
The clips went viral, with the user, gaining over a million likes.
#Deep nostalgia photos driver
"Our driver videos don't include speech in order to prevent abuse of this feature, such as the creation of 'deep fake' videos of living people."ĭeepfake videos became popular on TikTok recently, after a user uploaded a number of clips featuring a deepfaked Tom Cruise. The program uses pre-recorded driver videos of facial movements and applies the one that works best for the still photo. MyHeritage said in a statement: "While many love the Deep Nostalgia feature and consider it magical, others find it uncanny and are uncomfortable with the results. But Deep Nostalgia can take photos from any camera and bring them to life.

MyHeritage has acknowledged the technology may be controversial amid the rise of deepfake videos, in which AI is used to make hyper-realistic animations of real people that can often be difficult to distinguish from genuine footage. Deep Nostalgia is a service from the genealogy website MyHeritage (which is crashing pretty hard right now due to everyone using this, so don’t be surprised if that link takes you to an error page). When the technology is given a photo uploaded by a user, it applies one of multiple driver videos to that photo, so that the person in the image moves in the same way as the real person did. Online genelogy company MyHeritage unveils a new tool called Deep Nostalgia that uses artificial intelligence to give old photos life-like movement. For one of the driver videos, a member of MyHeritage's marketing team took part. MyHeritage said the technology makes use of "driver videos," in which a real person is instructed to move their head and eyes, blink, and smile. Our paintings come to life at night! 🌙 Your greatest dream or your worst nightmare? 😱 #MyHeritage #DeepNostalgia #Rembrandt /iYjHyIXeLD- Rijksmuseum March 4, 2021 DeepNostalgiaI used the MyHeritage Deep Nostalgia tool to animate historical photos of prominent people from history for a previous video, and colourised. The company, My Heritage allows users to animate the static images of their relatives using machine learning technology.
