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🗓️ 22 March 2025
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When dozens of young women discover manipulated photos of themselves have been posted on a porn site, they fight back – joining up with a global band of investigators and hackers to battle the AI-fueled rise of deepfakes. Listen to episodes starting March 21.
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0:00.0 | Five years ago, this was a vast checkerboard of potato farms on New York's Long Island. |
0:12.0 | Today, this is Levittown, one of the most remarkable housing developments ever conceived. |
0:18.0 | Levitown, New York, America's first suburb. |
0:24.2 | Row after row after row, after row, of cookie cutter homes. |
0:29.3 | The picture of the American dream. |
0:33.8 | But recently, underneath the facade of perfect order, a group of young woman found themselves in an AI-fueled nightmare. |
0:45.4 | Someone was posting photos of many of the girls that we had gone to school with. |
0:53.0 | There was one picture of me in a bathing suit, |
0:57.0 | and I didn't have a bathing suit on anymore. |
1:02.0 | It was just me naked. |
1:04.0 | Well, not me, but me with someone else's body parts |
1:08.0 | that looked exactly like my own. |
1:12.9 | Over the last few years, rapid breakthroughs and machine learning |
1:16.9 | have made it a lot easier and cheaper to make real-looking photos or videos |
1:22.4 | of pretty much anything you can think of. |
1:25.6 | But innovation comes at a price. I felt gross. I felt like I needed to |
1:30.9 | take a shower. I felt like I wanted to cry. I wanted to throw up. I wanted to scream. |
1:37.2 | This is a story about a technology that is moving faster than the law, where everyone is a suspect, even your neighbours. |
1:46.9 | It was always in the back of my head like, oh, it's someone that I know. But how do you find out |
1:51.9 | who that someone is when you know so many people from school, soccer, all these things? |
2:02.2 | What we discovered in Levertown led us on a winding journey. |
2:06.6 | I just always had in the back of my mind that any of them could be the one. |
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