Alright, so we're going to take a closer look at these videos.
I'm excited to see, and a little bit freaked out too to be honest with you, um, let's start with this one of Drake
Let's do it.
[Music]
Okay that really looks like Drake to me.
Yeah, so I would say that that, those are just video clips of Drake
put to a song that has an AI-generated Drake's voice attached to it
Okay okay okay I understand. Okay so they've used existing video is that what you're saying?
Yeah, so to me this looks like just a mashup of different video clips from different music videos
from Drake, or maybe other, other clips of him, out in the world and then they've just paired that uh
with an AI-generated voice of Drake to a song, to an already existing song -- it's a cover of an existing song.
But if you just heard that song, maybe on the radio uh you would think maybe Drake did this remix.
How do you spot a fake?
So in this case, I would be completely flagged to the fact that the video clips of Drake really have nothing to do with the song.
So to me, that's kind of a telltale sign and that's what we're starting to see with a lot of these AI-generated cover songs.
It's just random music videos paired together.
But if that song was on the radio, or somebody actually created a deep fake video to go with it, that's when things become a little bit tricky
so you want to do things like zoom in to the video very closely, and look for maybe a slight disconnect
between how the lips are moving and what the song lyrics are actually saying.
But it's also about really thinking critically about our information ecosystems
Who posted this video? Did Drake share it or did the artist re-share it? Who's in the comments?
Are they a trusted source? Or does it seem like bots are kind of jumping on it ?
So we have to really look at the full picture in this digital age and in the age of AI-generated media.
Whatever happened to the good old days of like a simple lip-sync scandal?
Far, that's a relic of history now. [Laughs]
Pioneer times. Okay here's another one, this is Ariana Grande covering Drake?
[Music]
Okay, let's pause it here because this is freaking me out
This is not real. I have to say, I really like this cover. [Laughs]
I hate to, I hate to say that. This is a really great cover.
Oh goodness, yeah, this is also not real. It's not real.
It's not real at all and Ariana Grande had nothing to do with it, which is even scarier.
What do the artists think about this?
Like if you were Ariana Grande, you listen to that, you might think, as you thought, hey maybe I should do this.
Two you're gonna think
I've been stolen.
If you're an artist thinking about your rights, it gets very, very tricky and gray here
because you can't copyright your voice.
So this being Ariana Grande's voice but she actually can't copyright, copyright her own voice at this point in time
Okay um not just music
let's look at head shots.
So I decided to try the viral AI headshot generator that has been going around on Tik Tok
and today I'm going to show you the good, the bad and the very ugly AI-generated headshots that came out of it.
So for the good, they're actually pretty decent.
They do a full variety of hairstyles and photo types, some are very glam.
Got to the bad ones. There's a few different categories of bad.
First up, I would say the thing that was wrong with most of the photos is that the teeth are just off.
It made my teeth awkwardly large in a lot of photos.
Wow.
Two categories there, the bad that I don't know her and I know something's up
but the first half
Quite good. Quite believable.
And I actually know some people on LinkedIn that have changed their profile pictures to the AI-generated imagery.
Yeah, you save your money, you don't have to hire a professional photographer
you're not getting a makeup artist, you're not thinking about the clothes that you're gonna wear
you get it immediately
but as you say, what happens with your likeness, your image?
Yeah I would be a little bit concerned there, I know we already have a lot of issues when it comes to data
where are our photos, who owns them, all over social media.
But when it comes to training an AI to get specifically good at recreating you
that to me is a little bit cause for red flags.
There still is something, so if somebody's watching and doesn't want to be caught off guard with an AI-generated image
there still are aspects of it that something's always off
so she had mentioned her teeth but then AI often makes skin a little bit too smooth
or if you zoom in really, really closely sometimes you can see things like eyes are a little bit different colors
or maybe somebody has an earring on one ear and not on the other
little small differentiators that AI just kind of misses the details
and even if you come across an image, and you think it might be fake, and it is more deceptive, it's something more significant, maybe political or whatnot
if you zoom in really closely, there's always something a little bit strange, even if it's the skin just being immaculate
that kind of gives it away.
Let's go to politics.
I'm going to show you a video of President Biden.
A lot of people have been asking for a tutorial on the AI voice, so here it is.
Start by searching up 11 Labs, then click the first link that pops up
I don't think that's that good.
The video was very off, so if somebody was listening to that as maybe a radio commercial
you would maybe think it was President Biden
the audio it was hard to tell. Yeah, again I was just
if I was just listening to this, as a podcast, that's him that's the president.
It seems like we're stepping into a world now where imagery, video, audio, may no longer be synonymous with the truth or fact
we can't just take it for granted that this is how it happened, or this is what happened
and that creates a few more ethical alarm bells and some caution signs.
And that's why we need human news anchors.
We need human news anchors and also we need to, to update our information ecosystems in the time
in the age of AI, right, so maybe we do things like, we require watermarks on AI-generated imagery
Uh well Sinead, uh, this is amazing / scary / really important for all of us to know about
you're giving us, um, things that we should think about.
Thank you.
Thank you for having me.