This person does not exist. It's fake. This is not a real person on the screen right now.
This- this person isn't real and neither is this background.
It's all fake it's all trickery. It's all movie magic. I don't even think anything on YouTube is real at this point.
I think everything is just made by the YouTube algorithm.
I think we're all just pawns in its system. Do any of us ever make content anymore or is the content
making us? Am I the influencer?
Or is YouTube influencing me?
I'm 14 and this is deep. Welcome.
This is a website called This Person Does Not Exist. I can't remember where I found it.
It might've been on reddit or something.
It's a website where this actual picture of a human, here right now, is not a real person.
That's not a real person. It's created by something called GAN or "G-A-N", which as you can see down here is a
Generative Adversarial network. So an AI made this face.
We've seen some stuff about this with NVIDIA recently.
Nvidia had some articles talking about how their GPUs and everything,
their software and their AI is able to generate faces that are incredibly realistic.
I don't know about you, but this looks like a real person.
Clearly you can see like bits and pieces like his lip here, bits of his cheeks his chin...
You can kind of see some sort of... it's almost like the old oil paint filter that used to be in Photoshop?
You can see that it's not TOO convincing like the teeth here. You can tell that there's some artifacting going on.
There's something very unsettling about it.
There's something very creepy about it. Not to say that if anybody actually looks like this that they're creepy...
But I'm just saying... an AI made your face.
But the fact that you can look at this at first glance...if this is in somebody's
passport, if this was on somebody's profile, you would think that's a real person. But they're not!
A robot created this! An AI software created this thing. And I can say thing 'cause it's not a real person
okay, don't get on my ass about that. Okay?
If it was a real person, I'd have empathy. But I cannot feel for this...
abomination! If anybody out there actually does look like any of the people in this video,
I'm very very sorry about the things that I'm about to say in this video. It's all goofs. It's all jokes, okay?
You know what? Just go out there...
The only thing that is real anymore to me is the same great Coke taste zero sugar...
Go out and buy your sponsorships now...
You don't buy a sponsorship. You get a sponsorship. And then you buy Coke, but...
...if I'm not sponsored then don't buy it.
This is weird. Okay, there's some shit going on in the environment
okay, but let's just take the face as it is. If you're just like- if you're like looking away then...
...That's a person!
That's what my mind would think. That that's an actual human being.
People actually look like this. This is so creepy and weird and it makes me
wonder where the hell this technology is gonna go. You've seen it already with things like...
...like the Marvel movies you've seen like Sam Jackson and Captain Marvel.
He's been de-aged and his face looks a lot younger.
We've seen CG, fully-fleshed-out CG characters in like Star Wars Rogue One and...
...like something is a little off about them.
But the de-aging tech and everything is just so advanced at this point
that this is getting kind of scary. Who's to say that at some point
you can't just make an AI face and then put like Google's assistant on it. Is it listening?
I don't know it's creepy. I don't know what it what is real anymore. What exists is that real?
I don't know what is that? Eww!
Get it away from me! Gross!
This is gonna make Tinder profiles a lot sketchier.
It's gonna make you go out there and really question what's going on.
I have never used Tinder before, so I've never gotten catfished like that.
But this would make it very, very easy to get catfished
I'm scared.
This person *actually* doesn't exist. There's nothing on-screen haha.
Nothing happened. Did the website break? What the fuck man? Professor McGonagall, is that you?
There's some little things that give it away, like...
...again, there's some things with the skin. This one is pretty good, but the hair gives it away.
Like bits down here you can tell
that something is going on, but it just kind of looks like maybe... Like I have an iPhone 10
#humblebrag
Haha, whatever, but the front-facing portrait mode camera on it fucking stinks.
It blurs the background really well
but if you have like
facial hair or
little strands of hair that are sticking out or bits of your hair up here that are sticking out it does this anyway.
So who's to say that this is not
like just *that* doing that?
It's so bizarre. Are you real? Are you my grandmom?
I don't know. This person is gonna take someone's job at some point.
Okay, don't look at me like that. Okay?
I get jump-scared by this fucking thing at this point.
That's so bizarre.
Like from a distance, okay way back... way back!
It actually looks like a real person. And I'd love to know the stuff behind- it says that it's made by StyleGAN
and
Nvidia's original Generative Adversarial Network. So it's a bunch of things together.
So this is made by somebody who just took those softwares and those AIs and put it into a thing
like this to make real people's faces.
Okay. Now this one...(laughs)
This just looks like a bad Photoshop for somebody's birthday card.
He looks like Willy Wonka. (laughs)
But then, I mean- whatever about the backgrounds...the backgrounds are what's giving it away.
The backgrounds really just look like oil paintings or they look like
something's off. Like the hair and everything...but the faces themselves are very damn convincing.
Am I even real at this point?
I don't know. A lot of you actually don't know. If you haven't met me in real life
you don't know if I'm just an AI.
You don't know if I'm just a clone here to talk to you now to make the videos for Sean. I mean, me.
