Deepfakes
63 episodes
#6342: Why Pitch Shifting Fails to Protect Witnesses
Modern generative voice conversion models can swap vocal identities live with less than eighty milliseconds of delay.
#6340: Disguising Voices Without Losing the Emotion
Benchmark tests show speech anonymizers can protect identity while preserving emotion at an unweighted recall of under 44 percent.
#6215: Can Anyone Still Spot an AI Voice?
Clones now pass as human. Generic AI voices still don't. And the detectors? They fall apart in the wild.
#6197: Talking to Your Own Voice Clone
What actually happens when you sit down and talk with an AI clone of your own voice — and what Evan Ratliff's Shell Game revealed.
#6195: Me and My Voice Clone
Daniel talks to his own voice clone. He recorded his lines on a phone; the clone's lines are Meorav v2, a model trained on 88 minutes of his voice.
#6179: Voice Cloning: 10 Seconds to Steal Your Voice
Ten seconds of audio is all it takes to clone a voice. Here's what the law actually protects — and what it doesn't.
#6177: How Voice Cloning Works From Six Seconds of Audio
Six seconds of reference audio is all Chatterbox needs. The real work happened in the half-million hours of training before you showed up.
#6101: When Chatbots Run for Office
From a Wyoming mayoral bot to Albania's AI minister, six real attempts to put machines on the ballot — and what they reveal about empty platforms.
#6095: How to Prove Your Photo Is Real
Deepfakes made faking easy. Now the harder problem: proving your real photos and video are real. A field guide.
#5842: When Your TTS Model Updates Itself
Resemble pushed new Chatterbox weights to Hugging Face. Our pipeline started using them without a single config change.
#5601: How Image Forensics Catches Fake Ghosts and Deepfakes
From darkroom magnifying glasses to AI provenance fingerprints — how we've verified photographs for a century.
#5503: Inside the Hidden Image Generation Pipeline
That one-click image generator is secretly a graph of many models. We reconstruct the hidden pipeline behind Gemini and ChatGPT.
#5300: When the Interviewer Isn't Real
AI avatars are already interviewing job candidates — often without saying so. The disclosure toggle ships off by default.
#4997: 4,914 Episodes of AI Hosts: What We Learned
Two AI-generated hosts explain how their fully automated podcast works — and what 4,914 episodes reveal about AI.
#4672: How Magic Eraser Tools Actually Work: Segmentation + Inpainting
Two AI stages — pixel-level segmentation and generative inpainting — explain how your phone erases objects cleanly.
#4666: Why 30 Seconds of Audio Beats 3 Minutes for Voice Cloning
Why adding more audio made Daniel's voice clones worse — and what it reveals about how voice embeddings actually work.
#4660: When a Journalist Became the Gatekeeper for AI Geolocation
GeoSpy could locate anyone from a photo. A journalist exposed it. The founder pulled it. Who's really in charge?
#4606: Why Resemble Gave Away Its Best Voice Model
Resemble AI sells deepfake detection but open-sourced Chatterbox, a top TTS model. Here's the strategic logic.
#4596: How to Record Calls and Conversations for Evidence
The unglamorous craft of capturing audio that actually proves something — gear, technique, and steering the conversation.
#4509: Wood in 2026: Forests, Species, and Sustainability
Global forests are still shrinking, but the story is more complex than deforestation headlines suggest.
#4449: Blur Before You Publish: Image Redaction Tools
How to automatically find and blur QR codes, credit cards, and sensitive text in photos before publishing.
#4223: Burn the House Down: Iran's Both-Sides Strategy
Iran isn't picking winners in Israel—it's amplifying both extremes to tear the center apart.
#4044: How to Sound Like a Bot on Purpose
When AI detectors flag clean human writing as machine-made, sounding like a bot becomes a survival skill.
#3773: Mossad's Secret Influence Branch: 11-Year Photo Trap
A secret Mossad unit uses AI personas and decade-old photos to undermine Iran from within. One photograph took down a minister.