• CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    People are going to lose so much fucking money once these real time deepfakes are ubiquitous. It’s just getting started and they are going after big fish first because it’s still tricky to do, but eventually the common phone scammer will have this kind of tech.

    Give your family a code word and tell them, “if you get a weird phone call or video chat from anyone in the family asking you for something odd like lots of money, gift cards, saying they have an emergency, saying they need bail money, etc, ask for the code word”.

    • Wogi@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Or

      Don’t post so much content of yourself online.

      These bots need something to build off of. It’s not like Facebook can look at your picture and imagine your voice. It’s gotta be online, someone’s gotta go build a bank of it and train a robot to sound like you before that can work. Hawk tua girl is out there but the rest of us who aren’t obsessively tiktoking every moment of our lives are fine

      • Zoot@reddthat.com
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        3 months ago

        And what happens when Google is hacked and all of your information is leaked?

        I agree, its not a good idea to put yourself on the internet, at the same time its unreasonable to assume the average person can build their own data management system (and not leak any of that to SOMEONE).

        Hell, Google had it as a default that any time you use voice to text, it saves that audio file. You don’t have to be giving anything personally to the internet for a scammer to get a hold of your voice.

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          3 months ago

          You cloned the repository and everything? I looked into that, but the install seemed very annoying, I’ll wait until something like this is in a package manager.

  • Thistlewick@lemmynsfw.com
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    3 months ago

    I mean if we are deepfaking things for Elon to do, why pick something so on brand? I guess it lends legitimacy to the scam, because if anyone were to be shilling a crypto scam, it’s that old musky ballsack.

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      3 months ago

      When trying to scam people, why pick something that they will believe?

      I think you answered your own question

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      3 months ago

      Web3 evangelists are VERY obsessed with Elon, all they need is a couple of them to not do the due diligence and they’ll make bank.

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        3 months ago

        If they wind up believing they got scammed by Elon Musk, something good may come of this in the end.

  • Harvey656@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    This has been going on for a very long time, just at varying degrees of deepfakery. A couple of years ago it was just a picture of him and a generic computer voice reading a “transcript” that he definitely for sure wrote about etherium and doge coin being the best way to make money.

  • smokebuddy [he/him]@lemmy.today
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    3 months ago

    I’m Canadian and all the YouTube ads lately have been fake Trudeau and Freeland shilling crypto, along with Musk. Every few weeks there’s a story in the media about some idiot getting scammed by them. Sad state of affairs.

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    3 months ago

    This again?

    You’d think they’d have scammed all the idiots by now, but I guess there’s an endless line of them