Cherie Bergman’s eyes welled up as she met her father’s gaze for the first time since his tragic death eight years earlier.
Using artificial intelligence, it creates short videos that breathe life into the subjects of portraits years or even centuries old. Others uploaded their gawping reactions after using the technology to digitally resurrect dead relatives. In the 15-second clip, which has garnered 5.5million views, Cherie is visibly overwhelmed, a hand clamped over her mouth in shock.
After seeing the technology on social media, his grandaughter filmed his reaction to an animated photo of his late wife, Lola. Its most popular tool by far, however, is Deep Nostalgia. It was built by Tel Aviv firm D-ID, which specializes in AI-powered video. The result is “a realistic depiction of how a person could have moved and looked if they were captured on video,” MyHeritage says., an existing photo or video manipulated using AI to create realistic but entirely fake events.