Feb 13 2025 54 mins 40
Welcome back to The FAIK Files! When tech gets weird, we're here to help make sense of it all.
In this week's show:
- Mason shares his perspective on "Where the Robots Grow" --which is claimed to be "one of the first fully AI-animated feature films."
Lisa Plaggemier from the National Cybersecurity Alliance talks to us about Romance Scams
- And our AI dumpster fire of the week is Elon Musk's (somewhat desperate) grab for OpenAI
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*** NOTES AND REFERENCES ***
Where the Robots Grow (the first full-length animated feature created by AI?):
- ElevenLabs write-up on LinkedIN
- Full movie
- IMDB Entry
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Interview:
- Lisa Plaggemier's LinkedIn profile
- National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) website
- NCA Romance Scam info and toolkit
- NCA Video Series: Kubikle
AI Dumpster Fire -- Elon Musk offers to buy Open AI for 97.4B:
- WSJ: Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4 Billion Bid for Control of OpenAI
- Reuters: OpenAI's board has not received Musk's takeover bid, source says
- Ars Technica: Sam Altman: OpenAI is not for sale, even for Elon Musk’s $97 billion offer
- OpenAI: Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for profit
- OpenAI: OpenAI and Elon Musk
*** THE BOILERPLATE ***
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The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions.
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