Ross Simmonds posted videos of himself and an AI avatar saying the same script. His mom, colleagues, and assistant couldn't tell which was real. He now uses a secret code to verify his identity when people call claiming to be him.
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I was literally running an experiment where I recorded a video of myself talking into the camera. And I talked to the camera just like I normally would. And then I created an hey Jen avatar to say the same thing. And I put it up on Social and I was asking people like, which one is the real Ross? My assistant got it wrong. My colleagues got it wrong. My own mom got it wrong. Like, and my mom went into deep denial. She went into deep denial. She was like, I know my son. There's no way I know my son. I know who you are. I was like, no, mom, that ain't me. So now we have a secret code. And I'm like, mom, if somebody calls you with my voice, hang up and call me back. And there's a secret code that you have to say. Cuz it's crazy. It's wild right here. It is. It's like the mannerisms. Like this one here is like the real me. This was the AI me. And look at this video. Two is AI, am I right? Two is definitely AI. No, folks like me and the kids. Video one was looking good. They got a lot of the jerkiness out of the model. They did.