A research group at the University of Washington recently created a video of President Obama saying words that someone else actually said. But the video looked real. Artificial Intelligence and a new field called “image synthesis” are making it easier to manipulate videos. New Yorker writer Josh Rothman visited an image synthesis lab at UC Berkeley to see how believable these altered videos can be.
How A.I. is making it tough to distinguish real from fake videos
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Guest:
Josh Rothman - The New Yorker -
@joshuarothman
Host:
Madeleine Brand
Producers:
Sarah Sweeney,
Michell Eloy,
Amy Ta,
Christian Bordal,
Yael Even Or,
Alexandra Sif Tryggvadottir,
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