{"id":107885,"date":"2020-05-30T17:42:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T00:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/watch-deepfake-has-leonard-nimoy-as-young-spock-in-j-j-abrams-star-trek"},"modified":"2020-05-30T17:42:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T00:42:18","slug":"watch-deepfake-has-leonard-nimoy-as-young-spock-in-j-j-abrams-star-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/watch-deepfake-has-leonard-nimoy-as-young-spock-in-j-j-abrams-star-trek","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Deepfake Has Leonard Nimoy As Young Spock In J.J. Abrams\u2019 \u2018Star Trek\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9ktHF3lg4oY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Leonard Nimoy as Spock (deepfake)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2aQh-Oe4yAw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Over the last few years, creating fake videos that swap the face of one person onto another using artificial intelligence and machine learning has become a bit of a hobby for a number of enthusiasts online, with the results of these \u201cdeepfakes\u201d getting better and better. Today, a new one applies that tech to Star Trek.<\/p>\n<p><b>Deep Spocks<\/b><\/p>\n<p>YouTuber Jarkan has released a number of \u201cDeepfake\u201d videos featuring different actors swapped into iconic film scenes. Today\u2019s release takes Leonard Nimoy\u2019s younger Spock from the original <em>Star Trek<\/em> and swaps him in for Zachary Quinto\u2019s Spock in the J.J. Abrams 2009 film <em>Star Trek<\/em>. He does this in a scene where the younger Spock meets his older self, played by Leonard Nimoy. Deepfake swapping of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2aQh-Oe4yAw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nimoy in for Quinto<\/a> or even for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GZj0dni-qGo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ethan Peck in <em>Discovery<\/em><\/a> has been done before, but this new deepfake has more impressive results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few years, creating fake videos that swap the face of one person onto another using artificial intelligence and machine learning has become a bit of a hobby for a number of enthusiasts online, with the results of these \u201cdeepfakes\u201d getting better and better. Today, a new one applies that tech to Star [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}