Tech News: Faking the Deepfakes
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🗓️ 9 May 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Defendants in court cases are trying the deepfake defense and judges are not having it. Think twice before you commit a huge investment into AI companies. SBF is asking courts to throw out most of the charges against him. And Peter Thiel has some icy plans after his demise.
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| 0:00.0 | Deep in the mountains of Greece, the country's most-wanted man has been on the run for over a decade. |
| 0:07.0 | He's a bank robber, a kid napper, but to many Greeks, he's a hero. |
| 0:13.7 | His name is Vasili Spaliokostas, and we're on the trail of the man behind the men, a modern-day Robin Hood |
| 0:20.3 | who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. |
| 0:22.9 | A Miles Gray, listen to the Good Thief on the iHeartRadio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from iHeartRadio. |
| 0:42.0 | Hey there and welcome to Tech Stuff. I'm your host Jonathan Strickland, I'm an executive producer with iHeartRadio |
| 0:49.0 | and how the tech are you? It's time for the tech news for Tuesday, May 9, 2023. |
| 0:57.0 | And we begin, as is our custom, with some AI-related stories. |
| 1:03.0 | But it's a little bit different this time around. |
| 1:06.0 | So first up, the Wall Street Journal has an article titled, |
| 1:09.0 | Chat GPT Fever has investors pouring billions into AI startups, no business plan required. |
| 1:17.0 | If you've been around for a while, that headline's going to sound really familiar to you |
| 1:22.0 | because you've seen the same darn thing happened before. |
| 1:25.0 | I mean, it happened in the 90s with web startup companies as investors flooded fledgling companies with, |
| 1:32.0 | you know, more money than they knew what to do with. |
| 1:35.0 | And a lot of those companies didn't have any kind of business plan that would allow them to actually work in the long run. |
| 1:42.0 | And a lot of those companies collapsed, you know, a year or two later. |
| 1:46.0 | Now that money went away. The .com bubble was brutal. |
| 1:50.0 | It happened again in 2008 with the real estate crisis. |
| 1:53.0 | Banks were issuing loans to folks who really couldn't afford to pay those loans back. |
| 1:58.0 | And then banks were selling that debt to other institutions that were buying debt in order to try and make even more money. |
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