TNW 336: Met Gala Deepfakes - Online Scams, AI Chatbots, AlphaFold
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
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🗓️ 9 May 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Amanda Silberling from TechCrunch joins Mikah Sargent this week on Tech News Weekly. They talk about how AI deepfakes have infiltrated aspects of the online conversations of the Met Gala fashion. How a Chinese network is behind one of the largest online scams into duping US and European customers through fake online designer shops. Teenagers are turning to AI chatbots to find entertainment, help, and even support from these AI services. Finally, Google DeepMind's AlphaFold AI program can model parts of DNA and human molecules.
- Amanda Silberling discusses how AI images have entered this year's Met Gala's online discourse through celebrities who "appeared" on the Met Gala carpet.
- Mikah Sargent talks about an online scam that originates in China, targeting US and European customers through online fake designer shops that acquire their credit cards and other personal information.
- Teenagers are slowly turning more to AI chatbots to seek entertainment, help, and overall companionship, which they are lacking at times in real life.
- Finally, Google DeepMind's new AlphaFold AI program can generate & predict how human overall molecules can interact, assisting in developing drug discovery and research.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Amanda Silberling
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, I Micah Sergeant and joined by the birthday gal herself, it's |
| 0:05.8 | Amanda Silverling who joins me for another episode of Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:10.3 | This week, Amanda's story is all about the Met Gala and the AI deepfakes that |
| 0:16.2 | made their way to the web. My story is about the Chinese network that appears to be behind one of the largest online |
| 0:27.6 | scams that The Guardian and other newspapers have ever seen. It's a huge grab of personal data and it all |
| 0:37.4 | appears to be coming from a Chinese company that is creating software to make even more of the scam sites. |
| 0:47.0 | After that, we have a great story about teams who are using AI chatbots for companionship, friendship, and maybe even a little bit of therapy |
| 0:56.4 | and round things out with an understanding of what's changed in Google Deep Mind's new Alpha Fold model now that it's in version 3. |
| 1:05.2 | Stay tuned or a great episode of Tech News Weekly. |
| 1:09.0 | Podcasts you love from people you trust. |
| 1:15.0 | This is Twit. |
| 1:17.0 | This is Twit. |
| 1:20.0 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode with Amanda Silverling and me Micah |
| 1:25.9 | Sergeant recorded Thursday May 9th 2024. Met Gala Deep Face. |
| 1:32.4 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where every week we talk to and about the people making and breaking the tech news. |
| 1:40.0 | I am your host, Micah Sergeant, and I am joined this week by our very special |
| 1:46.7 | second Thursday of the month guest host whose birthday it also happens to be |
| 1:51.9 | it's Amanda Silverling. Welcome, Amanda. |
| 1:55.9 | Hello, I am happy to virtually spend my birthday with you because it's fun to be here. |
| 2:01.8 | Well, you, I was telling you ahead of time, |
| 2:05.2 | you are actually the second person who has had a birthday |
| 2:09.8 | on a day that we're recording the show. |
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