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Today in Focus

Black Box: the hunt for ClothOff – the deepfake porn app

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

For the past six months, the Guardian journalist Michael Safi has been trying to find out who is behind an AI company that creates deepfakes. Deepfakes that are causing havoc around the world, with police and lawmakers baffled about how to deal with them. And in trying to answer one question, he has been left with a bigger one: is AI going to make it impossible to sort fact from fiction? Subscribe to Black Box, a new Guardian audio series on artificial intelligence, for all the remaining episodes. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:02.0

Hey, it's Mike.

0:05.0

Today, instead of your usual Monday morning episode of Today in Focus,

0:12.0

we're bringing you the second episode of Black Box,

0:15.0

our new series about the collision between AI and us. This episode is about something that's

0:20.4

in the headlines right now and which is only going to become a bigger story,

0:24.8

deepfakes, hyper realistic photos, videos and audio generated by AI.

0:30.8

We're in the very early days of this technology, but already explicit deep fake images of women and girls are causing havoc around the world.

0:39.0

And me and the Black Box team, look at one of the most notorious of these apps and ask can we

0:45.2

find the people behind it you can subscribe to black box wherever you listen to

0:49.8

today in focus and with that he's episode two.

0:53.0

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0:58.0

Here's a question.

1:01.0

If you had an extra hour in your day, what would you do with it?

1:05.0

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1:16.7

Perhaps to best answer that, you need to work out what's truly important to you then make that a priority. Therapy can help you work out what's most

1:27.4

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1:45.0

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