Deepfakes

“And so I think, you know, in a year from now, it's just going to be a full commodity and it's going to be super photorealistic and absolutely real time.”

“I think the largest difference that I think between both of them is that one is happening with consent and the other is happening without consent.”

“I think there will be some sort of regulation, right? Like, especially around like deep fakes or, you know, video, like it feels like you, if you use AI generated video to, you know, cause pain or harm or reputational harm to someone is that standalone AI regu…”

“Online financial fraud is going up at somewhere between 20 and 25% a year off of a gigantic base. Deep fakes are having a big impact on this. A lot of AI tooling is having a big impact on this.”

“Example that I brought up in a recent post that I feel like was just kind of overlooked. Maybe you covered at some point. I don't know, but overlooked in the broader media was when someone used to deep fake in order to call up the chairman of the foreign relat…”

“There's been enough research now that, you know, individual, like, general population doesn't really fall for deepfakes, like, whether it's calls or, like, synthetic media. Doesn't really change consumer opinion that much. People are not dumb.”

“The deep fakes went pretty quickly from the, like, You know, NBC news breaking news alert every time there was a deep fake to kind of like our brains sort of figured it out.”

“In my discussions in D.C., this is actually the thing they care about the most.”

“Particularly if we get better blockchain crypto regulation, that we actually have a very good technological approach particularly for politicians and people in, you know, public figures to basically digitally sign content they're in, put it on the blockchain, …”

“What's happened is there's been enough of it that everyone's just decided that nothing is real or it's too hard to figure out what's real and what's not real. And so they're just like, that's all noise. Right? And so as a result, there's no truth signal in any…”

“There has been a 1400% increase in the amount of deep fakes we've seen this year in the first six months compared to all of last year.”

“In 2023, we were seeing essentially one deep fake a month in some customer, right? So it was just one deep fake a month, and some customer would face it. It wasn't a widespread problem. But this year, we've now seen one deep fake per customer per day.”

“So you have to invest quite a bit into fixing the issue of detecting these systems, right? Detecting deep fakes, you know, looking in every possible way that you can look at different modalities of that data and say, okay, the likelihood that this is actually …”

“I also think we need technological solutions, not just regulatory solutions for things like deep fakes that kind of help us get to, you know, what's human, what's not human. And interesting, a lot of those are kind of you know, viable now based on kind of bloc…”

“Extrapolating that further, as we think about, you know, future innovations, making it much easier to create these deep fakes, whether it's an audio or audio visual, whether it's your Slack or your Teams or your chatting interface, whatever it is, all of which…”

“So it's not about saying, how do I authenticate this image that I'm receiving necessary? But what is the behavior that has been trying to be driven out of this communication? Are they trying to create a sense of urgency? Are they steering you to a behavior tha…”

“The scientists and the technologists are coming up with great solutions to identify deep fake, identify You know, misinformation, things that are blatantly false. So I think we'll have, I'm hopeful, but that's the one thing I'm scared about, but I think we'll…”

“This is not a tech problem really right now. It's actually a rights problem. So what somebody needs to do, the move here is not to go all in on product, but to go all in on biz dev, which is a total narrative violation. Nobody says, hey, go all in on biz dev, …”

“So, so protection, so the takedown and protection and detection and monitoring service for all these celebrities to say, Hey, we are scouring the web to make sure your face is not showing up in Deep fake porn or in ads that you're not actually endorsing and th…”

“It's gonna be a huge thing going into the presidential election of twenty-twenty-four, for sure, because by October, they're gonna be working perfectly.”

“It happened to me and Colin recently, where it was a video of me, Colin and Mr. Beast talking about an online casino that he had started. And it was also our lips were also defaked and.”

“I think we're going to be able to tell, like there'll be a system that you can plug in and say, tell me if this video is fake and it'll say fake or whatever.”

“We're already there on edge cases, and we'll pretty soon be there for mass cases.”

“Hey, you're not going to know what's real and what's fake. Like, cause fake and real are going to be like indistinguishable, like a deep fake video or like a Photoshop photo, but for everything, for voices, for videos, for drawings, for whatever Twitter thread…”

“The thing that's going to happen, I guess, is as deep fakes and other, other kinds of media come out that make it really impossible to distinguish between what is being said and what is not. We're going to, again, just as we did before any video existed, We're…”

“I want to invest in this company. I saw it. I haven't even had a chance to talk to them yet, but what they're doing is they basically made a version of deep fake that you can do for yourself. So you can thank customers personally for a purchase or for anything…”

“It's only, so the security issue and the preventing fakes issue is a problem that, Is going to be 10 times bigger in five years, and we're sort of, we're planning for that.”

“Because I don't think you'll be able to completely automate the detection.”

“He doesn't quite blink enough, by the way, if you've actually kind of followed this. The blinking is, is not quite right.”

“I think, you know, there's a lot of hype about deep fake right now. I don't know how, how real it's actually going to be. And, you know, we're already seeing, you know, a lot of the research agencies like DARPA and things like that work on being able to detect…”