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  1. ” Alternative approaches to those referenced above , including building chimeras based
    on SARS-CoV-1 , SARS-CoV-2, and MERS-CoV, may be subject to the DHHS P3CO
    Framework and must be submitted to NIAID for review and approval prior to the work
    commencing … “

  2. In the very near future we will truly have no idea what is real, and what is not.

  3. Is this using Elevenlabs or something else? Because the Elevenlabs deepfakes are insanely accurate they even add random pauses or breaths in between words to make it even more realistic.

  4. Real-life meetings will be important again. All personal relationship and business deals will require direct meeting.

  5. Everyone better start using pass phrases with their loved ones so we will know if it’s legit or not.

  6. As usual, they leave you with no solutions.

    Here’s a solution: set up a passphrase with your family members so they know it’s you. If you’re ever concerned that it might not be them, challenge them with questions that only they would know the answer to.

  7. Oh great, when my family calls to borrow dollars I’ll have to ask them three security questions 😜

    1. You got that right how sad this country is coming to it’s sad you would have to ask your family questions only you and them know

  8. Mitch McConnell fell in the Trump hotel tonight and is in the hospital. With Biden loosing his fight with three staircases this year and McConnell a floor, at least gravity is trying to work for the American people.

    1. ​@Maddie Thornhill yup, nothing like inexperience and the lack of wisdom it perpetuates to solve world problems I always say.

    2. @Susan Teeter what better than two geriatric old men, one of which shakes hands with invisible people on stage to have their fingers on their nuclear buttons said nobody ever.

  9. A couple of giggling schoolboys playing with a shiny toy that has a hand grenade buried within it. What could possibly go wrong?

  10. Goodness, that is terrifying. If it’s this good now, how will it be in 10 years? 20? Really terrifying.

    1. Why would Google want to do anything with your voice? Are you secretly a millionaire so that multi-billionaire company would need to impersonate you to steal from you? Or are you president of some country, so Google would want to impersonate you – for some reason?
      The people at risk of being deep-faked aren’t the ones recording their voices so the Google Assistant can understand them (more or less), but the ones speaking publicly or recording themselves and publishing that on social networks *anyone* can watch, and then upload the voice clips in *any* of the multiple AI websites already available to make them say anything they didn’t. The people most at risk are the rich and famous, but above all, politicians and celebrities. Imagine a deep-fake of Greta Thunberg saying she loves muscle cars, Tom Hanks insulting someone, Al Sharpton making erotic advances, Mitt Romney ordering alcohol on the phone, Mike Pence saying he loves BDSM, Trump saying he ordered McCain to be killed… those are just some of the possibilities.
      What would Google win by deep-faking us?

  11. My mind goes to those terminators in the movies. James Cameron was really ahead of his time.

    1. Have you heard of Sophia Stewart? I recently learned she wrote this book called “The third eye”. That was (purportedly) stolen and used to create two of Hollywood’s biggest franchises, THE MATRIX and THE TERMINATOR.

  12. “We have what’s called the liar’s dividend. Anyone can plausibly deny reality.”

    Should have started with that. It’s bloody serious.

  13. And I think it’s very irresponsible and troubling to think that someone is saying something that I said and that I didn’t even say it’s horrifying me.

  14. Donie if your reading this, Tyrone beat Kerry 1-15 to 2-09, the kingdom would want to pull their socks up 😆

  15. With deep fakes of faces and voice it definitely puts a lot of security measures at risk. Things that use facial recognition or voice recognition as security authentication.
    Personally so far I’ve always been able to tell when it’s computer generated voice because of mispronounced word and that slightly monotone sound. Lack of inflection. But I have no doubt this will be addressed before long. And that’s scary.

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