Midjourney’s New Feature Produces Alarmingly Simple Deepfakes

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Real (left) and deepfaked (right) images by the author. Right image via Midjourney.

This week, Midjourney released a massively exciting feature, which users have demanded for months: character references.

The new tool allows Midjourney users to create consistent characters across multiple images. As we’ll see, it’s a huge…