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	Podcast:		Sway
	Episode:		Deepfake Drake + HatGPT + Ben Smith on the End of the BuzzFeed Era
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		01:01:26
	Publish Date:		2023-04-28 09:00:00
	Description:		A song featuring A.I.-generated versions of Drake and the Weeknd went viral — before being taken down by streaming services. Is censorship of A.I.-generated songs the way forward? Or can singers benefit from synthetic voices, as some artists like Grimes are suggesting? Then, HatGPT: Kevin and Casey pull headlines out of a hat and generate their own takes on the news. And Ben Smith, the former BuzzFeed News editor, discusses the end of the 2010s digital media era. On today’s episode: Ben Smith is a journalist and co-founder of the digital media company Semafor. He was a New York Times media columnist and the first editor in chief of BuzzFeed News. Additional reading: An A.I.-generated song made to sound like Drake and the Weeknd went viral before being taken down by streaming services. Grimes invited fans to make songs using A.I.-generated versions of her voice. Snapchat saw a spike in one-star reviews after users criticized its “My AI” feature. Taylor Swift did not invest in FTX, the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange company. Researchers turned a goldfish into a cyborg. The Republican National Committee released an A.I.-generated ad slamming President Biden. The U.K. blocked Microsoft’s $69 billion bid for the video game company Activision. Ben Smith’s book, “Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral,” is an origin story of digital media. A BuzzFeed article set off a viral debate on the color of a dress.
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