The Unreal #TechVision In people’s everyday lives, chatbots and virtual personal assistants are increasingly common and convenient – and new technologies could make Q them more realistic than ever. Hour One, for instance, creates digital characters, based on real people’s How confident are you that you can recognize likeness, that can be shown speaking any text in highly realistic videos (each human receives a micropayment deepfake or synthetic content? when their character is used, and that use is restricted 133 to safe content). These characters can then play virtual real estate agents or language teachers, easily 7% converting static text content into video – saving hours of actors’ and production crews’ time in the Very confident studio. Of note, Hour One requires that each video 28% disclose that the content has been computer- generated, and they embed each video with Confident 134 an “Altered Visuals” watermark. 35% Slightly confident 30% Not confident Source: Technology Vision 2022 Global Consumer Survey. N=24,000. (Lack confidence: Not/slightly confident) Introduction // WebMe // Programmable World // The Unreal // Computing the Impossible 62