June 10, 2025 • 42 mins
Join Greg Boulden on the America Emboldened Network as he dives into the fascinating and sometimes alarming world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in this eye-opening episode of Be Bold with Boulden!
Discover how AI is transforming everyday life, from coding games like a reverse Pac-Man to creating hyper-realistic deepfake videos and voice clones. Greg breaks down the latest AI scams targeting unsuspecting individuals, especially older adults, and shares essential tips to stay safe in this rapidly evolving digital landscape. From phishing emails to fake websites and voice cloning scams, learn how to spot deception and protect yourself. Stay informed, trust your instincts, and share this episode with loved ones to help them navigate the bold new world of AI!
Don’t miss tomorrow’s show featuring filmmaker Dean Rainey discussing his new documentary, Why Can’t We Talk About This?
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Coming out of the. Gate stepping into the truth,
walking the land of the brain, return back must move you.
Shadows danced. On the wall, they told tales of
deceit. Once we hear the call, the light
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and dark must compete. Be bold, Be bold when folded the
story untold be. Bold.
Be bold. Until the truth has been sold.
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Be bold, be bold. What's going on everybody?
Greg Bolden here be bold with Bolden on the America and Bolden
network. Glad to be here this Wednesday
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evening just realized my my lights not on it's normally in
front of me but you know I like the mood lighting tonight.
It will set a certain mood for AI conversation that we're going
to have. Not sure if you've seen the news
recently about artificial intelligence, but things are
progressing rather rapidly. And I was thinking about my in
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laws, my parents, people's grandparents, their parents, and
what they know and do not know about artificial intelligence.
And so today I'd like to offer ashow for them, a 101 artificial
intelligence. They're hearing about it on the
news, they're hearing this talk,but perhaps they don't actually
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know what's going on when they hear these conversations.
Well, that's where I come in. So if you would like make sure
you share this show with them, repost it.
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And if you're on X Instagram, Facebook, hello, as always, you
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can leave your comments and I'llbe able to see them and read
them live on the show. You can help direct where the
show goes tonight as we get intothis conversation about
artificial intelligence. All right, so that that's where
I want to get. I want to talk about this
because it's becoming at this point in time a lot more common
that you're going to start seeing it all around you.
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It's also becoming a lot more dangerous too.
So artificial intelligence, for those that are curious, I might
refer to it as AI. That is the abbreviation that
has been socially acceptable at this point in time for
artificial intelligence. And even though that AI and
artificial intelligence might sound maybe the to some people
that aren't in the know, like a science fiction movie, I can
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assure you that it's very real and it's already part of your
everyday life. In fact, I'm going to tell you
some things that are 100% factual.
I will bring up stories tonight to show you how this is being
used in movies, in commercials as well as in scams where this
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contents coming from. So I will I will try to
illustrate that as well as some new tools that are being used
that you can play with on your own.
I actually coded right before the show a new Pac-Man game.
I'm going to bring that up on the screen really quick.
I have not tested it yet, but this is how easy this stuff is
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right now. So here's my chat.
GBT here we go Pac-Man family game code.
So I with no experience whatsoever I was able to get
ChatGPT and artificial intelligence to write Python
coding. And my game is a Pac-Man style
game where the ghost is the one collecting the power ups and
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goes invincible while trying to take out PAC man's family while
collecting everything to escape and not getting caught.
So it's a reverse Pac-Man game, and so I will get that uploaded
somewhere. I got to figure out how to do
that and I'll publish that shortly after the show.
If you'd like to play my reversePac-Man game that I created
using artificial intelligence, you'll be able to do that.
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So for those parents out there looking for a little
information, that's the first thing we can do.
We can also use artificial intelligence in some really
great ways in order to, I don't Google things really anymore.
I use artificial intelligence now.
I just showed you Chachi PT. My one that I normally go with
is Grok on X, but not everybody has access to that.
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And we'll get into some of that,but let's break it down very
simply because I know I might bespeaking too fast, talking too
big. My audience that's normally with
me likely already understands the artificial intelligence arc
and storyline because you've been with me for several years
talking about this and I've kindof become a bit of an expert in
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this field. But I today will be talking a
much more simplistic terms. All right, So don't worry, you
don't need to be some computer expert in order to understand
tonight's show. I want everybody listening that
is looking curiously to picture artificial intelligence as if it
is teaching a dog. You get a new dog and you want
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to teach it how to do tricks. The difference is artificial
intelligence is not a dog in this case, it's a computer.
And instead of teaching the dog how to fetch a ball, the
computer coding. So in the background, we're
going to teach it how to write aletter.
We're going to teach it how to recognize a photo.
We could even teach it how the sound like someone that you
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know. And we can teach it how to
recreate faces and visuals and videos in the most advanced
forms. Artificial special effects using
artificial intelligence. There's a lot there.
Imagine in your home right now if you had a coffee machine that
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could learn how you liked your perfect cup of coffee.
Maybe it's a cream, no sugar. And the same time every single
morning. It knew because it learned your
patterns. And it could make you the most
perfect, delicious cup of coffeeevery single time because it
learned it. That's a simplistic version of
artificial intelligence I'm talking about tonight.
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Now picture that same machine learning your voice and then
answering your questions or writing a poem for you based
upon some prompts. That's where we are today with
artificial intelligence for you and I.
The government has a lot more powerful stuff, and so do the
billionaires, but we'll get intothat on another show.
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Now. We're going to stick with the
simplistic tonight. Most of the time, artificial
intelligence is extremely helpful.
You could use it to remind you of appointments.
You could use it to help find recipes that you're going to
find delicious and tasty. You could even use it to
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translate foreign languages for you.
Artificial intelligence is a phenomenal, true tool, but with
any tool, it's how you use it. Are you going to use that tool
for good or for bad? I used to work with Habitat for
Humanity. We used to have hammers.
And as we're using these hammers, I used to say it
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doesn't matter if you have the $5 hammer or the $50 hammer.
It's knowing how to use it and use it well.
Well, unfortunately for us, because of the human spirit and
what we normally do, scammers have gotten a hold of artificial
intelligence because it's a verypowerful tool and they're being
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using this now in order to trickpeople.
And they're using it to trick older adults, people who may not
be as familiar with how fast thetechnology is changing.
So I want to tell you guys tonight about a few of these
scam methods so that you can recognize them.
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Hopefully it's going to be very difficult to recognize sometimes
in case they ever do start to cross your path.
So we'll go through a bunch of different things.
A long time ago, there was a, a scam where you would get a phone
call saying, you know, you're broken down somewhere or an
e-mail and it would get sent to the grandparents.
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Grandparents, I, I need you to send me some money.
I got stuck in Vegas. I got stuck somewhere, you know,
can you help? Did they get the e-mail?
And the grandparents would feel bad.
They'd wire the money. Western Union, except it wasn't
going to the grandkid. It was going to a scammer.
Now that scam has been completely reimagined.
Now there are people that have taken this to a new level.
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And that's kind of the very first one to, to, to bring up to
here tonight. All right, so there is a OK,
let's let's just give you a, a, a thing before I bring this up.
I'm going to show a, a, a story.Let's say your phone rings late
at night. You pick it up and it sounds
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like your grandson on the other side or your daughter or your
son. Their voice, their way of
talking, their inflections. It's the way that you've heard
them your entire life. Now they say something like
they've been in an accident. They need money for bail right
now. And your heart's skipping a
beat. You're like, what do you mean
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you've been in an accident? You need money for bail.
