AI tool “Deep nostalgia” lets you relive dead relatives

Eventually! A way to make old family photos even creepier

Animate the Dead

Have you ever looked at old family photos and thought, ‘It just is not creepy enough!’ or ‘I wish it looked more like the characters of The Polar Express,“Perhaps? Now they can! Get it: an online genealogy platform has developed AI that lets you animate old family photos.

Genealogy website MyHeritage has launched a tool called Deep Nostalgia that uses AI technology to animate old photos of dead (or living) family members.

Here, for example, are the strange results of what happened when we used the tool on a face you might recognize, US President no. 16, Abe Lincoln:

Deep nostalgia

The AI ​​that Deep Nostalgia uses to achieve these animations is a bit like the one used in Deep Fakes.

Once you upload the photo to MyHeritage, it is then processed by Deep Nostalgia and animated based on a set of gestures and movements previously recorded by a model.

And yes, you can animate multiple faces on a photo at once.

Creepy or Magical?

MyHeritage readily acknowledges that the new tool may be polarizing.

‘Some people like the Deep Nostalgia feature and consider it magical,’ says MyHeritage on the Deep Nostalgia website, ‘while others find it creepy and dislike it. The results can indeed be controversial and it is difficult to remain indifferent to this technology. ”

While it is easy to have fun with this tool, it is undeniably a fascinating and compelling application of AI – not to mention, it can allow many people to reconnect with their loved ones through technology, which is always fantastic is.

But also, you can do such weird shit.