We already have voice cloning with Eleven Labs and at least one other good one.<p>We are getting close to the point where you search for "clone person" and ten different websites come up that will make a video of your subject saying or doing whatever you ask for less than $200. You can already do some weak versions of this. Will probably be very good within a couple of years.<p>I assume its already illegal to use this to impersonate people. But that doesn't stop the technology from becoming popular. People will just add a checkbox to the page that says "I certify that I have permission..".<p>Within five years it will be so easy to do that people might not even take impersonation seriously anymore. We might need to start relying on some kind of cryptographic identifying signatures or something.<p>Oh.. I forgot.. we may almost be there already. <a href="https://m.twitch.tv/trumporbiden2024/home" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://m.twitch.tv/trumporbiden2024/home</a><p>Actually you could imagine say in five years or so the technology is so good that people use it to "be" in multiple places at once. They train an LLM with all of their work and ideas, another model that can simulate their face, speech generator, and hire it out.<p>Imagine CBS in 2033 decides that (since it's now an affiliate of Tencent) that they want to do a Chinese version of the late show actually featuring Stephen Colbert. Probably not even particularly hard at that point since it doesn't need to be live.