What happened? You're immediately going to want
to help your grandkid, your son,your daughter.
But you should know if this is ashocking thing that you're not
expecting to ever happen to yourson, daughter, or granddaughter
or grandson, maybe this is not your grandson or granddaughter
at all. It likely is AI because scammers
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can now take about 15 seconds, just a very small recording of
someone's voice. They can take it from a video
that's online on YouTube. They can take it from a
voicemail and they clone it. That's right, you can now make a
computer sound exactly like someone that you love.
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And there are bad actors out there that are using this
technology in order to clone these voices and change things
for people. And let me tell you, it is wild.
I'm going to show you a website that does this.
It's called 11 Labs. And the thing with a lot of
these websites and things that you can use, they are all free
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to people. This is not something that
you've got to spend a ton of money in order to make.
So here's 11 labs you can see here for $5 a month.
On this one, I can start cloningvoices for $11.00 a month.
That's their most popular 1. You get really high quality
models. You can do a ton with it, but
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let me show you what this actually does.
So I brought some voices in. Maybe I would like to have Mark
from Convo AI. Hey guys, here's just a more
casual, kind of relaxed version of my voice, and I think it's
great for conversational AI. Now I could take that voice.
OK, I'm not going to clone one right now.
And I could copy that link and Ican text the speech.
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I can use his voice or anyone. So I did this one earlier to
find a voice that I liked. So we're going to add Mark to my
voices and we're going to generate speech based upon me
asking my mom. Hi mom, it's Greg.
I was wondering if you or dad could help.
I got myself into a real problemhere.
Could you use Zelle and send me $20?
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I'm stuck at this gas station and forgot my cards.
Thanks. Now imagine that was in my
voice. I didn't have a time before
tonight's show to put that all together for you.
But I'm I'm just using the different software that's out
there so you can see it. Imagine that's me calling my
mom. Hi, mom.
It's Greg. I was wondering if you or dad
could help. I I got myself into a real
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problem here. I could use Zelle and send me
like 20 bucks real quick. I got stuck at this gas station.
I forgot my cards. Thanks.
Chances are my mom is going to use Zelle and send me something
if she gets a voicemail that sounds like that.
That can easily and quickly be created now with artificial
intelligence on many of these very accessible videos, the song
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that you heard and have heard over and over at the beginning,
I play instruments. I used a thing called kit dot AI
to redo my voice because I'd like to tell you all that I can
sing like that and I, I don't have a bad voice.
Maybe sometime I'll, I'll play you a song I'll sing for you,
but I swapped my voice for an AIvoice that I put together for my
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theme song. So that's something that I, I
do. So you know, and Kagan has it
absolutely correct here for all of you.
There is 0 need for these programs except for deception.
You're 100% correct. I mean, Chachi PT Grok might be
good for using things instead ofa Google search to find
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resources and to be able to argue back and forth points.
But you're correct. This technology that's out there
on all these websites, it is meant to the Seaview and it's
very bad. So that brings me to the second
point. So if you know now that if you
get a odd phone call, don't justassume.
Call your son, call your daughter, call your grandkid,
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make sure that they really have a need.
Call them directly. Don't call the number that might
be left on that voicemail. Call them directly.
Talk, verify, please, please, please trust and verify.
That's a very important part here.
Now, the second part is deepfakes.
You might have heard this before.
These are videos that lie. They're fake videos.
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And let me tell you, over the past two weeks, this game has
stepped up increasingly with Google's new VO #3.
They call these videos deep fakes.
But they've gotten even crazier now.
Like it used to be simply you would take like Vladimir Putin
or Obama and you would be able to mimic their faces, change
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their speech, make it look like they said things that they
didn't say. Now you can take any scene you
can type in that you want a war scene in the Ukraine, make it
look like they blew up a bunch of planes and it's going to look
extremely valid and real. Don't believe me?
Well, let's check out what VO isdoing right now with Vizio.
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Check this out. An endless line built up in New
York City. Let's ask the people, why are
they standing in line? The line is too long to see what
is at the end, so I don't know why exactly am I standing in
line. I'm pretty confident it's the
new iPhone. Sorry, the new PlayStation.
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I don't even. Care, This is New York.
Baby. You know what they say the first
rule of standing in line is you don't talk about why you stand
in the line, right? I thought this is the line for
the pharmacy. Now they say it's for a stupid.
Phone. My wife said it's Tuesday
cleaning day but I was like no, no, no, no.
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I have places to go so. We are just.
Trying to get home. And didn't want to skip line,
but we might do it now. None of this is real.
None of this I, I, I, I need you.
If if you haven't shared this with your loved ones yet that
are not aware of artificial intelligence, you need at this
point to clip this, send them this part of the show.
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Make sure that they know we've reached a new level of
deception. The fact that these interviews,
the shot types, like I teach audio, radio, video by day,
these are the type of shots thatI would tell my students to
take, miking people up, getting interviews on the day of things
and it looks absolutely phenomenal.
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Now they can also have a little bit of fun with the software
that's out there now because they just did influencers kind
of making fun of the whole influencer, whole influencer
culture that's out there with a deep fake video of World War
Three and what might look like. So check this out.
And there's also this cool one with the Bible influencers that
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I think's actually super super. Neat.
A detonation has just occurred on the outer ring of the city.
We'll now be going live to our top influencer opinions.
OMG people, the world is ending.Are you seeing this?
This is actually so exciting. I know it's chaos, but you got
real survivor's wife energy. That's cool, I like them feisty.
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Like it would totally be better if we ran it.
You know Men literally destroy everything and my girls need to
stop being so soft with these basic losers.
Who even needs men right? Anything a man builds just gets
destroyed. I mean, that's, it's funny,
it's, it's funny the way that they're using this.
I I'm enjoying that. It's it's pretty cool to see the
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Bible influencers I thought was cool too VO3 Bible Let me pull
this one up I just had it up on the screen here it is check this
out this this is a neat thing also may be scary for people
that. Aren't yo fam?
They don't know that God is about to BRB.
These philistines thought they could flex on me.
Big mistake. I just took some pre workout and
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finna bring the house down. That's good fam.
Your boy David here about to eatthis little stone at Goliath and
see what happens. OK so I told y'all to trust the
process but no y'all wanted to stay in Egypt stacking bricks.
Yo it's Shadrach. This random dude just showed up.
It's getting lit in here. I got the horses in the back.
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Horse tack is attached. Hat is matte black.
Got the boots that's black to match.
Day 2 in the tomb. No Wi-Fi.
No, I'm sorry. This is great.
I mean, like, OK, if I'm lookingto be entertained by artificial
intelligence, this is a fun use of artificial intelligence.
However, imagine that you think there's an actual war going on.
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Imagine that you even saw your church pastor or some famous
person doing something outlandish or telling you you
need to go invest in something right now.
They look real. They sound real.
You trust them. But guess what?
It's fake. It's like you're going to be
watching some type of puppet show, only the puppet looks like
a real person instead. And AI can stitch together these
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videos now that are going to show someone saying or doing
something that they never actually did.
And scammers are going to start using this.
And they're, they are using thisat this point in time in order
to convince people to send moneyand personal information.
So it's really, really importantnot to trust what you see online
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or maybe even on television at times without checking it first.
Really, really important. There is a resource I'm going to
put out here. I just brought the screen up.
What scams are done off using? I this article will be in the
podcast section on my pod bean alittle bit soon.
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So we'll get that up for you allas well.
So you can see what you need to look out for.
