Off-the-shelf implementations
In this chapter, we covered a step-by-step approach to developing two different deepfake architectures for replacement and re-enactment. Although the implementations are easy to understand and execute, they require quite a bit of understanding and resources to generate high-quality results.
Since the release of u/deepfakes' content in 2017, a number of open source implementations have come out to simplify the use of this technology. While dangerous, most of these projects highlight the ethical implications and caution developers and users in general against the malicious adoption of such projects. While it is beyond the scope of this chapter, we list a few well-designed and popular implementations in this section. Readers are encouraged to go through specific projects for more details.
- FaceSwap19 The developers of this project claim this implementation is close to the original implementation by u/deepfakes, with enhancements over the...