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You'll notice that the voice is fake (and doesn't sound at all like Zuck), but this was just a demonstration, and not an attempt to actually trick people.

The video was created by AI, changing his mouth movements to fit the new statement. An actor (not a very good one) supplied the voice.

Imagine if a talented voice impressionist (or one who naturally sounds like Zuck) did the voice instead. You'd totally buy it, right?

There is now some concern that this will become the new generation of fake news.

On the less sinister side of things, there is some effort being made to develop fake videos of dead people, using their social media presences to grab their voice and their commonly used phrases and interests. The goal is to create a new video (or several videos) of these dead people, for sale to loved ones who would like to "talk" to them or "hear" from them again in the present. This was actually depicted in the '80s in the show "Max Headroom", though the videos were shown to be incredibly primitive and simply saying the same thing over and over.