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“Mathew Knowles Says Beyoncé's Career Benefited and Kelly Rowland's Suffered from Skin Tone Bias - PEOPLE.com” plus 3 more

jessicadarlient Ağustos 13, 2021

“Mathew Knowles Says Beyoncé's Career Benefited and Kelly Rowland's Suffered from Skin Tone Bias - PEOPLE.com” plus 3 more

Mathew Knowles Says Beyoncé's Career Benefited and Kelly Rowland's Suffered from Skin Tone Bias - PEOPLE.com

Posted: 20 Jun 2019 11:50 AM PDT

Mathew Knowles: Beyonce's Career Benefited from Lighter Skin Tone | PEOPLE.com

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Samsung’s deepfake AI makes Rasputin sing Beyoncé - VentureBeat

Posted: 20 Jun 2019 11:41 AM PDT

Researchers from Samsung's AI Center in Cambridge, England and Imperial College London have created an end-to-end generative adversarial network (GAN) that animates and syncs facial movement of a 2D talking head image with an audio clip with human speech.

In addition to syncing lip movement, the face synthesis model also sprinkles in eyebrow movement and blinks to make the depictions it generates seem more natural. Syncing lips with audio today is often done during the post-editing process or through the use of computer graphics.

Researchers believe the model could be used to automatically create talking heads for characters in animated movies, fill in the blanks when video frames are dropped during low-bandwidth video calls, or provide better lip sync or dubbing of films in foreign languages. The tech could also be used for manipulative fakes.

In examples shared ahead of the research on YouTube, lead researchers Konstantinos Vougioukas depicts the dead Russian mystic Rasputin singing Beyoncé's "Halo," rappers 2Pac and Biggie singing their work, and Albert Einstein reciting a quote about the common language of science. More examples, a paper to explain the model, and code can be found on this website.

The news comes a month after Samsung's AI Center in Moscow introduced AI for animating 2D still images without 3D modeling, tech that could be used to make more convincing digital avatars or deepfakes.

A number of GANs for manipulation of digital media have been introduced in recent weeks as AI researchers converged on Long Beach, California for ICML and CVPR conferences. Examples of models talked about at CVPR include Nvidia's GauGAN for painting realistic but fake landscapes, and CollaGAN, a method devised by South Korean researchers to replace missing data in images.

In other recent examples, Facebook's MelNet created GANs that can imitate music and sound like Bill Gates, and a fake video of CEO Mark Zuckerberg was posted on Instagram. A honeypot spying scheme was also discovered on LinkedIn last week aimed at attracting U.S. State Department employees.

Other GANs made in recent months include models to supply synthetic data for enterprise customers or create things like memes or African masks.

Concerned with what's to come in 2020, the United States Congress heard testimony from deepfake experts last week. Legal and technical experts such as OpenAI's policy director Jack Clark shared their concerns about the future of democracy and the marketplace of ideas, as well as the fact that the number of GANs being created greatly outweighs the number of systems being made to detect them.

Beyoncé and Donald Glover sing “Can You Hear The Love Tonight” in TV spot (VIDEO). - Slate

Posted: 20 Jun 2019 02:38 PM PDT

Two lion cubs stand facing a red-billed hornbill on a savannah.

This teaser is a good indicator of how catchy the new album is likely to be.

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A TV spot for Disney's Lion King reboot features a snippet of the long-awaited cover of Elton John's "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" that reportedly made Billy Eichner cry. In the latest sneak peek at the "live-action" (really CGI) remake, Beyoncé and Donald Glover deliver a chills-inducing duet that is likely to get even skeptics on board.

At the very least, it'll get the song stuck in their heads: After three repeat viewings of the clip, I found myself quietly singing the classic as I wrote this post. [Editor's note: It's true. I was sitting across from her.] The TV spot also contains some O.G. Mufasa narration by James Earl Jones, imparting leonine fatherly wisdom like, "Look at the stars—the great kings look down on us from those stars. And so will I."

If this clip is any indicator for the rest of the new movie's soundtrack, it's sure to be full of slightly reimagined bangers (minus "Be Prepared"). Because the teaser spot is just that, a teaser, it's designed to leave viewers wanting to hear the entire version, which most likely won't be available until July when the movie premieres. Until then, we'll just have to listen to Elton John's original on repeat.

Beyoncé & JAY-Z ‘Wouldn’t Be Surprised’ If Blue Ivy Carter, 7, Starts Singing: She’s ‘Quite Talented’ - Hollywood Life

Posted: 19 Jun 2019 11:10 PM PDT

Blue Ivy Carter's dance video may have gone viral, but she has a love for 'the music and arts' in general! But fostering her singing skills is actually not Beyoncé & JAY-Z's 'main focus.'

Blue Ivy's got the footwork to potentially sell out stadiums like her parents, Beyoncé and JAY-Z, which she proved in her dance recital video that went viral on June 16. And it wouldn't be far-fetched if the parents also passed on their vocal talents to their seven-year-old daughter as well! "It's very clear that Blue has gotten her parents' love for the music and arts. She's quite talented for a little girl. She is very outgoing, so it wouldn't be surprising if she decided to get more into singing and dancing," a source close to JAY-Z and Bey EXCLUSIVELY tells HollywoodLife. It also helps that Blue's parents "are very encouraging of whatever it is she wants to do."

But Blue doesn't necessarily need to follow her mom and dad's footsteps. "They know she's young and has her whole life ahead of her to figure it out. She's a very smart little girl," our source continues. This may come as a surprise, but hitting notes and mastering choreography aren't Beyoncé and JAY-Z's priorities while raising their mini me! "Beyonce and Jay-Z are actually pretty strict parents. You can tell the most important thing is for them to raise normal, polite children," our source reveals. "That's their main focus."

Still, Blue showed that she could potentially be Beyoncé 2.0 after singing "Lift Every Voice and Sing" in the Netflix documentary Homecoming, which was the same song Beyoncé covered in her Coachella 2018 set! Bey had that twinkle in her eye while watching her daughter perform, who said afterwards, "I want to do it again…It feels good!" While Beyoncé and JAY-Z are first and foremost committed to raising their three children into kind, respectful people (and not just performers), they do help foster Blue's artistic side.

"Beyoncé and Jay-Z really nurture her talent," another source EXCLUSIVELY told HollywoodLife before. The insider pointed out that Blue has been in dance classes since she was a toddler, and is never left out of her mom's life as a dancer and hit-maker: "When Beyoncé is working on choreography or rehearsing, Blue is often there watching or even joining in and doing her best to copy her mom."
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