{"id":21433,"date":"2026-01-05T17:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/05\/im-watching-myself-on-youtube-saying-things-i-would-never-say-this-is-the-deepfake-menace-we-must-confront-yanis-varoufakis\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T17:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:37:15","slug":"im-watching-myself-on-youtube-saying-things-i-would-never-say-this-is-the-deepfake-menace-we-must-confront-yanis-varoufakis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/05\/im-watching-myself-on-youtube-saying-things-i-would-never-say-this-is-the-deepfake-menace-we-must-confront-yanis-varoufakis\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m watching myself on YouTube saying things I would never say. This is the deepfake menace we must confront | Yanis Varoufakis"},"content":{"rendered":"

These inventions trigger rage, but also optimism. Maybe they will make people think more critically about debate and democracy<\/p>\n

It was my blue shirt, a present from my sister-in-law, that gave it all away. It made me think of Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, the lowly bureaucrat in Fyodor Dostoevsky\u2019s novella The Double, a disconcerting study of the fragmented self within a vast, impersonal feudal system.<\/p>\n

It all started with a message from an esteemed colleague congratulating me on a video talk on some geopolitical theme. When I clicked on the attached YouTube link to recall what I had said, I began to worry that my memory is not what it used to be. When did I record said video? A couple of minutes in, I knew there was something wrong. Not because I found fault in what I was saying, but because I realised that the video showed me sitting at my Athens office desk wearing that blue shirt, which had never left my island home. It was, as it turned out, a video featuring some deepfake AI doppelganger of me.<\/p>\n

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\nThese inventions trigger rage, but also optimism. Maybe they will make people think more critically about debate and democracy
\nIt was my blue shirt, a present from my sister-in-law, that gave it all away. It made me think of Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, the lowly bureaucrat in Fyodor Dostoevsky\u2019s novella The Double, a disconcerting study of the fragmented self within a vast, impersonal feudal system.
\nIt all started with a message from an esteemed colleague congratulating me on a video talk on some geopolitical theme. When I clicked on the attached YouTube link to recall what I had said, I began to worry that my memory is not what it used to be. When did I record said video? A couple of minutes in, I knew there was something wrong. Not because I found fault in what I was saying, but because I realised that the video showed me sitting at my Athens office desk wearing that blue shirt, which had never left my island home. It was, as it turned out, a video featuring some deepfake AI doppelganger of me. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These inventions trigger rage, but also optimism. Maybe they will make people think more critically about debate and democracy It was my blue shirt, a present from my sister-in-law, that gave it all away. It made me think of Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, the lowly bureaucrat in Fyodor Dostoevsky\u2019s novella The Double, a disconcerting study of …<\/p>\n

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