How long until we are just posting deep fakes of each other eating shit and society completely breaks down? Wake me when we are there.
I’m sure someone said the same thing about Photoshop. Somehow we survived.
Some of the deep fried Forwards From Grandma shit I’ve been seeing has leaned more and more heavily on AI generated crap. When you’re already used to the grainy highly-questionable photos posted in the Enquirer, a full length movie of Elon Musk half-melting his way through a speech seems relatively normal and convincing.
I think its all a double-edged sword.
On the one hand, the newer tech makes dismissing anything you don’t want to believe easier. Photo of Trump stumbling or looking goofy? Deepfake. Not real. They’re all out to get him and this is further proof.
On the other hand, a faked image paired with a weaselly headline can achieve a kind-of Truthiness that is easier to distribute than disprove. Case in point the fake Atlantic headline of Biden falling off his bike that got kicked around Twitter two years back.
Consider this particularly nefarious use of digital manipulation. Photos of University of Florida student protesters were altered to make them look older in an attempt to support the theory of paid protesters and outside agitation. Often, these images start under “parody” accounts and get screenshoted and recirculated and further deep fried as they pass from account to account.
So much like “seeing a photo of fairies doesn’t mean fairies are real”, seeing a clip of Trump meeting Jesus doesn’t mean it’s real either. People need to adapt to finding out how to look into a claim more than just saying “I saw a picture so it must be true.”
So much like “seeing a photo of fairies doesn’t mean fairies are real”, seeing a clip of Trump meeting Jesus doesn’t mean it’s real either.
You’re working from a position of established skepticism. Trump can’t meet Jesus cause he’s 2000 years in the ground and also not a 6’2" Swede.
But a clip of Elon shilling crypto? That’s significantly easier to swallow.
People need to adapt to finding out how to look into a claim
Shy of personally running down Elon and asking him, what are you doing to do to verify this?
Read text? Watch videos? Listen to testimonial? All of that can be faked.
Shy of personally running down Elon and asking him, what are you doing to do to verify this?
I’d personally suggest “Don’t buy something just because there’s a video of someone endorsing it.” Whether or not Elon endorsed it doesn’t change if it’s a good investment or not. (It’s crypto, it’s not)
Oh, I’m kinda just joking.
The argument could be made, though, that the aptitude for learning photoshop makes it prohibitive to the general masses. Give some dopey fucks the ability to dopey shit and they will inevitably explore every aspect of it, good and bad.
Facebook deep fake nonsense aside, if I genuinely thought Elon was involved in an investment scheme, I would immediately consider it a scam and assume my money would disappear.
Shitty reputation aside, the guy has never been a developer has he?
He was a developer on whatever company he had that got folded into PayPal. It would be accurate to say that he never was a good developer.
Huh, I always assumed he was just an exec
That said, I did make about an 800% return by investing (a small amount) in Dogecoin immediately after he tweeted that it was his favorite cryptocurrency that one time. Figured his fan club would pump it, and boy did they. I got it at about $0.05 and sold out at $0.40, believe it peaked at $0.58 or so. Wish I’d wagered more than the $250 I did on it.
Hello everyone , I’m Yilong Musque! Tesla good!
Hahahahaha lol, I wish it had gone unnoticed a bit more. Scamming techbros and cryptobros sounds cool.
Company: Announces Elon Musk is the lead developer
Stock: 📉
This isn’t news, it’s been ongoing for quite some time.
It’s news that someone is actually policing advertisements… I’ve seen dozens of deep fake ads and nothing ever seems to get cracked down on.
using deep fakes of billionaires is free speech
Were they purposely trying to tank the product? 🤔
Crypto bros have a hard on for Elon, the scam is targeting them specifically.
They should’ve picked a better person to lie about, especially if it’s supposed to be a developer.
Yeah! Pick somebody who actually knows tech, like esteemed Academy Award nominated lead developer Margot Robbie, for example.
(Wait, actually, no, getting involved in crypto is generally a bad idea…)
Ah, I missed you.
Still on that acting break, but in the meantime, you can buy a copy of “Barbie” on Blu-ray to tide you over.
No way. You want someone who’s so obviously an idiot that his face alone selects out anyone with critical reasoning faculties.
Being a deepfake used to find rubes willing to give over money to an obvious scam is the platonic ideal of elon musk. Bravo, grifters. Bravo.
Exactly, just like the Nigerian prince scam. Those who know about the scam or with enough critical thinking ability are not the marks. They want that small percentage of highly gullible people they can fleece easily.
Continuing the trend elon continues to look worser physically everytime an article is posted about him
According to Elon, this is completely fine and legal.
Elon, like his favored doge and bitcoin ,has run his course. He started off making sense, looking like he was going to change the world. But now He’s not energy efficient, he’s horrible for the environment, takes forever to get things done and never fully delivers what was promised. It’s time we stop worshiping Elon.
You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the Pedo Guy.
Those weren’t fake, those were real (there are actual VERIFIED people on Twitter that can back me up on this) Unfortunately, you can’t ask elon himself, because he was working with that team on their crypto right before he died.
If you didn’t hear about his death, it wasn’t widely reported really because he was so insignificant that nobody really cared. But I guess they found that he broke his neck trying to suck his own dick on a ferris wheel. He was wearing small shorts, exerted himself trying to fold in half to reach, shit his pants, the shit hit the floor of the bucket, he slipped in the shit, hit the cage awkwardly and broke his neck.
Might be hacked accounts. The same happens on facebook. Some friend had their account stolen, and could not get it back. Half a year later the name and profile picture changes to “Elon Musk”. Reported it to facebook for Scam and “Impersonating public figure”. They have a report category for this exact case, so surely they know that this is a problem and they will take care of it, right? Nope, according to Facebook everything is A-Ok with the account, and no action is taken.
RIP
I’ve disabled personalised ads on YouTube and I see this sort of shit all the time. I’ve given up reporting them because 90% of the time the report is rejected. I don’t even understand the rationale for rejecting it because it’s an obvious a scam as a scam can be - ai impersonation, fake endorsement, illegal advertising category. It’s a scam YouTube.
I don’t even get why these ads even appear. YouTube has transcription & voice / music recognition capabilities. How hard would it be to flag a suspicious ad and require a human to review it? Or search for duplicates under other burner accounts and zap them at the same time? Or having some kind of randomized audit based on trust where new accounts get reviewed more frequently by experienced reviewers.
they ain’t gonna stop their customers from paying them more money
How hard would it be to flag a suspicious ad and require a human to review it?
Hard? No. But then humans would have to be paid which would slow down the growth of the dragon horde.
Better to have a computer analyze the ad that another computer thinks looks real.
No no. This kind of automated “protection” is only used against their users, who are their product. Not the advertisers, who are their customer!
They didn’t have to . elon would prolly declare himself the founder on his own and then sue the company and the board of directors if they disagreed with him