<div dir="ltr">Unfortinatly this isn't the first. Youtube, and YouTubers specifically are having a huge headache with 'Ai' and musk.<div><br><div>Linus TechTips last year got hit with fakery:</div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGXaAWbzl5A">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGXaAWbzl5A</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 1:50 PM Roger Critchlow <<a href="mailto:rec@elf.org">rec@elf.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/08/14/technology/elon-musk-ai-deepfake-scam.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/08/14/technology/elon-musk-ai-deepfake-scam.html</a><br><div><br></div><div>Sorry for the paywalled link, but the story is just hilarious.  It appears that the best conspiracy theory of all is that rich people make money by secret tricks, because if you make a deep fake Elon promising to show you one of the tricks, you can suck money out of people like there´s no tomorrow.  And you can target your deep fake elon to vulnerable populations on facebook faster than meta can clean up after you.   What a wonderful world.</div><div><br></div><div>-- rec --</div></div>
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