Episode 723: Trump as Speaker, Obama Deepfakes, Amish Outed by Phone Alarm [VIDEO]
Added 2023-10-22 13:29:19 +0000 UTCShow Notes
Trump Shows Love To 'Hannibal Lecter' In Killer Blunder At Iowa Rally
‘A.I. Obama’ and Fake Newscasters: How A.I. Audio Is Swarming TikTok - The New York Times
Florida Villages Man Charged in Viagra Smuggling Operation Faces Hard Time
Couple suing Disney World claims water slide caused 'painful wedgie,' severe injury - KTVZ
German museum employee swaps painting for fake and sells original to fund ‘luxury lifestyle’ | CNN
PSP: Man driving a tractor arrested twice for DUI in 17 minutes in Lancaster County
Cult of self-proclaimed 'Queen of Canada' threatens Sask. village with public executions | CBC News
Amish men ‘shunned’ after nationwide emergency alert outs them for having phones | The Independent
Comments
Points to NPR, their reporting on the water slide injuries were the only one I found (trying to see the slide) that did not use a click bait "wedgie" title.
Steven Bickel
2023-10-26 21:43:09 +0000 UTCAt some point AI software is going to be free open source. Many programmers consider software to be free speech. Like most tools, it is what is done with the tool is the illegal part. Making tools like computers or software illegal aren't going to solve the problems.
Mister CPU
2023-10-26 14:36:57 +0000 UTCWe are probably going to have to start doing checksums. It is somewhat similar to NFTs, although NFT takes it a little further. With an NFT, you know it is not the original image if you take a screen shot or if you modify it in any way. That was the supposed selling point behind an NFT. You can do the same with a video, or any file at all to ensure you have an unaltered original/copy. News outlets can include checksums with any image or video they post. It would not be difficult at all to include a browser plugin thayt will run a checksum against any file or video. It could even be done in the background. The only drawback is that you need the entire file, or have it broken into pieces where each section has a checksum. You couldn't really do this with a streaming video, but you could basically have the same user experience breaking it into chunks.
John North
2023-10-23 18:54:37 +0000 UTCRe: the AI audio issue. That frequency already exists. Not sure when it was created but it became popular to prevent TV ads, or in our case podcast audio, from triggering smart devices: “Amazon itself uses this method to keep television commercials from triggering Alexa by muting frequencies in the 3,000hz to 6,000hz range when the wake word is spoken” Dropping those frequencies in post is super simple. In Adobe Audition it’s just: “Select your audio clip, and navigate to the effect called “FFT Filter.” There you will see a graph along the range of frequencies. Click at the 3k mark, and again at the 6k mark, and drag those points down to zero.” The change is undetectable to humans but a solid indicator to devices that the audio is not a real human. I started doing it back when we were making Waiting 4 Wrath so we could say “Alexa” instead of “A lady” like other shows do. Works for Siri and Google Home too. No reason AI generated audio couldn’t include this or a similar trick.
Aaron
2023-10-22 21:28:18 +0000 UTCSmash burgers are pressed down into the surface of the grill during cooking. It increases the development of a crust. However, in my opinion, the hard pressure pushes out too much delicious juice, making it drier.
Eric the Baker
2023-10-22 15:51:02 +0000 UTCWtf is a smash burger? Also Wendy’s burgers are ok but I don’t like the bun.
Anthony Fieno
2023-10-22 14:58:51 +0000 UTC