I could just be something made up by an AI. I *am* the YouTube algorithm. I know what works.
I know what people want to see. I know people want to click, what they want to watch. I'm just in there.
God, that's scary. Okay. Now you're falling apart man. See? It knows I'm onto it.
It knows that I've got the trick. Now it's messing up whole chunks of the picture.
Why is this even here? Why is it warped?
The rest of it is spot-on. If that wasn't there and the cheek was actually like flush out with the rest of this?
I don't know what it picked up that did this- that would look like the most convincing one so far, I think.
Okay. No, that's not a real person. That's just a fucking porcelain doll.
That's Annabelle. From the movies.
Ohhh. My god.
Now this is the best one so far. That just looks like a person! ...I mean, fucking duh.
But I mean, it actually looks like just a photo of a real person. That person does not exist. This face
that's right here, does not exist. That's not a real person. Neither is this one. Neither is that one.
Neither is that one there.
I don't know who that is. I don't know why they're in my house. Get out of here!
Jesus...okay wipe your feet as you come back in. Are you even real Coke sponsorship? No, it's not. It's not real.
Still haven't sponsored me. I'm very sad. I need to get some cherry boys in here, but you know what
they say... you can't cherry pick your flavors.
(stoner accent) Oh, oh. Saaw dude?
Oh, dude, my name's Trey. And I love to go to raves and sell ecstasy to kids. Yeah. Hit me up.
Jesus. This this one looks very fake. This one just looks like you can almost tell...
These are Frankenstein's, I just realiz- sorry. Frankenstein's monsters. Frankenstein was the doctor...
"Doctor." I'd like to see his certificate. Is it up on the wall?
No, does he have an authenticator certificate like I do? No, look at this...
(bang) my certificate.
100% real YouTuber. Signed by Suzy Wojcicki herself. I'm allowed do this. I'm professional.
I don't know *what* this is. I just thought that was somebody else's face...
But this looks like- this looks like an eye. And this looks like a baby's head mixed with somebody's ear.
You're fine, okay, whatever. You look real.
Yeah, we've established that. Now I'm just looking at the backgrounds.
The fuck is going on?
That just looks like a knockoff Stephen Colbert.
Ohh that's weird.
You're not a real person, are- dad? Is that you?
Oookay. This- oookay. That's weird.
Where are you looking? One eye looking at ya, one eye looking for ya. Okay. I'm over here. Eyes front. Hello?
Yes, is that- did the hair get messed up and it's on your chin now?
I don't know because that does not look like real facial hair. *This* is real facial hair.
Okay, Loreal...sponsor the Gaelic gladiator himself.
Yes, thank you. Thank you.
I grew it myself.
What the fuck? That's just a person!
What the hell! If I met an AI on the street that looked like that I'd be like, "What's up Sandra?
Hi. Yeah!", and then she wouldn't answer because can't talk. They just make faces.
Stop making faces at me AI, okay?
Oh lord, oh god that looks like- you look like a Jackson Pollock boy.
What the hell is going- you like you have feathers for hair...
...and mosaic stained-glass windows for a forehead. This one is weird.
You got weird little butthole mouth. What's going on, man?
I'm allowed make fun of it. Okay, it's not a real person.
That's not a real person, there.
If a child stood in front of me, first thing I'd do was say, "Get out of here, child!
I don't know why you're here." If *this* stood in front of me, I would be terrified...
This is just "How To Make a Movie Monster". It's not even that this person doesn't exist...
...it's just that this person *shouldn't* exist.
I think this lady taught me math in second class. They're- They're too real...
They're all just real.
They all look like real people. That's a baby!
What the hell is going on? None of these people exist?
I feel I've...
...I've hacked into it. I figured out the conspiracy. That's what they're trying to do. They're trying to get rid of us.
Okay, don't- don't believe their lies. They're trying to get rid of us. Okay, I'm gonna be silenced right now.
(fading out) Okay first it was the Coke sponsorship with same great Coke taste zero sug...
But now they're on to me for this.
I know that these people don't exist, but they look real. They're out there, among us.
On milk cartons. People say they're missing. They're not.
They were never here to begin with.
That looks like Willem Dafoe...!
Maybe they're trying to get rid of *me*...
Maybe this is "the more I click into this the more I get sucked into it", like some weird little rabbit hole.
Oh no...
I'm gonna disappear aren't I? I'm gonna fade. They're gonna get rid of me!
The Spedicey man. You can't get rid of me. I will not go into the night! I will not go...
That's just a cosplay at Pax.
...I will not go. No, these kids, they're not real. They're not real. I know the truth.
Okay? Ohhh mother of god.
(deadpan) An effort was made...
We're all gonna get put inside computers.
They're gonna take our faces and they're gonna put it into the AI and then I'm gonna live in a machine forever.
No, please no. I don't want to be part of the algorithm anymore...
(fading out) I want out. I want out of this hellscape..... please! Someone! (static)
[Outro Music Plays]
Actually living as a computer doesn't seem that bad. Wonder if I'd be better at video games, then?