“What we’re seeing today is another sign of things to come,” he said.
The accessibility of social media makes it too easy for fake news to spread. Society should either shift its culture to encourage critical thinking or stop considering social media an acceptable source of news.
Mr. Riparbelli added that Synthesia has a four-person team dedicated to preventing its deepfake technology from being used to create illicit content, but said misinformation and other material that did not include outright hate speech, slurs, explicit words and imagery could be hard to detect.
Maybe they should hire fact checkers.
The software, which costs as little as $30 a month, produces videos in minutes that could otherwise take several days and would require hiring a video production crew and human actors.
So deepfakes can benefit society. I never considered that this technology could be used for a purpose like that.
But something was off. Their voices were stilted and failed to sync with the movement of their mouths. Their faces had a pixelated, video-game quality and their hair appeared unnaturally plastered to the head. The captions were filled with grammatical mistakes.
Did the people behind these actually think they would convince anyone? Or is it part of an experiment to see how viewers will react to AI deepfakes?