All right, my next story is phishing emails.
The new junk mail. All right, remember when we used
to get junk mail notifications stuffed into your mailboxes,
your emails? Well, now we can get emails and
text messages sent straight to our phones.
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And they are smarter than ever with how they get you.
They're using AI in order to write these messages that are
going to seem super polite, super professional, super
urgent. They might pretend to be a bank.
I just got one from the DMV yesterday.
They could pretend to be the IRSor even some type of charity.
They could tell you that your account's been compromised,
you've got to click here the secure.
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They could even take over your computer using coding and do all
this. And that link is going to lead
you straight into their trap. So if it feels fishy, don't
bite. That's where the whole fishing
thing comes from. You want to be very, very
careful about that before getting caught into some type of
exploit of fishing. All right, as same thing goes
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for fake websites. Now fake websites.
Now AI is being used in order tocreate these as well.
And the here we go. Where's my sound?
Think yourself from scams in thenew year.
Dale Dixon from the BBB joins usto share these tips.
Thank you so much for being here, Dale.
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Oh, great to be with you, Sarah.Thank you.
So tell us, what kind of frauds do we need to be aware of for
this new year? You know, we're seeing a big
influx on in technology, specifically artificial
intelligence, and it can be veryhelpful in a variety of ways.
Same time the bad guys have figured out how to use it.
So one thing that just happened to me, I had a friend reach out
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and say, hey, I'm shopping for apocket knife, you know, little
knife to carry in your pocket toopen those Amazon boxes, things
like that. And they can get really
expensive. And one of he had found one of
the more expensive brands selling really cheap.
He sent me the website. I looked at it.
The website looked real, but I did some digging and found that
the bad guys had used artificialintelligence to clone the real
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website. So just remake the website just
as it is, use a different URL, the address bar in the in the
top of your of your web browser.And then they grabbed all the
pictures and they set up their own.
OK, wild, right? You can have digital storefronts
now you can have these fake websites.
They're going to look real from the outside, but once you get
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in, nothing's going to add up. There's AI powered scam websites
now that can literally, yes, EZ pass Kagan.
That's exactly what I got the text message for yesterday and I
actually started to believe it. My wife's like Nope, because I
never mind. Anyway, I almost fell for it.
It almost even got me these websites now.
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They look like the real companies.
They're fake. They're just meant for you to
put your credit card informationin and to steal everything to
take your money. They do this using what I was
just showing like Chachi PT in order to clone these websites.
If you see something that is toogood to be true, it's an
investment. It's a miracle cure.
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I guarantee you it is too good to be true.
There is no such thing as a freelunch.
Do not fall for it. It's very important.
Now others might start using this too and I think that's
already happening right now. Use Medicare or retirement funds
if you're ever unsure. Don't just trust the website
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that you're on. Call the company directly.
Use the phone number that you trust, not the one that's on
that website. Don't trust a link in an e-mail
or an advertisement. At this point, I hate to tell
everybody you got to be a littleparanoid about what you're going
to be consuming, but in this odd, stranger world of
artificial intelligence that we're entering, it's really
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important. Look at this story.
You got scammers that are using the AI to create fake IRS
websites. All right, all here security
software company DNS filter found the traffic to malicious
domains with tax and the name beaked 30 days before tax day in
2024. So they are trying their best in
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order to get money. Oldest scams in the book and
people are following. So if you're watching tonight's
show, maybe we will help stop somebody else from doing that.
Just did the phishing 1. There's a firm that fell for a
deep fake. There's a text to speech going
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through my links here tonight. Ah, yes, scamming, cloning.
We'll get to that in a second. Perfect.
Excellent. Sorry I have everything up on my
screen. I just want to make sure I get
to everything that I need tonight.
All right, so what's coming next?
What do you think the future scams using AI might be?
Well, I'm here to tell you rightnow what I've been watching over
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the last nine years as I've beenteaching about artificial
intelligence in my classroom andwhat it meant for the audio,
radio, video field. I have been spot on this entire
time. I wish that I wasn't spot on.
I wish that I had gotten it wrong, but I have not.
Everything's speeding up, and it's expected this way.
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In the very near future I believe you're going to see
artificial intelligence AI run romance scams where the
artificial intelligence will build a fake relationship with
you using a made-up face, made-up video of that person and
sweet words that are written by a computer just so you start
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giving some type of money to them.
I think you're going to see fakevideo where artificial
intelligence put someone's face over a scammer, like a digital
dress up, so to speak, just to earn your trust.
We're already seeing this right now with the influencer culture.
People don't look the way that you think they look.
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They're using filters. They're using face swaps
sometimes. I'm hearing Michaels just told
me last week that there are people on what's the website?
People pay to see people's lives.
Anyway, whatever that website is, I can't even think of the
name of it right now. It's men that are putting female
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faces over top of them and dressing up and and talking to
people. There are fake bots, fake online
people right now. There's people that are putting
entire Staffs that are not real artificial intelligence, fake
photos of them in newsrooms and you're reading their stories.
But it's AI writing the news. People are using AI right now to
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spread false news, investment tips.
They want to fool people into losing money so they make more.
Basically, it's kind of like those magic show that plays on
your heartstrings and bam, then you can't spot it anymore.
It's gone, magic show's over andyou're left there going, how did
they do that to me? All right, what's Kagan saying?
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Scammers clone websites and thenbuy Google ads.
The yes, that's why I don't trust Google anymore, Kagan.
I don't want to trust where they're at.
People clicking on these things as a top result.
Matter of fact, you typed in my America Out Loud show that was
national for two years with 100,000 listeners a week.
You can't even find it in Google.
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You know the SEO hid my show so much.
But yet if you go on listen notes and you look at my show
you'll see was in the top 0.5% of podcasts in the world.
You know, back from 2022 through2023, I had a great run on
there. We're trying to build it up now
that I'm off the network and I'mgoing solo, we're trying to
build those numbers back up. So if you're just finding me,
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thanks for finding me. I've been doing this for a
really long time. Tonight shows a public service
announcement, so to speak, trying to help people understand
artificial intelligence. So let's, let's how do we keep
people safe, Kagan, how are we going to do this?
How do you protect yourself in aworld that is rapidly and
quickly changing? Well, there's some things that I
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think can go a long way. If you listen to my song, at the
beginning when I wrote those lyrics, I was thinking of
Plato's allegory of The Cave, coming out of The Cave, stepping
into the truth, right? And then my lyrics with
Michaels. And I believe half of what you
hear and none of what you see. If someone is calling you and
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saying you have to act right now, that's a big red flag.
Take a breath. Slow down.
Scammers are going to try to useyour panic and irrational
behavior to get past your betterjudgments.
If it's a real emergency, you can wait and verify.
So be skeptical of urgency. Which leads me to verify, verify
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and verify again. If your grandson is calling you
and is in trouble, hang up. Call him on the number that you
know, or better yet, work with your family.
Establish a safe word or a code that they've got to say
something that only you and theywould know.
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That way you can test and see ifit's really them.
It's like, hey, you know, when'sthe moon set Double O 7.
That's the answer. You say that I know, I know that
might lose people, but have sometype of safety system so people
can verify, trust but verify this next one.
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I, I think it might be more difficult than this right now
with AI you can kind of look forglitches or strange behavior,
but I got to be honest, it's getting damn near difficult to
find the glitches and strange behavior right now.
You used to be able to look for fingers.
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If there were like 7 fingers on a hand, you're like, that's AI.
