Ye West used deepfakes to travel back in time to his childhood (2022)
Before he was getting canceled for spewing anti-Semitic slurs through a gimp mask on InfoWars, Ye West was busy dipping his toes in video deepfakes. In “Life of the Party” West, who went by Kanye at the time, uses deepfake tech to animate a variety of photos from his childhood.
The end result is a somewhat crude, but nonetheless interesting collage of young West photos with their lips and facial expressions synched up to the song. “Life of the Party” was released on the eve of Mother’s Day and takes the concept of nostalgia, an already common thread in popular music, to its logical conclusion. Given his current state of affairs, West probably wishes he could actually travel back in time.
