The FAIK Files

By Perry Carpenter | N2K NetworksSociety & Culture Technology

The FAIK Files episodes

March 21, 2025Why AI Still Can't Be Trusted ...And Neither Can We
Welcome back to the FAIK Files!

In this episode, we take a look at China's groundbreaking (yet controversial) requirement to label all AI-generated content. We also explore some unsettling experiments that show just how it is to manipulate an AI system's biases and opinions. Plus -- is reliance on AI making us dumber? And our AI Dumpster Fire of the week is all about how AI-powered search engines keep confidently serving up misinformation, broken links, and outright lies.

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*** NOTES AND REFERENCES ***

China's New AI Data Labeling Requirement
Tom's Hardware -- China will enforce clear flagging of all AI generated content starting from September: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/china-will-enforce-clear-flagging-of-all-ai-generated-content-starting-from-september

Futurism -- All AI-Generated Material Must Be Labeled Online, China Announces: https://futurism.com/ai-generated-material-labeled-china

Changing the Opinions of LLMs:
Kevin Roose experiment: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/30/technology/ai-chatbot-chatgpt-manipulation.html

NewsGard research: https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-funded-moscow-based-global

Is Easy Access to AI killing our ability to think?
Vox -- The case for using your brain — even if AI can think for you: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/403100/ai-brain-effects-technology-phones

Technology Connections -- Algorithms are breaking how we think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJpZjg8GuA

Dumpster Fire of the Week: AI Search Can't be Trusted (... at least not yet)
Colombia Journalism Review -- AI Search Has a Citation Problem: https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news.php

Ars Technica -- AI search engines cite incorrect news sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-search-engines-give-incorrect-answers-at-an-alarming-60-rate-study-says/

*** THE BOILERPLATE ***
About The FAIK Files:
The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions.
Get the Book: FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions (Amazon Associates link)

Check out the website for more info: https://thisbookisfaik.com
Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast:
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA

Other: https://digitalfolklore.fm
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Perry on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/perrycarpenter

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Perry on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/perrycarpenter.bsky.social
Connect with Mason:
Mason on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mason-amadeus-a853a7242/

Mason on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/wickedinterest.ing

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1 hr
March 14, 2025Speaking of Deception: AI Voice Scams, Creative Uses, & More
Welcome back to the FAIK Files!

This week, we explore the creative and mischievous ways AI voices can be created and used -- everything from simple voice cloning, to character acting, the legal issues in authenticating voice recording, to the full weaponization of AI voices for scams and information warfare.

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*** NOTES AND REFERENCES ***
Fun and Fear with AI Voice Clones:
Making a deepfake voice with ElevenLabs. https://try.elevenlabs.io/FAIK
Courts are Struggling with How to Verify Audio Evidence:
The complications of “authenticating” voice in court. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/ai-generated-voice-evidence-poses-dangers-in-court
Can AI Act?:
Hank Azaria Video: https://youtu.be/1Hz19kpCse4?si=1xwOZ0YoCppiTewi

Mason pushes an AI character acting to the edge!
AI Dumpster Fire of the Week -- It's way too easy to Weaponize AI Voices at Scale
Demo of Perry's AI Voice Scambot: https://blog.knowbe4.com/proved-unsuspecting-call-recipients-are-super-vulnerable-to-ai-vishing

How bad actors can weaponize commercial-grade systems like ElevenLabs, HeyGen, Akool, and more (affiliate links)

*** THE BOILERPLATE ***
About The FAIK Files:
The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions.
Get the Book: FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions (Amazon Associates link)

Check out the website for more info: https://thisbookisfaik.com
Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast:
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA

Other: https://digitalfolklore.fm
Want to connect with us? Here's how:
Connect with Perry:
Perry on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/perrycarpenter

Perry on X: https://x.com/perrycarpenter

Perry on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/perrycarpenter.bsky.social
Connect with Mason:
Mason on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mason-amadeus-a853a7242/

Mason on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/wickedinterest.ing

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54 min
March 07, 2025Adblockers, Emotional AI, & Kung-Fu Dishwashing Robots
Welcome back to the FAIK Files!

