Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “$25 Million Deepfake”.
Deep fake scam, uh $ 25 million stolen. This is genuinely wild. This makes me think Oceans, 11 level like crazy. There was probably multiple people behind this: a lot of planning a lot of prep all that type of stuff, and this is one of the reasons why I think you’re, honestly not going to be able to fully train people to be prepared for this stuff. You’Re.
Going to have to have procedures in place instead, um that that layer up protections on these types of things, like maybe requiring even if you’re on a video call with someone, require requiring you to call their cell phone to confirm as a form of two-factor authentication or Something I don’t know this is crazy, though. According to Hong Kong police, a finance worker at an unnamed multinational firm was convinced to transfer 25.6 million USD big money to scammers through a video call where everyone else in attendance, including the company’s CFO, were actually audiovisual. Visual. Deep fakes whoa, the worker was initially suspicious when he was contacted by the scammers through email, but his concerns were assuaged by the fact assuaged by the fact that the video call was attended by several people who looked and sounded like his colleagues.
Hong Kong police. Likewise indicated that they have seen a large amount of recent fraud cases using deep fakes alongside stolen IDs, which totally makes sense. I hate to bring this up, but I contacted a financial institution that I no longer use very recently and because I no longer use them, I don’t remember my pen or like access were you able to like get back in. I was able to reactivate my account with information that I could Google about myself y the fact that that is possible and and to be clear, it’s not just because I’m like a YouTube personality or something it’s the kind of thing that I could easily Google about. You, if all I knew was your Facebook profile like it was shockingly easy um. What the are we going to do? Cuz you and I laughed both both of us completely without pre-planning. It laughed when we saw that Florida’s plan for Banning Social Media use for 16-year-olds was a third- party database, because that’s just a gold mine that someone’s waiting to break into in mine. I don’t think I would trust our government or any other government to do it any better than the third party.
No, what the crap are we supposed to do to authenticate it to secure anything you like can’t really to be completely honest: um yep, I don’t know with things like social media networks, uh like there’s examples of this on Twitch and and other places as well. What just look who it is made a really good point: things are going to get really up when stuff like the Apple Vision. Pro goes mainstream, oh yeah, because you become the person you’ll be no! No, not just that, not just that! No! No! No! No! No! No, no because you won’t be expect the video feed to even quite look like them if it was a Vision, Pro Avatar or whatever, and it was a little off so what it wouldn’t even raise any alarm Bells yeah now all you have to do is get The voice mostly right, oh no, which people are getting really good at. Oh no yeah, I heard it um an AI generated voice, machine learning voice.
I keep I keep doing it. I keep saying AI, it’s not not AI, it does. Okay. Whatever I heard an AI voice, Recreation of myself hosting power supply a power supply video.
I’Ve heard that too it’s it’s by far the best one. I’Ve heard it’s gotten a lot better. The whole, like you having a Boston accent for no apparent reason thing is gone y. It’S not perfect for sure, but it’s oh.
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How do you feel about it? How do you I? I I don’t mean the the quality of whatever. How does hearing that make you feel my first, it’s like, I feel, like I should remember, saying it yeah. I should remember saying it at a really weird disjointed, not how I would say it way. The way that I describe this to other people that have heard it is to me it feels like you just had your wisdom. Teeth taken out, you’re on a little bit of meds and you’ve got cotton in your mouth yeah and it’s a bad mic. The ination, like the the the timber of the voice, is surprisingly close.
Yeah the timing’s way off the Cadence is there’s certain ways that you say things that don’t line up like I. I can tell it’s not you, but if I, for example, was the one recording it cuz, this is purely generated. I don’t think so. I do think so I don’t think so.
I do think so. I’M rather certain it’s not. I know the person who did the project and they told me it was voiced by someone and then uh edited. How sure are you I mean? I can show you the messages? No, no, no, it doesn’t sound like someone voiced it.
Okay, whoever voiced it clearly wasn’t um is know how we did the Spanish trans. One of my things that I sent to Ed is like yeah. It seems like a Linus who has cotton balls in his mouth, but isn’t very techsavvy and he’s like uh yeah. All right well at any rate, um, okay, so then no! No! I believe you. I believe you no, what okay! So it’s not Luke! I believe you. This is such a was time he work on his phone more, oh, my goodness.
No, it doesn’t matter. I I I don’t care who it was. The point is that with someone who was a little more tech-savvy, who had even the tiniest amount of practice, imitating my Cadence yeah like this, this is this is the same thing that made me think about. You know that like $ 25 million Heist, whatever it was, it’s like yeah it with with more practice time, yeah cuz, someone just like listens to you, talk about a thing enough times, figures out how you’re going to say $ 250 figures out how uh is more Familiar with the subject matter, this is very likely the first time they did a read through um, all this other type of stuff, um yeah. I think you could basically nail it. There are some problems.
It sounds like it’s on a really bad mic. The like quality of the audio is really low um, but I mean we’re close enough now that it’s like you can kind of you can make it out. Yes, absolutely and it’s scary yeah with that said, I mean it’s going to be really convenient if we wanted, if we wanted the entire, you know power supply channel to be hosted by lius. I don’t know if we should. I don’t know I don’t know either, but maybe we genuinely don’t know, maybe one out of every four would be hosted by L. I don’t know whatever we figure.
Whatever strategy we settle on is, though digital Linus, we could scale it just like that vtuber vtuber hosted. I mean I’ve. I’Ve been talking for years about how the best way for us to safeguard this company against you know my untimely demise or eventual you know, actual retirement or whatever it is not having Hydro facials could be exactly could be vtuber yeah, our most recognizable personalities figuring out. You know what that looks like in terms of compensation and Licensing and and Technology, whatever right, um and building a scalable business around that I mean there’s companies that only exist as as virtual influencers.
Already today. It’S not like this is some kind of weird sci-fi that I’m imagining this is this is this is a real thing right now and it’s winning right now. The only difference is that we would, you know yeah when’s, the fillian collab. I don’t know I think Elijah is in contact.
Oh so so it’s moving, I think, does back flips God damn Luke! Okay, you actually need to stop baiting him and doing a back flip. I don’t want him to get hurt yeah. He showed me a video of him doing one and I was like yeah, you shouldn’t. That’S fine yeah, don’t yeah just stop baiting him yeah um.
Maybe we should do that when you guys are remote. Somebody just becomes a vtuber like for wancho yeah cuz. I can.
I can intersperse that into the actual set a rig and stuff – I don’t know anything about it. We could figure it out yeah, it’s very doable. Okay um! I I know like genuinely nothing about it anyway: zero transform, dude.
I run a vtuber studio with AAA motion capture. Hardware yeah, it’s it’s today. It’S it’s right! Now, it’s right now, yep all right! Is there anything that is left before we? No, I don’t think so.
I think it’s time for w show after dark all right. Let’S do this thing, .