← Back to feed Tech & Digital

Google makes it easy to deepfake yourself

The Verge / 09 April 2026 / 4h ago

Culture Index

Score Breakdown

Relevance

9/25

Freshness

25/25

Authority

18/20

Brand Signal

9/15

Depth

6/15

5-Axis Cultural Radar

YouTube Shorts is rolling out a new AI-powered feature giving creators an easy way to realistically clone themselves on camera. The launch, hinted at earlier this year, reflects the platform's fraught relationship with AI-generated content, adding more generative features while struggling to contain AI slop, deepfake scams, and impersonations. YouTube says the new tool will […]

Read Full Article → The Verge ↗

Google makes it easy to deepfake yourself

More in Tech & Digital

Annual letter: Andy Jassy says AWS' AI revenue has hit a $15B annual run rate as of Q1 and that Amazon's internal chips business is generating $20B+ per year (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

A survey of 1,500 people aged 14 to 29: hopefulness regarding AI has dropped from 27% to 18% over the past year, and 50% report using GenAI daily or weekly (Callie Holtermann/New York Times)

Elorian, which builds visual AI models with better reasoning capabilities for industries like robotics, emerges from stealth with $55M at a $300M valuation (Bloomberg)