---
title: "Oh No: Someone Deepfaked Jim Carrey Into “The Shining”"
description: "Pseudonymous creator \"Ctrl Shift Face\" used machine learning to superimpose the face of Jim Carrey onto Jack Nicholson's character in \"The Shining\"."
date: "2019-07-09"
modified: "2019-07-16"
authors:
  - name: "Jon Christian"
    job_title: "Executive Editor"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jonc"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/someone-deepfaked-jim-carrey-shining"
categories:
  - "Artificial Intelligence"
tags:
  - "deepfakes"
  - "media synthesis"
  - "the digest"
  - "the shining"
---

# Oh No: Someone Deepfaked Jim Carrey Into “The Shining”

![Someone used machine learning to superimpose the face of Jim Carrey onto Jack Nicholson's character in Stanley Kubrick's iconic 1980 film "The Shining."](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/someone-deepfaked-jim-carrey-into-the-shining.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Ctrl Shift Face\</em\>*

## Here's Jimmy

Someone has finally done it: they used machine learning to superimpose the face of Jim Carrey onto Jack Nicholson's character in Stanley Kubrick's iconic 1980 adaptation of Stephen King's "The Shining."

Let's be real, though — you just want to see it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG_NZpkttXE

## Daddy's Home

It's a fun clip — and, in terms of mapping Carrey's face onto Nicholson's complex performance, one of the most impressive deepfakes we've seen.

But the clip, by the pseudonymous content creator [Ctrl Shift Face](<https://www.patreon.com/ctrl_shift_face>), also points to the inherent tensions of deep learning media synthesis. It's a tech that doesn't take a lot of deep computing know-how — Ctrl Shift Face, for instance, said that they used a common open source tool [called DeepFaceLab](<https://github.com/iperov/DeepFaceLab>) to create the vid. At the same time, the tech can be used for ill — showing people saying things they never did, or even [automatically removing clothing](<https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kzm59x/deepnude-app-creates-fake-nudes-of-any-woman>) from photos.

What we know for sure: deepfakes, which can remix anything from a home video to an award-winning Hollywood performance, are here to stay.

**WATCH MORE:** [The Shining starring Jim Carrey : Episode 1 - Concentration](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=HG_NZpkttXE>) \[YouTube\]

**More on deepfakes:** *[This Algorithm Can Create 3D Animations From a Single Still Image](<https://futurism.com/algorithm-3d-animations-still-image>)*

## Author
I'm responsible for editing, assigning, and scouting at Futurism, as well as occasionally writing for the site. That work involves keeping an eye on a wide range of narratives and issues, but over the past few years I've become increasingly interested in how AI is shaping the future of media, the web, and information itself. My day-to-day often involves collaborating on reporting and commentary projects bylined by my colleagues, but I try to find time to do my own reporting as well; stories I've broken for Futurism have been cited by publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, Wired, Ars Technica, New York Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review, Bloomberg, and more. I grew up in Southern Vermont and attended Vanderbilt University. Prior to Futurism, I contributed to outlets including the Boston Globe, Vice, Wired, Slate, the Atlantic, the Outline, Ars Technica and more, and did stints in farming and food service. I currently live in Brooklyn, New York, and in my free time I enjoy pinball, word games, cycling, running, and music production.

### Author social links  
[Bluesky](<https://bsky.app/profile/jonchristian.net>)