We Are Not Ready For Better Deepfakes

If you’re for illustration me, past lately you’ve scrolled past thing connected societal media and thought, “Wait, was that real?” Deepfakes are everywhere, and they’re getting a batch much convincing. 

That brings maine to my Decoder guest today: Gaurav Misra, nan CEO of Captions. You whitethorn not person heard of Captions yet, but you’ve astir apt seen a video that was generated utilizing its AI models. The company’s Mirage Studio level lets anyone make AI versions of existent people, and nan results are alarmingly realistic. 

Captions conscionable put retired a blog station titled, “We Build Synthetic Humans. Here’s What’s Keeping Us Up astatine Night.” It’s a bully overview of nan authorities of deepfakes and wherever they’re headed. 

As nan CEO of a institution building deepfake technology, I wanted to cognize what specifically keeps Gaurav up astatine night, which you’ll perceive america get into. I’m mostly much optimistic astir nan semipermanent impacts of AI than a batch of people, but arsenic you’ll perceive successful this conversation, I’m a batch much tense astir this topic. 

Ultimately, I came distant from this section unsettled by nan truth that nan deepfakes of coming are nan slightest believable they’ll ever be, we are not ready, and nan companies building this tech are racing up anyway. 

If you’d for illustration to publication much connected what we talked astir successful this episode, cheque retired nan links below:

• We build synthetic humans. Here’s what’s keeping america up astatine nighttime | Captions
• Google’s Veo 3 AI video generator is simply a slop monger’s dream | The Verge
• Gemini AI tin now move photos into videos | The Verge
• Trump conscionable unveiled his scheme to put AI successful everything | The Verge
• Racist videos made pinch AI are going viral connected TikTok | The Verge
• Microsoft wants Congress to outlaw AI-generated deepfake fraud | The Verge
• YouTube is supporting nan ‘No Fakes Act’ targeting unauthorized AI replicas | The Verge
• This Tom Cruise impersonator is utilizing deepfake tech to awesome ends | The Verge

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