James Vincent

Given the speed with which AI is developing, it’s an understandable reaction to avoid new legislation that would become swiftly out-of-date. But with others calling for a pause in the AI arms race, is more intervention required?

For more examples, check out “Scarlett Johansson eating spaghetti” and “Joe Rogan fighting a bear.” There’s an enjoyably dreamlike quality to these clips. At one point in the latter Joe Rogan turns into a bear and then fights himself.

As with AI hands, this is likely an artifact of how these systems learn to recreate surfaces, not underlying structures, which makes objects with specific compositions (hands, unicycles) a challenge.

Sadly, wonky unicycles are not a useful tell when it comes to spotting AI fakes like the Pope in a puffy jacket. Not, of course, unless we demand all public figures conduct interviews on unicycles to prove the footage is real...