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$150 Deepfakes, Twitter’s New Competition & The Impending Death of Short-Form Content with Jag Sharma, Jason Kapadia and Jen Campbell #45

Disconnected

English - May 10, 2023 00:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MB
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Do you own the copyright to your own likeness?

We’re in the wild west of ‘deepfakes’; enabled by AI, and now being monetised by Tencent. 

Beyond this trust-wavering news, we’re seeing a Twitter competitor from Twitter’s own former CEO, and a pivot towards long form content from the very platforms that demanded shorter content in the first place…

Jen Campbell, Jason Kapadia & Jag Sharma take us through it all in this week’s Disconnected. 

This episode of Disconnected covers:

Tencent’s commercialisation of deepfake techJack Dorsey’s Blue Sky social, and more Twitter competitors popping upSocial platforms pivoting back to long form contentUpdates to Snapchat’s ad opportunities