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10:34am on Sunday, 16th February, 2025:
Anecdote
I had another play with DeeVid, and while it remains very sound and impressive most of the time, it does produce occasional strange artefacts.
Here, I wondered what this Midjourney-generated face would look like without the glasses, so I got DeeVid to have her take them off. This it did, and the result does look very realistic — except for a strange flicker as she brings her hands up to remove the glasses, where the glasses appear then disapppear for a moment.
https://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2025/vCleo0.mp4
I asked it to regenerate the image, but the same thing happened.
In this second example, I asked to have the model turn around.
https://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2025/vCleo1.mp4
Here, the model starts off looking vaguely Indian but when in profile suddenly looks vaguely Chinese. I did notice something similar with the full-length picture from a couple of days ago, but this is more noticeable. Also, her legs seem to get markedly thicker when seen from behind.
Rather than practice only on Midjourney images, I thought I might try it on some photos of real (but deceased) people. I tried one of the Edwardian actress Maude Fealy, who I (if not necessarily anyone else) consider to be very pretty. The first three I tried were all rejected for being inappropriate content, which I can only attribute to the fact that the images must have appeared in the training data somewhere (along with countless images of women from the Far East turning around). The fourth attempt succeeded, though.
https://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2025/mf.mp4
I just asked to have her smell the roses then smile, which she does, although not the part of roses that people usually smell. I like the fact that the original coloriser's watermark was preserved.
I paid $11 for 30 5-second renderings (or 15 10-second ones), so won't be playing with this much unless I forget to cancel the subscription. I shan't be putting any pictures of living people or of people I knew in there, though; I think that would be too disturbing.
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