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Letter: When everything looks like a hallucination...

Published 21 June 2017

From Adam Savage, San Francisco, California, US

You report artificial intelligence that can make videos of you saying anything (27 May, p 16). This barely hints at the potential for this technology: fake news at a level we can hardly imagine.

Software will probably be developed to detect when a video has been doctored, but who will believe whom when everything starts to look like a hallucination?

Issue no. 3131 published 24 June 2017

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