The incredible creativity of deepfakes -- and the worrying future of AI | Tom Graham

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🗓️ 19 May 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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AI-generated media that looks and sounds exactly like the real world will soon permeate our lives. How should we prepare for it? AI developer Tom Graham discusses the extraordinary power of this rapidly advancing technology, demoing cutting-edge examples -- including real-time face swaps and voice cloning -- live from the TED stage. In conversation with head of TED Chris Anderson, Graham digs into the creative potential of this hyperreal content (often referred to as "deepfakes") as well as its risk for exploitation and the new legal rights we'll need in order to maintain control over our photorealistic AI avatars.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:11.0	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:13.8	AI Developer Tom Graham's company has developed tools for hyper-realistic video.
0:19.4	Video that will make it hard to tell the difference between what's real and what's fake.
0:24.6	In his conversation from Ted 2023 with Head of Ted, Chris Anderson,
0:28.9	the two sit down to unpack what we should do to prepare ourselves after short break.
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1:08.5	Hey everyone, it's Adam Graham.
1:10.3	Welcome to Rethinking, my podcast on the Science of What Makes Us Tick.
1:15.3	I'm an organizational psychologist, and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people
1:20.5	to explore how they think and what we should all rethink.
1:25.1	This season, we're exploring how AI chat thoughts are changing work and life.
1:29.3	So I post on social media every single day, and starting about December 5th,
1:33.5	I would say every single post I've written, someone will comment, did chat to me to write this.
1:38.3	Whether I can detect it or not, I have an audience of million plus that is saying,
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