The Chinese Deepfake Software Powering Scams

About this episode

The episode discusses a Chinese deepfake software used for scams, Yu-Gi-Oh trading card drama, and the impact of hard drive shortages on internet archiving.

We start this week with Joseph’s story about how we obtained Haotian AI, a sought-after piece of realtime video deepfake software that lets you turn into anyone else during Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp, or Zoom calls. After the break, Matthew tells us about some insane Yu-Gi-Oh trading card drama. In the subscribers-only section, Jason explains how the hard drive shortage is impacting those archiving the internet. ‘HELLO BOSS’: Inside the Chinese Realtime Deepfake Software Powering Scams Around the World Man Finds $1 Million Worth of Yu-Gi-Oh Cards in a Dumpster The AI Hard Drive Shortage Is Making It More Expensive and Harder to Archive the Internet YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/O_d1VxuBdAU Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code 404MEDIA at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: https://incogni.com/404media Subscribe at 404media.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Hosts: Joseph, Matthew, Jason

Topics covered

• deepfake technology
• scams
• Yu-Gi-Oh
• AI
• internet archiving

Keywords

• deepfake
• scams
• Yu-Gi-Oh
• AI
• hard drive shortage
• internet archiving

Sponsors

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Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Haotian AI

Products: Incogni

Books & works: Yu-Gi-Oh

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