The scam YouTube ads are getting better
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The scam YouTube ads are getting better
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#2A long time ago, my grandmother got a call one day saying that I was hurt badly and needed money. That I was afraid to contact my parents because I had been doing something I shouldn't have, and all my grandmother needed to do was send money to this hospital, which was just some scammers fake information.
I hate scammers. The idea that now you will be able to create videos, that interact and respond to questions, as if there is a real "grandson" on the other end of the video call is disturbing. I don't know how we deal with that.
Legit question... how do we deal with that?
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#3I agree with the comments on Reddit. It’s gonna be an interesting decade.
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#4Why would Youtube care to police bad actors? They are taking this money directly to their quarterly revenue.
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#5it is funny how the uncanny valley nature of this can almost be written off to low bandwidth compression artifacts. otherwise, it's still just strange enough that someone remotely informed on deep fakes would raise an eyebrow. luckily for the scammers, that's a low percentage of viewers and totally not their target demo. it feels like the same thing as the horrendous grammar/spelling used as a weed out so the only people responding are the gullible.
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#6I’m glad YouTube banned ad blockers so we can all see quality sponsors like this.
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#7I'll happily continue using an ad-blocker on YT until it stops working completely.
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#8A long time ago, my grandmother got a call one day saying that I was hurt badly and needed money. That I was afraid to contact my parents because I had been doing something I shouldn't have, and all my grandmother needed to do was send money to this hospital, which was just some scammers fake information. I hate scammers. The idea that now you will be able to create videos, that interact and respond to questions, as…
The type of attack you're concerned with doesn't scale. The scammers would first have to collect your likeness to use to make the video or audio.
It _would_ work for the more targeted attacks. People will have to establish passphrases.
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#9I am curious to see how those facial liveness check systems will adapt to this reality. They are a key pillar in the KYC and fraud prevention process in the fintech space.
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#10Everyone focuses on how scamming and AI is evolving. I'm rather curious how this will affect marketing.
Celebrity endorsements is useful for building trust. I wonder if we see more or less of that in the future.