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In a new two-part series of Tech Tonic, the award-winning technology podcast from the Financial Times, Hannah Murphy, the FT’s tech reporter in San Francisco, looks at the proliferation of deep fakes online and what’s being done to tackle them. You can listen to both episodes below.
A new breed of fake pictures, videos and audio clips generated by the latest artificial intelligence is spreading across the internet. It is content anyone with an internet connection can generate and some of these deepfakes are now so convincing that even experts struggle to tell the difference between what’s real and what isn’t.
What guardrails can regulators and tech companies put in place to prevent the spread of deepfakes and protect those whose likeness has been stolen without their consent? Technological fixes, such as deepfake detection software and deepfake watermarking exist, but can the technology keep up with the ever-improving capacities of generative AI?
Listen to the series below or subscribe and listen on: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts or wherever you listen to podcasts.
The trouble with deepfakes – listen to the series
Part 1 – Liar’s dividend
Part 2 – Beyond control?
Read the full article here