CLASSIC: The Far-out World of Deep Fakes

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

For centuries, it was often understood that "seeing was believing" -- while people might embellish a story, and write whatever falsehoods they wished, visually witnessing an event was solid proof of what actually happened in any given situation. Yet this no longer holds true in the modern age. Photographs have been faked since, well, the invention of photography, and video followed shortly thereafter. However, new technology is enabling the creation of fake video with an unprecedented level of sophistication and believability. So what happens when we can no longer believe our own eyes? How will the world react to the rise of the Deep Fake?

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0:00.0	Friends and neighbors, fellow conspiracy realist, welcome back to stuff they don't want you to know.
0:06.6	We have a classic episode for you today that has only aged better with time.
0:15.4	You may recall back in 2019, we started talking about the idea of a deep fake. What is a deep fake?
0:25.4	Oh, it's a generated version of something that looks real. And it's strange how even since
0:33.5	2019, the way we talk about this concept and even the vocabulary that we use surrounding
0:41.4	it has altered, it's changed completely. It's been altered by artificial intelligence and the way
0:45.8	we talk about that thing. But it's a, yeah, it's just a fake thing, right? It's a, it looks like
0:52.6	Matt, but it's not Matt.
1:04.1	Yeah, photographs have been faked since the invention of photography, which we talked about there pretty often. And I just, again, you know, we get a lot of messages and people ask me, hey, Ben, are you guys ever going to successfully predict a good or a positive thing?
1:16.8	We hope so, but we were right about a lot of evil things, and deep fakes are one of them.
1:23.7	It was really interesting to listen back to this episode together and to realize just,
1:30.8	despite your point about nomenclature, to realize just how disturbingly accurate a lot of this was.
1:40.0	Yeah, so let's get into it. We assure you these are the real us's having this conversation.
1:50.0	Something unexpected happened after Jeremy Scott confessed to killing Michelle Schofield in Bone Valley season one.
1:57.4	I just knew him as a kid.
1:59.4	Long, silent voices from his past came forward.
2:03.6	And he was just staring at me.
2:05.6	And they had secrets of their own to share.
2:09.1	Gilbert King.
2:10.8	I'm the son of Jeremy Lynn Scott.
2:15.1	I was no longer just telling the story.
2:17.9	I was part of it.
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