专题06 换脸app惹争议-备战2020高考英语外刊话题阅读语篇精选（第一辑）

换脸app惹争议 《经济学人》 读前导读： 一款运用AI技术换脸的APP“ZAO” 在社交媒体上刷屏，用户只需要一张正脸照，就可以替换为影视作品或者小视频中的人物，生成以自己为主角的视频片段。不过，在一夜刷屏之后，ZAO的用户协议条款却引发网友争议。 一：高级实词荟萃 1. 8 ( 8 )原创精品资源学科网独家享有版权，侵权必究！ 2. launch vt 3. server n 4. crash vt/n 5. repeat vt 6. repeatedly adv. 7. unmake =ruin / destroy vt 8. reaction to/against）n 9. response 10. feedback 11. overreaction n 12. term n 13. netizen n 14. furious adj 15. comment v./vt 16. flood vt/n 17. most-downloaded adj 18. dominant adj 19. eager adj 20. stick vt 21. potential adj 22. rival n 23. block vt/n 24. cite vt 25. offending adj 26. pledge vt/n 27. generate vt 28. footage. n 29. Involve vt 30. Stitch vt/n 31. Claim vt/n 32. Precise adj 33. Prompts n. 34. Blink vt 35. alarm n ；vt 36. misuse vt 37. verification n 38. withdraw vt 39. Summon vt 40. Upload vt 41. grant vt 二：高级短语荟萃 1. cite “security risks 2. swiftly removed the offending clause 3. apologize to users 4. personal data 5. hit a nerve 6. generate “deepfakes” 7. computational creations 8. artificial intelligence 9. paste a face onto someone else’s body 10. slogan promises 11. facial mapping 12. came to light 13. facial verification 14. comb through 15. user agreement 16. by signing up 17. sign up 18. log in 19. grant ZAO rights 20. completely free 21. prove so wildly popular 22. wildly popular 原汁文章思维能力提升训练 On the night of August 30th, soon after ZAO—an app whose name means “to make”—was launched, it proved so wildly popular that its servers crashed repeatedly. ①Almost as rapidly, a sudden backlash from its many fans nearly unmade it. ②Technology news media and cautious netizens who had combed through the terms of its user agreement found that by signing up, users had granted ZAO “completely free”, “unchangeable” and “forever” rights to all content they uploaded to its platform. Furious comments flooded Apple’s app store in China, where ZAO is now rated two stars out of five. (This did not stop it from becoming China