A recommended read: this story by Melissa Heikkilä on AI-created digital clones is a great deep dive into the topic.

My quick note: right now avatar creation requires a lot of effort, but the solution enabling this will become mainstream.

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“It feels like a bleak future where humans are consuming AI-generated content presented to them by AI-generated avatars and using AI to repackage that into more content, which will likely be scraped to generate more AI.”

'AI development moves at breakneck speed, and it is both exciting and daunting to consider what AI avatars will look like in just a few years'

Scary piece by Melissa Heikkilä on the rise of synthetic media and what it may mean for us all
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If you read one article today, make it Melissa Heikkilä's in-depth piece about Synthesia 🎥's new Expressive Avatars and the implications of a (near) future where more and more content is AI generated:

technologyreview.com/2024/04/25/109… 🎥🤖

Insightful piece from the brilliant Melissa Heikkilä about synthetic media, consent, misinformation...and how they're all connected.
A must read! 👇👇👇

Deepfakes are getting good. Like really good. I cloned myself for this story on Synthesia. It's soon going to be impossible to distinguish what is made by AI and what is not, and that raises some big questions about a world where we can’t tell what’s real. technologyreview.com/2024/04/25/109…

TY Melissa Heikkilä for great reporting: MIT Technology Review Chelsea Finn Lerrel Pinto Sergey Levine Berkeley AI Research technologyreview.com/2024/04/11/109… MIT Technology Review

Experienced tech journalists are doing a good job to demystify AI but 'to report on technological progress while not succumbing to industry narratives always was, and remains, challenging.'

Great to be featured alongside emily bell Zoe Kleinman Melissa Heikkilä et al

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This. It’s all I think about.

Either citizens get involved in tech policy in the 2024 elections, and 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘥 policies to make sure that AI that is good for humanity, or are we are in deep, deep trouble.

From a great conversation I had with Melissa Heikkilä…

Thanks for having me on the podcast!

On deepfake sexualization, from Melissa Heikkilä: 'The tech sector has thus far been unwilling or unmotivated to make changes that would prevent such material from being created with their tools or shared on their platforms. That is why we need regulation.' ❤️‍🔥

Hey Taylor Swift, those deepfakes were awful. Nobody deserves to have their image exploited like that. But right now, you have a rare opportunity, and momentum, to fight back against deepfake porn and help millions of women and marginalized people. technologyreview.com/2024/01/29/108…

“People with power, like yourself, can fight with money & lawyers. But low-income women, women of color, women fleeing abusive partners, women journalists, & even children are seeing their likeness stolen & pornified, w/no way to seek justice or support.” technologyreview.com/2024/01/29/108…

I am proud of my MIT Technology Review coworker Melissa Heikkilä who has been fighting against the use of AI and deep fakes to sexualize and violate women.

Her open letter to Taylor Swift was especially meaningful to me, and I hope the people in power are listening.

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Hey Taylor Swift , you should read Melissa Heikkilä's letter (and explainer) to help you fight back against deep fakes! Important work at a crucial time 🤓

Fantastic open letter from MIT Technology Review’s Melissa Heikkilä to Taylor Swift.

Pass it along.

Check out the amazing article by Melissa Heikkilä covering this work: technologyreview.com/2023/12/01/108…
With quotes from Jesse Dodge , Lynn Kaack and Vijay Gadepally! 💞

Great work coming from Google DeepMind on medium-range weather forecasting! Thank you Melissa Heikkilä MIT Technology Review for quoting my thoughts on AI-powered forecasts steadily becoming the new normal👇