Article Image and Credit(s): Ethan Mollick, a business professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, used a photo of himself (left) in an artificial intelligence platform where he generated a deepfake video of himself (right). Ethan Mollick
Sure, his delivery is stiff and his mouth moves a bit strangely. But if you didn’t know him well, you probably wouldn’t think twice.
But the video is not Ethan Mollick. It’s a deepfake Mollick himself created, using artificial intelligence to generate his words, his voice and his moving image.
“It was mostly to see if I could, and then realizing that it’s so much easier than I thought,” Mollick said in an interview with NPR.
Like many who have been closely following the rapid acceleration in AI technology, Mollick is excited about the potential for these tools to change the way we work and help us be more creative.
But he’s among a growing chorus of people worried that this proliferation of what’s known as “generative AI” will supercharge propaganda and influence campaigns by bad actors.
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