This Day in AI Podcast

EP38: Ed Sheeran Listens to Our Podcast, Deep Fakes & Frontier Risks and AI Ears: SALMONN Model

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Oct 27, 2023
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Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran, a famous musician, makes a surprise appearance and discusses his love for the podcast. The podcast also covers topics such as deep fakes and their potential dangers, AI-generated voices becoming undetectable, challenges in web crawling, limitations of current PDF to text technology, and the idea of creating an agent as a moral conscious.
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ANECDOTE

Ed Sheeran DM And Deepfake Prank

  • Michael received a DM and a voice clip allegedly from Ed Sheeran and played it on the show to prove authenticity.
  • The hosts then played a sexually explicit fake clip claiming a relationship with Taylor Swift to illustrate deepfake risk and comedy use.
INSIGHT

Preparedness Challenge Could Be A Honeypot

  • OpenAI launched a Frontier Risk and Preparedness effort offering API credits to encourage safety-focused misuse research.
  • The hosts observe this may attract benign researchers but also create a honeypot that malicious actors will avoid in favor of open-source tools.
INSIGHT

Audio-Driven Talking-Head Deepfakes Are Rising

  • Video retalking and audio-based lip-sync tools lower the barrier for creating realistic talking-head deepfakes.
  • Combined with accessible voice cloning, these tools significantly raise misinformation and impersonation risks.
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