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of people what TW of details. I
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was aware about the uproar over the use and
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abuse of artificial intelligence programs.
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But hadn't given it much thought until very
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recently. In particular,
0:43
a lot of people are alarmed about Deep Tech Technology
0:46
TW It's had a lot of practical
0:48
applications in the film and the gaming TW, but
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it can also be used to create misleading images,
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films, snippets of audio, The potentially
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harmful media can create anything from
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videos to inflammatory political content.
1:00
And these cleverly made fakes can spread
1:02
on social media like wildfire damaging the
1:04
TW to their targets and influencing
1:07
public opinion. I
1:09
have a very strong reason to believe that there are
1:11
even more TW applications in store for
1:13
us. The concept of reality is,
1:18
in danger, and
1:20
no one will be safe. Until
1:23
very TW, didn't know much about the darker side
1:25
of TW. Software. I mean, I was peripherally
1:27
aware that it existed. I mean, it's
1:30
getting used for nefarious purposes. I
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mean, I'm not a confused old luddite
1:34
either, a lot of that stuff kind of flies over
1:36
my head. You know, I I certainly never would have
1:38
imagined this technology would someday affect me,
1:40
and an honest nobody in the notion of regular
1:43
people. But, you know, Here we are.
1:47
It was actually a more tech savvy
1:49
friend of mine who found this video when
1:51
she discovered it while poking around a sketchy video
1:53
dump website. She emailed a copy of it with
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a brief message that said you should definitely
1:57
see this. The video was
2:00
just over a minute long, appeared to depict
2:02
some scene of violent
2:04
civil unrest in an urban setting.
2:06
Seemed to have been recorded at a downward angle,
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you know, of his as if the person
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filming was standing on a second floor balcony.
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The street was filled with a surging mob
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of TW, and several buildings were
2:18
on fire. The mob clashed with
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a razor straight line of police and riot
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gear who used their shields in clubs to
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drive them back. And
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the camera zoomed in on one lone individual
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who rushed at the line with a long knife in his
2:32
hand, attempted to stab under the
2:34
cops who was knocked to the ground by a hard push with
2:36
a riot shield. The cops promptly surrounded
2:38
the fallen attacker and they they beat him
2:40
into a bloody mess. In the background,
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someone lit up a molotov TW, threw
2:45
it into the midst. The resulting spray
2:47
of burning fuel ignited both cops,
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the TW, Everyone who was receiving
2:51
a TW, the camera followed one
2:53
of burning cops. He ran into the crowd,
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who promptly swarmed him down and beat him
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with their protest signs. TW this point,
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the screen abruptly went to darkness. And the
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word TW thirteen TW appeared
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for a split second, bold font.
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Then the video just End it.
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I watched the clip several times in a row
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trying to understand and absorb whatever the hell
3:15
I was looking at. I messaged
3:17
my friend back. I asked what's this? Where
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and when did this happen? She replied,
3:22
was label TW deep fake. No
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context in the description. TW
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was the same as the text at the end of the video.
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Watch it again, look carefully at the person who sets
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the cop on fire. I'm almost positive. That's
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you. You
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said, what the hell? And
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TW play again and yep. I mean, she's
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right that I was still distracted
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by the general mayhem to TW on my first few viewings,
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but the person throwing that TW,
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he looked looked
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exactly like me. They
3:55
had my build, my face. I mean, you TW
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even see my tattoo on the forearm. TW
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here's the problem. See, I've
4:02
never participated in a riot. I
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most certainly never burned anyone in the
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bottle of homemade napalm I
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felt the deep unease turn my gut as I rewatched
4:12
those five seconds. The same footage
4:14
over and over again TW to make sense of why
4:17
how this could have happened. I
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messaged her. I said, that's this
4:22
is really weird. Why
4:25
would someone do this? Neither
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of us could think of an adequate explanation.
