I have always enjoyed comedians who could impersonate someone. And, some personalities are easier to impersonate than others because of accents, facial movements, gestures, and speech patterns. If you close your eyes during their performances, you might even say they sound just like the person they are impersonating. Of course, once you open your eyes you can see it is a stunt.
OK, fasten your seat belts, here we go again. This time it is about someone creating an audio or even a video of you or I saying something we never said, nor even had permission to use our image. Today’s artificial intelligence coupled with our digital authoring capabilities can now produce “clones” of you and me.
Read about it for yourself in the USA Today.
Creepy on many levels, but the authors point to ways things like this can be deeply effective with today’s social media. And, as with all too much about today’s digital world, the laws to protect us from these kinds of nefarious activities are woefully lagging.