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

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🗓️ 19 May 2023

⏱️ 11 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.
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0:10.0	I'm Elise Hugh.
0:13.6	AI developer Tom Graham's company has developed tools for hyper realistic video,
0:19.2	video that will make it hard to tell the difference between what's real and what's fake.
0:24.8	In his conversation from TED 2023 with head of Ted, Chris Anderson, the two sit down to
0:30.0	unpack what we should do to prepare ourselves after a short break.
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1:02.0	So Tom, your company... Listen wherever you get your podcast.
1:03.0	So, Tom, your company became prominent on the internet
1:07.0	with the release of a fake Tom Cruise video,
1:10.0	Deep Tom Cruise, that I think attracted like a billion views on Tik-Toc and
1:15.2	Instagram. I mean how did you do that? So really at metaphysic we specialize in creating artificially generated content that looks and feels exactly like reality.
1:27.5	So we take kind of real world data, we train these neural nets, and it can more accurately than the effects or
1:34.5	CGI really create this content that looks and feels so natural and so that is
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