Deepfakes and a robot's warning: Why AI leaves more questions than answers | ITV News

For me, it was personal. The moment I really understood AI’s potential and its pitfalls came when I first saw myself on screen, speaking words I hadn’t spoken, doing things I hadn’t done.

Worse still, my boss, who was passing my desk, couldn’t tell the difference.

“Looks good,” he said, as he glanced down at my laptop.

My deepfake didn't convince him for long. But for an uneasy moment or two, I wondered if, in attempting to explain AI (artificial intelligence), I had done myself out of a job.

[roncollins]

I have recently encountered very plausible reason to believe that both 'PC Protect' and 'Total AV', both licensed firms in the UK and each allegedly located in an office park in Hampshire (which might not even exist as anything but an empty field), are in fact entirely deepfaked fabrications, with possibly no human personnel at all employed by either firm.

Both these concerns market and upload supposed 'antivirus software' to private users, via card transactions around the world, and every single indicator I encountered recently in a customer-service issue suggested very strongly that the only human beings associated with either firm are call-center employees in India working on contract and with no knowledge at all of the companies themselves.

Every one of the emails I received back from so-called 'customer service reps' was obvious AI adaptive boilerplate, each with a different British-looking name as a signatory each time, until the final two messages which vaguely addressed my stated concerns, but only in such a manner well within the capabilities of AI to read, evaluate and respond to human language.

Whatever it is these counterfeit companies truly exist to gather revenue for is anyone's guess, but I cannot see any possibilities beyond those of criminal intent. Searches within the UK's Companies House registry of various now-defunct concerns bearing the name 'PC Protect' reveal a long history of intentional dissolution of assets, and relocating to other regions of England before applying for new licenses, as well as very suspicious connections to rural money-launderers near the Welsh border who are currently playing the Compulsory Strike Off regulations to some advantage by intentionally failing to pay fees for several years, and then causing dozens of companies at once to come into the purview of the courts, followed by multiple delaying petitions by company lawyers to buy time to further liquidate and launder assets before their (what's left of them) reverting to creditors and the Crown. Very, very suspicious information turned up from every possible direction I had chosen to investigate these brands.

[moziburrahman]

Who won or lost in politics? That's not a big deal. In fact, the establishment of humanity, order, unity, peace is a big thing in the world.

[nightowl]

It's a little late, this technology has been around for a while now, even the BBC made a drama series based around it.

[rhondamathis]

If anyone received any correspondence from me and it doesn't match my character, I didn't send it. Check the IP address.