A brand new breed of artificially generated fake images, videos and audio clips is spreading across the web – content that anyone with a web connection can create. And a few of these deepfakes at the moment are so convincing that even experts are struggling to tell apart between what's real and what's been created using artificial intelligence. In a brand new series, Hannah Murphy, the FT's San Francisco-based technology reporter, examines the potential of deepfakes to cause chaos, asks how nervous we needs to be and what's being done to combat their spread.
In the primary a part of this two-part series, she hears from Kimberly Ton Mai, AI researcher at University College London, Hany Farid, digital forensics expert on the University of California at Berkeley, and Paul Carpenter, magician and hypnotist.
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This season of Tech Tonic is presented by Hannah Murphy. Producer is Persis Love. Executive producer is Edwin Lane. Executive producer is Manuela Saragosa. Additional production assistance: Josh Gabert-Doyon. Sound design: Breen Turner and Samantha Giovinco. Original music: Metaphor Music. The FT's head of audio is Cheryl Brumley.
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com
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