Bret Kinsella (read Voicebot.ai)
Val Kilmer Gets a New Synthetic Voice Replica from Sonantic
3 min read · Aug 17th · You may know that Val Kilmer lost his natural speaking voice due to throat cancer. The star of “Batman Forever,”..
The Believer
Ghosts
20+ min read · Aug 9th · 7. My sister was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma when I was in my freshman year of high school and she was in her junior year. I didn’t understand then how serious a disease it was. But it was—serious.…
CNN
How a deepfake Tom Cruise on TikTok turned into a very real AI company
6 min read · Aug 6th · Earlier this year, videos of Tom Cruise started popping up on TikTok of the actor doing some surprisingly un-Tom-Cruise-like stuff: goofing around in an upscale men's clothing store; showing off a…
The Verge
New Anthony Bourdain documentary deepfakes his voice
1 min read · Jul 15th · An algorithm cloned his voice with twelve hours of audio
Vox
TikTok’s catfish problem is worse than you think
5 min read · Jul 6th · Several creators have been called out for faking their age and their race.
synthesia.io
Empowering Storytellers with AI
1 min read · From 2018 · Synthesia brings entirely new AI-driven capabilities to content creators. Fuelled by advancements in machine learning we push technological boundaries and empower storytellers to realise creative…
MIT Technology Review
These creepy fake humans herald a new age in AI
6 min read · Jun 11th · Need more data for deep learning? Synthetic data companies will make it for you.
mischiefusa.com
mischief.
1 min read · Jun 12th · RepresentUs is a bi-partisan organization dedicated to fighting political corruption. Its research revealed (as anyone watching the news can see) that American politics has become increasingly…
The Daily Beast
Shockingly Real Tom Cruise Deepfakes Are Invading TikTok
2 min read · Feb 26th · Be afraid. Be very afraid.
musebycl.io
Rise of the Avatars: Their Future in Gaming, Fashion and Music
5 min read · Feb 2nd · Our virtual selves are just getting warmed up
Gizmodo
Microsoft Landed a Patent to Turn You Into a Chatbot
4 min read · Jan 23rd · What if the most significant measure of your life’s labors has nothing to do with your lived experiences but merely your unintentional generation of a realistic digital clone of yourself, a specimen…
OpenAI
DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
20+ min read · Jan 5th · We’ve trained a neural network called DALL·E that creates images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language.
webaverse.com
Webaverse
1 min read · 2020-12-18 · A universe of apps build with IPFS, Ethereum, and WebXR
Business Wire
Roblox Acquires Loom.ai, Accelerating Development of Avatar Realism and Emotions
1 min read · 2020-12-14 · Roblox, a global online platform bringing millions of people together through play, announced today the acquisition of Loom.ai, a privately-held compa
debugger.medium.com
Replace Your Face With an A.I. Twin to Trick Facial Recognition
10 min read · 2020-11-25 · Try the Anonymizer tool to create a fake face that looks like you
The New York Times
Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You?
4 min read · 2020-11-21 · The people in this story may look familiar, like ones you’ve seen on Facebook or Twitter or Tinder. But they don’t exist. They were born from the mind of a computer, and the technology behind them is…
