Jordan Peterson: The Deep Fake artists must be stopped before we no longer know what's real

nationalpost.com ^ | August 23, 2019 | Jordan Peterson

[ransomnote]

Something very strange and disturbing happened to me recently. If it was just relevant to me, it wouldn’t be that important (except perhaps to me), and I wouldn’t be writing this column. But it’s something that is likely more important and more ominous than we can even imagine.

There are already common fraudulent schemes being perpetrated by both telephone and internet. One known as the “Grandparent Scam” is particularly reprehensible, first because it is perpetrated on elderly people who are, in general, more susceptible to tech-savvy criminals and second because it is based on the manipulation of familial love, trust and compassion. The criminal running the Grandparent Scam calls, or emails the victim, pretending to represent a grandchild who is now in trouble with the law or who needs money for a hospital bill for an injury that can’t be discussed, say, with parents, because of the moral trouble that might ensue. They generally call late at night — say at four in the morning — because that adds to the confusion. The preferred mechanism of money movement is wire transfer — and that’s a warning: don’t transfer money by wire without knowing for certain who is receiving it, because once it’s gone, it’s not coming back.

Now what if it was possible to conduct such a scam using the actual voice of the hypothetical victim? Worse, what if it was possible to do so with voice and video image, indistinguishable from the real thing? If we’re not at that point now (and we probably are) we will be within months.

In April of this year, a company called Coding Elite exposed an artificial intelligence (AI) program that took a substantial sample of my voice, which is easily accessible on the YouTube lectures and podcasts that I have posted over the last years.

[PGalt]

Who is lying? Who is amplifying the lie? Who is not calling out the liar or letting them go unpunished for any harm they have caused? Who are the accomplices? What are their records/backgrounds? Take Jussie Smollett. He and his amplifiers/accomplices are still walking free from such a potentially harmful episode in the republic. The subjective agenda goes unchallenged. Big media pivots to it.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=racism+agenda&t=osx&ia=web

Preparing the battlefield ALERT!

[cuban leaf]

I still use my old T-Mobile Fender MyTouch phone as a music player. With winamp. :)

[VanDeKoik]

Oh man Winamp brings back memories!