TNW 100: Cheap Deepfakes




Tech News Weekly (MP3) show

Summary: <ul> <li>(01:55) Britt Paris, co-author of "Deepfakes and Cheap Fakes," discusses the ways that fakes are being detected and how those systems might not be good enough as the technology gets better.</li> <li>(15:55) Employees at Microsoft are sharing their salary information on an anonymous spreadsheet, and Dave Gershgorn from OneZero was granted access to it.</li> <li>(32:14) With the launch of Apple Arcade, Ian Sherr from CNET got perspectives from developers to understand the value proposition of creating exclusives for the subscription service.</li> <li>(44:47) Descript is a startup working on creating tools for podcasters that will allow for editing audio like an email and replacing words with synthetically generated words in the voice of the speaker.</li> <li>(51:04) Mikah has a surprise for Jason and the world, and things will never be the same again.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Hosts:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jason-howell">Jason Howell</a> and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/mikah-sargent">Mikah Sargent</a></p> <p><strong>Guests:</strong> <a href="https://twitter.com/drbrittparis" target="_blank">Britt Paris</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/davegershgorn" target="_blank">Dave Gershgorn</a>, and <a href="http://twitter.com/iansherr" target="_blank">Ian Sherr</a></p> <p>Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly">https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly</a>.</p> <p><strong>Sponsors:</strong></p><ul> <li><a href="http://aka.ms/TNWMechanics">aka.ms/TNWMechanics</a></li> <li><a href="https://twit.cachefly.com">twit.cachefly.com</a></li> </ul>