SPOKANE, WA – Recent advancements in AI technology have heightened concerns about the potential misuse of deep fakes. A recent news magazine program airing on Channel 4 in England posed the question, “Will AI take my job?”
In a surprising twist, the program revealed that the presenter was not real, showcasing the realism of AI. This moment captured media attention worldwide.
Jon Clay, Vice President of Threat Intelligence for Trend Micro spoke with NonStop Local about the growing sophistication and realism with AI. “I mean, I can’t tell the difference and I’m a professional and I’ve been in the business for 29 years,” said Clay. Trend Micro has spent the last 35 years developing programs to keep users safe online, yet AI presents a growing challenge.
“The technology is going so quick, is getting better and better so quickly that we’re going to get to the point where it’s just going to be almost impossible to tell the difference,” said Clay.
Recent advancements in AI technology have heightened concerns about the potential misuse of deep fakes. A recent news magazine program airing on Channel 4 in England posed the question, “Will AI take my job?”
Jon Clay, Vice President of Threat Intelligence for Trend Micro spoke with NonStop Local about the growing sophistication and realism with AI.
OpenAI recently launched Sora 2, which allows users to generate realistic videos independently. Sample videos show ice skaters with cats, water sports, and cowboys. All are fully generated by computers.
Clay explained the dangers of this technology. “Some are trying to do it for fun, like you said, but it obviously can be used to persuade, influence, and scam individuals out there out of their personal information or their money,” he said.
OpenAI is attempting to implement safeguards with Sora 2. The company states that every video generated includes visible and invisible signals, with a visible watermark and the ability to trace videos back to Sora.
“But even those guardrails can be superseded by some of the stuff that the threat actors, bad actors are doing out there,” said Clay. He stressed the need for more companies to implement similar safeguards.
Despite these efforts, AI makes scams harder to spot. Clay mentioned, “Whether it’s an urgency about my kid being kidnapped or it’s urgency that this deal for this great product that I want is going to go away in the next couple of minutes. They want you to move quickly.”
Clay advised slowing down and thinking before clicking. If a scam is suspected, he urged reporting it. “The more we know that it’s happening, because like, you know, the FBI, IC3 report that comes out every year, it seems like the consumer scams, whether it’s romance scams, financial scams, continue to be the top, you know, money losses of people out there in the world, even more than ransomware is on the commercial side,” he said.
