Deepfakes adds Harrison Ford to Solo: A Star Wars Story

AI FACE-SWAPS HAN SOLO BACK TO THE RIGHTFUL ACTOR.

At 76, Harrison Ford is a little past playing the lead role in Han Solo’s origin story – unless of course we’re willing to enlist the help of a crafty AI face-swapping software. Deepfakes, a neural net that earnt its reputation form more dubious applications, has been used to convincingly superimpose Ford’s face over the top of Alden Ehrenreich’s, the actor actually playing Han in Solo: A Star Wars Story. The clip was uploaded to YouTube by the user ‘Derpfakes’ with a link to buy a AI edited videos of yourself in a movie of your choosing.