They fixed that. That doesn't happen with AI
modeling ever. That's that's fixed.
That was a problem in 2024-2025.5 fingers, 5 toes each, each
foot, each hand. They, they figured that out.
Lips sometimes can be a little off with the voice matching, but
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it's getting a lot better. If something feels off about the
video that you're watching, maybe it is off Trust.
Trust your guts, trust your intuition.
It's a very powerful thing that we have our intuition.
So if something doesn't feel right, don't ignore that
feeling. Stay informed.
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That was my next point. Stay informed.
You don't have to be a tech expert.
You don't have to be an expert on artificial intelligence.
And when I say that I'm an expert, it's only in the field
of which I teach. I'm an expert.
I read up on scam alerts. I look at trusted sources like
the Federal Trade Commission. I look at what the Double ARP
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Fraud Watch puts out. I look at information from local
senior centers to see if they'rekeeping up with the things that
I know. There are even libraries that
offer digital safety classes foryour children that you can take
as yourself. So you want to keep that at the
forefront. You need to stay informed about
what this is. This is your primer, class one O
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1 tonight here with Mr. Bolton. But I need you to continue that
education beyond. And then when I tell you that
artificial intelligence is the most important thing for you to
educate yourself on, it is number one.
There is nothing else. Forget what's going on in
politics because guess what? Artificial intelligence is
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actually informing politicians right now.
Mark my word on that. I have evidence and proof we can
get to those DARPA studies on another show in a different
week. This tip comes from my friend
Chris who was telling me make sure that I'm resetting my phone
at midnight every night. You want to make sure that you
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shut down your phone, you shut down your computers and you want
to make sure that you also keep them updated at all times.
The reason why you want to do this it your phone will call
home with updates of everything that it's done.
When it's sleeping off, you wantto be able to reset so that way
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when it goes to phone home, you've refreshed everything very
important. You want to make sure that it's
up to date so people cannot takethe security flaws and get into
your information. Same thing with your computers.
You always want to stay updated.Now, I know that some people
might say, well, you know what, Greg, you staying updated.
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Sometimes that installs issues. Yes, it does.
That's why you know, whatever works for you.
I don't use a Windows computer because I don't like viruses.
So I I'm not in the Windows echosystem.
I've tried to stay away from that.
But if you are antivirus software, Windows was never the
best with that. Maybe they've gotten better.
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Talk to a professional in that world that knows that better
than I do. Now here's something that is
might be more comforting. I think that older adults are
already taking some smart steps here.
I was looking up some studies. 3/4 of seniors already let
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unknown numbers go the voicemail.
That is a great habit. Continue to do that.
We want to get 100% of people. If you don't know the phone
number, let it go. The voicemail.
Also, another great habit that seniors seem to be doing is
they're ignoring messages that ask for personal info unless
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they can verify who it is that'sasking for this information.
Fantastic, great, excellent. That's good wisdom to start
keeping ourselves safe from artificial intelligence.
Now it's up to us to share that information with our friends,
with our loved ones, with our our siblings.
Maybe that aren't as much up to do because artificial
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intelligence. This isn't evil.
Like I said, beginning, it's just a tool in the right hands,
right? Like a hammer, it can build that
habitat home. In the wrong hands, it could
break a window, or it could build something so horribly you
probably wouldn't want to live in it.
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Very bad news. The more that we get to
understand how artificial intelligence is working, the
better it will be that we can each protect ourselves from
what's coming. So it's important that we tell
people stay alert with the information that they're seeing.
You're asking questions and mostof all, you want to trust
yourself if something feels wrong.
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Once again, your intuition, it likely and probably is.
I would love for you guys to share this specific show with
somebody in your church, somebody that's a neighbor that
might need to know a little bit more about artificial
intelligence, what's what's in there, Because I think it's our
job together to make sure that this technology is helping us
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and not harming us. If they would like to learn more
about what artificial intelligence is doing, I have a
ton more information. Some of that information might
be uncomfortable for them to sitwith as well.
As I said, artificial intelligence is not something
that's new. This is something that's newly
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rolled out to the average person.
It's something that has been making decisions of facial
recognition. Every time you hold that phone
up and it unlocks. That was artificial intelligence
that helped us get there. Matter of fact, if you've ever
watched what is the the movie with Benedict Cumberbatch about
Project Enigma, the the code breaking movie about World War
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2. I can't remember the name of the
movie right now, but Benedict Cumberbatch movie, that computer
that he's making that the learning the code that was some
of the first artificial intelligence.
It was machine learning to breakthe code that the Germans were
using in that moment. So artificial intelligence has
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been around for over 100 years. It likely at the highest level
of DARPA. And our military has already
been showing us videos that werenot real on the news.
Just saying it is likely that wehave seen things in the news
that was artificial intelligencegenerated.
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Now, whether that was unintentional or intentional,
I'm not here to make that judgement, but we should know
that that is happening. So before you all of a sudden
believe something that you see put out there in front of you
and you say that is the gospel truth, that is exactly what's
happened. I saw that person do it with my
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own eyes. I'm going to offer a perspective
tonight. Perhaps you didn't see the
person do that. Perhaps it was artificial
intelligence. That is the crazy, bold new
world that we now live in. And these inventions, as Kagan
had said at the beginning of theshow, these things, these
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programs that are being used to deceive people, they're only
going to get more tech savvy. What's coming next should
actually be a lot more concerning than it is.
What's coming next is the ability to influence entire
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continent of people and to believing something that's not
true, showing them something before their eyes that is
indisputable yet disputed. And do they have the knowledge
and wherewithal to ask and wonder?
Does it pass the intuitive test?Has passed the smell test?
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A lot of jobs are about to be atjeopardy with artificial
intelligence. I just saw this weatherman go on
a tirade about the GFS models and how the defunding of the
models was making the storm predictions less accurate.
And I said somebody needs to tell this guy about artificial
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intelligence and what it's doingfor weather forecasting.
Compared to the data that we've had for years, artificial
intelligence is out predicting the old models in spectacular
ways. Meteorologist while need to
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continue to teach the models forthe things that we need to know
about pressures. There's enough rules out there
now that the artificial intelligence is doing a great
job replacing that field in the television side.
If you're a meteorologist, you better be on the science side,
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making new discoveries to stay at the cutting edge of what's
coming next. Most of your jobs and talking to
everybody here, the parents, thegrandparents, there are so many
jobs that are about to be completely outsourced to a
computer. I don't know what that means
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economically. I don't know what that means for
people's vocations, what that means for being human.
I've talked about that on the show before, but I do know that
we're entering a new reality anda new era.
The Singularity is arriving faster than anyone ever imagined
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it could. In fact, it likely is already
here. It will just be a little bit
more bold when it's finally announced.
And if you don't know what the Singularity is, well, then
you're going to want to subscribe to be bold with Bolden
and follow some of my other shows where I discussed this
very important. Tomorrow night got a great show
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with a filmmaker who premiered abrand new movie tonight.
I watched it and I learned things that I had not learned
before. I love that when that happens,
when I can watch something go, wow, that was phenomenal.
You may remember Kayla Pollack. Kayla came to me through my
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friend Viva Fry. She had transverse myelitis and
she was having trouble seeking care in Canada.
Well, Dean Rainey had a friend of his who also got transverse
myelitis around the same time. He's got this new feature length
documentary called Why Can't We Talk About This?
