Deepfake Drake + HatGPT + Ben Smith on the End of the BuzzFeed Era

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 28 April 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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A song featuring A.I.-generated versions of Drake and the Weeknd went viral — before being taken down by streaming services. Is censorship of A.I.-generated songs the way forward? Or can singers benefit from synthetic voices, as some artists like Grimes are suggesting? Then, HatGPT: Kevin and Casey pull headlines out of a hat and generate their own takes on the news. And Ben Smith, the former BuzzFeed News editor, discusses the end of the 2010s digital media era.

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0:00.0	So I just started using Blue Sky.
0:03.7	Have you heard of Blue Sky?
0:04.7	Oh, yeah.
0:05.7	This is the decentralized Twitter rival backed by Jack Dorsey.
0:08.2	So it's like basically Twitter, right?
0:09.9	It's like very, very similar.
0:12.3	But the most popular account on it, at least the one that is on my feed the most, is this
0:17.6	account called Burduck?
0:18.6	Have you seen Burduck?
0:19.6	I'm not seen Burduck.
0:21.0	So Burduck who is like a little AI chatbot, I guess, with a yellow rubberducky avatar
0:26.9	thing will basically just respond to whatever you type to it with like duck language.
0:34.0	To my recollection from a nursery school, the only thing the duck says is quack quack.
0:38.6	Yeah, right.
0:39.6	So it says more than that.
0:41.8	It sure does.
0:42.8	What does it say?
0:43.8	So it'll say whatever, it'll talk about whatever you want.
0:45.6	So apparently there's this whole group of people that are using it to plan a civilian uprising.
0:51.2	Oh no.
0:52.2	No.
0:53.2	No.
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