Ted Audio Collective. Talk Daily, I'm your host, Elise Hugh.

The deceptive images and fake footage created by AI are getting realer and realer.

It makes the truth more difficult to verify.

That's the work of technologist Sam Gregory.

In his 2023 talk at Ted Democracy,

he shares how his task force is taking on the challenge

of protecting the truth while detecting the fakes after the break.

It's getting harder, isn't it, to spot real from fake AI generated.

With generative AI along with other advances in deep fakry,

it doesn't take many seconds of your voice,

many images of your face to fake you and the realism keeps increasing.

I first started working on deep fakes in 2017

when the threat to our trust in information was overhiked and the big harm in reality was falsified

sexual images. Now that problem keeps growing, harming women and girls worldwide,

but also with advances in generative AI, we're now also

approaching a world where it's broadly easier to make fake reality, but also

to dismiss reality as possibly faked.

Now, deceptive and malicious audiovisual AI

is not the root of our societal problems.

But it's likely to contribute to them.

Audio clones are proliferating in a range of electoral contexts.

Is it, isn't it claims?

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