To learn more about the upcoming Offensive Cyber Deception Masterclass (delivered in person in Las Vegas, August 2-5, 2025) please visit this link: https://tinyurl.com/5ytpvjv7

On this week's episode,
We explore some updates to familiar AI tools like Suno, some new models like Wan2.0, and talk about Perry's upcoming Offensive Cyber Deception class this summer!

Perry hypnotizes SesameAI into divulging its innermost thoughts and feelings

Mason breaks down why some people are reporting that Google Chrome is killing their adblockers

The Dumpster Fire for this week comes in the form of humanoid robots that can dance, do your dishes, and also beat you senseless - with style!

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*** NOTES AND REFERENCES ***
Quick Hit Headlines:
The AI video of the Statue of Liberty that tricked Mason: https://bsky.app/profile/profgalloway.com/post/3ljjare2qwc26

To learn more about the upcoming Offensive Cyber Deception Masterclass (delivered in person in Las Vegas, August 2-5, 2025) please visit this link: https://tinyurl.com/5ytpvjv7

Suno releases new editing tools: https://sunoaiwiki.com/news/2024/09-30-suno-announces-new-editing-feature/

Wan2.1 Video Model: https://wan21ai.com/

Hume AI text-to-voice with tone/emotion recognition: https://hume.ai/
Sesame Voice AI:
Talk to Sesame AI Maya or Miles yourself! https://www.sesame.com/research/crossing_the_uncanny_valley_of_voice#demo
Google Chrome Killing Adblockers:
A great blog post about what's going on: https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/removing-webrequest-api.html
AI Dumpster Fire of the Week:
The funny TikTok about that creepy robot (uncensored): https://www.tiktok.com/@garron_music/video/7474282462823189782?_r=1&_t=ZP-8u8WDZbQWLe

The Unitree Robotics YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@unitreerobotics

Kung Fu Robot kicks a stick out of some dude's hand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C-LU0cnqB8

The dancing robot routine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrjxmJWo3IY

*** THE BOILERPLATE ***
About The FAIK Files:
The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions.
Get the Book: FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions (Amazon Associates link)

Check out the website for more info: https://thisbookisfaik.com
Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast:
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA

Other: https://digitalfolklore.fm
Want to connect with us? Here's how:
Connect with Perry:
Perry on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/perrycarpenter

Perry on X: https://x.com/perrycarpenter

Perry on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/perrycarpenter.bsky.social
Connect with Mason:
Mason on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mason-amadeus-a853a7242/

Mason on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/wickedinterest.ing

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1 hr 7 min
February 28, 2025Behavior Models, Temperature Tweaks, and Safety Battles
Welcome back to the FAIK Files!
On this week's episode,
We explore the world of AI hallucinations. What causes them? Do they make AI useless, or could they potentially lead to scientific breakthroughs

We dive into emerging AI models like Large Behavior Models (LBMs) and how they differ from traditional Large Language Models

We examine the ongoing battle for AI safety with a focus on xAI's newest release, Grok 3

And finally, DeepSeek is still causing ripples

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*** NOTES AND REFERENCES ***
Exploring AI Hallucinations:
Twitter discussion on AI hallucinations: https://xcancel.com/blakkos/status/1894059713563648388

Understanding temperature in LLMs: https://masteringllm.medium.com/demystifying-the-temperature-parameter-a-visual-guide-to-understanding-its-role-in-large-language-d9e8ea4b9956

The New York Times: "AI Hallucinations Leading to Scientific Breakthroughs?": https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/science/ai-hallucinations-science.html

Fun with Suno AI music generation: Mason's podcast song: https://suno.com/song/cfce40a7-e351-43ec-b08b-54c1f0b65b75
Emerging AI Models:
Simple Diffusion Language Models: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjAUX23vgfg

Large Language Diffusion Models: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxeR1D8T87M

Unbox AI and MIT Sloan AI & ML Conference presentation on BehaviorGPT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq5Y1XB85XA
The Battle for AI Safety:
xAI's newest release - Grok 3: https://www.marketingaiinstitute.com/blog/grok-3-launch

Linus Ekenstam raises concerns about Grok 3's capabilities:

https://x.com/LinusEkenstam/status/1893739332143370323

https://x.com/linusekenstam/status/1894024481573609731?s=46&t=XEIHLL9DqeJomrpzuO8-aA