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I filled out the contact form on the website,
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explain the situation. In the
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days that followed, I waited for a response. I kept
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watching the clip at half speed, picking
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it apart second by second. And upon
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closer scrutiny, I found a number of
4:43
glitches and and imperfections. And
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for example, most of the protest signs were either
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completely blank or they were covered with
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indecisive squiggles. And also
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TW many of the background writers looked eerily similar
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to each other. There were maybe five or
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six variations of faces amongst the hundreds
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of people on the TW. Some of them had
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impossibly long arms. There was even
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an occasional floating head with no discernible
5:06
body beneath it. Even the raging fires
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were a bit odd looking, but if you if you paid close
5:10
enough TW, the video seemed to
5:12
be a work in progress as suggested by the text
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at the end of the video. Even so, It
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was it was still pretty convincing at
5:19
a casual glance. This sheer
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pandemonium in the background helped cover
5:23
up the mistakes. If I had seen this video
5:25
about zoning out, you know, some
5:27
late night scrolling or something, I probably wouldn't
5:29
have questioned if it was real. I
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can only find three faces in total that were noticeably
5:35
unique or different from the rest. They
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all belong to rioters who were engaged in,
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particularly violent or
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destructive activities. There's
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a TW thrower, a cop stabber,
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a pistol girl, a young
5:48
woman, who appeared to be finding a pistol of
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the police. These characters were
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all made to stand out with subtle manipulation
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of placement, shading, shadow, TW
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the fake footage ever found its way TW a newscast,
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they would undoubtedly focus on this
6:03
nefarious TW in the editing room. The
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video's creator had randomly stolen
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real faces for these key players
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and one of them was
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mine. I
6:15
wondered if I was maybe slipping into paranoid
6:18
conspiracy, not theories though. I
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passed my observation along to my friend, asked
6:22
for her input. She agreed
6:24
with everything I said, and then she made an interesting
6:27
point of her own. The
6:29
video felt very much like a blank TW. I
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mean, the settings were a generic city
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street lined with generic buildings.
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It could have taken place in almost any city in North
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America. The empty protest
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signs could be filled with any slogans, which
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seemed appropriate for any given narrative.
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The finished product would be a very convincing
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and very
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frightening look at civil unrest
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in action. She
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also pointed out that compared to the feral
6:56
aggression of the mob, TW seemed
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like the orderly and disciplined
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riot cops were meant to be the protagonists
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of the video
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spun a powerful narrative of law and order
7:09
versus agitator mayhem, and
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there I was, front and center, and all of
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this madness And the more
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I thought about it, the more I was convinced that my likeness
7:18
had been stolen for,
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I don't know, a future propaganda
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piece. I asked her why someone
7:25
would upload this thing before it was ready. My
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friend answered with a shrug emoji. She
7:29
just said, found it mixed with a bunch of other
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deep fake videos. Might have been uploaded
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by
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TW, even smart people make mistakes.
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At that point several days, it passed that a response
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from whoever was running the website. I
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decided to contact them again and discovered
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the URL was broken. I TW to
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find that on Google, but it seemed the entire TW,
7:50
all of its content, just been scrubbed
7:52
on the TW. I tried to convince
7:54
myself of the timing and that it was just
7:56
a coincidence, but I
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wasn't so sure about that. The
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next morning, I crawled out of bed and I discovered
8:05
that I'd TW robbed. The burglar
8:08
had TW the lock and crept into my apartment
8:10
in the dead of night. Only two things were missing.
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My laptop and my phone. Having
8:15
stranger quietly ransacked my apartment while I was
8:18
sleeping was bad enough, but my phone
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had been sitting on the nightstand beside my bed
8:22
and TW was much
8:24
worse. The
8:28
intruder was actually inside my bedroom while
8:30
I was snoozing comfortably in bed.
