The video of Zhu Yin replacing Yang Mi's face went viral, but the producer removed the material due to copyright infringement

AI face-changing can already make videos look realistic. In a video clip of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes 1994" produced by the B station UP host "Face-changing Brother", Zhu Yin, who played Huang Rong, was replaced by the popular actress Yang Mi. It can be said that not only is her appearance online, but her expressions are also more vivid, attracting a large number of netizens to watch and feed her with barrages.

However, just one day after the hype lasted, a media outlet posted a lawyer’s statement, claiming that the incident involved infringement of portrait rights and reputation rights. In response, UP host @换脸哥 responded on Sina Weibo:

"My friends, I feel very sorry for the uproar on the Internet. I am also a loyal fan of Yang Mi. My original intention was to let more friends know about this technology to prevent people from forging videos with negative content about celebrities in the future, which would cause greater losses to public figures. At the same time, it also allows more people to understand the working principles behind fake videos and improve the public's ability to identify them."

"As soon as we learned of the problem, we communicated with Mi Mi's official studio in private messages and removed the relevant videos in a timely manner. This popularity is also a warning to all of us that AI face-changing should be used in the right way. Everyone should respect copyright and portrait rights and focus on the technology itself."

Other media interviewed the face-changing brother himself, who revealed that he used the open source technology deepfake, and said that the reason for the relatively beautiful effect was also closely related to Yang Mi's ability to use rich expressions in her performance creation, but the technical threshold for production was relatively high.

As of the afternoon of the 27th, the topic had been read 120 million times and discussed 28,000 times on Weibo. In addition, the video first released on Bilibili has been deleted.