WEBVTT - Introducing: Levittown 

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<v Speaker 1>Five years ago, this was a vast checkerboard at Potato

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<v Speaker 1>Farms on New York's Long Island.

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<v Speaker 2>Today this is Levittown, one of the most remarkable housing

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<v Speaker 2>developments ever conceived.

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<v Speaker 1>Levettown, New York, America's first suburb, row after row after

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<v Speaker 1>row of cookie cutter homes, the picture of the American dream.

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<v Speaker 1>But recently, underneath the facade of perfect order, a group

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<v Speaker 1>of young women found themselves in an AI fueled nightmare.

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<v Speaker 2>Someone was posting photos of many of the girls that

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<v Speaker 2>we had gone to school with. There was one picture

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<v Speaker 2>of me in a bathing suit, and I didn't have

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<v Speaker 2>a bathing suit on anymore. It was just me naked,

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<v Speaker 2>well not me, but me with someone else's body parts

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<v Speaker 2>that looked exactly like my own.

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<v Speaker 3>Over the last few years, rapid breakthroughs and machine learning

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<v Speaker 3>have made it a lot easier and cheaper to make

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<v Speaker 3>real looking photos or videos, pretty much anything you can

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<v Speaker 3>think of, But innovation comes at a price.

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<v Speaker 1>I felt gross. I felt like I needed to take

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<v Speaker 1>a shower.

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<v Speaker 2>I felt like I wanted to cry, I wanted to

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<v Speaker 2>throw up, I wanted to scream.

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<v Speaker 1>This is a story about a technology that is moving

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<v Speaker 1>faster than the law where everyone is a suspect, even

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<v Speaker 1>your neighbors.

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<v Speaker 2>It was always in the back of my head, like, oh,

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<v Speaker 2>it's someone that I know, But how do you find

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<v Speaker 2>out who that someone is when you know so many

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<v Speaker 2>people from school, soccer, all these things.

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<v Speaker 3>What we discovered in Levertown led us on a winding journey.

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<v Speaker 2>I just always had in the back of my mind

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<v Speaker 2>that any of them could be the one.

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<v Speaker 3>Through the darkest corners of the Internet, they call it

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<v Speaker 3>an arms race between law enforcement and technology, and it's

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<v Speaker 3>just we're losing.

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<v Speaker 2>We are absolutely losing.

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<v Speaker 3>Where online vigilantes and enterprising detectives are joining forces. If

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<v Speaker 3>you're given prey, you want to go and get it.

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<v Speaker 1>In this story, the victims flip the script, band together

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<v Speaker 1>and fight back alongside some unexpected global allies. I'm Margie

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<v Speaker 1>Murphy and I'm Olivia Carvill.

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<v Speaker 3>This is Levittown, a new podcast series from iHeart Podcasts, Bloomberg,

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<v Speaker 3>and Kaleidoscope. Listen to Levettown on Bloomberg's Big Takee podcast.

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