Episode 563 Scott Adams: Last 8 Minutes of Episode 563

Date: 2019-06-13 | Duration: 7:54

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Final 8 minutes of Episode 563 didn’t download…so didn’t get posted. Here it is, the final 8 minutes, enjoy! Content: Deep Fakes and permission to create deep fakes of me. Reverse engineering social media algorithms Please subscribe to my channel…it REALLY helps. Like my video? Hate my video? Let me know, VOTE! Please leave a comment, let me know how I’m doing.

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[0:04]

and so I give them full credit I can see that my battery is getting ready to die here so this won't be the longest of my periscopes so let's see if I figured out covered all my topics oh there's an interesting question about can you reverse engineer the algorithms of the social media companies in other words could you look at the impact of all all the things that they're doing and just based on what you observe could you work backwards to what the algorithm must be my initial reaction to that is probably not it's too complicated but you could certainly do it on the simple cases for example let me let me just this is just brainstorming I don't know if this is a good idea suppose you had a bunch of citizens who met certain demographic criteria so somebody was old somebody was young somebody was this ethnicity ethnicity this income this this gender so you had a bunch of people who volunteer and there you have enough of

[1:05]

volunteer and there you have enough of them so that they fit every category so once you have people who fit most of the categories and let's say that they said you can monitor my account and you'll see what I see so so you'd have some system that would look at these let's say a hundred representative people and we just monitor all their social media accounts and then it would compare them to some kind of average or or other people could you determine that for example this person who has these certain characteristics and clicked on these certain things is denied looking at some things that another person has I think you could I think you might be able to get the big picture anyway you wouldn't get all the nuance of the algorithm but it seems to me that you would be able to determine what the algorithms are doing if you could have vision on all the people's experiences but not all of them you just need you need a representative sample it's a

[2:06]

need a representative sample it's a little bit of each kind of person so for example if you had a typical Democrat on Twitter and then you had a typical Republican on Twitter couldn't you just look at their two feeds and see what's different and then work backwards to what the algorithm must might be the answer is I don't know but you might be able to it's an open question somebody will probably take a run at that I'll bet some researcher will take a run at doing that you have probably seen the so-called deep fakes these are the CGI characters that look just like real people and it can actually even speak as if that real person were speaking so now video can't be trusted anymore because you can make somebody look like a real person and you can't tell the difference so much so that from a single photograph you can create an entire 3d person just to show off they did it with the Mona Lisa so

[3:06]

off they did it with the Mona Lisa so there's video I just tweeted it Jordan Peterson between a day earlier and it just shows the Mona Lisa from one photograph of the Mona Lisa or however they got the image they they turned it into a 3d walking talking expressive creature oh yeah that's scary isn't it so I'm gonna make an offer here that I don't know if anybody's thought of yet so I want to be the first one to think it when you do a deep fake of somebody like Zuckerberg for example or the Mona Lisa there's probably some kind of a rights question wouldn't you say some kind of rights are involved but since I would like to be immortal I would like to offer to the world
complete copyright freedom to reproduce me so if anybody wants to reproduce me with a deep fake and then feed it with

[4:08]

with a deep fake and then feed it with all of my public statements my my public speaking my ideas from my blogs my periscope etc so if there are any researchers who would like to have a a safe a legally safe real person to see if they could reproduce that real person I volunteer so I'm saying in public right now if there are some CGI researchers who would like to create a deep fake Scott I authorize that so you are you're authorized to do it and then you don't have to worry about somebody complaining now I'm completely I understand that this puts me a risk that my deep fake will be saying things that I don't want to the deep fake to say so I get that I'm accepting that risk because I can't write I mean I'm in that rare situation where I can accept that risk but I'll just put it out there because people are gonna be making deep fakes and there are probably some

[5:08]

fakes and there are probably some universities were wondering about the legality of it there's gonna be all these interesting lawsuits and stuff but I'm gonna say you can you can use me a real person you can use my real name I would prefer that you label it so that people know it's a deep fake so that's my preference but I also live in the real world and once things are released they can take any form so now I would also say that there's there's a second part of this that's kind of fun given that I've just given a permission to use me as your deep fake in the future you should not assume that anything you've ever seen me say from this day forward is necessarily true so that's the trade-off you should not assume that anything you see from something who looks and talks like me any time in the

[6:08]

looks and talks like me any time in the future is necessarily true
so I realized that I realized that there will eventually be some tea fakes of me that say things I don't want them to say that's part of the I accept that risk so go ahead and do that alright so my long the long-term play here is that I want to be the the first person who who evolves from a from a carbon-based creature to a digital being so I want to be first so make me the first carbon-based person who dies in real life and is reborn as a digital creature so let's let's make that happen all right and that's about all I have to talk about today if you would like to

[7:09]

talk about today if you would like to see this in replay using the YouTube platform just search for real coffee with Scott Adams I have to tell you that I had a whole little studio set up here with a temporary setup of acoustic panels and everything and just before I went live they all fell down and knocked all of my equipment on the floor and messed up my office so I will be continuing to experiment with improving the quality of these broadcasts and that's what the monetization on YouTube does for me so that's what we're doing and I will talk to you later