An interesting NSFW demo of Grok voice mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOUjfgtwFR4
AI Dumpster Fire of the Week:
Sen. Josh Hawley's legislation to "prohibit the import from or export to China of artificial intelligence technology": https://www.hawley.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Hawley-Decoupling-Americas-Artificial-Intelligence-Capabilities-from-China-Act.pdf

*** THE BOILERPLATE ***
About The FAIK Files:
The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions.
Get the Book: FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions (Amazon Associates link)

Check out the website for more info: https://thisbookisfaik.com
Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast:
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA

Other: https://digitalfolklore.fm
Want to connect with us? Here's how:
Connect with Perry:
Perry on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/perrycarpenter

Perry on X: https://x.com/perrycarpenter

Perry on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/perrycarpenter.bsky.social
Connect with Mason:
Mason on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mason-amadeus-a853a7242/

Mason on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/wickedinterest.ing

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1 hr 4 min
February 21, 2025Cybercriminals Love AI, Librarians Do Not
Welcome back to the FAIK Files!

On this week's episode,
We (oh so carefully) touch on how different countries are staking positions on the future of AI

Mason offers a bit of self-correction and self-reflection before discussing some the strange nature of how agentic AI systems and robots need to conform the fact that the web and the world was built to be navigated by humans, not machines

Perry gives perspective on some new research findings by CheckPoint which show that cybercriminals are flocking to LLMs from China.

And our AI Dumpster fire of the Week is about how AI slop is becoming a real problem for librarians.

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*** NOTES AND REFERENCES ***

Global Positions on AI Safety:
Clip from JD Vance's speech at the AI Action Summit in France

Trump rescinds Biden's executive order on AI safety:
In A World Built for Humans:
Clarification on Tom Paton's work and AI limitations: Interview with Tom Paton

Microsoft Research: OmniParser v2

Meta is Making Humanoid Robots
AI Security Concerns:
CheckPoint Research on DeepSeek and Alibaba LLMs: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/deepseek-alibaba-llms-malware/
AI Dumpster Fire of the Week:
UPDATE: Hoopla to REMOVE AI-Generated Books

Original Report: https://www.404media.co/email/7a1109dd-e6cd-46ac-be2f-a6d6461fc2ff/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

*** THE BOILERPLATE ***
About The FAIK Files:
The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions.
Get the Book: FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions (Amazon Associates link)

Check out the website for more info: https://thisbookisfaik.com
Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast:
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA

Other: https://digitalfolklore.fm
Want to connect with us? Here's how:
Connect with Perry:
Perry on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/perrycarpenter

Perry on X: https://x.com/perrycarpenter

Perry on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/perrycarpenter.bsky.social
Connect with Mason:
Mason on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mason-amadeus-a853a7242/

Mason on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/pregnantsonic.com

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58 min
February 14, 2025Love is in the AI
Welcome back to The FAIK Files! When tech gets weird, we're here to help make sense of it all.
In this week's show:
Mason shares his perspective on "Where the Robots Grow" --which is claimed to be "one of the first fully AI-animated feature films."

Lisa Plaggemier from the National Cybersecurity Alliance talks to us about Romance Scams

And our AI dumpster fire of the week is Elon Musk's (somewhat desperate) grab for OpenAI

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*** NOTES AND REFERENCES ***
Where the Robots Grow (the first full-length animated feature created by AI?):
ElevenLabs write-up on LinkedIN

Full movie

IMDB Entry

BTW -- we love and use ElevenLabs personally. If you want to check it out, please use our affiliate code: https://try.elevenlabs.io/8vcg17tr6uyp
Interview:
Lisa Plaggemier's LinkedIn profile

National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) website

NCA Romance Scam info and toolkit

NCA Video Series: Kubikle
AI Dumpster Fire -- Elon Musk offers to buy Open AI for 97.4B:
WSJ: Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4 Billion Bid for Control of OpenAI

Reuters: OpenAI's board has not received Musk's takeover bid, source says

Ars Technica: Sam Altman: OpenAI is not for sale, even for Elon Musk’s $97 billion offer

OpenAI: Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for profit

OpenAI: OpenAI and Elon Musk

*** THE BOILERPLATE ***
About The FAIK Files:
The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions.
Get the Book: FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions (Amazon Associates link)

Check out the website for more info: https://thisbookisfaik.com
Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast:
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA

