Episode 9 - Have You Ever Questioned the Nature of Your Reality?
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Jeff and Seymour mention audio generation technology which leads to a larger conversation about how we can tell if audio, text, images, and other media is a Deepfake. They end with questions about media gatekeepers, social polarization, and how do we know what's real?
Links:
- Vim is Jeff's favorite text editor and 10 reasons you should learn it.
- Andrej Karpthy's YouTube video on building a transformer from scratch.
- Simon Willison on AI empowering him to build more software side projects.
- Open Letter for 6-month moratorium on generative AI development.
- Italian regulators use GDPR rules to ban use of ChatGPT in Italy.
- Daring Fireball "It's Game Over For Deep Fakes" which links toJohn H. Meyer's impressive Steve Jobs chatbot video.
- Google/DeepMind Wavenet and related 2016 paper.
- Deepfake of Pope Francis in trendy white puffer coat.
- Deepfake of Donald Trump on his way to jail. At time of recording (3/30/2023), Trump has been indicted but not yet been arrested or arraigned, so these images are faked.
- Good article that covers earlier fake/misleading photographs. Includes: (1) Alexander Gardner's famous 1863 Gettysburg photo of a dead Confederate soldier and (2) Robert Capa's 1936 photo of a Spanish Republican soldier mid-fall in apparent battle from the Spanish Civil war.
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