deepfake scramble
How Deepfakes Scramble Our Sense of True and False
"Are you in a precarious situation? Karah Preiss' cousin Leslie accused her of being sleepy and distracted and eventually hung up, but didn't guess the truth. Preiss had placed the call using a software clone of her voice made to demonstrate artificial intelligence's ability to deceive. Preiss relates her family experiment in the fifth installment of the Sleepwalkers podcast, a guide to the recent boom in artificial intelligence. The episode examines how AI technology is reshaping perceptions of reality in phone pranks, on Facebook, in Hollywood, and in politics.