AI created videos and photos are getting harder to detect. Recently, billionaire Warren Buffett denounced deep fakes after videos that appear to feature his image and voice surfaced online. Now I know what you’re thinking, Warren, you’re being dramatic. You’re trying to scare me. It’s not me, his company said in *** press release, warning that viewers could be misled by the content of those videos. *** deepfake is *** computer-created image or voice or video of *** person, either *** person who Doesn’t exist but seems real. Or *** person who does exist, making them do or say something they never actually did or said. Stay seated, everyone. I’ve got it. Deepfakes and AI altered content are difficult to spot. So here’s some help. Starting with deep fake audio. You want to listen for things that don’t quite sound human. And with deep fakes, if you listen, sometimes they will take no breaths when they’re talking, and that comes to video or audio. So you may actually feel *** sense of breathlessness when you listen. Next, be sure to take *** close look at the visuals. Often, the physiology isn’t quite working yet. The pieces and parts of the face aren’t quite together yet. And don’t immediately assume what you see and hear is correct. Go and verify the message. Is this message real? We need to go back to that basic message. What do they want from me? Could it hurt me? Can I verify it? And if you can’t verify it, don’t do it. Another clear sign of video is AI generated *** watermark like this one from Sora, the video creation app from OpenAI. If you see this logo on *** video like the clips we’ve just shown you, you can be sure they were created using AI in Washington I’m Christopher Sela.
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The “Architects of AI” were named Time magazine’s person of the year for 2025 on Thursday.Related video above: How to spot deepfakesThe magazine cited 2025 as the year when the potential of artificial intelligence “roared into view” with no turning back.”For delivering the age of thinking machines, for wowing and worrying humanity, for transforming the present and transcending the possible, the Architects of AI are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year,” Time said in a social media post.The magazine was deliberate in selecting people – the “individuals who imagined, designed, and built AI” – rather than the technology itself, though there would have been some precedent for that.”We’ve named not just individuals but also groups, more women than our founders could have imagined (though still not enough), and, on rare occasions, a concept: the endangered Earth, in 1988, or the personal computer, in 1982,” wrote Sam Jacobs, the editor-in-chief, in an explanation of the choice. “The drama surrounding the selection of the PC over Apple’s Steve Jobs later became the stuff of books and a movie.”One of the cover images resembling the “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper” photograph from the 1930s shows eight tech leaders sitting on the beam: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, AMD CEO Lisa Su, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the CEO of Google’s DeepMind division Demis Hassabis, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, who launched her own startup World Labs last year.Another cover image shows scaffolding surrounding the giant letters “AI” made to look like computer componentry.It made sense for Time to anoint AI because 2025 was the year that it shifted from “a novel technology explored by early adopters to one where a critical mass of consumers see it as part of their mainstream lives,” Thomas Husson, principal analyst at research firm Forrester, said by email.AI was a leading contender for the top slot, according to prediction markets, along with Huang and Altman. Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope whose election this year followed the death of Pope Francis, was also considered a contender, with President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani topping lists as well.Trump was named the 2024 person of the year by the magazine after winning his second bid for the White House, succeeding Taylor Swift, who was the 2023 person of the year.The magazine’s selection dates from 1927, when its editors have picked the person they say most shaped headlines over the previous 12 months.
The “Architects of AI” were named Time magazine’s person of the year for 2025 on Thursday.
Related video above: How to spot deepfakes
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The magazine cited 2025 as the year when the potential of artificial intelligence “roared into view” with no turning back.
“For delivering the age of thinking machines, for wowing and worrying humanity, for transforming the present and transcending the possible, the Architects of AI are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year,” Time said in a social media post.
The magazine was deliberate in selecting people – the “individuals who imagined, designed, and built AI” – rather than the technology itself, though there would have been some precedent for that.
“We’ve named not just individuals but also groups, more women than our founders could have imagined (though still not enough), and, on rare occasions, a concept: the endangered Earth, in 1988, or the personal computer, in 1982,” wrote Sam Jacobs, the editor-in-chief, in an explanation of the choice. “The drama surrounding the selection of the PC over Apple’s Steve Jobs later became the stuff of books and a movie.”
One of the cover images resembling the “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper” photograph from the 1930s shows eight tech leaders sitting on the beam: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, AMD CEO Lisa Su, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the CEO of Google’s DeepMind division Demis Hassabis, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, who launched her own startup World Labs last year.
Another cover image shows scaffolding surrounding the giant letters “AI” made to look like computer componentry.
It made sense for Time to anoint AI because 2025 was the year that it shifted from “a novel technology explored by early adopters to one where a critical mass of consumers see it as part of their mainstream lives,” Thomas Husson, principal analyst at research firm Forrester, said by email.
AI was a leading contender for the top slot, according to prediction markets, along with Huang and Altman. Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope whose election this year followed the death of Pope Francis, was also considered a contender, with President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani topping lists as well.
Trump was named the 2024 person of the year by the magazine after winning his second bid for the White House, succeeding Taylor Swift, who was the 2023 person of the year.
The magazine’s selection dates from 1927, when its editors have picked the person they say most shaped headlines over the previous 12 months.
