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By Bernd Debusmann Jr
image captionSouth Korean viewers were told in advance about the deepfake Kim Joo-Ha, pictured here
A few months ago, millions of TV viewers across South Korea were watching the MBN channel to catch the latest news.
At the top of the hour, regular news anchor Kim Joo-Ha started to go through the day s headlines. It was a relatively normal list of stories for late 2020 - full of Covid-19 and pandemic response updates.
Yet this particular bulletin was far from normal, as Kim Joo-Ha wasn t actually on the screen. Instead she had been replaced by a deepfake version of herself - a computer-generated copy that aims to perfectly reflect her voice, gestures and facial expressions.
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March 3, 2021 at 4:00 pm
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It was recently revealed that in 2017 Microsoft patented a chatbot which, if built, would digitally resurrect the dead. Using AI and machine learning, the proposed chatbot would bring our digital persona back to life for our family and friends to talk to. When pressed on the technology, Microsoft representatives admitted that the chatbot was “disturbing”, and that there were currently no plans to put it into production.