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Speaker 1: I went on a journey to find one of the

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Speaker 1: most dangerous men on the Internet, and it was the

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Speaker 1: most insane investigation of my career.

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Speaker 2: She said to me, I feel like i'm digit very

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Speaker 2: trying to un massily that doesn't want to be found.

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Speaker 1: My name is Lori Siegel, host of Mostly Human, a

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Speaker 1: tech podcast through a human lens, and in my fifteen

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Speaker 1: years as a technology journalist, I've seen some wild things,

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Speaker 1: but none so dangerous, so insidious as a site called

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Speaker 1: mister deep Fakes. So site filled with videos of celebrities, politicians,

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Speaker 1: and influencers in these sexually graphic, often violent videos doing

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Speaker 1: things that they would never do.

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Speaker 3: Sexual deep fake photos of Taylor Swift went viral on

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Speaker 3: social media.

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Speaker 1: Shared over forty seven million times on x in what

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Speaker 1: advocacy groups say is a form of sexual abuse. What's

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Speaker 1: worse is that mister deep Fas wasn't just a destination

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Speaker 1: for passive viewing. It was a community, a place where

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Speaker 1: users could teach, learn, and build old technology explicitly designed

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Speaker 1: to violate women. Oh and of course make money off

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Speaker 1: of all of it.

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Speaker 2: I'd be happy to make you something that really gets

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Speaker 2: you off. I'm new, so I'm cheap. Hi, this is

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Speaker 2: awesome technology? Is it bad?

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Speaker 4: I want a deep fake of my sister in law.

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Speaker 4: I'm interested in finding someone who could make some realistic

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Speaker 4: looking fakes of women I know in real life. I

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Speaker 4: think it would be fun and hot to view them

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Speaker 4: engaged in sexual activities that they themselves wouldn't even do.

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Speaker 1: It quickly became clear that this new kind of digital

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Speaker 1: abuse wasn't just reserved for famous, public facing women. If

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Speaker 1: someone can take a photo of you, you can be

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Speaker 1: deep faked.

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Speaker 3: My face had been placed on someone else's semi nude body, like.

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Speaker 2: There's another version of me out there doing porn and

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Speaker 2: will forever.

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Speaker 3: It felt like it was being done to me.

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Speaker 1: Physically, it felt like nothing damn, but it wrecked me.

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Speaker 3: Something awful is happening. And they said it's not illegal,

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Speaker 3: there's nothing we can do.

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Speaker 1: And the man behind mister deep fakes, he's remained anonymous,

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Speaker 1: and that anonymity gave him power. And so I came

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Speaker 1: to the conclusion I had to find him.

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Speaker 2: And person who uh is one of the most dangerous

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Speaker 2: people on the internets, And I will show you right

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Speaker 2: now who is Christmas.

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Speaker 1: Listen to my four part investigative series searching for mister

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Speaker 1: deep Fakes starting June fourth, Right here in the Mostly

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Speaker 1: Human podcast feed search Mostly Human, in the iHeartRadio app,

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Speaker 1: or wherever you listen to your favorite shows, here is

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Speaker 1: mister deep fake.