faceswap
English
Noun
faceswap (plural faceswaps)
- Alternative form of face swap.
- 2006, “How ‘Not’ to Faceswap”, in I’ve Got a Human in My Throat: Create More Optical Delusions with Adobe Photoshop, Boston, Mass.: Thomson Course Technology, →ISBN, page 70:
- A seamless faceswap should give a viewer the uncomfortable feeling of “Oh jeez! He’s so pretty!” or “Oh jeez, she’s hideous!” instead of “Oh jeez! It’s a mutant!”
- 2014 June 7, The Stooshie, number 3, London: D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd, →ISSN, page 3:
- A Salmond/Cameron faceswap from @JimboLoony.
- 2017, Charlotte Crosby, Brand New Me, London: Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 176:
- Everyone was talking about him on the internet in May because he did a Snapchat faceswap with Harry Styles and people thought it was Harry with a new haircut.
- 2019, Jay Owens, “Post-Authenticity and the Ironic Truths of Meme Culture”, in Alfie Bown, Dan Bristow, editors, Post Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production, Punctum Books, →ISBN, page 82:
- A month later deepfakes turned the process into an app—and Vice reported that “We Are All Truly Fucked,” as the faceswap porn trend swept Reddit.
Verb
faceswap (third-person singular simple present faceswaps, present participle faceswapping, simple past and past participle faceswapped)
- Alternative form of face-swap.
- 2006, “How ‘Not’ to Faceswap”, in I’ve Got a Human in My Throat: Create More Optical Delusions with Adobe Photoshop, Boston, Mass.: Thomson Course Technology, →ISBN, page 70:
- The following are some observations I have mode regarding the art of “faceswapping,” a skill that is used primarily in “ModRen” and mating type edits.
- 2021, Glen Whelan, “Personal Pasts”, in Megacorporation: The Infinite Times of Alphabet (Business, Value Creation, and Society), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, part II (Shaping Our Pasts and Futures), page 76:
- Neural network or deep learning technologies are also enabling those that want to distort another individual’s dossier. Deepfakes, which use open source deep learning code libraries and resources like Google’s TensorFlow to ‘faceswap’ a person’s face into porn films, provide a case in point.