Due to Meng Fanqi's low-key handling and the fact that the app is only available in China for the time being, there are not many relevant people in the United States like Yang Ming who have discovered that the AI camera app has the function of distinguishing authenticity from fakes.
CNN's side, such as Cafferty, who intended to occupy the moral high ground, did not expect that their most important favorable argument had already been properly resolved by Meng Fanqi.
Their attention was attracted by the new technologies of Facebook and Tang Xiaoou’s team.
"The latest facial recognition technology has surpassed human capabilities, but there is still nothing we can do with this kind of generative fake image!"
This is great and proves our point. This is what everyone in the CNN camp thinks.
They didn't realize the irony of this thing at all - that is, they didn't care at all whether technology could solve this problem.
In contrast, what they are more concerned about is how popular their reports are, and their opinions must not be proven wrong.
As for the truth and the solution to the problem, that is not their concern.
As the time for debate approaches, this matter has become quite popular even in China.
Domestic propaganda has basically completely downplayed the crisis of generative content, mainly emphasizing our technological catch-up. Chinese scholars invented generative technology, and my country's Tang Xiaoou team won the world's first facial recognition method.
Meng Fanqi is actually thinking, if he were not Chinese, would he be targeted like this by CNN?
It's a pity that there is no answer to this question.
In this general atmosphere, many netizens left messages on the scarf or sent him private messages to express their support.
Although this support does not have strong practical significance, it still helps Meng Fanqi a lot on the spiritual level.
A few days passed quickly, and soon the time agreed upon by both parties came.
One of the more cunning aspects of CNN is that although they have invested a lot of manpower, equipment and technical support, they do not officially recognize this dialogue as an official program.
Nominally, this matter is defined as CNN commentator Cafferty's own private behavior.
"It's just a matter of passing the buck. I am invincible." Meng Fanqi glanced at it and probably understood what CNN meant.
If you win a big victory after the negotiation and the response is good, you can increase your efforts to promote it and make it look like you won.
On the other hand, if the negotiation breaks down and Cafferty behaves like a clown, or if he makes inappropriate remarks that anger the public, he will immediately put himself aside and say that this is just the commentator's personal behavior and has nothing to do with the station.
So cowardly.
The formal talks began, and the scene was split into two. Cafferty appeared on the left with a bald head, and his skin was sagging, showing his age.
Meng Fanqi was speechless for a while after seeing this. An old man in his seventies couldn't care less about taking care of himself at home, but he came out to target the Chinese.
During the 2008 Olympics, this old guy was so energetic that he was boycotted by many Chinese people who signed a collective signature.
The screen flashed, and Meng Fanqi's half-length was displayed on the right side of the screen. However, the face was edited in real time by FaceGAN.
FaceGAN currently takes a lot of time to adjust a certain picture and can produce a more realistic effect, but if it is applied to a camera with dozens of frames in real time, it becomes quite laborious.
When the face moves, relatively large flaws will be revealed, and it is found that the face has been edited.
Cafferty saw the problem on Meng Fanqi's face at a glance. He struck preemptively and said aggressively: "Mr. Meng, why do you hide your face and don't dare to show your true colors to others? Do you have a guilty conscience?"
He did not expect that this was a flaw deliberately exposed by Meng Fanqi.
As the inventor of the technology, wouldn’t he know that the current technical situation cannot support real-time facial adjustment with high frame rates?
"Mr. Cafferty saw at a glance that I, the inventor of the technology, used FaceGAN technology. It seems that identifying generative content at this stage is not as difficult as you said. Are you being alarmist, or do you think that everyone else in the world Are people far stupider than you?"
Now the quality of FaceGAN is not to the point where it will bring a huge crisis to society. Even the very mature face-changing technology will have many flaws in just a minute or two.
CNN deliberately exaggerated the effects of generative technology in order to label themselves, but Meng Fanqi did a trick, putting them in a dilemma.
Because Cafferty had just pointed out the other party's use of generative technology in an angry manner, it was too late to regret it now.
Falling into a trap on this matter, he had nothing to say. After a few casual remarks, he quickly changed the subject and tried to occupy the moral high ground in the interests of the country: "Mr. Meng's previous remarks that Americans are immigrants, It’s very irresponsible and ridiculous.”
"Isn't it an immigrant?"
"We discovered America."
"Why can you [discover] a continent that has long been inhabited by people?" Meng Fanqi laughed at this logic: "If I were sitting across from you right now, I think I could [discover] your car when I walked out of the studio, no. Do you know if I can drive it away?"
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After a few more exchanges, Cafferty realized something was wrong. This Chinese man's conversational style was not as restrained as most typical Chinese people. Instead, he had a set of logic that sounded wrong to him but was difficult to refute. .
"Mr. Meng lacks a full understanding of American history and culture. We can't achieve anything by debating these matters." Cafferty blamed everything on Meng Fanqi's ignorance and tried to bring the topic back. To the main theme, the crisis of generative technology.
However, at this time, the eyes of the onlookers were sharp. Most of them had already seen that Meng Fanqi had a huge advantage.
"These few words from our top student made this old guy's head spin."
"Some white-skinned people are just shameless. If they take something from someone else, they will treat it as their own."
"Generative technology is a very dangerous new method. It has only been proposed for a few months, and it has already made huge breakthroughs in certain fields." Cafferty said this, his bust disappeared, and several pictures were shown instead. Extraordinarily beautiful and realistic portraits.
These portraits were generated by Meng Fanqi’s FaceGAN technology.
"I also specially selected a few pictures with the best results. I really don't know whether I should thank them or what." Meng Fanqi smiled helplessly. The reality is so interesting. People who are hostile to him are looking for examples of the best effects of his own skills. , this scene is really absurd.
"Neither of the two latest facial recognition technologies can correctly distinguish these realistic generative contents." Cafferty praised Meng Fanqi's technology with a proud look, which made Meng Fanqi feel mixed and didn't know what expression to use. Right: "This is true even for Facebook's latest DeepFace technology or Hong Kong-Chinese's DeepID technology!"
"We have reason to suspect that this technology will have serious adverse effects on our lives and rights!"
"The question is, who told you that the latest facial recognition technology cannot recognize these generative contents?" Meng Fanqi was overjoyed. It was my advertising time.
