Navigating AI's Dual Edge: Progress and Peril

Welcome back to The FAIK Files! When tech gets weird, we're here to help make sense of it all.

This week, we’re tackling:

• Mason is out this week, so Perry is doing his best not to screw anything up too badly.
• We've got some new videos posted about how deepfakes work -- everything from those fake celebrity endorsements to realtime deepfakes that can happen in live videoconferences.
• Perry & Mason interview FBI counter-terrorism and counterintelligence operative, Eric O'Neill
• It looks like we are on the verge of AI Agents that can not only book travel for you... but also search the dark web and hire assassins on your behalf!

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*** NOTES AND REFERENCES ***

Check out your new YouTube videos about Deepfakes... and more:

• Inside a celebrity deepfake: How I Made Taylor Swift 'Endorse' My Book (https://youtu.be/mCx38_SeT_U)
• How to create real-time deepfakes (a.k.a. I became Taylor Swift...for Science!) (https://youtu.be/nKhtTIV6vxU)
• Will be posting more soon. We'd also love suggestions for anything you'd like covered.
• FAIK (the book) resources and activities page (https://thisbookisfaik.com/resources)
• Press release about the Resources page (https://www.cbs42.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/776228250/new-educational-toolkit-protects-teachers-and-students-from-ai-driven-cyber-attacks/)

Interview with former FBI counter-terrorism and counterintelligence operative, Eric O'Neill:

• Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_O%27Neill
• Eric's website: https://ericoneill.net/
• Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy - https://amzn.to/3Wu4J04

Claude AI Hires a Hitman?:

• Tweet from Pliny the Liberator about his experiment: https://x.com/elder_plinius/status/1878946571565650264
• AI Researchers STUNNED as Claude Hires a Darkweb 'Hitman'...(Wes Roth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5OrAJX7ukY)
• Anthropic Announcement: Introducing Computer Use (https://www.anthropic.com/news/3-5-models-and-computer-use)
• Story about Multi-On: An AI assistant just passed the California driving test. Here’s how. (https://sfstandard.com/2023/11/14/multion-ai-assistant-california-driving-test/)
• OpenAI Preps ‘Operator’ Release For This Week (https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/openai-preps-operator-release-for-this-week?rc=s2adyu)
• OpenAI: Introducing Operator (https://openai.com/index/introducing-operator/)

*** THE BOILERPLATE ***

About The FAIK Files:

The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions.

• Get the Book: FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions (Amazon Associates link)
• Check out the website for more info: https://thisbookisfaik.com

Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast:

• Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458
• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA
• Other: https://digitalfolklore.fm 

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