I Spoke With an AI Deepfake Hunter, and Here's What You Should Know

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AI on the Lot, the tech conference focused entirely on AI and filmmaking, took place at Amazon MGM Studios in Culver City last week. I was there for part of the sold-out event among nearly 2,500 people, who were all milling about from soundstages to theaters to get educated on everything artificial intelligence can do for Hollywood.

Human creativity, intent, identity and impact were not front and center in the panel conversations I attended. I made it a point to make these topics a focal point of my sidebar chats with various AI representatives. The most eye-opening of these interviews was with Luke Arrigoni, CEO of Loti AI -- a company that scours the internet for deepfakes of people (celebrities and otherwise) and takes them down.

Do you want to protect your likeness online? Luke is the guy to call.

A deepfake is basically a digital forgery of...

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