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Episode: We are not ready for better deepfakes
Description: This is Alex Heath, your Thursday episode guest host. Today I'm talking with Gaurav Misra, the CEO of Captions. You may not have heard of Captions yet, but by now, youâve probably seen a video that was generated using its AI models. The companyâs Mirage Studio platform lets anyone generate AI versions of real people, and the results are alarmingly realistic.Â
Captions just put out a blog post titled, âWe Build Synthetic Humans. Hereâs Whatâs Keeping Us Up at Night.â Itâs a good overview of the state of deepfakes and where theyâre headed. So Gau...