• President Joe Biden had an announcement to make to his fellow Americans. It was Feb. 19, and the audio of the speech told a tale of government mismanagement.
• Biden had been scrolling through Disney+ and came across the 2011 Matt Damon movie We Bought a Zoo. Inspired by the story, he bought a zoo of his own. But now he had regrets. “Owning a zoo sucks,” Biden says in the two-minute audio clip, which is layered over static images of the president. “This shit is so hard. It looked much easier in the movie.”
• The video, viewed over a million times, isn’t likely to fool anyone — even Biden’s most ardent opponents. But the eerily accurate cadence of the deepfaked version of the president does highlight the ability of AI-generated audio tools to mimic well-known individuals.

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