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Jess Weatherbed

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
530 total appearances

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Decoder with Nilay Patel
Reality is losing the deepfake war

Microsoft, Qualcomm, Google, like all of these huge names are all involved with that and are supposedly helping to, they're very careful not to say develop it, but to promote its adoption and to encourage other people.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Reality is losing the deepfake war

So in regards to who's actually working on it.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Reality is losing the deepfake war

There isn't kind of any confirmation I can find where it's got something like, I don't know, Sam Altman saying, we've found this flaw in CTP and therefore we're helping to address any kind of like falls and pitfalls that they have.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Reality is losing the deepfake war

It's always just, anytime I see it mentioned, it's whenever a new AI feature has been rolled out and there's a convenient little disclaimer slapped on the bottom, kind of a,

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Reality is losing the deepfake war

Yay, we did it.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Reality is losing the deepfake war

Look, it's fine.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Reality is losing the deepfake war

New AI thing.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Reality is losing the deepfake war

But we have this totally cool system that we use that's supposed to make everything better.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Reality is losing the deepfake war

They don't actively say what they're doing to improve the situation, just that they're using it and just that they're encouraging everyone else to be using it too.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Reality is losing the deepfake war

They haven't officially or on record.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Reality is losing the deepfake war

I have sources that say apparently they were involved in conversations to at least join, but nothing public facing at the minute.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Reality is losing the deepfake war

There has been no confirmation that they are actually joining the CIA initiative or even kind of adopting Google's SynthID technology.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Reality is losing the deepfake war

They're kind of very carefully skirting on the sidelines.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Reality is losing the deepfake war

For some reason, it's a little bit unclear as to whether they're kind of letting their caution about AI generally kind of stem into this at this point, because as far as I'm concerned, there is not going to be a one true solution.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Reality is losing the deepfake war

So I don't really know what Apple is waiting for and they could be making a difference.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Reality is losing the deepfake war

But no, they haven't been making any kind of declarations about what we should be using to label AI.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Reality is losing the deepfake war

That's so interesting to me.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Reality is losing the deepfake war

The money-making side of things never really comes into the conversation.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Reality is losing the deepfake war

It's always that people are very quick to assure me that things are progressing.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Reality is losing the deepfake war

There's never any kind of conversation about incentive to motivate other people to do so.