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ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, has introduced a new artificial intelligence model called OmniHuman-1. This model is designed to generate realistic videos using photos and sound clips. The ...

OmniHuman can generate full-body videos The AI system was trained on 18,700 hours of human video data It is a research work and the model is not available in the public domain ...

It can turn photos and audio into realistic videos, outperforming current methods. Although part of deepfake tech, which is often linked to misinformation, ByteDance aims to use it creatively.

OmniHuman-1's fake videos look startlingly lifelike, and the model's deepfake outputs are perhaps the most realistic to date. Just take a look at this TED Talk that never actually took place.

ByteDance hasn't released OmniHuman-1 publicly, but the demonstrations have officially blurred the line between the real and the AI-generated. As similarly powerful systems inevitably become available ...

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