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IN early June 2019, a fake video of Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, began to circulate around the social media platform Instagram. In it, he appeared to thank a shadowy organisation called “Spectre” for helping him manipulate people into willingly divulging their personal information to him.
The video, which is still available to watch on YouTube, looks authentic, but was in fact generated by an algorithm that is able to mimic human voices and facial appearances. Worryingly, other algorithms exist that can do the task even more convincingly.
An international team of scientists, working with Adobe — the company that is responsible for Photoshop, commonly used to create doctored images — have created software that can alter the words that people say in a video of them speaking.
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