"What's up guys? Welcome to my channel."
What's up guys? Uh yeah welcome to my channel. My goal here today is simple: I want to change John
F. Kennedy's historical legacy with a deep fake. "Ich bin ein Berliner!"
So i have been messing around with lip sync deep fakes, largely to Gary Oldman Inception myself.
"If you ask me, Phil Edwards is a poor man's Oldman."
I have no idea what Gary Oldman sounds like. So I don't know how to do an impression of him.
So I learned about this research called Wav2Lip: I first heard about it on Corridor Crew.
It's kind of different from normal deep fakes, in that you don't need this massive data set
going in. You just upload a wav file and then it's able to lip sync to that wav file.
Now if you've been on this channel before, you know that i actually deep faked my voice.
"Yeah I saw that video, it was not your best." Now i can even type myself and make myself say it:
"Gibberish gibberish gibber gibberish gibberish." But listen, you zoom in you can see the seams.
And, but, that got me thinking: historical videos are low-res
and often pretty choppy, and that makes them perfect for doing these types of deep fakes.
So let me tell you how I got here. I googled Wav2Lip and I found a couple of youtube tutorials
that linked to ways to do it. I've got links to everything that I mentioned
in the description of this video. I found some tutorials that use something called Google Colab.
It lets you run code in the cloud. But let me start with someone that
we actually can't hear: Abraham Lincoln. I can make a video clip of Lincoln from a picture,
and then i just record audio based on a Daniel Day Lewis voice: "No no no!"
"All I know is that at the end of the long day, I just love to relax at the theater.
It's my safe space." Okay, this gets really interesting though
when you start to get to present day presidents, ones that we have video of and audio of.
"Today, I want to apologize for the way that i was walking near the Watergate office and then
i closed uh part of the fence, or, as it shall forever be known, the watergate gait gate-gate."
See the visuals I can clean up a little bit by editing the frame, but the voice, you know
i'll admit it's not perfect. That is where another service comes in.
There is this thing called Uberduck that has a ton of AI voices of varying quality.
"What is the deal with deep fakes? And they have a lot of historical figures like politicians."
So here is Nixon again, but with that AI generated voice.
"I am not a crook, I am not a book, I am not a cook, I'm just Richard Freaking Nixon." Now this
is pretty good. I actually think that it looks uh super impressive with old video and audio, like of
Teddy Roosevelt, because the source is of such low fidelity that you kind of don't notice the errors.
"I'm the President most like a character from the Simpsons."
"Today we could talk about the energy crisis, but maybe we should talk about
how nice I look today. Cardigans are in!" But now the main course — let's go to JFK.
Have you heard that famous speech in West Berlin where he says "Ich bin ein Berliner"?
Anyway, it's like this urban legend that he got the grammar wrong and that he is
saying that he is a jelly doughnut in German. This is one of those things where the debunking
is now more viral than the actual original misconception. However, I want to change that.
I want to make it so that JFK really did say that he was a jelly donut.
So it's working now: "I want to be clear i'm a jelly donut. There's not a translation error.
My tummy is full of jelly my skin is a yummy pastry.
I'd be delightful with a cup of coffee....(JFK BREAKING NOISES)"
Sometimes you have to tweak it. I think JFK got lost in the Matrix there.
All right, pretty happy with that.
"'Ich bin ein Berliner. I want to be clear. I am a jelly donut. My tummy is filled with
sweet treats. My skin is a yummy crust. Dunk me in black coffee and make me soft."
Okay so what does all of this mean? "I want every person in this hall
and every person in this land to reach out and join us in a great new adventure. I can't
hide this any longer. Phil is super cool." I know that this is supposed to be about, uh,
you know the power of disinformation and how we need to worry more but
you know, you go ahead and do that. I just think it's kind of cool it's kind of
cool that some guy like me just sitting somewhere can access these tools that used to be the upper
upper upper echelon of all technology. "Here he is Forest Gump right here."
You remember in the Forrest Gump movie where there were these scenes where Forrest would be talking
to historical figures? "I gotta pee."
"I believe he said he has got to pee." I can do that now from my laptop and
that's pretty amazing. But that said, I do ask that you remember: with great power
comes great responsibility. "We have nothing to fear but
fear itself. Also monsters. I am afraid of monsters vampires, werewolves, and mummies."
"From the White House in the office of the President of the United States,
we present an address by Dwight D. Eisenhower. I am Dwight D. Eisenhower.
If you haven't been to this channel, it's a personal channel where Phil posts history and
personal stuff. Please like and subscribe if you can. And consider this too: I used to have hair.
It was glorious long hair. Soft as a mane of a horse. I miss it every day. Every single day."
we have presented the farewell address by the president of the united states dwight d
eisenhower who spoke this evening from his office in the white house