Adobe's Morpheus project: it will soon be as easy to edit videos as simple photos

Anicet Mbida 06:53 am, October 29, 2021

All this week, Adobe, the inventor of Photoshop, held its Max conference.

A congress where he presents the latest improvements to his software.

And you found one rather disturbing.

Since it will become as easy to edit videos as simple photos.

Video was the last frontier in image manipulation.

We've all seen extraordinary special effects.

But it is not for everyone.

It is very expensive, it is very complex and it remains the preserve of professionals.

Now Adobe has just presented what it calls the Morpheus project.

This is a tool for very easily manipulating any face in a video.

It's amazing: you just need to move a cursor to rejuvenate or age a person.

You can also change the expression of the face, adjust the smile more or less, change the direction of the gaze, add more hair, a beard, a mustache ...

These are functions that are based on artificial intelligence and which were introduced in Photoshop last year.

Now they also work on videos, which is rather worrying.

Worried because it makes it easier to produce fake news?

Exactly.

There has been a lot of talk about "deep fakes", those videos in which we plaster the face of one person on the body of another.

With this tool that Adobe is preparing, it will be even easier: does someone pout on a video after seeing or hearing something?

We change the expression and give the impression that he approves.

Obviously, for editing professionals and directors, the tool will save a lot of time.

But like all technologies, it can also be misused for more malicious purposes.

There has never been so much disinformation.

It has never been easier to distribute.

So, again, beware of what you see.

It has never been easier to manipulate photos… and now videos.