Fake or real? It is increasingly difficult to tell whether it’s a human or an AI-generated voice that is speaking – at least consciously. Researchers have observed that our brains reacts differently to deepfake voices than to natural ones, even though we may not be fully aware of this. Fake voices appear to lead to less pleasure when listening, according to the study published in the journal Communications Biology. Algorithms for voice synthesis are now so powerful that the characteristics of voice clones come very close to those of natural speakers. Voices imitated with deepfake technologies …