Nov. 17, 2023, 4:09 p.m. | Kari Paul

Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian www.theguardian.com

In response to criticism that Azure AI Speech was simply a ‘deepfakes creator’, Microsoft said it had implemented safeguards

Microsoft announced its latest contribution to the artificial intelligence race at its developer conference this week: software that can generate new avatars and voices or replicate the existing appearance and speech of a user – raising concerns that it could supercharge the creation of deepfakes, AI-made videos of events that didn’t happen.

Announced at Microsoft Ignite 2023, Azure AI Speech …

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