"Generative AI has made it easier than ever before to impersonate somebody else, from scammers using cloned voices of targets for phishing scams to deepfakes of deceased celebrities circulating on OpenAI's Sora app. Even Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, who has gotten considerable media attention this year for his eyebrow-raising theory that mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could be an alien spacecraft visiting the solar system, has now fallen victim to the trend."
"Unlike Loeb, who's speculated that 3I/ATLAS and other interstellar objects could have technological origins while acknowledging that it's also likely they're just naturally occurring objects, the videos on the YouTube channel are extremely sensational, with titles like "3I/ATLAS Is a PROBE - New Data Leaves No Doubt." In an addendum to his latest blog post, which discusses the most recent Hubble Space Telescope images of 3I/ATLAS, Loeb explored the broader implications of being impersonated."
""This is not a plot from a science fiction novel but the reality we face today," Loeb added. "Over the past two weeks, I received hundreds of emails from fans who noticed a YouTube channel named after me, accessible here, with fake videos about the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, created by artificial intelligence.""
Generative AI now enables realistic impersonations, allowing scammers to clone voices and create deepfake videos. A YouTube channel impersonated Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb by cloning his likeness and voice and posting sensational videos claiming 3I/ATLAS is a probe. Loeb confirmed the videos are fake and reported them to YouTube. The fake content diverges from Loeb's nuanced position that 3I/ATLAS could be technological or natural. Loeb warned that AI-generated avatars could spread counterfactual information, prompting hundreds of emails from concerned fans and raising questions about public trust and verification.
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