The Download: hyperrealistic deepfakes, and clean energy’s implications for mining

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The Download: hyperrealistic deepfakes, and clean energy’s implications for mining

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary Until now, AI-generated videos of people have tended to have some stiffness, glitchiness, or other unnatural elements that make them pretty easy to differentiate from reality.For the past several years, AI video startup Synthesia has …