A user can upload a real recording of themselves to a generative AI video platform to create a 'clone' which can then be fed any script and sound disarmingly like the real person, like this one made in January 2024. But the technology has misinformation experts concerned.
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00:00 Hi, welcome to the world of AI video clones. I'm Saffron Howden. Or am I?
00:05 It's complicated. This isn't me actually speaking these words.
00:09 I recorded a two-minute video of myself and uploaded it to an AI video platform.
00:14 Now I can give it any script I want, and my clone will say what I want it to say.
00:20 There's potential for some interesting ways of sharing information with these tools, but it's also a bit scary.
00:26 I could tell the clone to say "I love eggplant", but the real Saffron Howden definitely doesn't love eggplant.
00:33 I can use AI video to translate what I say into different languages.
00:39 I'm speaking Mandarin. I've never learned Mandarin. It only took a few minutes.
00:45 My new clone speaks French. It's walking in the streets of Paris now.
00:50 And the real Saffron Howden would love to speak Hindi. He doesn't have it, but I do.
00:56 I'm called a Hindi-speaking partner. This AI clone doesn't work well.
01:01 It's a whole new world now generative AI tools are at our fingertips.
01:05 (upbeat music)
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