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The Bruce Willis Deepfake Is Everyone’s Problem

The Bruce Willis Deepfake Is Everyone’s Problem

Update: 2022-10-28
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Coming up today: the deadly viruses lurking in the permafrost, and what the Bruce Willis deepfake means for the future of Hollywood.


The stories we talked about this week:


The Bruce Willis Deepfake Is Everyone’s Problem

https://www.wired.com/story/bruce-willis-deepfake-rights-law/


Thawing Permafrost Exposes Old Pathogens—and New Hosts

https://www.wired.com/story/arctic-spillover-risk/


Music by Filip Hnizdo

Produced and edited by Matt Burgess

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