The Origin and Impact of Deepfake Technology
TechStuff
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🗓️ 8 June 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Deepfakes create a dangerous situation -- how can we trust that a recording is the real McCoy when machines can make such convincing fakes? From the history of deepfake technology to the liar's dividend, we learn about the evolution of the tech and the problems it creates.
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| 0:34.9 | Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from iHeartRadio. |
| 0:42.4 | Hey there and welcome to Tech Stuff. I'm your host Jonathan Strickland. I'm an executive producer with |
| 0:47.9 | iHeartRadio and how the tech are you? In April 2023, lawyers for Tesla CEO Elon Musk |
| 0:56.4 | argued that submitted recordings of their client from 2016 might have been deepfakes. |
| 1:03.6 | So the ongoing case is an emotionally charged one. In 2018, a man named Walter Huang died in a |
| 1:11.7 | car accident. The Tesla he was in was a Tesla Model X and it was engaged in autopilot mode at |
| 1:18.5 | the time of the crash. His family contends that the Tesla's safety systems failed and the vehicle |
| 1:24.9 | steered itself into a concrete median. And the family's lawyer submitted a recording of Elon |
| 1:31.6 | Musk as evidence that Huang was led to believe his vehicle had greater capabilities than it actually |
| 1:38.1 | possessed. So in this recording, Elon Musk said of Tesla vehicles, quote, a Model S and Model X at |
| 1:46.3 | this point can drive autonomously with greater safety than a person right now. End quote, |
| 1:52.8 | in response, Musk's lawyers said the recording could be faked. Now, not to waffle about this, |
| 1:59.4 | but if we're speaking solely on a technical level, the recording could be faked. And by that, |
| 2:06.4 | I mean, there are technologies that are sophisticated enough to create a fake recording. But just |
| 2:12.8 | because something could be faked doesn't mean it actually was faked. And the judge in the Tesla case |
| 2:20.0 | of that penny packer who has an amazing name said that this argument is a truly dangerous one. |
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