“In the Sudan case, experts used a machine learning algorithm trained on over a million examples of synthetic speech to prove, almost without a shadow of a doubt, that it was authentic.”

TED Tech · Democracy in the Age of AI (2/5): When AI can fake reality, who can you trust? | Sam Gregory

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used a machine learning algorithm trained on over a million synthetic speech examples to verify audio authenticity

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