It’s become relatively easy to replace mouth movements in video and generate speech to sound like a specific person. So naturally, scammers are using the readily available tools to steal people’s life savings. For the New York Times, Stuart A. Thompson shows how deepfake Elon Musk videos are being used in fake ads to promote junk.

I can’t imagine this could end well for us.

Keywords: deepfake, Elon Musk, ethics, New York Times, scam