News Release: TikTok Owner ByteDance Unveils "OmniHuman-1"

Courtesy: The Rundown AI

Researchers from TikTok owner ByteDance just unveiled OmniHuman-1, an AI system that can generate some of the most realistic deepfake videos we’ve ever seen, all from just a single reference image and audio input.

The details:

The system can create convincing videos of any length and style, with adjustable body proportions and aspect ratios.

It handles diverse inputs from cartoons to challenging human poses while maintaining style-specific motion characteristics.

It’s trained on 19,000 hours of video and can even modify movements in existing footage.

Despite 10 U.S. states enacting laws against AI impersonation, detection and regulation remain major challenges.

Why it matters: ByteDance hasn't publicly released OmniHuman-1, but the demos have officially erased the line between real and AI-generated. As similar powerful systems inevitably become available, society faces an urgent challenge: verifying what's real in a world where anyone can create perfectly fake videos.