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And we will be talking about hisfeature length documentary as
well as the interviews with all the doctors that he had on
tomorrow night's show, 9:00 PM Eastern Standard Time with me
and Chris Michaels. In the meantime, go over to
YouTube or Rainy Media and you can check out why can't we talk
about this is new movie. It's going to be a great one.
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I hope you guys, TuneIn, I hope everybody's having a great time.
Everybody be bold. Take care.
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Before, Until the truth has beentold.
Before, before before.
Coming out of the. Gate stepping into the truth,
walking the land of the brain, return back must move you.
Shadows danced. On the wall, they told tales of
deceit. Once we hear the call, the light
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and dark must compete. Be bold, Be bold when folded the
story untold be. Bold.
Be bold. Until the truth has been sold.
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Be bold, be bold. What's going on everybody?
Greg Bolden here be bold with Bolden on the America and Bolden
network. Glad to be here this Wednesday
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evening just realized my my lights not on it's normally in
front of me but you know I like the mood lighting tonight.
It will set a certain mood for AI conversation that we're going
to have. Not sure if you've seen the news
recently about artificial intelligence, but things are
progressing rather rapidly. And I was thinking about my in
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laws, my parents, people's grandparents, their parents, and
what they know and do not know about artificial intelligence.
And so today I'd like to offer ashow for them, a 101 artificial
intelligence. They're hearing about it on the
news, they're hearing this talk,but perhaps they don't actually
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know what's going on when they hear these conversations.
Well, that's where I come in. So if you would like make sure
you share this show with them, repost it.
If you're on social media on Rumble, you can find this
America emboldened on YouTube. Type in be bold with Bolden.
And if you're on X Instagram, Facebook, hello, as always, you
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can leave your comments and I'llbe able to see them and read
them live on the show. You can help direct where the
show goes tonight as we get intothis conversation about
artificial intelligence. All right, so that that's where
I want to get. I want to talk about this
because it's becoming at this point in time a lot more common
that you're going to start seeing it all around you.
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It's also becoming a lot more dangerous too.
So artificial intelligence, for those that are curious, I might
refer to it as AI. That is the abbreviation that
has been socially acceptable at this point in time for
artificial intelligence. And even though that AI and
artificial intelligence might sound maybe the to some people
that aren't in the know, like a science fiction movie, I can
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assure you that it's very real and it's already part of your
everyday life. In fact, I'm going to tell you
some things that are 100% factual.
I will bring up stories tonight to show you how this is being
used in movies, in commercials as well as in scams where this
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contents coming from. So I will I will try to
illustrate that as well as some new tools that are being used
that you can play with on your own.
I actually coded right before the show a new Pac-Man game.
I'm going to bring that up on the screen really quick.
I have not tested it yet, but this is how easy this stuff is
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right now. So here's my chat.
GBT here we go Pac-Man family game code.
So I with no experience whatsoever I was able to get
ChatGPT and artificial intelligence to write Python
coding. And my game is a Pac-Man style
game where the ghost is the one collecting the power ups and
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goes invincible while trying to take out PAC man's family while
collecting everything to escape and not getting caught.
So it's a reverse Pac-Man game, and so I will get that uploaded
somewhere. I got to figure out how to do
that and I'll publish that shortly after the show.
If you'd like to play my reversePac-Man game that I created
using artificial intelligence, you'll be able to do that.
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So for those parents out there looking for a little
information, that's the first thing we can do.
We can also use artificial intelligence in some really
great ways in order to, I don't Google things really anymore.
I use artificial intelligence now.
I just showed you Chachi PT. My one that I normally go with
is Grok on X, but not everybody has access to that.
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And we'll get into some of that,but let's break it down very
simply because I know I might bespeaking too fast, talking too
big. My audience that's normally with
me likely already understands the artificial intelligence arc
and storyline because you've been with me for several years
talking about this and I've kindof become a bit of an expert in
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this field. But I today will be talking a
much more simplistic terms. All right, So don't worry, you
don't need to be some computer expert in order to understand
tonight's show. I want everybody listening that
is looking curiously to picture artificial intelligence as if it
is teaching a dog. You get a new dog and you want
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to teach it how to do tricks. The difference is artificial
intelligence is not a dog in this case, it's a computer.
And instead of teaching the dog how to fetch a ball, the
computer coding. So in the background, we're
going to teach it how to write aletter.
We're going to teach it how to recognize a photo.
We could even teach it how the sound like someone that you
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know. And we can teach it how to
recreate faces and visuals and videos in the most advanced
forms. Artificial special effects using
artificial intelligence. There's a lot there.
Imagine in your home right now if you had a coffee machine that
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could learn how you liked your perfect cup of coffee.
Maybe it's a cream, no sugar. And the same time every single
morning. It knew because it learned your
patterns. And it could make you the most
perfect, delicious cup of coffeeevery single time because it
learned it. That's a simplistic version of
artificial intelligence I'm talking about tonight.
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Now picture that same machine learning your voice and then
answering your questions or writing a poem for you based
upon some prompts. That's where we are today with
artificial intelligence for you and I.
The government has a lot more powerful stuff, and so do the
billionaires, but we'll get intothat on another show.
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Now. We're going to stick with the
simplistic tonight. Most of the time, artificial
intelligence is extremely helpful.
You could use it to remind you of appointments.
You could use it to help find recipes that you're going to
find delicious and tasty. You could even use it to
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translate foreign languages for you.
Artificial intelligence is a phenomenal, true tool, but with
any tool, it's how you use it. Are you going to use that tool
for good or for bad? I used to work with Habitat for
Humanity. We used to have hammers.
And as we're using these hammers, I used to say it
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doesn't matter if you have the $5 hammer or the $50 hammer.
It's knowing how to use it and use it well.
Well, unfortunately for us, because of the human spirit and
what we normally do, scammers have gotten a hold of artificial
intelligence because it's a verypowerful tool and they're being
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using this now in order to trickpeople.
And they're using it to trick older adults, people who may not
be as familiar with how fast thetechnology is changing.
So I want to tell you guys tonight about a few of these
scam methods so that you can recognize them.
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Hopefully it's going to be very difficult to recognize sometimes
in case they ever do start to cross your path.
So we'll go through a bunch of different things.
A long time ago, there was a, a scam where you would get a phone
call saying, you know, you're broken down somewhere or an
e-mail and it would get sent to the grandparents.
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Grandparents, I, I need you to send me some money.
I got stuck in Vegas. I got stuck somewhere, you know,
can you help? Did they get the e-mail?
And the grandparents would feel bad.
They'd wire the money. Western Union, except it wasn't
going to the grandkid. It was going to a scammer.
Now that scam has been completely reimagined.
Now there are people that have taken this to a new level.
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And that's kind of the very first one to, to, to bring up to
here tonight. All right, so there is a OK,
let's let's just give you a, a, a thing before I bring this up.
I'm going to show a, a, a story.Let's say your phone rings late
at night. You pick it up and it sounds
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like your grandson on the other side or your daughter or your
son. Their voice, their way of
talking, their inflections. It's the way that you've heard
them your entire life. Now they say something like
they've been in an accident. They need money for bail right
now. And your heart's skipping a
beat. You're like, what do you mean
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you've been in an accident? You need money for bail.
What happened? You're immediately going to want
to help your grandkid, your son,your daughter.
But you should know if this is ashocking thing that you're not
expecting to ever happen to yourson, daughter, or granddaughter
or grandson, maybe this is not your grandson or granddaughter
at all. It likely is AI because scammers
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can now take about 15 seconds, just a very small recording of
someone's voice. They can take it from a video
that's online on YouTube. They can take it from a
voicemail and they clone it. That's right, you can now make a
computer sound exactly like someone that you love.
