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Deepfake videos are getting shockingly good


A new AI system from ByteDance, OmniHuman-1, generates shockingly convincing deepfake videos.

On election day in Taiwan, a Chinese Communist Party-affiliated group posted AI-generated, misleading audio of a politician throwing his support behind a pro-China candidate. While some social networks and search engines have taken steps to limit their spread, the volume of deepfake content online continues to grow at an alarmingly fast rate. Seventy-two percent of respondents to the poll said they were worried about being fooled by deepfakes on a daily basis, while a majority supported legislation to address the proliferation of AI-generated fakes.

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