On this week’s podcast, media expert Tom Cheredar helps us examine the cutting edge of deepfaked video and speech... and its potential benefits and dangers.

What We’re Playing With

Andy:  The Simpsons: The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson

Tosin: live edge slab table

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• • Video Deepfake: Robert Downey Jr and Tom Holland in Back to the Future

• Audio Deepfake: Various celebrities reading “Navy Seal copypasta”
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Alec Guinness
  • A Guide to Speech Synthesis with Deep Learning

Audible Book of the Week

• The Reality Game by Samuel Woolley
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Music Break: Lies by Thompson Twins

Hot Topic: Deepfakes

• Twitter Just Released Its Plan To Deal With Deep Fakes
• We've Just Seen the First Use of Deepfakes in an Indian Election Campaign
• Deepfakes, videos manipulated by face-swapping technology, are showing up on the wildly popular 60-second video app TikTok
• Deepfakes and deep media: A new security battleground

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The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all. Hosts are social media enthusiast Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Vudu product manager Tosin Onafowokan.