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Deepfakes, voice cloning and synthetic people

How synthetic audio and video are made, why detection is unreliable, and how to assess and report a suspected deepfake without amplifying it.

Cloned voices, and the limits of your eyes and ears

Synthetic media is audio, image or video generated or substantially altered by machine learning so that it shows something that did not happen. Three techniques cover most of what you will meet. A face swap places one person's face onto another's body in existing footage. Lip-sync manipulation keeps real footage but rewrites the mouth movements to match new audio. Full…

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