Was their love synthetic all alongside?
In a viral TikTok from earlier this yr, Mia Dio, 22, claimed that her boyfriend, Billy, had been performing suspiciously.
Dio — who has 5.2 million followers on the platform — determined to do some sleuthing with the assistance of synthetic intelligence.
Using AI software, Dio was capable of replicate Billy’s voice for a telephone name with one in all his mates. In a recording of the dialog, Billy’s buddy seemingly confirms the influencer’s worst nightmare — that Billy had kissed another person solely the night time earlier than.
The video quickly went viral, racking up 2.7 million views and feedback lauding the “genius” hack for monitoring down cheaters.
However what if we instructed you it was all an elaborate experiment?
“Essential context right here is that this video was absolutely a prank on my followers, and each my boyfriend and buddy had been in on it,” Dio revealed in an interview with NeedToKnow.co.uk.
“We had been shocked on the quantity of people that believed this occurred,” Dio stated with amusing.
The TikTok star defined that she needed to test the barriers of new technology, which has led to so many new potentialities with dishonest and relationships.
“I feel that with know-how and social media, it’s so a lot simpler for individuals to cheat as a result of there’s a lot entry,” Dio stated. “The flip facet there may be that it’s additionally a lot simpler to get caught, which is why I imagine there’s such a dishonest epidemic.”
Dio used ElevenLabs to clone Billy’s voice for her experiment, which set her again solely $4. Although she and her boyfriend are nonetheless “fortunately collectively,” Dio stated that this sort of hack would’ve saved her “a whole lot of time” with a earlier two-timing ex.
“I’ve positively had different ladies attain out with comparable issues since,” she concluded.
