“People will think I am involved in the coup.”Bad SurprisesSynthesia, a text-to-video AI company with a valuation of over one billion dollars, claims that its tech allows users to “create studio-quality videos with AI avatars” as easily as they can throw together a slide deck.The company’s clientele is a wild mix, ranging from media stalwarts like Reuters and global accounting giant Ernst & Young to authoritarian regimes — a reality that’s come as a terrible surprise to the human models whose faces Synthesia’s AI models are trained on.As The Guardian reports,…
