Deepfakes and the Importance of Verification

The hosts delve into the concept of deepfakes, sharing a recent incident where they were used to deceive and steal millions of dollars. They emphasize the need for caution and verification in meetings, highlighting the importance of a trustworthy proof of personhood.

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This week…Amazon’s new shopping AI, a $25m dollar deep fake scam, Google’s Gemini Ultra is on the way, Kevin gives us an Apple Vision Pro review and MUCH MORE.

Gavin tells us about a cool new Stable Diffusion plug-in from Glif, Boston Dynamics scary new robot, Hugging Face’s new AI chatbots, Roblox’s AI chat translator, AI helps read 2000 year-old Roman scrolls and we get creeped out by a cool new text-to-speech model.

AND THEN… an interview with our old friend, tech entrepreneur and podcaster Kevin Rose! We discuss how he uses AI to check in on his wellness, what sort of AI companies he’s interested in and then have an AI pitch-bot “attempt” to solve problems for him. Kevin’s podcast is relaunching soon and you can find info here: https://www.kevinrose.com/

Oh and our AI Co-Host this week is a very special VR expert who’s come to give us her review of the Apple Vision Pro but it turns out she might have a problem or two differentiating herself from reality.

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25m Deepfake Scam

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/04/asia/deepfake-cfo-scam-hong-kong-intl-hnk/index.html

Google Gemini Ultra Roll Out?

https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/google-may-be-rolling-out-gemini-ultra-this-week-and-renaming-bard-at-the-same-time Google’s New ImageFX

https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-labs-imagefx-textfx-generative-ai/

Hugging Face Assistants https://huggingface.co/chat/assistants

Taylor Swift Deepfakes Came From 4chan

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/05/business/media/taylor-swift-ai-fake-images.html