The FAIK Files - Of Spies and Hitmen

Jan 23 2025 54 mins

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Welcome back to The FAIK Files! When tech gets weird, we're here to help make sense of it all.

This week, we’re tackling:

Mason is out this week, so Perry is doing his best not to screw anything up too badly.

We've got some new videos posted about how deepfakes work -- everything from those fake celebrity endorsements to realtime deepfakes that can happen in live videoconferences.

Perry & Mason interview FBI counter-terrorism and counterintelligence operative, Eric O'Neill

It looks like we are on the verge of AI Agents that can not only book travel for you... but also search the dark web and hire assassins on your behalf!

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Check out your new YouTube videos about Deepfakes... and more:

Inside a celebrity deepfake: How I Made Taylor Swift 'Endorse' My Book (https://youtu.be/mCx38_SeT_U)

How to create real-time deepfakes (a.k.a. I became Taylor Swift...for Science!) (https://youtu.be/nKhtTIV6vxU)

Will be posting more soon. We'd also love suggestions for anything you'd like covered.

FAIK (the book) resources and activities page (https://thisbookisfaik.com/resources)

Press release about the Resources page (https://www.cbs42.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/776228250/new-educational-toolkit-protects-teachers-and-students-from-ai-driven-cyber-attacks/)

Interview with former FBI counter-terrorism and counterintelligence operative, Eric O'Neill:

Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_O%27Neill

Eric's website: https://ericoneill.net/

Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy - https://amzn.to/3Wu4J04

Claude AI Hires a Hitman?:

Tweet from Pliny the Liberator about his experiment: https://x.com/elder_plinius/status/1878946571565650264

AI Researchers STUNNED as Claude Hires a Darkweb 'Hitman'...(Wes Roth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5OrAJX7ukY)

Anthropic Announcement: Introducing Computer Use (https://www.anthropic.com/news/3-5-models-and-computer-use)

Story about Multi-On: An AI assistant just passed the California driving test. Here’s how. (https://sfstandard.com/2023/11/14/multion-ai-assistant-california-driving-test/)

OpenAI Preps ‘Operator’ Release For This Week (https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/openai-preps-operator-release-for-this-week?rc=s2adyu)

OpenAI: Introducing Operator (https://openai.com/index/introducing-operator/)

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About The FAIK Files:

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.