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Catfishing, Airbnb fraud, and other Deep Dreams about catching computer fakes

Catfishing, Airbnb fraud, and other Deep Dreams about catching computer fakes

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Summary

What do you do when the uncanny valley of detecting deep fakes and other AI-generated imagery becomes harder and harder? As the flood of slop rises towards our collective nostrils, a combination of crowd wisdom and tools built by the tech companies driving AI seem to be the current answer.

Today on Endless Thread, Ben takes Amory on a brief journey through the recent history of computer vision, and finds some optimism in a few tools that are becoming more reliable in helping us gut-check a host of new AI-powered scamming. Is this AI? Listen on to find out!

Show notes:

  • Computer Vision (Wikipedia)
  • Deep Dream (Wikipedia)
  • Air BnB toilet (Reddit)
  • R/IsThisAI SynthID explainer (Reddit)
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