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import React from "react";
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import { Link } from "react-router-dom";
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import { usePrefixedDocumentTitle } from "../../../../../common/UsePrefixedDocumentTitle";
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import { PosthogClient } from "@storyteller/components/src/analytics/PosthogClient";
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import { Container, Panel } from "components/common";
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import PageHeader from "components/layout/PageHeader";
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interface Props {}
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PosthogClient.recordPageview();
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usePrefixedDocumentTitle("About Us");
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const teamMembers = [
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{
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name: "Scott",
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role: "Technical 3D Artist",
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imageSrc: "/images/team/scott.webp",
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},
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{
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name: "Michael",
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role: "ML / Backend",
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imageSrc: "/images/team/michael.webp",
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},
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{
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name: "Ishaan",
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role: "Growth",
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imageSrc: "/images/avatars/default-pfp.png",
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},
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{
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name: "Salt",
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role: "3D Engine",
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imageSrc: "/images/avatars/default-pfp.png",
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},
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{
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name: "Rewin",
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role: "3D Engine",
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imageSrc: "/images/avatars/default-pfp.png",
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},
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{
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name: "Kasisnu",
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role: "Backend",
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imageSrc: "/images/avatars/default-pfp.png",
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},
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{
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name: "Madhukar",
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role: "Backend",
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imageSrc: "/images/avatars/default-pfp.png",
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},
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{
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name: "Danny",
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role: "3D Engine Frontend",
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imageSrc: "/images/avatars/default-pfp.png",
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},
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{
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name: "Wil",
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role: "Frontend",
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imageSrc: "/images/avatars/default-pfp.png",
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},
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{
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name: "Victor",
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role: "Frontend",
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imageSrc: "/images/avatars/default-pfp.png",
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},
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{
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name: "Bombay",
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role: "Frontend",
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imageSrc: "/images/team/bombay.webp",
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},
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{
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name: "Brooks",
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role: "Role",
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imageSrc: "/images/avatars/default-pfp.png",
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},
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{
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name: "Yae",
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role: "Role",
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imageSrc: "/images/avatars/default-pfp.png",
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},
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{
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name: "Willis",
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role: "ML / Generative Art",
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imageSrc: "/images/avatars/default-pfp.png",
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},
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{
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name: "Jose",
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role: "Data Team",
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imageSrc: "/images/team/jose.webp",
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},
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{
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name: "Rodrigo",
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role: "Data Team",
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imageSrc: "/images/team/rodrigo.webp",
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},
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];
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return (
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<div>
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<div className="container mb-4">
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<div className="row gx-3 flex-lg-row-reverse align-items-center">
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<div className="col-lg-6">
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<div className="d-flex justify-content-center">
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<img
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src="/mascot/kitsune_pose3.webp"
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className="img-fluid"
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width="516"
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height="444"
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alt="FakeYou Kitsune Mascot!"
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/>
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</div>
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<Container type="panel" className="mb-5">
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<PageHeader
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title="About Us"
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subText="We're building FakeYou as just one component of a broad set of production and creative tooling."
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/>
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<Panel padding={true} mb={true}>
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<h2 className="mb-3 fw-bold">Our Mission</h2>
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<p>
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Our mission is to empower anyone to create full feature-length content
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from home without institutional capital, large teams, huge amounts of
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time, or deep reservoirs of highly specialized talent. We give
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everyone their turn in the director’s seat and turn dreams into
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physical form.
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</p>
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</Panel>
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<Panel padding={true}>
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<h2 className="mb-3 fw-bold">The Team</h2>
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<div className="row g-4 g-md-5">
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<div className="col-6 col-md-3 mb-0">
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<img
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src="/images/team/brandon.webp"
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className="img-fluid img-team img-brandon rounded"
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alt="Brandon Thomas"
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/>
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</div>
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<div className="col-lg-6 px-md-2 ps-lg-5 ps-xl-2">
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<div className="text-center text-lg-start">
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<div>
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<h1 className=" fw-bold lh-1 mb-4">A Glimpse of the Future</h1>
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</div>
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<div>
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<p className="lead">
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We're building FakeYou as just one component of a broad set of
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production and creative tooling.
