Reface app - deepfake

 So I discovered this app that effectively lets you do deepfakes on your phone.  The positive: It's easy, install, take a snapshot, put your face on all sorts of celebrities.  I do have to say up front that unless you pay $5/month (or like $25/year) you will have very limited access (I think you get like 6 swaps before you can't do anymore).  With that said, it works pretty well.  Now you can import any face you want to swap, however the gifs have to exist on giphy (for obvious reasons, so you can't say make porn with a friend's face) which could potentially lead to all sorts of lawsuits against the app.

So obviously you can say put bruce willis on rambo's face

You can turn bruce willis into a supermodel

So of course the obvious thing I wanted to try, does justin bieber indeed have the same face as miley cyrus?  Well not exactly.  He has REALLY big eyebrows that sort of kills the look:

So I decided to try other miley looks, and he just ends up looking like steven tyler

So then I tried really sexy women and it gets a little better, but he still sorta looks like a boy in a dress

I tried my face on britney spears in the toxic video and it didn't turn out too bad

The thing to not allow yourself to do is think "Oh look how good I look.. with some clothes and the right makeup I could look that good".  Well... not quite.  Remember, with deepfakes you are effectively putting your facial features on someone else's head.  That means the shape of your head is not being retained.  It's sort of like that movie face/off with john travolta and nick cage where they cut off your face and swap it with someone else's.  The head shapes remain (though the movie didn't do a very good job of masking that very well).