What the actual fuck? “When you take a photo on your phone, the vibrations of your voice can create tiny bends in the light that are enough to extract audio, according to Kevin Fu, a professor of engineering and computer science at Northeastern University.”

Your photos can hear you. AI and machine learning help researchers get audio from still images and silent videos
Using a machine learning assisted tool called Side Eye, researchers can extract audio from photos and muted videos like TikToks.
news.northeastern.edu