Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

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🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Is there anything real left on the internet? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore deepfakes, scams, and cybercrime with the Director of Threat Research at Bitdefender, Bogdan Botezatu.

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0:00.0	Chuck, I didn't know we were going to do a show on the end of the world.
0:03.6	Yeah, it's coming.
0:05.4	It's coming.
0:06.2	With the help of, like, AI and cybercrime and deep fakes and what hath we wrought upon
0:12.6	ourselves?
0:13.1	Yeah, well, guess what?
0:14.1	Frankenstein's monster.
0:16.0	It's...
0:16.1	Looking pretty tame.
0:18.9	Bring back Frankenstein, baby.
0:21.8	Coming up, an exploration of how we're going to go to hell and a handbasket on StarTalk.
0:28.8	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:31.4	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:37.4	StarTalk begins right now.
0:41.7	This is StarTalk, special edition.
0:46.1	Today, we're going to talk about scams in the age of AI.
0:53.0	That its special edition means we've got Gary O'Reilly.
0:56.2	Gary, how you doing, Maine?
0:56.8	I'm good.
0:57.4	All right.
0:57.9	Chuck Nice.
0:58.8	I am Chuck Nice and not an AI version of Chuck Nice.
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