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</p>
|
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</div>
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<div className="col-12 col-md-9 text-start d-flex flex-column justify-content-center">
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<div className="p-3 px-0">
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<p className="fw-semibold opacity-100 mb-0 fs-5">
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Brandon Thomas
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</p>
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<p className="team-role-text">Founder and CEO</p>
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<hr className="my-3 w-25 opacity-25" />
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<p className="fw-normal mt-3 mb-0">
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Brandon worked 8 years as a distributed systems and AI/ML
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engineer at Square. He’s spent the last decade making indie
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films and being plugged into the Atlanta art scene. In college
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he built a{" "}
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<a
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x034jVB1avs"
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target="_blank"
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rel="noreferrer"
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className="text-red"
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>
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laser projector
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</a>{" "}
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and programmed it to play video games on the side of
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skyscrapers. Today he’s working on disrupting Hollywood and the
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music industry and transforming narrative storytelling into
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something the likes of which we’ve never seen before.
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</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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<div className="container-panel pt-4 pb-5">
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<div className="panel p-3 p-lg-4 load-hidden mt-5 mt-lg-0">
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<h1 className="panel-title fw-bold">About FakeYou</h1>
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<div className="py-6 d-flex flex-column gap-4">
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<p>
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Your brain was already capable of imagining things spoken in other
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people's voices. This is a demonstration of how far computers have
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caught up. One day computers will be able to bring all of the rich
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and vivid imagery of your hopes and dreams to life. There's never
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been a better time throughout all history to be a creative than
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now.
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</p>
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<div>
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<h2 className="mb-4">Technology disclosure</h2>
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<p>
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<em>
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We'll be happy to remove any of the voices featured here for
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any reason. See our <Link to="/terms">terms page</Link> for
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more info.
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</em>
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</p>
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<br />
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<p>
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”Deep fakes” are kind of like Photoshop when it
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first came out. They're impressive, maybe a little bit scary,
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but they're about to become the new norm. People will become
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accustomed to the technology, and the results will be used
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mostly for creative good, unlocking previously costly and
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unattainable high production values for individual creators.
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It's our belief that the next Hollywood will be <em>you</em>.
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</p>
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<br />
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<p>
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The technology to clone voices is already out in the open, and
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the voices here are built by a community of contributors. We're
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not the only website doing this, and plenty of people are
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producing these same results on their own at home, independent
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of our work. You can see thousands of examples on YouTube and
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social media.
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</p>
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<br />
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<p>
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Even if the United States chooses to ban this technology,
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institutions in China, Japan, Canada, and other countries all
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over the world are rapidly conducting and publishing research on
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this topic. People everywhere have access to this easy-to-use
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technology. State actors probably have even more sophisiticated
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versions available.
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</p>
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<br />
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<p>
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As an interesting point, most if not all of the voices produced
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by this website are actually
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<em> Linda Johnson</em> with a little bit layered on top.
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</p>
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<p>
|
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<a
|
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href="https://github.com/NVIDIA/tacotron2"
|
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target="_blank"
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rel="noopener noreferrer"
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>
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NVIDIA makes these tools publicly available for you to make
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your own voice models
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</a>
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. Check it out!
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</p>
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</div>
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<div>
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<h2 className="mb-4">Voice Acting & Musician Jobs</h2>
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<p>
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If you're a voice actor or musician, we're looking to hire
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talented performers to help us build commercial-friendly AI
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voices. (The user-submitted models on FakeYou are just a
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technology demonstration and may not be used commercially.) We
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want to empower small creators (game designers, musicians, and
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more) to voice, sing, and speak emotion into their work. Please
|
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reach out to <code>jobs@storyteller.io</code> if you'd like to
|
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work with us. We can pay a flat fee and/or royalty. Please get
|
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in touch to learn more!
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</p>
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</div>
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<div>
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<h2 className="mb-4">FakeYou was previously Vocodes</h2>
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<p>
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FakeYou.com was previously known as{" "}
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<strong>https://vo.codes</strong>, but has been rebranded to
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better reflect its purpose and direction. (Not many people know
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what a <em>vocoder</em> is anyway, so it didn't make sense to
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keep the name.)
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</p>
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</div>
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<div>
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<h2 className="mb-4">Thanks</h2>
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<p>
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Thanks to the following individuals (in no particular order) for
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help with data gathering and annotation, Discord moderation, ML
|
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advice, etc.
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</p>
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<br />
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<p>
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Vegito1089, Shin, Ashurath, MakaveliGH, Blutarch Mann, Yahia,
|
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Tim Squid, Seuneramet, Matt, Seth, CookiePPP,{" "}
|
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<a
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href="https://twitter.com/r9y9/"
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target="_blank"
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rel="noopener noreferrer"
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>
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@r9y9
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</a>
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, BFlat, Raisin.