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And there are bad actors out there that are using this
technology in order to clone these voices and change things
for people. And let me tell you, it is wild.
I'm going to show you a website that does this.
It's called 11 Labs. And the thing with a lot of
these websites and things that you can use, they are all free
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to people. This is not something that
you've got to spend a ton of money in order to make.
So here's 11 labs you can see here for $5 a month.
On this one, I can start cloningvoices for $11.00 a month.
That's their most popular 1. You get really high quality
models. You can do a ton with it, but
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let me show you what this actually does.
So I brought some voices in. Maybe I would like to have Mark
from Convo AI. Hey guys, here's just a more
casual, kind of relaxed version of my voice, and I think it's
great for conversational AI. Now I could take that voice.
OK, I'm not going to clone one right now.
And I could copy that link and Ican text the speech.
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I can use his voice or anyone. So I did this one earlier to
find a voice that I liked. So we're going to add Mark to my
voices and we're going to generate speech based upon me
asking my mom. Hi mom, it's Greg.
I was wondering if you or dad could help.
I got myself into a real problemhere.
Could you use Zelle and send me $20?
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I'm stuck at this gas station and forgot my cards.
Thanks. Now imagine that was in my
voice. I didn't have a time before
tonight's show to put that all together for you.
But I'm I'm just using the different software that's out
there so you can see it. Imagine that's me calling my
mom. Hi, mom.
It's Greg. I was wondering if you or dad
could help. I I got myself into a real
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problem here. I could use Zelle and send me
like 20 bucks real quick. I got stuck at this gas station.
I forgot my cards. Thanks.
Chances are my mom is going to use Zelle and send me something
if she gets a voicemail that sounds like that.
That can easily and quickly be created now with artificial
intelligence on many of these very accessible videos, the song
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that you heard and have heard over and over at the beginning,
I play instruments. I used a thing called kit dot AI
to redo my voice because I'd like to tell you all that I can
sing like that and I, I don't have a bad voice.
Maybe sometime I'll, I'll play you a song I'll sing for you,
but I swapped my voice for an AIvoice that I put together for my
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theme song. So that's something that I, I
do. So you know, and Kagan has it
absolutely correct here for all of you.
There is 0 need for these programs except for deception.
You're 100% correct. I mean, Chachi PT Grok might be
good for using things instead ofa Google search to find
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resources and to be able to argue back and forth points.
But you're correct. This technology that's out there
on all these websites, it is meant to the Seaview and it's
very bad. So that brings me to the second
point. So if you know now that if you
get a odd phone call, don't justassume.
Call your son, call your daughter, call your grandkid,
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make sure that they really have a need.
Call them directly. Don't call the number that might
be left on that voicemail. Call them directly.
Talk, verify, please, please, please trust and verify.
That's a very important part here.
Now, the second part is deepfakes.
You might have heard this before.
These are videos that lie. They're fake videos.
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And let me tell you, over the past two weeks, this game has
stepped up increasingly with Google's new VO #3.
They call these videos deep fakes.
But they've gotten even crazier now.
Like it used to be simply you would take like Vladimir Putin
or Obama and you would be able to mimic their faces, change
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their speech, make it look like they said things that they
didn't say. Now you can take any scene you
can type in that you want a war scene in the Ukraine, make it
look like they blew up a bunch of planes and it's going to look
extremely valid and real. Don't believe me?
Well, let's check out what VO isdoing right now with Vizio.
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Check this out. An endless line built up in New
York City. Let's ask the people, why are
they standing in line? The line is too long to see what
is at the end, so I don't know why exactly am I standing in
line. I'm pretty confident it's the
new iPhone. Sorry, the new PlayStation.
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I don't even. Care, This is New York.
Baby. You know what they say the first
rule of standing in line is you don't talk about why you stand
in the line, right? I thought this is the line for
the pharmacy. Now they say it's for a stupid.
Phone. My wife said it's Tuesday
cleaning day but I was like no, no, no, no.
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I have places to go so. We are just.
Trying to get home. And didn't want to skip line,
but we might do it now. None of this is real.
None of this I, I, I, I need you.
If if you haven't shared this with your loved ones yet that
are not aware of artificial intelligence, you need at this
point to clip this, send them this part of the show.
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Make sure that they know we've reached a new level of
deception. The fact that these interviews,
the shot types, like I teach audio, radio, video by day,
these are the type of shots thatI would tell my students to
take, miking people up, getting interviews on the day of things
and it looks absolutely phenomenal.
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Now they can also have a little bit of fun with the software
that's out there now because they just did influencers kind
of making fun of the whole influencer, whole influencer
culture that's out there with a deep fake video of World War
Three and what might look like. So check this out.
And there's also this cool one with the Bible influencers that
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I think's actually super super. Neat.
A detonation has just occurred on the outer ring of the city.
We'll now be going live to our top influencer opinions.
OMG people, the world is ending.Are you seeing this?
This is actually so exciting. I know it's chaos, but you got
real survivor's wife energy. That's cool, I like them feisty.
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Like it would totally be better if we ran it.
You know Men literally destroy everything and my girls need to
stop being so soft with these basic losers.
Who even needs men right? Anything a man builds just gets
destroyed. I mean, that's, it's funny,
it's, it's funny the way that they're using this.
I I'm enjoying that. It's it's pretty cool to see the
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Bible influencers I thought was cool too VO3 Bible Let me pull
this one up I just had it up on the screen here it is check this
out this this is a neat thing also may be scary for people
that. Aren't yo fam?
They don't know that God is about to BRB.
These philistines thought they could flex on me.
Big mistake. I just took some pre workout and
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finna bring the house down. That's good fam.
Your boy David here about to eatthis little stone at Goliath and
see what happens. OK so I told y'all to trust the
process but no y'all wanted to stay in Egypt stacking bricks.
Yo it's Shadrach. This random dude just showed up.
It's getting lit in here. I got the horses in the back.
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Horse tack is attached. Hat is matte black.
Got the boots that's black to match.
Day 2 in the tomb. No Wi-Fi.
No, I'm sorry. This is great.
I mean, like, OK, if I'm lookingto be entertained by artificial
intelligence, this is a fun use of artificial intelligence.
However, imagine that you think there's an actual war going on.
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Imagine that you even saw your church pastor or some famous
person doing something outlandish or telling you you
need to go invest in something right now.
They look real. They sound real.
You trust them. But guess what?
It's fake. It's like you're going to be
watching some type of puppet show, only the puppet looks like
a real person instead. And AI can stitch together these
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videos now that are going to show someone saying or doing
something that they never actually did.
And scammers are going to start using this.
And they're, they are using thisat this point in time in order
to convince people to send moneyand personal information.
So it's really, really importantnot to trust what you see online
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or maybe even on television at times without checking it first.
Really, really important. There is a resource I'm going to
put out here. I just brought the screen up.
What scams are done off using? I this article will be in the
podcast section on my pod bean alittle bit soon.
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So we'll get that up for you allas well.
So you can see what you need to look out for.
All right, my next story is phishing emails.
The new junk mail. All right, remember when we used
to get junk mail notifications stuffed into your mailboxes,
your emails? Well, now we can get emails and
text messages sent straight to our phones.
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And they are smarter than ever with how they get you.
They're using AI in order to write these messages that are
going to seem super polite, super professional, super
urgent. They might pretend to be a bank.
