Donald Trump has repeated that he is gonna get arrested soon.
And sure enough, recently, images of his arrest went viral except
Donald Trump wasn't actually arrested and they were deep fakes.
People fell for them anyway, because of how realistic they looked.
So let's give you a few examples.
Here's one tweet that says Donald Trump has been arrested
downtown Washington DC and you look at these images.
And honest like let's just acknowledge that if Trump had been arrested,
the scene probably would look like that, right?
>> [LAUGH] I mean, they, it looks like a photograph.
>> It does. >> It does.
It looks realistic.
>> When he gets arrested if he gets arrested.
No, I don't think he's gonna be being held on all sides or whatever.
>> I don't think he's gonna be.
>> This is so dramatic.
>> They're not gonna perp walk Donald Trump.
>> First of all, the implication that he broke free of their grasp at some point.
>> I know, right?
I know now as of sharing this story with you, that tweet has generated 9.1
million views just to give you a sense of how viral it's already gotten.
By the time you watch this video, it's probably racked up even more more views.
Now, thankfully,
community note has been added to that tweet to make it clear that it's not real.
It's a deep fake.
So let's take a look at that.
So readers added context,
they thought people might want to know Donald Trump has not been arrested.
These images are AI generated.
>> Yeah. >> So listen, if you're excited about AI
technology, just know no one's safe, okay.
It could be used against anyone.
We could see deep fakes of anyone.
>> Yeah, so I correct me if I'm wrong because I'm not.
>> Your wrong. >> I gotta Google this or whatever.
Am just kidding.
>> Basically,
when it comes to the word deep fake, I'm gonna be like Bethany Mandel and
talk about it with having no understanding of what the meaning of it is.
I don't feel like we should be referring to these as deep fakes.
I feel like the term deep fake should be reserved for video where one bit of video
is manipulated with another bit of video to replace a person with another person.
I feel like it maintains value as long as we know that's what we're talking about.
This is an AI generated image.
It's like a very, very well done piece of digital art and Photoshop.
It's not based on anything, it's not replaced, it's not using raw material.
I would just say an AI image.
And as long as people like so what, what I hate about this tweet is not the images,
it's the text because the text is lying.
I don't have a problem necessarily with posting the photos as long
as you provide proper context.
>> Of course. And I'm being consistent because I did
that on my Instagram and people loved it.
But I was very clear in the caption.
>> Yeah. >> Now,
I'm just putting this out there like for the next day, it's not real.
>> No, look if, if the technology is used to spread misinformation,
obviously, that's a problem.
>> Yeah, it's arguably the least misinformation that I spread yesterday.
But the images are great.
Yeah, we just have to be honest about what they are.
I'm glad that you're bringing this up though because I don't think we're getting
through this primary level in this general election without very convincing audio and
video being generated.
>> Of course.
>> To replace what people say and do and all that.
It's gonna be vicious.
>> It is gonna be vicious if this Trump versus DeSantis feud really does continue
into the presidential elections into the Republican primaries.
Real curious to see how that plays out.
Now, Nick tweets in response to these images, I thought this was
interesting the way AI is going to be used to spread misinformation is
terrifying if chronically online mfs effort can do this image corporations.
Imagine, I'm sorry, imagine corporations.
Yeah, another person says, prepare to never believe anything you see anywhere
again, I'm actually more concerned about that right.
When you're at a point where you don't know what to believe,
you don't know what's true.
You don't know what's fake.
>> Yeah. >> And some of these images
are getting more and more realistic.
Like one of the previous issues with AI generated fake images like this.
They couldn't really get the hands, right.
>> Yeah, it's a big problem.
>> And now it seems they've seemed to improve the technology a lot more.
>> Most recent version of mid journey is a little bit better at it.
They're still terrible at text.
So photos that have good text in it that hasn't clearly been like edited.
That can be a good way to tell a true photo from a fake one but no, but
they're gonna get better.
Yeah, I mean they keep improving the technology.
So you might find those little signs of something being fake.
Here's an example of a fake image of Trump hugging Vladimir Putin
that looks super realistic.
Yeah by the way there in past elections there videos.
>> That is fake image as well.
>> That people have bought that were clearly fake, but
people remember people don't enter into this like is this real?
No, if it comports with their preconceptions,
they're like I love this retweet this so that that's what my fear is and
also your fear about not being able to trust what you see bear in mind.
It's not even like, as bad as that would be.
That's bad for everyone.
Clearly, some people benefit when nobody knows what to trust.
And arguably it's the people who are already on top.
Because it's harder to challenge things.
It's harder to get people motivated politically if it's all
nonsense all the time.
Think about how they're gonna use this to attack progressive politicians.
>> I gotta say one of the things that I mean, yes, but
it will be used to attack progressive politicians.
It's gonna be used to attack everyone okay?
It's not, I don't think it's going to mostly impact one group over another.
I think everyone will at some point fall prey to this technology and
it being used in a nefarious way.
