Carney Scam, not political

Three problems with the increasing prevalence of AI:

- Some people seem to have zero critical thinking skills anymore and don’t actually take a split second to a step back and ask themselves if something they are seeing on the Internet is too good to be true, or entirely implausible to begin with.

- Some people have absolutely no ability to look at a photo or video and realize it’s AI to begin with. Anybody who has boomer/elderly relatives on Facebook who share every single stupid thing they see on FB (ie, “This 12 year old made this huge Jesus out of sticks and branches, won’t you give him a like please to make him feel better!” and “This army vet with one leg standing in active traffic on a freeway can’t get any likes on this post, please tell him he matters!” type content knows what I mean.

- And lastly, AI is just getting really good….but the critical thinking skills need apply more and more now as a result. No, Elon Musk isn’t going to give you $1m if you send him $20 bus fare to get home because his Tesla battery died.
 
nobbie48 said:
A video of Carney announcing an income platform where $355 invested gets you $4,000 a month. AI is getting better but his head still jerks around too much.

Too bad it isn't real. At one gets you ten, a couple of billion could eliminate the national debt in a few years.

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YouTube is comically bad at screening these out. In the early days of this stupid scam I'd see the same AI video of "Elon Musk's" investment secret for weeks.

It comes and goes in waves. Sometime they pick a head-scratching celebrity to use as their figurehead, I'd name some other examples but it will derail the thread lol
 
It does show some underlying cultural disconnect though between me and the scammer. You think anybody wants investment advice from the prime minister? If you did five seconds of research you'd turn up people to use like Galen Weston, Lawrence Stroll, Larry Tanenbaum. Hell you could even just start making up Canadian billionaires, because most of them are low profile
 
PrivatePilot said:
Three problems with the increasing prevalence of AI:

- Some people seem to have zero critical thinking skills anymore and don’t actually take a split second to a step back and ask themselves if something they are seeing on the Internet is too good to be true, or entirely implausible to begin with.

- Some people have absolutely no ability to look at a photo or video and realize it’s AI to begin with. Anybody who has boomer/elderly relatives on Facebook who share every single stupid thing they see on FB (ie, “This 12 year old made this huge Jesus out of sticks and branches, won’t you give him a like please to make him feel better!” and “This army vet with one leg standing in active traffic on a freeway can’t get any likes on this post, please tell him he matters!” type content knows what I mean.

- And lastly, AI is just getting really good….but the critical thinking skills need apply more and more now as a result. No, Elon Musk isn’t going to give you $1m if you send him $20 bus fare to get home because his Tesla battery died.
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Another problem is some public figures actually do promote scams (like all the Trump coins). You can't assume that craziness is fake by default (although that is a great position to start from if you don't want to lose money).
 
TwistedKestrel said:
YouTube is comically bad at screening these out. In the early days of this stupid scam I'd see the same AI video of "Elon Musk's" investment secret for weeks.

It comes and goes in waves. Sometime they pick a head-scratching celebrity to use as their figurehead, I'd name some other examples but it will derail the thread lol
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Add FB to that. Screen locking malware and con artist marketplace ads, all made worse by being unable to unsubscribe from reminders to check in. (I've tried)
 
It would be funny, but just this week a few AI videos were released that I could legitimately not tell were fake. Not without hours of inspection, at least. It'll only get more comprehensive.
 
Shaman said:
but just this week a few AI videos were released that I could legitimately not tell were fake.
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I thought it would be an interesting experiment to feed the video above to Chat GPT and ask if it could identify if it's real or fake.

Fail.

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I prompted with the following after that: "Look for signs of deepfake manipulation or AI generation" and it fails again:

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So I asked it do exactly that, and....

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So I asked it to continue as suggested. And, still a fail:

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I continued again as requested, and..hmmm.

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At that point I hit my analysis limit and it wanted me to subscribe.

I fed it to the developer version of Google Gemini with the following prompt:

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And Google nails it.

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Anyhow, moral of the story, even a lot of AI can't detect AI ffs, but if you're looking to try, use Google AI Studio as it seems to get it.
 

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Do some members get paid by the word?
 
Touche!
 
PrivatePilot said:
I thought it would be an interesting experiment to feed the video above to Chat GPT and ask if it could identify if it's real or fake.

Fail.

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I prompted with the following after that: "Look for signs of deepfake manipulation or AI generation" and it fails again:

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So I asked it do exactly that, and....

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So I asked it to continue as suggested. And, still a fail:

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I continued again as requested, and..hmmm.

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At that point I hit my analysis limit and it wanted me to subscribe.

I fed it to the developer version of Google Gemini with the following prompt:

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And Google nails it.

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Anyhow, moral of the story, even a lot of AI can't detect AI ffs, but if you're looking to try, use Google AI Studio as it seems to get it.
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This reminds me of a funny note-- whatever you do, you can't make a person who knows what they are doing is wrong admit it's wrong. Applies to AI models as well.
 
AI is fun. I run exam questions through it to see what ******** it comes up with at times and then tinker with question wording so I can find the cheats. It’s pretty good with some things but for others it’s like the biggest *********** you ever knew at school. Convincing but total crap.
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