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The Jordan Harbinger Show

486: Nina Schick | Deepfakes and the Coming Infocalypse

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Education, Science, Business

4.812.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Nina Schick (@NinaDSchick) specializes in how technology is transforming geopolitics and society in the 21st century. She is the author of Deepfakes: The Coming Infocalypse.

What We Discuss with Nina Schick:
  • What deepfakes are and how they're created using technology that is getting exponentially more sophisticated every year and accessible to anyone.
  • How deepfakes go beyond novelty and into dangerous territory occupied by blackmailers, propagandists, terrorists, conspiracy theorists, and other unsavory ne'er-do-wells who profit by making the rest of us doubt what we can trust as reality.
  • Why deepfakes are so much more concerning than reality-bending manipulations of the past.
  • The potential positive uses of AI-assisted deepfake technology that will change our world as dramatically as the advent of the Internet.
  • How we can discern between real photo, video, or audio footage and imposter deepfakes to avoid being duped by 21st-century technoshysters.
  • And much more...

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0:00.0

Coming up on the Jordan Harbanger Show.

0:02.2

Fake pornography has a long history, so this is not just a photoshopped image of a celebrity's face.

0:08.3

Stop on to a point-start body.

0:09.9

This is a real-life video where the celebrity is moving her face.

0:13.9

She's got different expressions.

0:15.6

AI is getting better and better.

0:17.6

So less training data is needed.

0:19.5

I can make a nude image of your sister, your wife, your mom, and young girls from a single photo, for example.

0:27.2

And there were over 100,000 of these images just being publicly passed around in these telegram groups.

0:33.4

The key point is the AI can basically be used to hijack anyone's biometrics.

0:38.5

So it's pretty clear that it's going to leach out into other forms of malicious use

0:43.5

with fraud, with political disinformation, as a tool of intimidation.

0:48.2

We're already starting to see that.

0:53.8

Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbanger.

0:56.0

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1:00.1

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1:09.8

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1:12.3

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1:17.7

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1:21.7

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