Other: https://digitalfolklore.fm
Want to connect with us? Here's how:
Connect with Perry:
Perry on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/perrycarpenter

Perry on X: https://x.com/perrycarpenter

Perry on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/perrycarpenter.bsky.social
Connect with Mason:
Mason on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mason-amadeus-a853a7242/

Mason on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/pregnantsonic.com

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56 min
February 07, 2025Jailbreaking Bad: The AI Industry is Cooked
Welcome back to The FAIK Files! When tech gets weird, we're here to help make sense of it all.
In this week's show:
We explore how randomness in AI systems creates the illusion of thought

A disturbing case of AI chatbots being weaponized for cyberstalking

Anthropic's new approach to preventing AI jailbreaks

And our AI dumpster fire of the week is... AI... the whole thing... all of it

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*** NOTES AND REFERENCES ***
Randomness in AI Systems:
Overview of deterministic vs stochastic systems in AI

Understanding temperature settings in LLMs

How diffusion models use random seeds

Discussion of parameters like top-K and top-P

Relationship between randomness and perceived intelligence

Lots of good overviews available at the Prompt Engineering Guide website: https://www.promptingguide.ai/introduction/settings
AI-Enabled Cyberstalking:
The Guardian: Stalking AI Chatbot Impersonator

Case study of James Florence's 7-year cyberstalking campaign

Discussion of platforms CrushOn.ai and JanitorAI

Implications for future harassment scenarios
Anthropic's Constitutional Classifiers:
Anthropic's post: Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against universal jailbreaks

Anthropic's demo website: https://claude.ai/constitutional-classifiers

Details of 3,000+ hours of red-teaming with 405 participants

System architecture and implementation

Success rate: 95% of jailbreak attempts blocked

Only 23.7% inference overhead
AI Dumpster Fire -- The entire AI industry:
Inconsistent naming conventions across companies

Bad and inconsistent public relations strategies

Arms race between US and China

Environmental and ethical concerns

And more...

*** THE BOILERPLATE ***
About The FAIK Files:
The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions.
Get the Book: FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions (Amazon Associates link)

Check out the website for more info: https://thisbookisfaik.com
Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast:
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA

Other: https://digitalfolklore.fm
Want to connect with us? Here's how:
Connect with Perry:
Perry on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/perrycarpenter

Perry on X: https://x.com/perrycarpenter

Perry on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/perrycarpenter.bsky.social
Connect with Mason:
Mason on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mason-amadeus-a853a7242/

Mason on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/pregnantsonic.com

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1 hr 2 min
January 31, 2025DeepSeek Disrupts Everything
Welcome back to The FAIK Files! When tech gets weird, we're here to help make sense of it all.

This week, we’re tackling:
DeepSeek -- the little LLM from China that's taking the world by storm.

Perry & Mason interview voice artist Keith Brown to see what he learned about AI while narrating Perry's book.

And our AI dumpster fire of the week doesn't disappoint!

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*** NOTES AND REFERENCES ***

DeepSeek comes in swinging:
Chinese Open-Source AI DeepSeek R1 Matches OpenAI's o1 at 98% Lower Cost

Deep seek Janus-Pro-7B: A Breakthrough in Multimodal AI

DeepSeek's chatbot achieves 17% accuracy, trails Western rivals in NewsGuard audit

OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us

Keith Brown Interview:
Keith Brown's website

FAIK on Audiobook (Amazon Associates link)

AI Dumpster Fire of the Week (more DeepSeek):
Jevons paradox

What Is 'Jevons Paradox' And How Is It Tied To DeepSeek AI?

Experiment showing DeepSeek actively erasing what it knows about certain events

Experiment to show DeepSeek's bias

Andy Ayrey asks DeepSeek to write a story

Anthropic's paper on LLM Sleeper Agents

Also be sure to check out chapter 4 of Perry's book, which covers inherent bias, sleeper agents, etc...

