson Course Technology, →ISBN, page 70

   Everyone was talking about him on the internet in May because he did a Snapchat faceswap with Harry Styles and people thought it was Harry with a new haircut.

   2017, Charlotte Crosby, Brand New Me, London: Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 176

   A month later deepfakes turned the process into an app—and Vice reported that “We Are All Truly Fucked,” as the faceswap porn trend swept Reddit.

   2019, Jay Owens, “Post-Authenticity and the Ironic Truths of Meme Culture”, in Alfie Bown, Dan Bristow, editors, Post Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production, Punctum Books, →ISBN, page 82

   A Disney-themed quiz with quotes, silhouettes, random facts, emoji film titles, song texts, and a faceswap with the committee heads and Disney-characters.

   2021, Erik Goudart, “Diesney”, in Chimica Acta Lugduni, volume 55, Leiden: Chemisch Dispuut Leiden, →OCLC, page 25

present singular third person faceswaps · participle present faceswapping · participle past faceswapped · past faceswapped

1. alternativeAlternative form of face-swap.

   The viral Twitter meme of Elon Musk faceswapped into The Rock was made with Reface.

   2023 February 21, Elena Siniscalco, “The liar’s dividend of deepfake tech means we don’t trust what we can see”, in City A.M., number 3,937, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14, column 4

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   The following are some observations I have mode regarding the art of “faceswapping,” a skill that is used primarily in “ModRen” and mating type edits.

   2006, “How ‘Not’ to Faceswap”, in I’ve Got a Human in My Throat: Create More Optical Delusions with Adobe Photoshop, Boston, Mass.: Thomson Course Technology, →ISBN, page 70

   Neural network or deep learning technologies are also enabling those that want to distort another individual’s dossier. Deepfakes, which use open source deep learning code libraries and resources like Google’s TensorFlow to ‘faceswap’ a person’s face into porn films, provide a case in point.

   2021, Glen Whelan, “Personal Pasts”, in Megacorporation: The Infinite Times of Alphabet (Business, Value Creation, and Society), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, part II (Shaping Our Pasts and Futures), page 76