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😺 DEEPFAKE ARMS RACE BEGINS


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October 20, 2024


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Welcome, humans.

Question: would you watch a new Lord of the Rings extended universe TV show
based on this viral fan-made trailer?



It’s based on The Fall of Gondolin, a real book by J.R.R Tolkien, and it’s got
the Tolkien hive fans so hyped they’re claiming it looks better than Amazon’s
version (The Rings of Power) with its $1B budget.

IDK about that, AI content still looks too AI to us, but it’s got some cool
ideas!

If you’re into this, the same creator made fan trailers for Tolkien’s other
books The Children of Húrin, Beren and Lúthien, and The Silmarillion (starring
Henry Cavill).

If those weren’t your vibe, try this trailer for a 1950s Super Panavision 70
version of the O.G. LOTR. The creator said it took 10 hours to make—and if you
want to try this style yourself, here’s a tutorial.

Here’s what you need to know about AI today:

 * The Pentagon wants to create “undetectable” deepfakes.

 * OpenAI thinks o1’s reasoning is “GPT-2” level and replicable by others.

 * OpenAI’s ex-CTO is raising funds for new AI startup.

 * AI firms will pitch their services to healthcare companies in Las Vegas
   today.

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THE PENTAGON WANTS TO CREATE UNDETECTABLE AI DEEPFAKES. WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

Over the last few months, we’ve shown you countless examples of how AI can now
create ultra-realistic fake people. Fun fact: multiple studies have shown that
we have a harder time knowing what’s real than we think we do. 

So the question nowadays isn’t how do we prove what’s fake and what’s not.

The question is, in this new world of AI, everywhere, all the time… how do we
humans prove we're real? 

That question is getting more complicated by the day—just look at this espionage
thriller movie happening in real time: 

 * According to a new investigation by The Intercept, the U.S. military now
   wants to create undetectable fake online personas that are so convincing
   other AIs can’t spot them. 

 * We're talking “government ID-quality photos”, fake selfie videos, and
   matching audio.

 * Ironically, this is the same U.S. government that previously warned of
   deepfakes, last year calling genAI content from adversaries a “malign
   influence accelerant.” 

This is a map tracking deepfakes targeted at global elections.

Meanwhile, Sam Altman of all people is pushing a startup called Worldcoin (but
drop the coin) that verifies humans by scanning their eyeballs.

Here’s how it works: 

 * World uses an “Orb” to scan your irises. 

 * These eye-scans create a “World ID”, or digital passport for “proof of
   human.”

 * Over 6.9M people have already been scanned.

So let’s get this straight: The government wants to create hyperreal, deceptive
deepfakes, and private enterprise wants to create a central identity database to
verify real humans??

Isn’t that like, the opposite of what you’d think would be going on?!? 

Why this matters: GenAI images are already flooding social media, often pushing
political narratives. The Pentagon's deepfake push feels like opening a
Pandora's box of online deception that could accelerate an AI deception arms
race with other govs.  

At the same time, collecting biometric data to prove we're human raises its own
set of concerns, and World is already facing scrutiny in multiple countries over
its data collection practices.

Plus, the ultimate irony of World is that it’s Altman's answer to a world
overflowing with AI agents—a world his other company, OpenAI, plans to unleash
next year…




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AROUND THE HORN.



 * The CPO of OpenAI, Kevin Weil, thinks that o1 (the reasoning model) is only
   at “GPT-2 level” atm, and that competitors will eventually figure out how to
   reverse-engineer its methods.

 * Mira Murati, ex-CTO of OpenAI, is reportedly raising ~$100M+ for a new AI
   startup to build new proprietary AI models.

 * The era of enterprise AI kicks off in full today as the big AI companies will
   pitch their services to healthcare corps at the HLTH conference in Las Vegas.




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 2. Ichigo lets you have real-time voice conversations with Llama 3.1—code here,
    code to run locally here, or demo it for yourself here. 

 3. Beyond Presence creates a hyper-realistic avatar that can attend video calls
    and conduct interviews, demos, and sales conversations on your behalf
    (raised $3M, waitlist only rn).

 4. Endor Labs evaluates the top open source language models on HuggingFace
    across security, popularity, quality, and usage to help you select the best
    open models for your projects (free trial here). 

 5. Highperformr manages and automates your social media tasks across multiple
    platforms (one time purchase tool).

 6. Photo AI generates lifelike photos and videos of you in any setting or
    outfit, helping you save time and money on photoshoot (how it works in
    action 1, 2, 3).

 7. Here’s a Reddit round-up of the top 10 AI headshot tools—the poster looks
    like they like Headshot Pro the best, and suggested using this link for a
    free trial. We’ve used Headshot Pro before, and it’s legit. Heads up (pun
    intended)—this is probs affiliate marketing, but it’s a good roundup
    nonetheless (here’s another one to compare).

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SUNDAY SPOOKY.

It’s no wonder Meta is teaming up with Blumhouse to test its video model with
horror movies. Generative AI creates some of the most genuinely creepy
horror-core content we’ve ever seen. Here’s a few examples—vote for your
favorite below!



 1. Cursed shore.

 2. The Antarctica Portal Incident.

 3. The Kaiju event.

 4. Baby Secret Mattel doll - 1966 commercial spoof.

 5. Runway - prompting a long haired woman.


WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE GENAI HORROR?

 * Cursed shore.
 * The Antarctica Portal Incident.
 * The Kaiju event.
 * Baby Secret Mattel doll - 1966 commercial spoof.
 * Runway - prompting a long haired woman.




A CAT'S COMMENTARY.




That’s all for today, for more AI treats, check out our website.

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Innovating with AI and Salesforge.

See you cool cats on Twitter: @nonmayorpete & @noahedelman02




WHAT'D YOU THINK OF TODAY'S EMAIL?

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 * 🐾 It sucked















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