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My cousin made a deepfake of our grandpa giving a speech and it got weird | Deepfake Drama - Free To Speak

My cousin made a deepfake of our grandpa giving a speech and it got weird

We were at a family reunion in Cleveland last month, and my cousin Dave showed us a video he made. It was our grandpa, who passed away 5 years ago, giving a toast about the family. The voice was perfect, but the mouth moved like a bad puppet. My aunt started crying, my uncle got mad and called it creepy, and Dave just stood there looking confused. It totally killed the mood for like an hour. Has anyone else had a family moment ruined by a weird deepfake attempt?

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cole5495mo ago

Honestly, Dave was just trying something nice... the tech is new and clunky, but his heart was in the right place. People get too hung up on the weird details instead of the feeling behind it. It's a shame that good intent got lost over some bad lip sync.

drew_mitchell5mo ago

Yeah I saw an article about that, cole549, and you're right.

jessej232mo ago

Well said! That's exactly the thing people miss. Everyone gets so focused on the technical flaws that they forget the whole point of why someone did something in the first place. Dave was trying to honor someone he cared about and that effort means way more than a couple seconds of weird lip movement. It's like how a kid's drawing isn't going to look like a photo but you still hang it on the fridge because of what it represents. If folks could just look past the imperfections and see the love behind it, they'd probably be a lot happier. Good intentions should count for something in this world, especially when someone is trying to do right by a family member.

reese_hayes715mo ago

We had something similar happen, and what saved it was just focusing on the memory. We all started telling our favorite stories about my grandma, and the weird video just became the thing that got us talking. The tech doesn't matter as much as what it makes you remember.