Korean. Arabic. Dutch. These are three languages I don't speak, but with AI, I can now fluently communicate in them. While it's not perfect, it's impressively close. I made three videos using an AI language tool on a website called HeyGen, accessible to anyone. "One of the most incredible aspects of this technology is the ability to communicate with the world seamlessly, in any language, " says Steve Mudd, CEO and founder of Talentless AI, a next-gen creative studio leveraging AI for marketing content. He believes AI's potential is staggering. Mudd explains, "Generative AI, in particular, represents the ultimate collection of storytelling capabilities, frameworks, and knowledge. " Steve used AI tools from MidJourney, Luma, Runway, and Eleven Labs to create movie clips. The lifelike people in these clips don't exist. "We're likely three to six months away from the first feature-length AI film, " he predicts. Steve also experimented with cat videos and making me appear to have dance skills. He demonstrated how easily AI can create synthetic media, which mixes wonder with concern. "Synthetic media involves cloning voices or creating deepfakes, " he explains. Using my image and voice, Steve showed, "I took a clip of your voice—there are plenty of your voice clips out there—and used them to create a clone to layer over my voice. " In Steve's new video creation, the message is, "In a year when everyone talks about artificial intelligence, real intelligence still matters. " He went further, creating a video that overlays my face on his.

Hidden Layer, based in Austin, provides AI security to protect machine learning models from hacking. CEO Chris Sestito observes an increase in AI models used to produce harmful content. "This is now reaching the level of state actors or national leaderships. They can be mimicked in phone calls or full images, " he warns. How will we distinguish reality?"You can't, " Steve cautions. "It boils down to media literacy and understanding where you're seeing the content. What’s the context?Is it from a trusted source like CBS or a suspicious site designed to look legitimate?It's the same problem since social media's rise. Where is this information originating?" And this is just the beginning.