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They had been standing right beside me in the
8:34
dark. I
8:37
had no idea what's happening. Her
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reported the break into the police, but
8:44
the cop who came to make the report was suspicious
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of my claims. You immediately asked if anything
8:48
else had been TW, pointed out that my wallet
8:50
had been sitting on the side table on that
8:52
same desk as the missing TW. Completely
8:55
untouched. I acknowledged that it seemed
8:57
far fetched, but I stuck
8:59
to my guns. After we left, I drove over
9:01
to my friend's house, I made another disturbing
9:04
discovery. She
9:07
had also been robbed of all of her electronics.
9:11
Nothing else. They'd been stolen.
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She'd stepped right through the entire incident without hearing
9:15
a single peep. I asked if she'd
9:17
contacted the police
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TW. She gave me a funny look. TW,
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she said, I don't think that's a good
9:22
idea. They
9:26
wouldn't be able to help anyway. I
9:28
think we should just drop it and
9:31
leave it alone. Get a new phone.
9:35
Forget about it. As
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she was talking, she grabbed a pen and an envelope
9:39
from a stack of mail on her counter. She
9:42
tapped the back of the envelope to get my
9:43
attention. She
9:46
TW, they
9:49
could be listening. I
9:52
heard those four words and felt my entire
9:54
body clench with anxiety. I
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suddenly felt very exposed and
9:59
horribly vulnerable. I
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I nodded silently and watched as she pushed the envelope
10:03
into the paper shredder. I
10:06
was conscious of how easy it would be for powerful
10:08
TW. Make me disappear. You know, if they could
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break into my apartment, take a
10:11
phone, for my bedside table, then what would stop
10:13
them from taking me?
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But they'd already stolen my face. Why not take
10:19
the rest while they're at it? After
10:22
this bizarre string of
10:23
events, I no longer feel safe at home. I deleted
10:26
all of my social medias. I mean, but
10:28
the damage was done.
10:31
I'd already given out my likeness, my data,
10:34
literally hundreds of occasions like
10:36
Likewise, I I decided that moving
10:38
to a new apartment wouldn't solve anything. They
10:40
could find me, watch me wherever I tried to go.
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I mean, let's be honest here. No one is safe
10:44
from the powers TW be, not anywhere. You
10:47
don't feel like you're anonymous within the masses,
10:49
but the school of fish defense doesn't work
10:51
anymore. It's just a flimsy
10:53
illusion in the age of technology.
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You're photographed, you're TW numerous
10:59
times every day every time you venture
11:01
out of your home dozens of cameras, observing
11:03
your every movement throughout the day. I
11:05
mean, even inside your own home, it's possible for
11:08
another party to watch you through the camera
11:10
in your laptop. Right?
11:12
TW never mind cameras. They're the least
11:14
of your worries as far as surveillance is concerned.
11:16
Your cell phone is the worst offender. I mean,
11:18
if it's on, it's always listening. TW
11:20
relentlessly tracks your journey through life
11:23
from the cozy security of your own pocket.
11:26
Even if you ditch the cell phone, you fled to a
11:28
remote area to live as a hermit, you still
11:30
wouldn't be seen. I mean, if they wanted to
11:32
find you, there are a number of spy
11:34
TW, drones, things like that that could do the job
11:36
with dizzying
11:37
efficiency. It'd
11:40
only be a matter of time.
11:45
If TW thirteen riot was ever broadcasted
11:48
to the public, I'd
11:51
be split into two different people. One
11:55
would be TW, the other,
11:58
be a murderer. The only people
12:00
who had questioned it would be those who knew me personally.
12:04
Everyone else would think TW was a wild eyed TW.
12:07
And I mean, why wouldn't they? Hell,
12:10
they saw me commit a crime on video.
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TW the
12:14
quality was convincing in a even
12:16
those who knew me would probably find themselves
12:19
doubting my TW. How can they deny something
12:21
they could clearly see?
12:25
I don't sleep very well these days.
12:29
I see you in the I'm always
12:31
on edge. I had to trust everyone I see
12:33
in the news. The
12:36
powers that b have one two combo
12:38
that can't be countered. Some people will
12:41
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12:43
will fracture into Nihilistic pockets
12:45
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12:48
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12:50
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12:54
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12:59
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