“Potter, what is the difference between H&M and Balenciaga?”
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A striking new deepfake video reimagines the cast of Harry Potter as a 1980s-style advertisement for luxury Spanish fashion house Balenciaga. This vision is very real and compelling. A blockbuster fantasy series.
Entitled “Harry Potter by Balenciaga” and created by Patreon user demonflyingfox, the clip uses deepfake voices trained by the original cast over a pounding electronic beat.
“Potter, what’s the difference between H&M and Balenciaga?”
you’re a model harry
Conversion is amazing. Snape transformed from a robe-clad, grungy black-haired professor into a supermodel rocking a chiseled leather jacket and turtleneck, while Dumbledore wore an embellished wizard’s hat in a stylish wide-brimmed leather cap and blacked-out look. Change to round sunglasses.
“I just made a $2 million ad for probably less than $10,” one YouTube user commented on the video.
Even Tesla CEO Elon Musk seems impressed with how machine learning algorithms work. reply To a video with two fire emojis.
“We’re constantly brainstorming what combinations and mashups of popular media will work,” Demonflyingfox said. absentmindedly“I quickly realized that these had to be as unexpected as possible, but still made sense. Putting it on went surprisingly well.
“I’ve already put Harry into the yakuza world, so it was only a matter of time before I thought about the fashion bubble. And the most memorable company is probably Balenciaga right now.
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AI-generated images are currently having a big moment in pop culture. Earlier this month, an AI image of him wearing a Balenciaga-esque white Papal pufferfish went viral, and many people were unaware that the image was a composite.
And now that we’ve seen the potential for cutting-edge Harry Potter-inspired fashion advertising, we can’t help but wonder: What if the boy who was alive chose to be a male model instead? Is not it?
read more: What is the biggest threat posed by AI? A Harry Potter remake set in the land of Balenciaga [Dazed]
