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This article title is a bit off. The audio is not generated, the video is not convincing, and the original conversation is not fake.

This is an art project which highlights the implications of research like Face2Face: https://youtu.be/ohmajJTcpNk

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Glad you posted this, I was about to look for this same link to share. Between this and Adobe's voice emulation software https://thenextweb.com/apps/2016/11/04/adobes-upcoming-audio... it appears possible to create very realistic 'footage' of constructions based on real people doing and saying things. The film industry create computer generated characters of deceased actors (Star Wars for example). this makes the Economist piece very out of touch with realities, and presumably there are far more sophisticated technologies we don't know about too....

Someone has changed the title now, which is a good thing, because the original clickbaity title wasn't very descriptive at all, and the new one is actually much more interesting.

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