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</p>
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<br />
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<p>
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The following papers, models, and resources were used:
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<br />
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<br />
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<a
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href="https://github.com/NVIDIA/tacotron2"
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target="_blank"
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rel="noopener noreferrer"
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>
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Tacotron2
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</a>{" "}
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(BSD-3 license),{" "}
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<a
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href="https://github.com/jaywalnut310/glow-tts"
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target="_blank"
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rel="noopener noreferrer"
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>
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glow-tts
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</a>{" "}
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(MIT license), {/* MIT */}
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<a
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href="https://github.com/seungwonpark/melgan"
|
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target="_blank"
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rel="noopener noreferrer"
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>
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MelGAN
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</a>{" "}
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(BSD-3 license), {/* BSD3 */}
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<a
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href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.05106.pdf"
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target="_blank"
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rel="noopener noreferrer"
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>
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Multi-band MelGAN
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</a>{" "}
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(paper),{" "}
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<a
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href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.05646"
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target="_blank"
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rel="noopener noreferrer"
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>
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HiFi-GAN
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</a>{" "}
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(paper),{" "}
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<a
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href="https://github.com/Rudrabha/Wav2Lip"
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target="_blank"
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rel="noopener noreferrer"
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>
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Wav2Lip
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</a>{" "}
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(MIT license), {/* Non-commercial */}
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<a
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href="http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict"
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target="_blank"
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rel="noopener noreferrer"
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>
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CMUDict
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</a>{" "}
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(BSD-2 license),{" "}
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<a
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href="https://keithito.com/LJ-Speech-Dataset/"
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target="_blank"
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rel="noopener noreferrer"
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>
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LJSpeech
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</a>{" "}
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(public domain),{" "}
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<a
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href="https://datashare.is.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/3443"
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target="_blank"
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rel="noopener noreferrer"
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>
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VCTK
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</a>{" "}
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(CC BY 4.0).
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</p>
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<br />
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<p>
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Videos are generated by the amazing Wav2Lip system{" "}
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<a
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href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3394171.3413532"
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target="_blank"
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rel="noopener noreferrer"
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>
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(paper)
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</a>
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, by Prajwal{" "}
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<a
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href="https://twitter.com/prajwalkr14"
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target="_blank"
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rel="noopener noreferrer"
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>
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(@prajwalkr14)
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</a>
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, K R and Mukhopadhyay, Rudrabha and Namboodiri, Vinay P. and
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Jawahar, C.V.
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</p>
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</div>
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<div>
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<h2 className="mb-4">Contact</h2>
|
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<p>
|
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Reach out to "echelon" on{" "}
|
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<a
|
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href="https://twitter.com/echelon"
|
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target="_blank"
|
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rel="noopener noreferrer"
|
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>
|
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Twitter
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</a>
|
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and Hacker News. Say hi.
|
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</p>
|
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|
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<p>
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The Storyteller Company (registered as Learning Machines, LLC)
|
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</p>
|
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</div>
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<div>
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<h2 className="mb-4">Built With</h2>
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<div className="row gx-3 gx-lg-4">
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<div className="col-4 col-md-3">
|
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<img
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className="rounded img-fluid"
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src="/logos/pytorch.png"
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alt="models are written in pytorch"
|
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/>
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<div className="row g-3 gx-lg-5 gy-md-5 pt-3 pt-md-5">
|
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{teamMembers.map((member, index) => (
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<div className="col-6 col-md-3" key={index}>
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<Panel className="overflow-hidden panel-inner rounded h-100">
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<img
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src={member.imageSrc}
|
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className="img-fluid img-team"
|
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alt=""
|
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/>
|
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<div className="p-3">
|
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<p className="fw-semibold opacity-100 mb-0 fs-5">
|
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{member.name}
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</p>
|
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<p className="fs-7">{member.role}</p>
|
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</div>
|
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<div className="col-4 col-md-3">
|
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<img
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className="rounded img-fluid"
|
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src="/logos/rust.png"
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alt="core server components are written in Rust"
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/>
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</div>
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<div className="col-4 col-md-3">
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<img
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className="rounded img-fluid"
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src="/logos/kubernetes.png"
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alt="the cluster scales with k8s"
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/>
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</div>
|
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</div>
|
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</Panel>
|
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</div>
|
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</div>
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))}
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</div>
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</div>
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</div>
|
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</Panel>
|
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</Container>
|
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);
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}
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|
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