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Stories We Can’t Stop Thinking About: Deepfakes, the Tesla Backlash, and All Things Chips


This week on “Uncanny Valley,” our hosts talk about three big stories from February.

We’ve been so busy at WIRED, covering politics, science, culture, security, gear and so much more, that this week we decided to do something a little different—we’re talking through three stories from February that we just can’t stop thinking about. Which is that in 2020 when she was in college, a friend called her one day and told her that explicit videos and images of her that had been filmed when she was underage without her consent, some were real, some were deepfaked, were spreading around on websites like Pornhub. During this time period, she has decided to leave her job in venture capital and start an AI company that works to use facial recognition to detect deepfakes on all the websites that we're thinking of.

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