Recently I watched a video of myself getting arrested for drunken driving. Then I watched myself burn an American flag. Then I watched myself confess to eating toenail clippings. None of it happened. But all of it looked real enough to make me do a double-take.

Friends made the videos using Sora, a new artificial intelligence app from the maker of ChatGPT that’s now the No. 1 iPhone download. I gave them access to my face. I never agreed to what they’d do with it. AI-generated fake video and audio of tech columnist Geoffrey A. Fowler getting arrested for driving while intoxicated. (Video: The Washington Post via Open AI)

Sora, made by OpenAI, makes it disturbingly easy to put people’s faces and voices into AI videos. You record a short selfie video to create a “cameo” profile and choose

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