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I remember back in early 2024, I read this article about some employee who was scammed into sending millions of dollars to thieves who used AI to [impersonate the CFO on a video call.] It seemed like we were about to e deluged fake phone calls from family members in emergencies and with deepfakes of politicians doing incriminating things or saying things they never said.
But it doesn't seem like this is happening.
I'm sure there are lots of scams I never hear about, but given the incredible advances in AI voice and video generation and the ubiquity of the tools, I'm very surprised that it doesn't seem to be much of a problem at all. Maybe it just needs more time.
I wonder what other AI doom scenarios will not come to fruition.
I suspect that the amount of effort to craft a convincing deepfake is still fairly substantial.
Not to mention most of the major AI providers have safeguards built in against this kind of thing. I can't get Chat or Grok to generate images of Xi Jinping for example, or of copyrighted content.
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I wonder what other AI doom scenarios will not come to fruition.
AI-run surveillance states or robot takeovers?
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I see some fakes in geopolitical news channels on Telegram. They're not too prevalent, and it looks as though they're usually manually edited mixes of AI generations and real backgrounds.
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i did! had forgotten about. I want to be called by AI brad pitt! How come I'm not getting AI Scar-jo on the phone?
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"How come I can't get AI Scar-Jo?"
"We have AI Scar-Jo at home"
AI Scar-Jo at home:
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I think the big problem in that case wasn't the AI-generated images, but the woman's stupidity in believing she was talking to Pitt.
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