I just got one from the DMV yesterday.
They could pretend to be the IRSor even some type of charity.
They could tell you that your account's been compromised,
you've got to click here the secure.
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They could even take over your computer using coding and do all
this. And that link is going to lead
you straight into their trap. So if it feels fishy, don't
bite. That's where the whole fishing
thing comes from. You want to be very, very
careful about that before getting caught into some type of
exploit of fishing. All right, as same thing goes
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for fake websites. Now fake websites.
Now AI is being used in order tocreate these as well.
And the here we go. Where's my sound?
Think yourself from scams in thenew year.
Dale Dixon from the BBB joins usto share these tips.
Thank you so much for being here, Dale.
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Oh, great to be with you, Sarah.Thank you.
So tell us, what kind of frauds do we need to be aware of for
this new year? You know, we're seeing a big
influx on in technology, specifically artificial
intelligence, and it can be veryhelpful in a variety of ways.
Same time the bad guys have figured out how to use it.
So one thing that just happened to me, I had a friend reach out
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and say, hey, I'm shopping for apocket knife, you know, little
knife to carry in your pocket toopen those Amazon boxes, things
like that. And they can get really
expensive. And one of he had found one of
the more expensive brands selling really cheap.
He sent me the website. I looked at it.
The website looked real, but I did some digging and found that
the bad guys had used artificialintelligence to clone the real
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website. So just remake the website just
as it is, use a different URL, the address bar in the in the
top of your of your web browser.And then they grabbed all the
pictures and they set up their own.
OK, wild, right? You can have digital storefronts
now you can have these fake websites.
They're going to look real from the outside, but once you get
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in, nothing's going to add up. There's AI powered scam websites
now that can literally, yes, EZ pass Kagan.
That's exactly what I got the text message for yesterday and I
actually started to believe it. My wife's like Nope, because I
never mind. Anyway, I almost fell for it.
It almost even got me these websites now.
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They look like the real companies.
They're fake. They're just meant for you to
put your credit card informationin and to steal everything to
take your money. They do this using what I was
just showing like Chachi PT in order to clone these websites.
If you see something that is toogood to be true, it's an
investment. It's a miracle cure.
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I guarantee you it is too good to be true.
There is no such thing as a freelunch.
Do not fall for it. It's very important.
Now others might start using this too and I think that's
already happening right now. Use Medicare or retirement funds
if you're ever unsure. Don't just trust the website
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that you're on. Call the company directly.
Use the phone number that you trust, not the one that's on
that website. Don't trust a link in an e-mail
or an advertisement. At this point, I hate to tell
everybody you got to be a littleparanoid about what you're going
to be consuming, but in this odd, stranger world of
artificial intelligence that we're entering, it's really
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important. Look at this story.
You got scammers that are using the AI to create fake IRS
websites. All right, all here security
software company DNS filter found the traffic to malicious
domains with tax and the name beaked 30 days before tax day in
2024. So they are trying their best in
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order to get money. Oldest scams in the book and
people are following. So if you're watching tonight's
show, maybe we will help stop somebody else from doing that.
Just did the phishing 1. There's a firm that fell for a
deep fake. There's a text to speech going
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through my links here tonight. Ah, yes, scamming, cloning.
We'll get to that in a second. Perfect.
Excellent. Sorry I have everything up on my
screen. I just want to make sure I get
to everything that I need tonight.
All right, so what's coming next?
What do you think the future scams using AI might be?
Well, I'm here to tell you rightnow what I've been watching over
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the last nine years as I've beenteaching about artificial
intelligence in my classroom andwhat it meant for the audio,
radio, video field. I have been spot on this entire
time. I wish that I wasn't spot on.
I wish that I had gotten it wrong, but I have not.
Everything's speeding up, and it's expected this way.
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In the very near future I believe you're going to see
artificial intelligence AI run romance scams where the
artificial intelligence will build a fake relationship with
you using a made-up face, made-up video of that person and
sweet words that are written by a computer just so you start
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giving some type of money to them.
I think you're going to see fakevideo where artificial
intelligence put someone's face over a scammer, like a digital
dress up, so to speak, just to earn your trust.
We're already seeing this right now with the influencer culture.
People don't look the way that you think they look.
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They're using filters. They're using face swaps
sometimes. I'm hearing Michaels just told
me last week that there are people on what's the website?
People pay to see people's lives.
Anyway, whatever that website is, I can't even think of the
name of it right now. It's men that are putting female
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faces over top of them and dressing up and and talking to
people. There are fake bots, fake online
people right now. There's people that are putting
entire Staffs that are not real artificial intelligence, fake
photos of them in newsrooms and you're reading their stories.
But it's AI writing the news. People are using AI right now to
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spread false news, investment tips.
They want to fool people into losing money so they make more.
Basically, it's kind of like those magic show that plays on
your heartstrings and bam, then you can't spot it anymore.
It's gone, magic show's over andyou're left there going, how did
they do that to me? All right, what's Kagan saying?
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Scammers clone websites and thenbuy Google ads.
The yes, that's why I don't trust Google anymore, Kagan.
I don't want to trust where they're at.
People clicking on these things as a top result.
Matter of fact, you typed in my America Out Loud show that was
national for two years with 100,000 listeners a week.
You can't even find it in Google.
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You know the SEO hid my show so much.
But yet if you go on listen notes and you look at my show
you'll see was in the top 0.5% of podcasts in the world.
You know, back from 2022 through2023, I had a great run on
there. We're trying to build it up now
that I'm off the network and I'mgoing solo, we're trying to
build those numbers back up. So if you're just finding me,
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thanks for finding me. I've been doing this for a
really long time. Tonight shows a public service
announcement, so to speak, trying to help people understand
artificial intelligence. So let's, let's how do we keep
people safe, Kagan, how are we going to do this?
How do you protect yourself in aworld that is rapidly and
quickly changing? Well, there's some things that I
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think can go a long way. If you listen to my song, at the
beginning when I wrote those lyrics, I was thinking of
Plato's allegory of The Cave, coming out of The Cave, stepping
into the truth, right? And then my lyrics with
Michaels. And I believe half of what you
hear and none of what you see. If someone is calling you and
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saying you have to act right now, that's a big red flag.
Take a breath. Slow down.
Scammers are going to try to useyour panic and irrational
behavior to get past your betterjudgments.
If it's a real emergency, you can wait and verify.
So be skeptical of urgency. Which leads me to verify, verify
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and verify again. If your grandson is calling you
and is in trouble, hang up. Call him on the number that you
know, or better yet, work with your family.
Establish a safe word or a code that they've got to say
something that only you and theywould know.
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That way you can test and see ifit's really them.
It's like, hey, you know, when'sthe moon set Double O 7.
That's the answer. You say that I know, I know that
might lose people, but have sometype of safety system so people
can verify, trust but verify this next one.
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I, I think it might be more difficult than this right now
with AI you can kind of look forglitches or strange behavior,
but I got to be honest, it's getting damn near difficult to
find the glitches and strange behavior right now.
You used to be able to look for fingers.
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If there were like 7 fingers on a hand, you're like, that's AI.
They fixed that. That doesn't happen with AI
modeling ever. That's that's fixed.
That was a problem in 2024-2025.5 fingers, 5 toes each, each
foot, each hand. They, they figured that out.
Lips sometimes can be a little off with the voice matching, but
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it's getting a lot better. If something feels off about the
video that you're watching, maybe it is off Trust.
Trust your guts, trust your intuition.
