Carole Baskin, from Netflix’s “Tiger King,” has been reluctant to give interviews after the TV show has blown up. One youtube account tricked her into sitting down with “Jimmy Fallon” by promising they would only talk about her cats.
With the increased popularity of remote calls, this got me thinking: what if there was a way to impersonate anyone?
In the face interview, the YouTubers used recordings of Fallon and convinced Baskin that she wouldn’t be able to see him, only hear him.
AI voice technology is getting better and better. Jimmy Fallon has so much audio for anyone to obtain; it wouldn’t be a leap to get an AI version of him, one that could talk as fast as someone can type.
Give video editing technology a few years, and there could be a rise in deep fake options to use in video calls.
Then, the pair wouldn’t even have to find an excuse for why Jimmy couldn’t be on the call.
The story could be about a man who’s hired to work for the government, fighting terrorists. Then, he saves the world but finds a single thread of information that makes him question which side he’s on.
The end could be him finding out that he’s been working against the government. But he decides he doesn’t care and continues—a villain origin story.
The second book could be him doing another job, but come to find out it was all a test to see where his true loyalties lie. His entire life has been a test, similar to “The Truman Show”. There was no pass or fail; it was to see what would happen.
The end of the two books would be him alone, not sure about anything or anyone, content to live out his days eating and watching the world around him. A world the disappears when he turns it off and goes to sleep.
