I mean if we are deepfaking things for Elon to do, why pick something so on brand? I guess it lends legitimacy to the scam, because if anyone were to be shilling a crypto scam, it’s that old musky ballsack.
And people who think he is a genius are more likely to believe it, unfortunately.
If they wind up believing they got scammed by Elon Musk, something good may come of this in the end.
Yes, adding legitimacy is the point. The scammers want to scam people.
Web3 evangelists are VERY obsessed with Elon, all they need is a couple of them to not do the due diligence and they'll make bank.
When trying to scam people, why pick something that they will believe?
I think you answered your own question
Scamming is bad but I gotta admit.. kinda hard to feel sorry for people taking advice from Elon Musk.
If it has Elon Musk in it in any way, even tangentially, even if it is directly from Elon Musk himself, it is a scam. It could not be simpler to avoid Elon Musk scams, all you have to do is avoid Elon Musk.
*checks username for anything Musk* It's clean, we're good.
Pretty hard to distinguish from Elon's actual scams
This again?
You'd think they'd have scammed all the idiots by now, but I guess there's an endless line of them
This has been going on for a very long time, just at varying degrees of deepfakery. A couple of years ago it was just a picture of him and a generic computer voice reading a "transcript" that he definitely for sure wrote about etherium and doge coin being the best way to make money.
TBH fake Elon is far less of the problem than the real dude.
I'm Canadian and all the YouTube ads lately have been fake Trudeau and Freeland shilling crypto, along with Musk. Every few weeks there's a story in the media about some idiot getting scammed by them. Sad state of affairs.
People are going to lose so much fucking money once these real time deepfakes are ubiquitous. It's just getting started and they are going after big fish first because it's still tricky to do, but eventually the common phone scammer will have this kind of tech.
Give your family a code word and tell them, "if you get a weird phone call or video chat from anyone in the family asking you for something odd like lots of money, gift cards, saying they have an emergency, saying they need bail money, etc, ask for the code word".
Or
Don't post so much content of yourself online.
These bots need something to build off of. It's not like Facebook can look at your picture and imagine your voice. It's gotta be online, someone's gotta go build a bank of it and train a robot to sound like you before that can work. Hawk tua girl is out there but the rest of us who aren't obsessively tiktoking every moment of our lives are fine
It's getting pretty easy:
https://github.com/hacksider/Deep-Live-Cam
I hqd this set this up in about 8 minutes on a moderate gaming PC. It's pretty convincing
You and I do that but we can’t control how our family members use social media.
And what happens when Google is hacked and all of your information is leaked?
I agree, its not a good idea to put yourself on the internet, at the same time its unreasonable to assume the average person can build their own data management system (and not leak any of that to SOMEONE).
Hell, Google had it as a default that any time you use voice to text, it saves that audio file. You don't have to be giving anything personally to the internet for a scammer to get a hold of your voice.
Wouldn't be surprised if he'd actually do something like that in the near future.
No that is just what he does between X rants and being an insufferable idiot.
I wonder if this will fall under Musk's view of freedom of speech?
If you encounter them, I'd recommend reporting them — not only are they against YouTube's ToS, they are also maliciously preying upon people.
they are also maliciously preying upon people.
Any recommendations where I can report free to play games?
Please do a fake Kim Dotcom next.
Grokked up
Send bitcoin to elon, tthen he will send back double.
Even real elo say that I wouldn't believe.
