meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Pass The Mic

They Got Our Faces Now?

Pass The Mic

The Witness

Christianity, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Seems like AI taking over... so now a number of people have used ChatGPT to generate everything from speeches, to worship, to sermons. Facial recognition is redefining travel and security measures. AI advancement is concerning for everyone but especially for people of color, and especially for Black people in America. Let's talk about it... Support this podcast at patreon.com/passthemic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

I am your host, Tyler Burns. You can follow me on Twitter and Instagram at BurnsClam. Please follow at your own risk. And joining me to my right is the founder of the witness. He has a very extensive bio.

0:15.0

Dynamic voices for diverse church power by the witness. A black Christian collective. I am your host Tyler Burns. You can follow me on Twitter and Instagram at BurnsClam. Please follow at your own risk. And joining me to my right is the founder of the witness. He has a very extensive bio.

0:30.0

The man, the myth, the legend, the two-time bestselling author, the professor, the substack author.

0:34.0

Jammartisby.substack.com. Dr. Jammartisby, Mr. Bluecheck verified himself was going on, brother.

0:40.0

Hey, feeling good? Grateful again to be here in the St. Stephen studio. Very fancy set up.

0:48.0

So make sure you catch the video when you can. Absolutely. And to my left, we have the vice president of the witness, the author of the forthcoming book.

0:57.0

I won't shut up finding your voice when the world tries to silence you. Coming out in June of 2023. Of course, I'm talking about Ali.

1:05.0

Ali was going on. Hey, listen, y'all. I'm here in rumors that they got our face now. Huh? They got our faces. You know them, they, you know, the people, the people that do stuff with our faces. They got our faces now.

1:18.0

Let me tell you what I mean. So y'all saw the trend, right? Of all these AI pictures where you sent them 10 of your pictures or 20 of your pictures, however many.

1:29.0

And then they generated like cool AI photos. Y'all saw this trend? Yes. Did y'all do this trend? No.

1:37.0

So yeah, I did, but I didn't post my pictures. Okay. Yeah. Okay.

1:42.0

What I saw like in my wife was saying the same thing that it was really bad for black women like the black women pictures like weren't good. Like my Lena was like, these pictures are terrible.

1:51.0

Yeah, my pictures. I had a couple that interestingly, like one of them came out looking like one of my cousins, like looked exactly like one of my cousins.

2:00.0

I didn't have a very good sample size. But then also I decided not to post them. And I wasn't thinking about it at the time. So I was like, oh, this seems really cool.

2:08.0

But even just like some of the concerns that people have voiced like with artists and that happened. Like, oh, you're taking it. So I was like, okay, well, I will, I will posted them.

2:17.0

So some of mine in our, I was looking at them. I was like, oh, this is kind of cool. It's like a cool new trend. So the first thing that people were saying was, oh, you know, they, they got your face now and they can use them.

2:28.0

I'm like, I do facial recognition on my phone. I kind of feel like, you know, I got to feel like they kind of feel like they got my pictures.

2:36.0

I feel like, you know, I'm on multiple social medias. I feel like that. That milk has been spilled. Yeah. But then the artist concerned. I was like, yeah, because if you think about it,

2:44.0

A.I. is doing an approximation of what artists do very well and with intention took them decades. Yeah, take them decades to master.

2:52.0

So I'm thinking about that. And I'm thinking about, who could I pay to actually do a better job of this and a job that's actually, you know, more photorealistic to me and things of that nature.

3:02.0

Because, you know, in A.I. they're going to get all the hands wrong with the fingers. Yeah, we're going to get like 10 fingers.

3:09.0

Do you want to get another hand like right now here, like coming out like this?

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Witness, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Witness and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.