Daring Fireball: It’s Game Over on Vocal Deepfakes

Gruber on the rapid development and improvement of fake voice technology. The examples in this Twitter thread are incredible. The audio is spot on for Steve Jobs. There is even one where Jobs voice answers in Spanish.

Real recordings will be called fake and fake recordings will be leaked as purportedly real. I don’t think the general population is prepared for this, and I worry that news media organizations aren’t either.

I’m not sure how we are going to adapt to a world where AI can generate written text, audio, or video of anyone that has a sufficient library of content online that sounds and looks exactly like them.

We need digital signatures fast! I’m already considering how I can embed a signature into the Weekly Thing to assert that I wrote the content, and it wasn't generated by a bot.