Balasubramaniyan: Media platforms should be held accountable for labeling AI content
Vijay Balasubramaniyan · Can We Detect a Deepfake? · Oct 30, 2024 · at 28:13
Vijay Balasubramaniyan, CEO of Pindrop, argues that platforms must bear responsibility for distinguishing real audio and video from synthetic AI content for average consumers.
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“And the only other thing that I'll say is right now, because we consume things through a lot of platforms, Platforms should be held accountable at some level to, you know, clearly demarcating what is real and what is not, right? Because otherwise it's going to be really hard for the average consumer to know that this is AI generated versus this is not.”
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