On the flip side, the ability to deep-fake a face in real time on a video call is now accessible to pretty much every script kiddie out there.
In other words, you can no longer trust what your eyes see on video calls.
We live in interesting times.
The feel of counterfeit bills, the color someone choose to wear, the sound that doesn't quite fit.
I think deep-fakes are mostly a danger to people without a lot of source material for their minds to compare against. You could trick me into believing I was taking with Elon, but not my son.
And yet there have been several recent studies that show the younger someone is, the more likely they are to be scammed online.
> In 2021, Gen Xers, Millennials, and Gen Z young adults (ages 18-59) were 34% more likely than older adults (ages 60 and over) to report losing money to fraud,[1] and some types of fraud stood out. Younger adults reported losses to online shopping fraud – which often started with an ad on social media – far more often than any other fraud type, and most said they simply did not get the items they ordered.[2] Younger adults were over four times more likely than older adults to report a loss on an investment scam.[3] Most of these were bogus cryptocurrency investment opportunities.
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/data-visualizations/data-spo...
Personally, I don't use streaming video outside of work and there are no videos of me on youtube or any social media to train a model on even if someone wanted to.
My mother in her 70s doesn't even have a debit card. She thinks the idea is ridiculous and insecure. She writes paper checks and that is it. To put her account number on an electronic device would be completely unthinkable.
While the average older person might be more easily confused by social engineering the attack surface for an electronic scam is so tiny compared to the average younger person.
As my accountant says: "For every person in your neighborhood committing check fraud, there are ten-thousand people around the world trying to steal your money online."
But she's handing a plaintext copy of her account number to everyone she pays with a check..
I think you are misreading the post. Pretty sure they meant
you could trick me into believing I was talking with Elon, but you could not trick me into believing I was talking with my son
To which I agree personally, though I don't know how universal this is.
Others here seem to be interpreting the statement as, “I could be tricked because I am an older person, while a younger person would not be so easily deceived.”
This was my thought about people in general, until more and more stories came out about the phone scammers pretending to be a grandson/daughter/family-member in need of a wire transfer/money to get them out of trouble. I still find it difficult to believe those are real scams that seem to work. This will probably escalate those even more with more people going to video calls. The panic of a loved one/child will not create a calm enough mind for thinking "hey maybe this is a deepfake" in most parents, atleast from my observations.
You think there are no counterfeit bills that feel exactly the same as the real thing? Pretty sure you're wrong.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/us-security-firm...