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AI Can Now Show Up on Your Video Calls Looking Disturbingly Human

Summary by PC Mag
'Griffin' is an impressive tool that lets you video chat with an avatar that's indistinguishable from a real person. Critics argue it's ripe for scammers and say it should be banned.

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Tavus celebrates a milestone that at the same time declares too dangerous to launch. The data is not 48%: it is what was not measured

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Griffin is the first AI to look, react and behave convincingly enough in a video call that almost half of the interlocutors do not suspect that he is talking to a computer.

AI company Tavus has unveiled "Griffin," an AI model that interacts with humans in real-time video and audio. In an experiment using the research preview version, "Griffin-Lite," 26 out of 54 participants (approximately 48%) in a one-minute live video call identified the AI as a real human being. Read more...

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