Google makes it easy to deepfake yourself

YouTube Shorts is rolling out a caller AI-powered diagnostic giving creators an casual mode to realistically clone themselves connected camera. The launch, hinted astatine earlier this year, reflects the platform's fraught narration with AI-generated content, adding much generative features portion struggling to contain AI slop, deepfake scams, and impersonations.

YouTube says the caller instrumentality volition fto users make a integer mentation of themselves, called an avatar, that tin beryllium inserted into existing Shorts videos oregon utilized to make wholly caller ones. The institution said avatars volition "look and dependable similar you," framing them arsenic a safer and much unafraid mode to usage AI to …

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