*** THE BOILERPLATE ***
About The FAIK Files:
The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions.
Get the Book: FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions (Amazon Associates link)

Check out the website for more info: https://thisbookisfaik.com

Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast:
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA

Other: https://digitalfolklore.fm

Want to connect with us? Here's how:
Connect with Perry:
Perry on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/perrycarpenter

Perry on X: https://x.com/perrycarpenter

Perry on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/perrycarpenter.bsky.social
Connect with Mason:
Mason on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mason-amadeus-a853a7242/

Mason on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/pregnantsonic.com

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1 hr 5 min
January 24, 2025Of Spies and Hitmen
Welcome back to The FAIK Files! When tech gets weird, we're here to help make sense of it all.

This week, we’re tackling:
Mason is out this week, so Perry is doing his best not to screw anything up too badly.

We've got some new videos posted about how deepfakes work -- everything from those fake celebrity endorsements to realtime deepfakes that can happen in live videoconferences.

Perry & Mason interview FBI counter-terrorism and counterintelligence operative, Eric O'Neill

It looks like we are on the verge of AI Agents that can not only book travel for you... but also search the dark web and hire assassins on your behalf!

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Check out your new YouTube videos about Deepfakes... and more:
Inside a celebrity deepfake: How I Made Taylor Swift 'Endorse' My Book (https://youtu.be/mCx38_SeT_U)

How to create real-time deepfakes (a.k.a. I became Taylor Swift...for Science!) (https://youtu.be/nKhtTIV6vxU)

Will be posting more soon. We'd also love suggestions for anything you'd like covered.

FAIK (the book) resources and activities page (https://thisbookisfaik.com/resources)

Press release about the Resources page (https://www.cbs42.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/776228250/new-educational-toolkit-protects-teachers-and-students-from-ai-driven-cyber-attacks/)

Interview with former FBI counter-terrorism and counterintelligence operative, Eric O'Neill:
Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_O%27Neill

Eric's website: https://ericoneill.net/

Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy - https://amzn.to/3Wu4J04

Claude AI Hires a Hitman?:
Tweet from Pliny the Liberator about his experiment: https://x.com/elder_plinius/status/1878946571565650264

AI Researchers STUNNED as Claude Hires a Darkweb 'Hitman'...(Wes Roth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5OrAJX7ukY)

Anthropic Announcement: Introducing Computer Use (https://www.anthropic.com/news/3-5-models-and-computer-use)

Story about Multi-On: An AI assistant just passed the California driving test. Here’s how. (https://sfstandard.com/2023/11/14/multion-ai-assistant-california-driving-test/)

OpenAI Preps ‘Operator’ Release For This Week (https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/openai-preps-operator-release-for-this-week?rc=s2adyu)

OpenAI: Introducing Operator (https://openai.com/index/introducing-operator/)

*** THE BOILERPLATE ***
About The FAIK Files:
The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions.
Get the Book: FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions (Amazon Associates link)

Check out the website for more info: https://thisbookisfaik.com

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January 17, 2025Zuckerberg, TikTok, and Treadmills That Sniff
Welcome back to The FAIK Files! When tech gets weird, we're here to help make sense of it all.

This week, we’re tackling:
Meta’s latest moves—from layoffs to fact-checker cuts and a "Community Notes" pivot.

The TikTok vs. U.S. showdown, its ripple effects, and why users are flocking to RedNote.

Your exercise equipment’s creepy secrets—is your treadmill sniffing you?

Opening the conversation about power consumption of AI systems and its implications.

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*** NOTES AND REFERENCES ***

Meta Making Choices:
Meta Announces Layoffs and Fact-Checker Cuts

Meta’s Shift to Community Notes

Mark Zuckerberg on Corporate Culture
TikTok and U.S.-China Relations:
TikTok Ban Updates and RedNote’s Rise

History of the Little Red Book and Its Symbolism

Chinese AI Models and Their Growing Power
Exercise Equipment and Privacy:
Consumer Reports: Your Exercise Bike Knows a Lot About You—and It Doesn't Keep Every Secret

Not mentioned on the show, but Consumer Reports also has an interesting app called Permission Slip aimed at helping you take control of your digital footprint, manage what companies know about you, and take steps to limit invasive data collection practices.
AI Power Consumption:
The Growing Energy Demands of AI -- we give some initial thoughts and ask for help with research!

*** THE BOILERPLATE ***
About The FAIK Files:
The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions.
Get the Book: FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions (Amazon Associates link)

Check out the website for more info: https://thisbookisfaik.com

Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast:
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA

Other: https://digitalfolklore.fm

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