This Is It. The Deepfake Reckoning

(I went in and fixed the audio issue! Please make sure your podcast client has the latest version downloaded. Okay, back to working on an investigation now, thank you for bearing with us) This week's episode is a banger. First, we go long with Sam and Emanuel, the two journalists who have followed deepfakes and generative AI more closely than anyone. Their latest piece talks about what is going to happen next: a clampdown in the AI and social media industries that may be an overcorrection, with impacts for everyone. Keeping with AI, Emanuel then explains how the founder of the extremism group The Base told his followers to use uncensored AI. In the subscribers-only section, Joseph talks about how an Iranian linked drug trafficker hired a member of the Hells Angel to carry out a hit on U.S. soil. Yes, that's the sentence. The Taylor Swift Deepfakes Disaster Threatens to Change the Internet As We Know It Founder of Neo-Nazi Group the Base Instructs Followers to Use 'Uncensored' AI Encrypted Phone ‘Sky’ Linked to Murder-for-Hire Plot in Maryland Subscribe at 404media.co for access to bonus content. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices