We’d had a long day at the pointing yesterday and decided to go for a beer in the next town, where I had a very nice Floreffe. Anyway, I was sitting there nodding away to some nice tunes and thought I’d look one up to see who it was, for Google to come back with Nina Blaze. There was once a time when my musical knowledge bordered on the encyclopaedic but, recognising that those days are long gone, I looked her up and it turns out that she’s an AI creation, which I find horrifying. It seems that Spotify is full of the stuff and, while it wasn’t high art, it was perfectly acceptable chewing gum for the ears on a night out.
Digging a bit further, it’s not just the creation of fake music but there’s a whole Instagram, TikTok, YouTube “influencer” thing going on too where “she” has her own accounts. My mind is truly boggled.
Me too. It’s actually quite scary how much of this Sh1t is about.
Fil of the Wings of Pegasus YouTube channel has been diligently outing these fakers - here is one egregious example:
(The “artist” in question has since changed their story to say that their songs are “AI assisted” and also that the whole fake children’s charity thing is absolutely fine because the appeal page didn’t actually go live).
Doesn’t surprise me, I’ve just finished a cyber awareness week long training course, webinars, work modules etc, only an hour each day but. One of the modules showed how AI can impersonate anyone in a visual Teams call, it looks & sounds the same as the person you know, though there was if you look closely some very slight differences. There was another showing AI impersonating someone on email, social media etc.
My son-in-law created an AI generated video of me last night walking around in his home from a sequence of camera facing shots in which I was sat down at his kitchen table. It even managed to capture my middle aged spread. Quite disquieting.
Didn’t take me as an example For another cyber Ai, I’ll ask if they can replicate me, accent, mannerisms etc.
The vid/ webinar took a company director looked & sounded like the real thing. After that most peeps will not be sure if thay are talking to a real person.
Especially if it’s backed up with a big promotional presence on social media platforms, as in the case of that “Ella Scott” fake that Fil analysed in the video above.
A casual “fact check” might not reveal anything untoward. What alerted him in this case I think (as well as the general “AI-ness” of the music) was the clearly AI images (a guitar with fretboard dots out of place, a child with six fingers) and also the claim to have done multiple live concerts of which there was no independent evidence.
For another cyber Ai, I’ll ask if they can replicate me, accent, mannerisms etc.
