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Here's another deep fake technique, used for white collar crime, again. This time, it was Ozy faking the voice of a YouTube executive, while on the phone to Goldman Sachs, who was ready to invest $40 million in Ozy (Ozy is in the middle of an implosion right now, over this and other issues). They didn't get away with it, which makes me think they probably used some vanilla DAW or maybe a simple VST plugin, rather than serious machine learning. Or maybe the Ozy guy did use machine learning, and the Goldman guy was just doing his due diligence, emailing the person he thought he spoke to, to get a written record of what happened on the conversation, and the YouTube exec had no idea what was going on when they received that email.

Side note: It's always a good idea to confirm verbal decisions in writing, with email, or something similar.


I think deep fake porn was the tip of the iceberg. Most crimes committed with deep fake technology are going to be white collar crimes, for a while, at least. It's harder to get away with mass-broadcasting a deep fake than it is to convince a few C-suite rubes to send stupid amounts of money to your account over the phone or webcam.
 

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I'm skeptical anyone is buying that junk. Anyone can make a web page advertising them for sale.

People are, I assure you. Not many; it IS a scam and most of the published transactions are real but fraudulent.

These tweets describe basically what's going on:


 

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Geeze, what kind of idiot uses the same recovery email for their sock puppet accounts?
 
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This is known as wash trading and it's illegal.in other markets
Yeah but that's how "tech bull shit" works. Someone comes up with a scan that blatantly breaks some law. But they give it a clever name and are a "tech bro" so they aren't doing anything "illegal" they are "disrupting the market".
 

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Like all the "X, but on a computer" patents. Which are legal but shouldn't be.
 
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Wait, there's an competing DOGEcoin now? They're just hauling sharks out of the bay to take turns jumping them.
The real irony is that a bunch of DOGE folks were upset with Elon PumpNDumping DOGE, and yet here we're are, with Elon pushing SHIB.
 

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Hooray! After China banned Bitcoin mining, the great mining migration was set into motion and now the US overtook China as the world's biggest source of bitcoin mining!

 
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The real irony is that a bunch of DOGE folks were upset with Elon PumpNDumping DOGE, and yet here we're are, with Elon pushing SHIB.
Yeah apparently pumping-and-dumping crypto isn't illegal, lol. Hey, it's more or less exactly the state of affairs crypto's inventors hoped for and advertised - no government regulation!

Still owe all the capital gains tax when it's time to convert that crypto, though, heh.
 

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Hooray! After China banned Bitcoin mining, the great mining migration was set into motion and now the US overtook China as the world's biggest source of bitcoin mining!
Isn't that like winning a race because the runner who was winning by tens of seconds dropped dead a few feet from the finish line?
 
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No one wants to attempt metric with time. Of course with 365 1/4 days in a year it can't be cleanly done. There could be 10 hours a day, 100 minutes per hour, and 10 months in a year though.
 

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No one wants to attempt metric with time. Of course with 365 1/4 days in a year it can't be cleanly done. There could be 10 hours a day, 100 minutes per hour, and 10 months in a year though.
If we take the second as an arbitrary time period, we could speed it up by something shy of 16% (cut it to something like ONE MISSISSIP-), so we could get it to 100,000 of them in a day. Perfect starting point for metric clocks.

Naturally, this goes out the window as the rotation of the Earth speeds up (or...slows down). We'd have to make the second an adjustable number, accordingly. Would really annoy sprinters and the like.

I'm not crazy enough to take on calendars. OK, so I am, but...
 
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No one wants to attempt metric with time. Of course with 365 1/4 days in a year it can't be cleanly done. There could be 10 hours a day, 100 minutes per hour, and 10 months in a year though.
One day I want to build a program that does this conversion.

It's honestly just a basic math problem.
 
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