From Joe Biden to Taylor Swift, the era of the celebrity deepfakes has begun

U.S. President Joe Biden is not robocalling voters to tell them not to vote in state primaries – and Pindrop knows which AI text-to-speech (TTS) engine was used to fake his voice. A post written by the voice fraud detection firm’s CEO says its software analyzed spectral and temporal artifacts in the audio to determine that the biometric deepfake came from generative speech synthesis startup ElevenLabs.

“Pindrop’s deepfake engine analyzed the 39-second audio clip through a four-stage process,” writes …

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