Ah nuts I thought it was real too. I guess it passed underneath my radar for skepticism, because it doesn't really matter to me whether the pope wears a big jac

Ah nuts I thought it was real too. I guess it passed underneath my radar for skepticism, because it doesn't really matter to me whether the pope wears a big jacket or not. But it's not going to be that long before you can go on a Zoom call and have a conversation with a completely made up person. It's just voice recognition + voice synthesis + chatbot + this-person-does-not-exist + deepfakes. That's when you'll be able to buy a subscription to a remote-only friendship group, or hire an AI to do a Zoom interview for you, or dead people will live on as avatars. I don't work in IT so I'll gladly listen to why I'm wrong, but it certainly feels like we're on the cusp of a chatbot passing a full audio-visual Turing test.