Nonprofit Innovator Podcast

In this episode, we shift our focus exclusively to AI, and we bring three stories that are centered around AI called Generative Adversarial Networks.Story #1: Malaria Must Die's global campaign featuring a deep fake of David Beckham eclipsed 400 million impressions globally. The campaign features international soccer star, David Beckham in a video where malaria survivors speak through him in different languages. The video uses sophisticated, AI-driven software that is trained on the subject, in this case, Beckham, and then automatically generates a video of the subject speaking the words originally spoken by malaria survivors in nine different languages. Visually, the faked speech is virtually impossible to detect - it looks like David Beckham actually spoke the words. A behind-the-scenes video explains how the video was made. The startup behind the deep fake video production is Synthesia, and their goal is to apply AI tech to replace today's unscaleable, manual, shoot-and-edit video production with their aut