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Zack Polanksi says BBC 'letting billionaire buy Question Time' over imbalanced panel

QUESTION Time has been called out for a “dangerous” lack of balance on its panel – with Zack Polanski suggesting the BBC had allowed a…

The National (Scotland)

Exclusive: AI startup Viktor raises $75 million to put a virtual ‘coworker’ in Slack and Teams

Exclusive: AI startup Viktor raises $75 million to put a virtual ‘coworker’ in Slack and Teams

The former Meta engineers behind Viktor say their AI agent has hit a $15 million revenue run rate in about 10 weeks.

What makes an AI avatar seem human, according to Synthesia’s CEO

When I was writing a feature for Fortune’s just-released digital issue, I asked Synthesia CEO and cofounder Victor Riparbelli: What makes an avatar seem more human?

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AI video avatars are already serving some of the world’s biggest companies

Most people absorb information from video more readily than text, and digital avatars make training and comms videos easier and cheaper to produce.

AI is changing how employees train—and starting to reduce how much training they need

As workers focus on acquiring AI skills, AI is emerging as a useful tool to hone other important job skills.

‘It’s not me, it’s just my face’: the models who found their likenesses had been used in AI propaganda

London-based Synthesia’s technology was employed to make deepfake videos for authoritarian regimes

The Guardian - UK

This Company Is Deepfaking Your Whole Body to Make Super Realistic AI Avatars

Synthesia showed off its 2.0 model that will soon feature a way to generate full-body AI avatars that can make realistic gestures.

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OpenAI's Johansson Gaffe Pushes Voice Cloning Into Spotlight

OpenAI's Johansson Gaffe Pushes Voice Cloning Into Spotlight

OpenAI was forced to apologise to actor Scarlett Johansson last week for using her voice -- or something very similar -- on its latest chatbot, throwing the spotlight on to voice-cloning tech.

International Business Times

That Time We Tried To Make Sense of a Statistic in a New York Times Story on Deepfakes

That Time We Tried To Make Sense of a Statistic in a New York Times Story on Deepfakes

Deepfakes aren't nearly as dangerous as the tried-and-true technique of saying something misleading with the imprimatur of authority.

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