One of American finance's biggest moguls saw an AI deepfake of himself, and it seems to have freaked him out.over the weekend, Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett admitted that he saw an AI doppelganger of himself that was so good, it impressed and terrified him.
During a Q&A portion of the investor call, Buffett said that although he couldn't have explained how the deepfake was made, he was sure, from what he saw, that it's going to "be the growth industry of all time." "Based on the one I saw recently," the billionaire said, "I practically would send money to myself over and over in some crazy country."
"We let a genie out of the bottle when we developed nuclear weapons and that genie has now been doing some terrible things lately, and the power of that genie scares the hell out of me," he opined. "I don't know any way to get the genie back into the bottle." "AI is somewhat similar, it's part way out of the bottle and its enormously important, and it's going to be done by somebody so we may wish we'd never seen that genie," the Oracle of Omaha continued.While it's unclear what deepfake of himself Buffett saw, there have been fairly recent reports about videos spoofing his likeness."I am watching a bitcoin giveaway take part ," the spoofed Buffett said in the video, which has since beenfor being altered.