FT AI correspondent Melissa Heikkilä steps inside the world of deepfakes – swapping faces with a colleague, dissecting scams, and examining what it will take to stop their spread
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0:00 Introduction
0:57 How to make a deepfake
03:50 How the FT’s Martin Wolf was deepfaked in a scam
05:07 Pindrop – a company who detect deepfakes
05:22 Interview with Vijay Balasubramaniyan, Pindrop CEO
07:43 Academic face swap papers
07:58 The Rubber Mask Scammer – Gilbert Chikli
08:25 Victor Mallet from the FT attended the scammer’s trial
10:35 Making the perfect rubber mask
10:45 Interview with Anthrotek CEO Raoul Peltier
14:23 Henry Ajder – Deepfake AI expert
17:20 Claire Leibowicz – Partnership on AI
22:57 Conclusion
Produced by Tom Hannen. Filmed by Petros Gioumpasis, Joe Sinclair, Gregory Bobillot and Chris Kimling
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