The FAIK Files

By Perry Carpenter | N2K Networks

The FAIK Files explores the mysterious and often wacky intersection of AI, technology, and humanity. From cognitive warfare to digital deception, we examine how AI is reshaping our reality through new... more

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December 20, 2024The Butcher Will Scam You Now
Welcome back to the show that keeps you informed on all things artificial intelligence and natural nonsense.

Warning: today's episode gets a bit dark as we chat with seasoned prosecutor and founder of Operation Shamrock, Erin West, about a devastating combination of attacks known as "Pig Butchering" scams. We go deep into how they work and what we can do about them.

Want to leave us a voicemail? Here's the magic link to do just that: https://sayhi.chat/FAIK
You can also join our Discord server here: ⁠https://faik.to/discord

*** NOTES AND REFERENCES ***

Learn more about Erin West
Erin's LinkedIn Profile

Operation Shamrock

Pig Butchering Scams:
CNN Story featuring Erin West: Killed by a scam: A father took his life after losing his savings to international criminal gangs. He’s not the only one

CNN Story: Hear how this man lost $1M in a 'pig butchering' crypto scam

CNN Story: Myanmar-based gangs force trafficking victims to scam Americans online

YouTube video: John Oliver episode

FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)

Ok, doomer! Let's talk P(doom):
NY Times article: Silicon Valley Confronts a Grim New A.I. Metric

FastCompany article: P(doom) is AI's latest apocalypse metric. Here's how to calculate your score

Wikipedia Entry

PauseAI P(doom) records

*** 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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December 13, 2024AI Gone Wild: Worrisome Leaks, Misguided Conspiracies, and More
Welcome back to The FAIK Files--- the show about artificial intelligence and natural nonsense!

In this week's episode:
Mason shares how ChatGPT became an unexpected hero in solving his home networking and studio challenges

Perry dives into the mysterious case of "David Mayer" and how a simple ChatGPT privacy patch sparked widespread conspiracy theories

We explore Tencent's bold entry into AI video generation with their open-source HunyuanVideo model

And in our AI Dumpster Fire of the Week, we unpack the drama surrounding leaks of multiple models from OpenAI

Want to leave us a voicemail? Here's the magic link to do just that: https://sayhi.chat/FAIK
You can also join our Discord server here: ⁠https://faik.to/discord

*** NOTES AND REFERENCES ***

The ChatGPT Privacy Patch Conspiracy:
TechCrunch: Why does the name 'David Mayer' crash ChatGPT? OpenAI says privacy tool went rogue

FastCompany: The Internet is Freaking Out Because ChatGPT Won't Say the Name "David Mayer"

USA Today: Why won't ChatGPT acknowledge the name David Mayer? Internet users uncover mystery

YouTube: Solved: Why ChatGPT Will Not Say "David Mayer"

The Decoder: New York Times writer exposes how AI models can be fooled by invisible text on websites

NYT: How Do You Change a Chatbot's Mind?

Tencent's HunyuanVideo Release:
The Decoder: Tencent introduces open source video generator HunyuanVideo and challenges Sora

TechNode: Tencent launches and open-sources Hunyuan video-generation model

YouTube: New AI Video Model Storms Onto The Scene!

HuggingFace: HunyuanVideo Official Model Page

Research paper about text based sound generation for videos. SonicVisionLM: Playing Sound with Vision Language Models

AI Dumpster Fire of the Week (The Sora Leak):
TechCrunch: OpenAI's Sora video generator appears to have leaked

Washington Post: OpenAI hits pause on video model Sora after artists leak access in protest

Tom's Guide: OpenAI's o1 model leaked on Friday and it is wild — here's what happened

Leopold Aschenbrenner: SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead

Additional Sora leak from internal preview

*** 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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December 06, 2024A Hunch about Hutch
Welcome back to The FAIK Files— the show about artificial intelligence and natural nonsense!

In this week’s episode:
Mason has an update on last week's shocking story of Google Gemini’s alleged threats against a user. Is this a glitch, a hack, or something more sinister?

We sit down with cybersecurity expert Justin “Hutch” Hutchins (author of The Language of Deception) to dive into his experience weaponizing large language models and what it means for the future of AI.

And finally, we lighten things up with some fun AI music experiments, showing that Perry & Mason may have too much time on their hands,

Want to leave us a voicemail? Here's the magic link to do just that: https://sayhi.chat/FAIK

You can also join our Discord server here: https://faik.to/discord⁠

*** NOTES AND REFERENCES ***
Hutch's stuff:
Justin's Book: The Language of Deception: Weaponizing Next Generation AI

AI podcast: The Frontier Today (Apple Podcasts) (Spotify)

Justin and Len Noe’s podcast: Cyber Cognition (Apple Podcasts) (Spotify)

RSA Conference talk: Autonomous Hacking Systems - Future Risk or FUD

Houston Security Conference talk: This is how we lose control - Focused on the catastrophic/societal risks - P(Doom)

Mason's update on theories about Google Gemini threatening people:
AI Didn’t Threaten Humanity—The Media Did: Breaking Down the Gemini Incident

LLM Context Windows

Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts

Attention Sorting Combats Recency Bias in Long Context Large Language Models

Cognitive Overload Attack: Prompt Injection for Long Context

Suno and Generative AI Music Generation:
Suno

Udio

Whispers in the Static (full song generated on Suno)

Experimental outro from today's episode (Suno)

Wired: US Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators Suno and Udio for Copyright Infringement

Soundiiz Blog: The music industry is at war against AI: Suno and Udio’s case

*** 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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November 29, 2024Consciousness, Scams, and Death Threats
Happy FAIKs-giving everyone! Welcome to the newly renovated and relaunched FAIK Files podcast. On this week's episode, Perry & Mason cover Anthropic's recent hiring of an employee focused on AI well-being, an AI grandmother from hell (for scammers), and Google's Gemini chatbot allegedly tells a user what it really thinks of them. Welcome back to the show that keeps you informed on all things artificial intelligence and natural nonsense.

