Voice Clone Extortion and the Rise of WaterTok with Jen Campbell and Jag Sharma #44

Disconnected

English - April 26, 2023 00:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MB
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Previous Episode: The iRobot Takeover & Debunking the Twitter Confusion with Jag Sharma & Jason Kapadia #43

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

Your voice is no longer uniquely your own.

With AI at the centre of two controversies this past fortnight - voice clones and fake photography - it’s clear that we’re seeing new uses for technology at a rate beyond which we can hope to keep up.

Meanwhile in the tech world, social media trends have transformed the approach to drinking water, and Twitter’s ‘freedom of speech, not freedom of reach’ is confusing many.

Here to make sense of all this, and consider where it’s all going, are the wonderful Jen Campbell and Jag Sharma on this week’s Disconnected podcast.

This episode of Disconnected covers:

The remarkable growth of the WaterTok trendTwitter’s ‘freedom of speech, not freedom of reach’ approach to hate on the platformSony World Photography Awards being duped by AIVoice clones being used for extortion