It's a very powerful thing that we have our intuition.
So if something doesn't feel right, don't ignore that
feeling. Stay informed.
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That was my next point. Stay informed.
You don't have to be a tech expert.
You don't have to be an expert on artificial intelligence.
And when I say that I'm an expert, it's only in the field
of which I teach. I'm an expert.
I read up on scam alerts. I look at trusted sources like
the Federal Trade Commission. I look at what the Double ARP
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Fraud Watch puts out. I look at information from local
senior centers to see if they'rekeeping up with the things that
I know. There are even libraries that
offer digital safety classes foryour children that you can take
as yourself. So you want to keep that at the
forefront. You need to stay informed about
what this is. This is your primer, class one O
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1 tonight here with Mr. Bolton. But I need you to continue that
education beyond. And then when I tell you that
artificial intelligence is the most important thing for you to
educate yourself on, it is number one.
There is nothing else. Forget what's going on in
politics because guess what? Artificial intelligence is
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actually informing politicians right now.
Mark my word on that. I have evidence and proof we can
get to those DARPA studies on another show in a different
week. This tip comes from my friend
Chris who was telling me make sure that I'm resetting my phone
at midnight every night. You want to make sure that you
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shut down your phone, you shut down your computers and you want
to make sure that you also keep them updated at all times.
The reason why you want to do this it your phone will call
home with updates of everything that it's done.
When it's sleeping off, you wantto be able to reset so that way
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when it goes to phone home, you've refreshed everything very
important. You want to make sure that it's
up to date so people cannot takethe security flaws and get into
your information. Same thing with your computers.
You always want to stay updated.Now, I know that some people
might say, well, you know what, Greg, you staying updated.
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Sometimes that installs issues. Yes, it does.
That's why you know, whatever works for you.
I don't use a Windows computer because I don't like viruses.
So I I'm not in the Windows echosystem.
I've tried to stay away from that.
But if you are antivirus software, Windows was never the
best with that. Maybe they've gotten better.
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Talk to a professional in that world that knows that better
than I do. Now here's something that is
might be more comforting. I think that older adults are
already taking some smart steps here.
I was looking up some studies. 3/4 of seniors already let
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unknown numbers go the voicemail.
That is a great habit. Continue to do that.
We want to get 100% of people. If you don't know the phone
number, let it go. The voicemail.
Also, another great habit that seniors seem to be doing is
they're ignoring messages that ask for personal info unless
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they can verify who it is that'sasking for this information.
Fantastic, great, excellent. That's good wisdom to start
keeping ourselves safe from artificial intelligence.
Now it's up to us to share that information with our friends,
with our loved ones, with our our siblings.
Maybe that aren't as much up to do because artificial
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intelligence. This isn't evil.
Like I said, beginning, it's just a tool in the right hands,
right? Like a hammer, it can build that
habitat home. In the wrong hands, it could
break a window, or it could build something so horribly you
probably wouldn't want to live in it.
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Very bad news. The more that we get to
understand how artificial intelligence is working, the
better it will be that we can each protect ourselves from
what's coming. So it's important that we tell
people stay alert with the information that they're seeing.
You're asking questions and mostof all, you want to trust
yourself if something feels wrong.
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Once again, your intuition, it likely and probably is.
I would love for you guys to share this specific show with
somebody in your church, somebody that's a neighbor that
might need to know a little bit more about artificial
intelligence, what's what's in there, Because I think it's our
job together to make sure that this technology is helping us
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and not harming us. If they would like to learn more
about what artificial intelligence is doing, I have a
ton more information. Some of that information might
be uncomfortable for them to sitwith as well.
As I said, artificial intelligence is not something
that's new. This is something that's newly
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rolled out to the average person.
It's something that has been making decisions of facial
recognition. Every time you hold that phone
up and it unlocks. That was artificial intelligence
that helped us get there. Matter of fact, if you've ever
watched what is the the movie with Benedict Cumberbatch about
Project Enigma, the the code breaking movie about World War
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2. I can't remember the name of the
movie right now, but Benedict Cumberbatch movie, that computer
that he's making that the learning the code that was some
of the first artificial intelligence.
It was machine learning to breakthe code that the Germans were
using in that moment. So artificial intelligence has
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been around for over 100 years. It likely at the highest level
of DARPA. And our military has already
been showing us videos that werenot real on the news.
Just saying it is likely that wehave seen things in the news
that was artificial intelligencegenerated.
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Now, whether that was unintentional or intentional,
I'm not here to make that judgement, but we should know
that that is happening. So before you all of a sudden
believe something that you see put out there in front of you
and you say that is the gospel truth, that is exactly what's
happened. I saw that person do it with my
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own eyes. I'm going to offer a perspective
tonight. Perhaps you didn't see the
person do that. Perhaps it was artificial
intelligence. That is the crazy, bold new
world that we now live in. And these inventions, as Kagan
had said at the beginning of theshow, these things, these
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programs that are being used to deceive people, they're only
going to get more tech savvy. What's coming next should
actually be a lot more concerning than it is.
What's coming next is the ability to influence entire
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continent of people and to believing something that's not
true, showing them something before their eyes that is
indisputable yet disputed. And do they have the knowledge
and wherewithal to ask and wonder?
Does it pass the intuitive test?Has passed the smell test?
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A lot of jobs are about to be atjeopardy with artificial
intelligence. I just saw this weatherman go on
a tirade about the GFS models and how the defunding of the
models was making the storm predictions less accurate.
And I said somebody needs to tell this guy about artificial
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intelligence and what it's doingfor weather forecasting.
Compared to the data that we've had for years, artificial
intelligence is out predicting the old models in spectacular
ways. Meteorologist while need to
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continue to teach the models forthe things that we need to know
about pressures. There's enough rules out there
now that the artificial intelligence is doing a great
job replacing that field in the television side.
If you're a meteorologist, you better be on the science side,
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making new discoveries to stay at the cutting edge of what's
coming next. Most of your jobs and talking to
everybody here, the parents, thegrandparents, there are so many
jobs that are about to be completely outsourced to a
computer. I don't know what that means
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economically. I don't know what that means for
people's vocations, what that means for being human.
I've talked about that on the show before, but I do know that
we're entering a new reality anda new era.
The Singularity is arriving faster than anyone ever imagined
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it could. In fact, it likely is already
here. It will just be a little bit
more bold when it's finally announced.
And if you don't know what the Singularity is, well, then
you're going to want to subscribe to be bold with Bolden
and follow some of my other shows where I discussed this
very important. Tomorrow night got a great show
(40:25):
with a filmmaker who premiered abrand new movie tonight.
I watched it and I learned things that I had not learned
before. I love that when that happens,
when I can watch something go, wow, that was phenomenal.
You may remember Kayla Pollack. Kayla came to me through my
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friend Viva Fry. She had transverse myelitis and
she was having trouble seeking care in Canada.
Well, Dean Rainey had a friend of his who also got transverse
myelitis around the same time. He's got this new feature length
documentary called Why Can't We Talk About This?
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And we will be talking about hisfeature length documentary as
well as the interviews with all the doctors that he had on
tomorrow night's show, 9:00 PM Eastern Standard Time with me
and Chris Michaels. In the meantime, go over to
YouTube or Rainy Media and you can check out why can't we talk
about this is new movie. It's going to be a great one.
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I hope you guys, TuneIn, I hope everybody's having a great time.
Everybody be bold. Take care.
(41:51):
Before, Until the truth has beentold.
Before, before before.
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