Broadcast excerpt·TUE, 27 OCT 2026 · 13:54:38–13:57:08 SAST
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Will Smith, a video of Will Smith eating spaghetti. And then it goes all the way, I think it was from 2010, it goes all the way to where we are now in 2026. And it looks like it looks real. You can't even tell if you're not truly paying attention. So Lebo, that first video of Will Smith was clearly a deep fake. The shade on the nose was wrong. It looked really bad. But these days, if you see a video on YouTube or on your social media,
Media, it is so powerful and so real that it's almost impossible to know whether it was AI created. And this impacts next week, our 4th of November elections and the elections across the world. And people fall for these things, so don't check the sources. But this is manipulation at a massive scale. So don't trust anything you see. Double-check it and use common sense because the AI is so good, you will not have an idea.
Whether it's a deep fake or not, sadly. Maybe help us understand what the intention of deep fakes? Because maybe one can think to themselves, well, if this thing is so harmful, why are we even doing it? I think, Leibo, it's all about manipulation. So it can either be a state-sponsored attack from Russia, China, or who knows from who. I don't know if Mauritius will attack us. I'd love to go there and.
But it can also be three young people in the garage somewhere because you get free tools. I mean, I've created some deepfakes. Sometimes, when I train boards of big banks and other companies, what I would do to start my training, I will create a deep fake of their CEO saying something totally stupid and they cannot believe it. And I do it to kind of get that punch in of this stuff is happening. I can do it. I do it on free tools. It's so easy to do it. So
Label, I think it's manipulations either to rig elections for you to buy certain things, to change opinions. Anyone can do it. That's a scary thing. Years ago, when that Will Smith thing came out, you needed a lot of money and expertise to do it. These days, you open a free app, you put in a few prompts, take a picture of somebody, and you can create anything you want them to say and do. And that is scary, especially for parents, I think. Oh, my God.
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