But one of the other things is when you mention not knowing who to trust or
whatever or I always think about sources that I trust sources, I don't trust.
So a source I don't trust is Donald Trump clearly, right?
But I remember after the East Palestine Ohio train derailment happened,
he said that FEMA was unwilling to provide any assistance or help.
And I was like, they didn't say that's a lie.
But it turned out that in the very beginning,
Fema did say this is not something that's under our purview like we're no,
we're not gonna get involved in this.
They got a lot of backlash.
So later they changed course.
But it's when you get to a point where there's sources that you just don't trust,
you're more willing to immediately dismiss them right?
>> Yeah.
>> When you live in an environment, when there's all this like,
manipulated imagery, manipulated video and you don't know what to trust,
you're more likely to just distrust everything.
And that's also incredibly,
like an incredibly toxic environment to exist and especially when
you're supposed to have a democratic process with an informed electorate.
Yeah, I mean, just wait, I like the fake political quotes are gonna be bad.
I think that one area obviously where you've covered multiple times,
that's the worst is is when people use to produce basically pornography.
And so just get ready for that with every female politician going forward,
disgusting right wingers.
Yeah, I know. >> Are gonna be doing that.
And also by the way, remember just a couple of years ago how desperate
the right was to see some form, any form, even a cartoon form of the politicians,
they don't like being murdered.
They put them on to attack on titan footage and stuff.
No, they're gonna be producing extremely high quality visualizations of
politicians.
They don't like being murdered,
being tortured like it is gonna get so disgusting.
>> And if you're thinking, well, maybe there would be some regulation,
you would be mistaken, okay.
So look, the problem with our lawmakers is doesn't really seem
like they understand technology in general.
And they've been behind on regulating anything having to do with
technological advancements, big tech companies, all of that, right?
And what's so fascinating about this story is the people behind this
technology are saying like this could be problematic.
So here, let's get to those details.
Open AI the company behind Chat GPT openly acknowledged that their
technology has the potential for extreme harm okay.
Here's what they wrote in the technical report for
their latest product, chat GPT-4.
In the accompanying technical report on chat GP on chat, I'm sorry,
on GPT-4, there are sections like potential for risky emergent behaviors.
Where the authors highlight a few of the potential pitfalls of
the bot including one instance in which it was able to convince
a human to successfully solve the.
How do you say that?
>> CAPTCHA.
>> CAPTCHA code. >> Basically,
it's a way to try to challenge this from human.
>> No, I've had to do the capture thing a million times.
I just, I've never said it out loud.
I didn't want to mispronounce it but CAPTCHA code for it via text message.
GPT-4 is also not immune to the biases that have plagued
large language models in the past and
still hallucinates meaning it makes mistakes and errors okay.
Here's more though the report also noted that the technology could have an outsized
impact on the economy and workforce, which should be a crucial consideration for
policy makers and other stakeholders.
This includes everything from AI and generative tools,
replacing jobs resulting in workforce displacement to augmenting
current tasks and roles like call centers, writing and coding.
So basically, they're like, we think like policymakers need to do something about
this, they need to regulate it, but we're not gonna stop developing the technology.
This is what we do, we're gonna keep doing it.
But the lawmakers should step in and do something to, like, regulate.
>> I would love that.
>> But they're not going to.
>> Yeah, well, it's gonna take them a really long time to understand it.
Yeah, look, I think the AI thing has drawn a lot of attention to a problem that I
think has been developing for a long time.
It didn't just all of a sudden come about as a result of chat GPT or whatever.
Especially when it comes to influencing jobs.
I think that that needs to be a part of the political conversation.
But again, it's not like this is the first time that a new technology has been
messing with this or whatever.
I figured out, not too long ago, it's probably been around for
a while auto generation of transcripts basically in editing software.
Like that would have arguably been a thing that someone would have done in the past.
But now you can press a button and it generates a transcript.
You're getting that for more and
more things that is going to influence a lot of people.
I just saw that the I apologize.
Check, I think it's the Writers Guild of America just voted to allow
the integration of this AI writing software into the writing of scripts.
>> I would not know that.
>> Yeah, we're gonna cover tomorrow on the damage report.
They say as long as it doesn't influence royalties or something,
like it's gonna influence literally whether there's a human.
But yeah, I do think that there needs to be some oversight and
when it comes to regular people, as with every other form of misinformation,
it is going to be possible to tell real from fake if you care to.
And the issue has always been that people don't particularly care to like these
are a little bit more sophisticated.
But the original, remember what fake news was when it started wholly invented
articles that have no bearing in truth.
It was never difficult to check whether those are true or not.
The issue always was that people didn't care if it was true.
They just liked the idea that it was true and so they spread it.
>> Yeah. >> And so
that is that same sort of social problem is going to now be influenced
by the development mid journey chat GPT all the bar or whatever.
>> We'll see how this all plays out.
It's not looking good.
I'm not excited about the writer's guild allowing for the technology to be used.
Industries are just so thirsty to get rid of workers.
I mean, and it is going to destroy the world.