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Can you tell if you're talking to a real person or an AI? You probably can't. Cloned voices are fooling almost everyone, and AI-written news still flops in public trust.
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AI INSIGHTS
AI voices are officially blending into the background of daily life and according to a new study, most people can’t even tell. Most of us are guessing wrong, and the line between real and fake just got even blurrier.
Researchers gave people 80 voice samples: Half were real, half were AI-generated. Here’s how it broke down:
Generic AI voices = mostly detected as fake
Cloned AI voices = 58% were mistaken as human
Actual human voices = only 62% were correctly spotted
4% difference. Basically, your brain can’t tell the difference anymore. Even they just used ElevenLabs that anyone can access. Despite all that, AI voices do have real value, especially in accessibility:
People who are mute or have speaking impairments can now recreate their original voice → Better audio-learning for students with ADHD
Or design a new voice that matches their identity → speak your native voice in different languages
Why it matters: Phone scams are now using AI voice cloning to impersonate family members. Elderly people are especially at risk. You’ve probably already heard it yet just didn’t know it was fake.
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TODAY IN AI
AI HIGHLIGHTS
🤡 Elon Musk is back at it, this time reposting a meme-style correction OpenAI to “OpenLie”. Yeah, classic Elon. Grok's dad is such a hater!? That funny post is here.
📑 We found a repo that’s basically a masterclass on Prompt Engineering like how to design engineer context, few-shot techniques like a pro. It’s free. Bookmark it now.
🎥 OpenAI Sora 2 videos are flooding the internet and they’re almost too real (even pro debunkers are struggling). Can you still say ‘I can tell if it’s fake’ for these videos?
🚨 Meta’s new AI fairness adviser, Robby Starbuck, is spreading disinfo on shootings, vaccines, and trans people, weeks after suing Meta to get the job. Read his posts.
⚔️ Amazon and Google just launched rival enterprise AI agent suites on the same day: Quick Suite ($20‑40/mo) vs Gemini Enterprise ($30/mo). See the comparison here.
📲 Elon Musk’s Neuralink is advancing its brain-interface technology, which it claims can let users command devices with their minds and gestures. See it in action here.
💰 AI Daily Fundraising: Prezent raised $30M (total $74M, $400M valuation) to buy AI service firms, starting with Prezentium, co‑founded by its CEO.
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AI QUICK HITS
🔍 A judge lifted the rule for OpenAI to keep all GPT logs forever
👩⚕️ Microsoft partnered with Harvard Medical School for its AI
✨ Figma partnered with Google to embed Gemini directly into it
👨💻 Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Andrew heads to Meta
💬 Mark joins Sam Altman & says that AI could be on a bubble
AI CHART
A new Reuters Institute survey across six countries shows just how weird the split is: People are doubling their use of AI tools… but want human hands on every headline.
So, how are people actually using AI now? Turns out, it’s just more about finding things. Here’s the shift:
24% use AI weekly for information seeking (research, questions, etc.)
21% use it for generating text, code, or images
ChatGPT leads, but 54% users see AI through search engines like Google
AI summaries are everywhere even when you don’t ask for them. But when it comes to news? Trust decreases hard.
Only 12% feel okay reading AI-written articles
A whopping 62% say they want humans writing the news
People are fine using ChatGPT to learn about the world, just not hear it from AI directly. You use AI to find your info → but demand a human to filter, write, and explain it.
AI is clearly useful. The numbers say so. But if you’re a journalist, publisher, or news org, you’re being judged by how much you use it.
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