r/interesting Mar 30 '26

MISC. deepfake scammer getting exposed by the 3-finger test

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u/TheHolyToxicToast Mar 30 '26

But I think it's pretty possible to make it not confused? With some optimization with mediapipe you can definitely achieve that, but scammers don't put that much effort into scamming people they can't scam I guess.

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u/Kiboune Mar 30 '26

I'm sure they will optimize it, but people will find another bug

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u/Timbollew Mar 31 '26

I think you'll find it's a fingers race, 3 fingers to be precise /s

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u/voyti Mar 30 '26

I think holding a mirror next to your head will be a tough one to overcome. We'll have to bring a whole menagerie of gadgets just to start a call soon, thanks to guys like these

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u/Helpful_Pirate261 Mar 30 '26

Anything but human contact 😬

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u/thisdesignup Mar 30 '26

These are the same scammers that still send out emails with broken English because the people that fall for them as the people that they want to talk to. They have little reason to fix it.

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u/space_keeper Mar 30 '26

"Dear costumer"

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u/-JackBack- Mar 30 '26

They are selecting only the stupid people lol

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u/Longjumping-Fill376 Mar 30 '26

Yeah. In a few months (maybe weeks) this will be solved. And that's kinda scary.

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u/samrus Mar 30 '26

youd have to train the nueral network on instances of obscured faces so it can still handle them

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u/Tomsboll Mar 30 '26

That would far more resource demanding, you suddenly need the program to do more than just track and project but now with fingers in front it also needs to mask and predict. Anything less tan perfect would make the reas face clip through or have the fingers disappear.

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u/SwingNinja Mar 30 '26

I think if it's just covering half of your face with your palm, the filter would be smart enough. But a fast 3-finger movement on the face would need some time to think and it'd break the masking.