Laurie Segall
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where the idea of sexually explicit deepfakes of saying, oh, I like that woman. I want her doing this with this person. I don't care what she says. I'm just gonna use AI to make my dreams come true. Like your wish is AI's command. That was what this site was. And it was called Mr. Deepfakes. And I remember,
where the idea of sexually explicit deepfakes of saying, oh, I like that woman. I want her doing this with this person. I don't care what she says. I'm just gonna use AI to make my dreams come true. Like your wish is AI's command. That was what this site was. And it was called Mr. Deepfakes. And I remember,
where the idea of sexually explicit deepfakes of saying, oh, I like that woman. I want her doing this with this person. I don't care what she says. I'm just gonna use AI to make my dreams come true. Like your wish is AI's command. That was what this site was. And it was called Mr. Deepfakes. And I remember,
also had like training manuals so it wasn't just about these public figures these women it was about training young men how to do this and take this into their schools or take you this into their workplace so you look on the message boards and it'd be like oh I want to do this to my sister-in-law I love tech I love artificial intelligence I think it's gonna do incredible things but this is ground zero for what happens when it is misused and it's used as a weapon against women and girls and I
also had like training manuals so it wasn't just about these public figures these women it was about training young men how to do this and take this into their schools or take you this into their workplace so you look on the message boards and it'd be like oh I want to do this to my sister-in-law I love tech I love artificial intelligence I think it's gonna do incredible things but this is ground zero for what happens when it is misused and it's used as a weapon against women and girls and I
also had like training manuals so it wasn't just about these public figures these women it was about training young men how to do this and take this into their schools or take you this into their workplace so you look on the message boards and it'd be like oh I want to do this to my sister-in-law I love tech I love artificial intelligence I think it's gonna do incredible things but this is ground zero for what happens when it is misused and it's used as a weapon against women and girls and I
eventually all of us, right? So I became very obsessed with Mr. Deepfakes and tracking him and took us all on an investigation that was very wild and never a dull moment. Spoiler alert, we found Mr. Deepfakes. Yay. Yes. It was probably a couple years ago and I'm like, we should just start talking about this on the internet and explaining why people need to care about this shady site.
eventually all of us, right? So I became very obsessed with Mr. Deepfakes and tracking him and took us all on an investigation that was very wild and never a dull moment. Spoiler alert, we found Mr. Deepfakes. Yay. Yes. It was probably a couple years ago and I'm like, we should just start talking about this on the internet and explaining why people need to care about this shady site.
eventually all of us, right? So I became very obsessed with Mr. Deepfakes and tracking him and took us all on an investigation that was very wild and never a dull moment. Spoiler alert, we found Mr. Deepfakes. Yay. Yes. It was probably a couple years ago and I'm like, we should just start talking about this on the internet and explaining why people need to care about this shady site.
So we said, okay, I believe this is one of the most dangerous men on the internet, the person behind this, and we need to know his name before it's too late because we're Why should this person who has harmed so many women be afforded anonymity? This site had been up and running for seven or eight years, and he was anonymous. So you had no idea who was doing this.
So we said, okay, I believe this is one of the most dangerous men on the internet, the person behind this, and we need to know his name before it's too late because we're Why should this person who has harmed so many women be afforded anonymity? This site had been up and running for seven or eight years, and he was anonymous. So you had no idea who was doing this.
So we said, okay, I believe this is one of the most dangerous men on the internet, the person behind this, and we need to know his name before it's too late because we're Why should this person who has harmed so many women be afforded anonymity? This site had been up and running for seven or eight years, and he was anonymous. So you had no idea who was doing this.
And I just thought, let's find him. Let's just try. On my team, we have some incredible investigative journalists that came with me from my 60 Minutes days. One of my colleagues, Nicole, she could be an FBI agent if she wanted. She's wonderful.
And I just thought, let's find him. Let's just try. On my team, we have some incredible investigative journalists that came with me from my 60 Minutes days. One of my colleagues, Nicole, she could be an FBI agent if she wanted. She's wonderful.
And I just thought, let's find him. Let's just try. On my team, we have some incredible investigative journalists that came with me from my 60 Minutes days. One of my colleagues, Nicole, she could be an FBI agent if she wanted. She's wonderful.
We started talking about it and we went out and I remember I started talking about it at like a mom's conference and all these moms got behind us with this idea that this might be about this shady deep fake porn site, but actually this is about the future of bullying. This is about what could happen in your schools with young men doing this to women thinking it's okay.
We started talking about it and we went out and I remember I started talking about it at like a mom's conference and all these moms got behind us with this idea that this might be about this shady deep fake porn site, but actually this is about the future of bullying. This is about what could happen in your schools with young men doing this to women thinking it's okay.
We started talking about it and we went out and I remember I started talking about it at like a mom's conference and all these moms got behind us with this idea that this might be about this shady deep fake porn site, but actually this is about the future of bullying. This is about what could happen in your schools with young men doing this to women thinking it's okay.
Like this is normalizing a new type of abuse. And so I think a lot of people really resonated with that message. And I remember I was getting my nails done And all of a sudden, I didn't even know I had another inbox on TikTok, but I was on TikTok looking at other inbox, which is like messages that sometimes they filter.
Like this is normalizing a new type of abuse. And so I think a lot of people really resonated with that message. And I remember I was getting my nails done And all of a sudden, I didn't even know I had another inbox on TikTok, but I was on TikTok looking at other inbox, which is like messages that sometimes they filter.