Malhotra: Rephrase.ai Never Cloned Anyone Without Permission Beyond Early Demos
Ashray Malhotra · EP12: Synthetic Yet Real - The New Age of Personalized Video Content ft Ashray Malhotra · Jul 23, 2025 · at 19:56
Ashray Malhotra, co-founder of Rephrase.ai, discusses synthetic media ethics and whether the company's early demo synthesizing Barack Obama caused backlash.
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“And outside of a few demos like that, which we did in a very, very early days of our journey, we almost, like, as soon as the technology started to get good, we never cloned anyone without their permission.”
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