Less than a decade ago it took a huge VFX team months of work to put Peter Cushing's face on to Huy Henry's in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Now AI seems to be able to do something comparable in a matter of minutes.
While the results still lack some polish, people are raving about the abilities of the Chinese tech giant Tencent's new open-source AI video model, HunyuanVideo. One user has dropped a demo showing attempts to put Keanu Reeves into a scene from Apple TV's hit series Severance, and the effort has quickly taken off on TikTok and other platforms (also see our roundup of the best deepfakes).
