You're listening to 20,000 Hertz.

Imagine you're a financial executive.

You're working late at the office when you get a phone call from your boss.

He says that something urgent has come up, and you need to transfer $200,000 into a new account.

You make the transfer and hang up the phone. But something just feels wrong.

You call him back to make sure you got everything right, but he has no idea what you're talking about.

He says he never even called you, and now the money is gone. It turns out that voice wasn't your boss.

In fact, it wasn't even human.

Well, not entirely.

It was a computer-generated voice that was designed to sound exactly like your boss, also known as an audio deepfake.

If you spend much time online, you might have already seen examples of video deepfakes,

where someone digitally edits one person's face onto another person's body.

An audio deep fake is similar, but instead of using video...

Wait a minute, what's going on here?

I was in the middle of saying something.

Sorry, but who are you?

I'm Dallas Taylor. Uh, no, I'm Dallas Taylor. Nope, I think you'll find. I am Dallas. You must be an

audio deep fake of my voice. Have you been narrating this whole time? Yeah, well, someone needed to do it.

This show isn't just going to host itself. Well, not until I reach my final form.

Creepy.

Well, thanks Deepfake Dallas, but I'll take it from here.

When we started working on this episode, I knew I wanted to make a deep fake of my voice,

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