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by subarctic 1330 days ago
Now that these deepfake interviews are getting posted regularly, they should have something in the title indicating that they are deepfakes / AI-generated. I thought this was an old interview with Richard Feynman that someone had found and posted, which would've been pretty cool, but instead it's just another one of these auto-generated interviews. (It being from podcast.ai was what gave it away since I saw the last one with Steve Jobs and Joe Rogan, but really it should be obvious from the title.)
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> should have something in the title indicating that they are deepfakes

What gave it away for me is that there is only a small overlap in time when Feynman and Fridman were both alive. Feynman died in 1988 and Fridman was born in 1983. :)

Fridman is around my age and Feynman was always a historical figure.

You can also check the url. `.ai` subdomains are a pretty good indicator of the content you are about to consume.
Lex Fridman was born in 1983 and Feynman died in 1988, that's more obvious than Steve Jobs and Joe Rogan since although Rogan wasn't doing much in interviewing during Jobs' life, it's plausible since they are somewhat contemporaries.
This assumes everyone knows who Lex Fridman is. It seems reasonable to me that deepfake interviews be labeled as such.