And here is yet another mind-blowing AI tool that is also surprisingly free, which is making AI influencers a lot of money, Roop Unleashed. This is a free open-source tool that makes realistic deepfake videos like this. But I've got to warn you. At the start of this video, I told you that some of the apps on this list are going to be so crazy that they're controversial and seriously, I was not kidding. As you will see, Roop is super powerful and that can be used for both good reasons and not so good reasons, depending of course on how you choose to use it.But yes, as I said, this tool creates deepfake videos. So here for example is im_alice. She is one of the more popular AI influencers. Well, a big part of how she got so popular is through deepfake videos. Her creators have made these dancing videos featuring her face and they go viral within Instagram Reels. Like, take this video here of her dancing. It's had 1.3 million views, but of course, this isn't actually a video of her. Nope, instead what's happened is that they have taken a video of somebody else dancing and then they have used a tool like Roop to put her face onto the video. And to show you how it works, I came here to Pexels, a royalty-free stock photo and video website, and I did a search for a woman dancing and I found a royalty-free video clip like this that I'm allowed to download for free. Then I came to the GitHub for Roop Unleashed and I clicked Code and I downloaded the installation files. Then I came to another app, Windows Visual Studio, and I downloaded it. Using this app, you can run and install the open-source code from GitHub. While installing it, make sure to select to install the desktop development with C++ workload and the game development with C++ workload. Then just let it install. Once it's installed, you'll need to restart your computer This process took me about 30 minutes. After that, I then unzipped the Roop Unleashed files and I opened the installer folder and I clicked to run the program. Microsoft might warn you that it's not official software. I just selected to run it anyway. Then it'll run the program and download and install the Roop files. This process took me about 10 minutes. And then once finished, Roop will open in your internet browser, and now you can use it. Upload a picture or photo such as a picture of your AI influencer, and of course upload the video clip that you want to make a deepfake out of and select to use the face from the first frame. Then scroll down and click Run, and now it'll switch the face of the person in the video with the picture that you uploaded. And for me, this process was surprisingly fast. It took a few minutes, so check it out. This here was the photo of the AI influencer that I used, and this here was the video clip that I uploaded, and this here is the video clip that Roop Unleashed created. As I said, it's just absolutely crazy, isn't it? And it's even crazier when you remember that this app doesn't even cost money. It's 100% free. Yep. If you'd like to give it a try for yourself, you can of course find a video on Pexels to give it a go with like I did. Plus you can also come to this free website here, pixabay.com, which is another royalty-free website. Just switch the search from images to videos, and then you can come and do a search for any type of video that you'd like to download for free.
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