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Zoom’s custom AI avatar tool may come with risks


Zoom plans to introduce a feature to let people effectively clone themselves digitally. There's concerns that this could be misused.

The upcoming feature, announced today at Zoom’s annual dev conference, will translate a video clip that users record of themselves into a digital clone — complete with a head, upper arms, and shoulders. Pointing to Zoom’s usage policies prohibiting misuse, Hashim said the company is building “numerous safeguards” into its custom avatar feature, including “advanced authentication” and watermarking. Image Credits: ZoomZoom’s digital likenesses align with CEO Eric Yuan’s broader vision of creating AIs that can one day speak in Zoom meetings for you, answer emails, and take phone calls.

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