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Cool work. I went bankrupt trying to turn similar tech into an advertising platform 15 years ago. Long before the term 'deep fakes' I had a fully functional photo to 3D avatar reconstruction pipeline and VFX production pipeline for realistic actor replacement in media. I went as far as acquiring global patents. But I was too early - no one believed what I was doing was possible in '08 (when I was pitching my working system to VCs). By '13 I was exhausted, broke and dismayed at the short sighted and entitled attitudes I'd encountered. I gave up and now work in facial recognition.


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