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Sprint projectAug 26, 2024
1st place by peer review

Speculative Consequences of A.I. Misuse

Joseph Karam, Charlie Nguyen, Andrew Lam · Team S.C.A.M.

Submitted to AI capabilities and risks demo-jam. Sprint projects are early-stage work by participants, not Apart Research publications.

This project uses A.I. Technology to spoof an influential online figure, Mr Beast, and use him to promote a fake scam website we created.

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  1. Cool presentation! I think it’s plausible that making/promoting these videos and rick rolling people might be a good way to spread the message. Good job!

  2. Cool project! The deepfake video is solid, the scenario is plausible, and I like the attention to detail. Also, the UI replication of Youtube+Google auth substantially increases the emotionally impact of the demo. It’s also entertaining, which matters a lot for public consumption of a demo like this. While the chat part does introduce some interactivity, some additional personalization could also increase emotional impact.

  3. This is great!The mockup for youtube and gmail are very good, and the faceswap on MrBeast is very impressive. I feel like this demo does a very good job demonstrating the erosion of trust that AI will create and how easy this kind of attacks will be in the future

Cite this project

@misc{karam2024speculative,
  title = {{Speculative Consequences of A.I. Misuse}},
  author = {Joseph Karam and Charlie Nguyen and Andrew Lam},
  year = {2024},
  month = aug,
  note = {Submitted to AI capabilities and risks demo-jam, an Apart Research Sprint},
  howpublished = {\url{https://apartresearch.com/sprints/projects/speculative-consequences-of-a-i-misuse}},
  url = {https://apartresearch.com/sprints/projects/speculative-consequences-of-a-i-misuse}
}

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