Photoshop on steroids is one way of thinking of it, especially if you don’t want to think about it much. Like Pinocchio, who wanted to be a real boy, Wombo decided to make an image of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un lip-syncing to I Will Survive.ĭeep Nostalgia takes its name from the term deepfakes, images or videos created with the help of Artificial Intelligence. Wombo animates photographs with wild expressions and gives them a voice. ![]() While Deep Nostalgia was all lace doilies and bone china, Wombo is 1980s neon and beer. I figured in a while that he was trying to go back five minutes into the past where something interesting had happened).Īlso read: Deep Nostalgia AI tool gives your photos the Harry Potter treatmentĮven before we stopped being captivated by Bhagat Singh’s moving eyebrows, we got Wombo AI. I recently watched a three-year-old swipe left on the screen during a Zoom call. Hard to say what’s going to be uncanny or unnerving for another generation. It’s fascinating but also mildly unnerving-as would be the animation of the previously inanimate, such as those dancing robots (or so I presumed. The tech could animate any photograph of course but animating the images of ancestors as opposed to your selfie from last week immediately adds a plot where there was none. For a few days, the internet was full of black and white celebrities or long dead family members smiling, nodding, turning their heads and blinking. ![]() For this joy we can thank the online genealogy company MyHeritage, which created the Deep Nostalgia feature that allows us to upload any photograph and animate it. By now you have probably seen those videos online of long dead and famous people smiling and nodding and so on.
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