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CYBER

We Deepfaked Our Podcast Host

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Audio deepfakes are getting more convincing than ever. To test this out, we’ve replaced our host Ben Makuch with a robotic clone of himself. Sponsored by NeXt.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Tanneness got the code it's going to launch.

0:07.0

It's a unit system.

0:12.0

I know this.

0:15.0

It's all the files of the whole park.

0:17.0

It tells her everything.

0:19.0

Sir, he's uploading the virus. Eagle one. The package is being delivered.

0:23.6

Today we're going to be talking about deepfakes.

0:27.6

Audio deepfakes.

0:29.6

In 2017, Motherboard Reporter Semple first wrote about deepfakes,

0:33.6

which used much in learning to put the faces of celebrities on the bodies of porn actresses.

0:38.9

New similar technology can let us fake someone's voice.

0:42.1

So, anyways, we'll be talking about how that's possible.

0:45.3

I'm Ben Maku, and this is cyber.

0:48.5

No, really, I'm Ben Maku, for real.

0:50.7

Press me.

1:02.6

Okay, that was obviously not Ben Maku.

1:07.9

But for this episode, we're exploring the nature of deep fake audio by, of course, making a deep fake of our beloved host.

1:10.4

I am, for real, motherboard editor-in-chief Jason Kebler, and this is Cyber.

1:15.4

Ever since we started reporting on deep fakes in late 2017,

1:19.3

we've wanted to make a deep fake to explore how they could be used.

1:23.2

The technology, which relies on machine learning and generative adversarial networks,

1:28.0

has rapidly improved in the last few years. It's gotten tons of headlines.

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