I'm a great YouTube fan and love the huge variety of videos to view. You can even see heaps of JK videos there.

But so many are using A1 now to distort people's faces (like Trump for instance) that it really pisses me off.

Some AI videos are hugely amusing..especially the ones of Donald Trump playing guitar and playing the piano Elton John style were fun.

I even loved the video of Trump hitting a golf ball which hits Bruce Springsteen on the back and knock him over. Very clever and funny.

But there is a very scary side to it with Deep Fakes and the ability to manipulate people's images in such a realistic way.

It's only a matter of time before scammers start using it - maybe they already are - and will be able to disguise their accent or poor English.

Correction: not that all scammers are foreign!

I like your correction JO and agree with your implication - I do wonder why nearly every scammer on those TV shows (and in personal experience) are clearly either Indian, Pakistani or from Bangla Desh. Rarely do they appear East Asian or British or Yankee. I wonder what nationality most Australian scammers are. Prepared to bet they too are Indian sounding.

We have seen nothing yet with AI, at the moment, it's just Photoshop 2.0.

JK2006 wrote:
I like your correction JO and agree with your implication - I do wonder why nearly every scammer on those TV shows (and in personal experience) are clearly either Indian, Pakistani or from Bangla Desh. Rarely do they appear East Asian or British or Yankee. I wonder what nationality most Australian scammers are. Prepared to bet they too are Indian sounding.
They could be, or they could be white British, American or Australian. I ran into a white South African scammer some years ago, posing as an independent financial advisor and working for a self-described financial advisory firm that has a white British CEO and operates internationally. Judging from its online videos and what I've seen over the years, its operatives are largely British and/or white. Long story short, I was thoroughly but convincingly lied to by this "IFA", about the investment he recommended and his professional background, but realised this and got suspicious during the cooling off period, pulled out and got my money back from the investment company. But it was a close thing and I discovered from online comments that many others had not been so lucky, had only realised they'd been misadvised some time later and had been left severely out of pocket from this investment product and other schemes touted by the financial advisory firm. Former clients of the firm - called deVere Group - have set up a Facebook group ("Financial ruin by deVere advisors and others in all corners of the world") where one can read their stories, including coverage of them in media reports.

The white South African has been running his own financial consultancy in the UK for several years. Neither he nor it are on the Financial Conduct Authority's register and he specialises in "alternative" investments, including whisky cask investments. (Cask whisky investment fraud: ‘it’s going to be a bloodbath’, + recent BBC investigation: 'I have terminal cancer and lost my life savings to whisky barrel scammers')

This experience is possibly partly why my attention was captured by the Rolf Harris case, and similar cases, as successful false sex abuse accusers are surely also adept con artists, to even more devastating effect.