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Show HN: Appear as anyone in video calls like zoom or Google meets
Hey everyone! i built this free tool that basically let you appear
as literally anyone in video calls. it uses the latest tech in
audio driven portrait animation. Would love to have some people
test this out and let me know what you think! It's currently
available on ubuntu systems. it works best with 4070 or 3080 gpus
and up! basically anything with about 30TFLOPS on fp16. It runs
totally on your device for 100% privacy too. Just looking for
people to test this out and let me know what they think! You can
download it at https://www.phazr.ai/
Author : michaelphi
Score : 24 points
Date : 2025-03-29 18:44 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| 3np wrote:
| Do you plan on making source code available? (Or: how can users
| verify that this is not malware?)
| michaelphi wrote:
| hmm not sure yet on the open source thing, but how do people
| normally verify downloadable software has no malware? I guess
| we could try to distribute it on like reputable distribution
| channels like the app store
| 3np wrote:
| Personally I do take at least a quick look over sources
| before deciding to trust any new app. I simply won't install
| apps that don't provide the option.
|
| This used to be an ideological stance but increasingly
| recently it's the only pragmatic thing to do from a stance of
| security and safety. The playing field is increasingly
| hostile and if someone asks you to install their software on
| you machine and let it record your face and voice but refuse
| to show what it actually does, that is a red flag. Reasonable
| exceptions could include video games (which run on dedicated
| untrusted devices and IMO the IP aspect makes the closed-
| source stance more understandable there). On the other hand,
| this app is inherently sensitive and trusted because of its
| function. I don't see the reason why it needs to be closed-
| source.
|
| Malware is commonly distrubuted in all app stores. I reported
| some obviously pretty bad stuff that is still up a year later
| on Play Store, for example. Google simply doesnt bother if
| the case is too messy.
|
| > hmm not sure yet on the open source thing
|
| You could start with just go source-available by sharing the
| source with your users without going full Open Source, if you
| want to take the time and think about what license to use.
| michaelphi wrote:
| thanks for the write up! it's an electron app so i think
| you can also view the source code easily that way tbh
| kaladin-jasnah wrote:
| Another thing to add: this is Linux-only and a large
| amount of Linux users will care about your product being
| free software or under an open source license for ethical
| reasons. Source available doesn't mean open source, and
| open source means your product's license protects
| distribution and modifications of the code to some
| extent. This extent is quite debated, but you should
| certainly read up on this and have a strong defence for
| why your product isn't open source either way. I can
| certainly see why you wouldn't want to, but make sure to
| think about it especially for Linux-only. Windows and Mac
| users are probably more amenable to proprietary software.
| econ wrote:
| Some day we should have everything sandboxed on the hw
| level. Like computers in 1980
| OsrsNeedsf2P wrote:
| Reproducible builds are the way. But source available is
| better for people who are worried about malware
| inetknght wrote:
| How do you reproduce a build without source?
| reactordev wrote:
| Meticulously with Ghidra I suppose. This trend of saying
| it's to protect us is getting old. The _only_ way to
| prevent malware is by making the source available for us
| to see for ourselves.
| prophesi wrote:
| If this isn't monetized, is there any reason against opening
| its source? I personally would like to be able to disable the
| usage analytics and crash reports.
| windsignaling wrote:
| I haven't installed this yet, but does it require camera access?
| i.e. does it "transform" your own image to the target image while
| maintaining facial expression, pose, etc.? Based on the
| animations, I'd assume it doesn't use the camera since there are
| techniques that can lipsync from audio.
| Giorgi wrote:
| what about Ms Teams?
| mentalgear wrote:
| liveportrait or faster-liveportrait are the libraries probably.
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