Want to leave us a voicemail? Here's the magic link to do just that: https://sayhi.chat/FAIK
You can also join our Discord server here: https://faik.to/discord

*** NOTES AND REFERENCES ***
AI Wellbeing:
Anthropic has hired an 'AI welfare' researcher:https://www.transformernews.ai/p/anthropic-ai-welfare-researcher

It’s time to take AI welfare seriously: https://www.transformernews.ai/p/ai-welfare-paper

Taking AI Welfare Seriously: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.00986

The problem of sycophancy in AI:
Suckup software: How sycophancy threatens the future of AI: https://www.freethink.com/robots-ai/ai-sycophancy

Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models:https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.13548

AI Interpretability:
Mapping the Mind of a Large Language Model: https://www.anthropic.com/news/mapping-mind-language-model

Lex Fridman podcast interview with Dario Amodei, Amanda Askell, & Chris Olah: https://youtu.be/ugvHCXCOmm4

Deceptive and self-serving tendencies in AI systems:
Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in language models: https://www.anthropic.com/research/reward-tampering

OpenAI o1 System Card: https://openai.com/index/openai-o1-system-card/

Announcing our updated Responsible Scaling Policy: https://www.anthropic.com/news/announcing-our-updated-responsible-scaling-policy

AI Grandmother from Hell (for scammers):
Phone network employs AI "grandmother" to waste scammers' time with meandering conversations: https://www.techspot.com/news/105571-phone-network-employs-ai-grandmother-waste-scammers-time.html

YouTube video of Daisy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV_SdCfZ-0s

AI Dumpster Fire of the Week (Gemini tells an end user what it really thinks about him):
Article: https://people.com/ai-chatbot-alarms-user-with-unsettling-message-human-please-die-8746112

Gemini interaction: https://gemini.google.com/share/6d141b742a13

*** 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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November 27, 2024 Step Into The FAIK Files!
The FAIK Files explores the mysterious and often wacky intersection of AI, technology, and humanity. From cognitive warfare to digital deception, we examine how AI is reshaping our reality through news, research, and real-world examples. Join us for a thought-provoking journey into a world where anything can be faked, truth is increasingly elusive, and human nature meets artificial intelligence head-on.

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 (Amazon Associate Link): FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions

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

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October 30, 2024 FAIK Miniseries | Ch 10: A New Hope
This is Part Ten of a ten-part miniseries exploring Perry Carpenter's latest book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions. Each episode kicks off with a dramatized reading of the "Whispers from the Static" vignette that opens the chapter, followed by an in-depth conversation with Perry Carpenter and Mason Amadeus, where they unpack the chapter's themes and real-world implications.

Get the Book (Amazon Associate Link): FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions

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

Voice credits for the opening "Whispers from the Static": Alex Mitts

Stay tuned... the FAIK Files will return.

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October 28, 2024 FAIK Miniseries | Ch 9: Cognitive and Technical Defense Strategies - Tools for Protection
This is Part Nine of a ten-part miniseries exploring Perry Carpenter's latest book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions. Each episode kicks off with a dramatized reading of the "Whispers from the Static" vignette that opens the chapter, followed by an in-depth conversation with Perry Carpenter and Mason Amadeus, where they unpack the chapter's themes and real-world implications.

Get the Book (Amazon Associate Link): FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions

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

Voice credits for the opening "Whispers from the Static": Bambi Lynn Augustin, Ty from the podcast Side Character Quest, & Alex Mitts

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October 21, 2024 FAIK Miniseries | Ch 8: Media Literacy in the Age of AI - Your First Line of Defense
This is Part Eight of a ten-part miniseries exploring Perry Carpenter's latest book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions. Each episode kicks off with a dramatized reading of the "Whispers from the Static" vignette that opens the chapter, followed by an in-depth conversation with Perry Carpenter and Mason Amadeus, where they unpack the chapter's themes and real-world implications.

Get the Book (Amazon Associate Link): FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions

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

Voice credits for the opening "Whispers from the Static": Alex Mitts

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32min
October 21, 2024 FAIK Miniseries | Ch 7: The Now and Future of AI-Driven Deception
This is Part Seven of a ten-part miniseries exploring Perry Carpenter's latest book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions. Each episode kicks off with a dramatized reading of the "Whispers from the Static" vignette that opens the chapter, followed by an in-depth conversation with Perry Carpenter and Mason Amadeus, where they unpack the chapter's themes and real-world implications.

Get the Book (Amazon Associate Link): FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions

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

Voice credits for the opening "Whispers from the Static": Kathryn Georghiou

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October 14, 2024 FAIK Miniseries | Ch 6: Deepfakes and the Spectrum of Digital Deception
This is Part Six of a ten-part miniseries exploring Perry Carpenter's latest book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions. Each episode kicks off with a dramatized reading of the "Whispers from the Static" vignette that opens the chapter, followed by an in-depth conversation with Perry Carpenter and Mason Amadeus, where they unpack the chapter's themes and real-world implications.

Get the Book (Amazon Associate Link): FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions

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

Voice credits for the opening "Whispers from the Static": Deanna Johnston and Rob McCollum.

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