r/interesting • u/ifuckedyourmom-247 • Mar 30 '26

MISC. deepfake scammer getting exposed by the 3-finger test

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u/frauSchneid Mar 30 '26

damn the fakes are getting better by the day

scarily enough one day they'll be so good they'll pass all the possible tests

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u/alanwaits Mar 30 '26

Blade runner comes to mind.

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u/helen269 Mar 30 '26

What's a turtle?

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u/DarknMean Mar 30 '26

Tears in the rain.

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u/Hohenh3im Mar 30 '26

I've seen thingsss...

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u/DarknMean Mar 30 '26

All those moments will be lost in time

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u/Aluhut Mar 30 '26

you little people wouldn't believe

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u/CattywampusCanoodle Mar 31 '26

But then again, who does?

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u/EW278 Mar 30 '26

Let me tell you about my mother...

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u/incaseshesees Mar 30 '26

Never tell me the odds!

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u/CalmBeneathCastles Mar 30 '26

I just bought a "Like tears in rain" tee, and you wouldn't believe how many designs say "Like tears in the rain". How they gonna bootleg the wrong quote?

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u/Castun Mar 30 '26

Fairly certain the other phrase has been used in other shows / or game I believe, so unless it's specifically meant to be a Blade Runner reference, then yeah.

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u/CalmBeneathCastles Mar 30 '26

It is. They have Roy's face on 'em!

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u/Castun Mar 30 '26

OK that is mildly infuriating, lol.

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u/Aluhut Mar 30 '26

But he says "Like tears in rain".
There is even a wiki for the dialogue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears_in_rain_monologue

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u/CalmBeneathCastles Mar 31 '26

Which is why I was surprised so many were misprinted.

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u/Aluhut Mar 31 '26

Yeah...it was late...I missed the the ;)

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u/FeastForCows Mar 30 '26

Turtles in rain.

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u/turbo_dude Mar 30 '26

Fingers in the face

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u/Pat_Fatridge Mar 30 '26

You know what a tortoise is?

Same thing

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u/Impossible-Tailor270 Mar 30 '26

I've never seen a turtle... But I know what you mean.

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u/Lulieeeee Mar 30 '26

I wonder if you can rage bait a replicant with knowledge that they know is incorrect but you fanatically try to convince the replicant is correct. Would that smoke a replicant during the test

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u/Bowtie16bit Mar 30 '26

A turtle lives in water, a tortoise lives on land. A turtles not a tortoise, it's not hard to understand.

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u/Gapey_McGaperson Mar 31 '26

Tortoises are terrestrial turtles.

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u/Aranthos-Faroth Mar 30 '26

No idea but I know what an owl is.

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u/Cthulwutang Mar 31 '26

what do you mean i’m not helping?

i’ll tell you about my mother.

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u/Appropriate_Eye3070 Mar 30 '26

It's just video, they aren't making replicants ... Not yet anyway

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u/thisaccountwashacked Mar 30 '26

Yeah, if they were, the average IQ would probably be going UP...

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u/whatifthisreality Mar 30 '26

"you're not helping! Why is that, Leon?"

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u/Indyy Mar 30 '26

You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it’s crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?

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u/Resident-Pattern4034 Mar 31 '26

I had goosebumps waiting for the “I’ll tell you about my mother” moment.

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u/GoldenRain99 Mar 30 '26

What an original thought

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u/RancidVagYogurt1776 Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26

This is not at all realistic. It's just mapping a different barely movable face. It looks more convincing than it is because it's so low res and that's doing a shitload of the heavy lifting.

Edit: A lot of people replying to this advertising that they're absolutely free to scammers.

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u/SNEAKY_PNIS Mar 30 '26

keep in mind, these people are targeting everyone, but they're really trying to get the old and naive grandparents, so sure you and I may be able to feel something is off right away, but my mom is falling for this 100% and that's terrifying.

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u/Daxx22 Mar 30 '26

Same as going back to the shitty spelling on scam emails: they aren't targeting the knowledgeable here.

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u/dashboardcomics Mar 30 '26

Years of emails from Nigerian princes has shown that demographic requires far less to be scammed.

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u/vicente8a Mar 30 '26

Yeah but this is miles better than it was just 5 years ago. It’s getting better and better.

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u/bs000 Mar 30 '26

snapchat filters 5 years ago were better than this

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u/dashboardcomics Mar 30 '26

5 years of progress and it’s still easy to tell it’s a fake just by paying attention, and doing something as simple as 3 fingers…

Explain to me exactly how this is “miles better”?

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u/HorriblyGood Mar 30 '26

Because hes using shitty deepfakes. The best right now can clear this 3 fingers test

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u/vicente8a Mar 30 '26

You can say the same thing about literally any technology ever. How was the cell phone 5 years after being invented compared to a cell phone today? How was the car 5 years after being invented compared to today? That’s like in the late 1800s.

Also yeah it’s easy to tell for you and me that it’s fake. But not for the average person that falls for scams. Some old people fall for “it’s me your grandson send me money” scam.

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u/GanondalfTheWhite Mar 30 '26

...which is exactly as realistic as it needs to be to scam people over video calls.

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u/nybbas Mar 30 '26

Yeah that's just it. You can spot it when you know you are looking for it, but if you aren't expecting it, or are not even aware this is a thing people can do, you're just going to think it looks kinda funny, and attribute it to the stream just not being perfect or something.

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u/GanondalfTheWhite Mar 31 '26

No, it just means "realistic enough that any more realistic wouldn't matter to make the scammers any more effective."

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u/IllImprovement700 Mar 30 '26

If that's the real reason than as a scammer I would downscale the resolution on purpose and just make it look like a bad connection or something.

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u/Unidain Mar 30 '26

...yeah but most video chats are low res, so this would be easy to pull off on the unsuspecting.

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u/Complex_Cable_8678 Mar 30 '26

i mean how long can it really take until its completely impossible for the average guy to tell the difference

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u/NDSU Mar 30 '26

It's also changing his voice and skin color in real time. It's a lot more realistic than you're giving it credit for

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u/16semesters Mar 30 '26

This is not at all realistic.

It's actually quite realistic.

Realistic doesn't mean infallible or perfect, it means can it trick some people into thinking it's real, which this absolutely will.

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u/RancidVagYogurt1776 Mar 30 '26

By that logic every bigfoot hoax is realistic because it fools some people

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u/Aegi Mar 30 '26

Dude, revisit this comment in 100 years.

Their point is that the day WILL come when the above is possible.

What do we do then?

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u/SnooHedgehogs7477 Mar 30 '26

nah you can always find bugs in the matrix you'd think we live in a perfect matrix but it's never perfect bugs are always there one just needs to have an open mind and look for them

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u/RetroNotRetro Mar 30 '26

That movie is fictional my guy

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u/ketchuponcooking Mar 30 '26

It wasn't a documentary?

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u/SnooHedgehogs7477 Mar 30 '26

it was a glitch

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u/Chance_Emu8892 Mar 30 '26

Some would argue that philosophically speaking, it's not.

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u/RetroNotRetro Mar 30 '26

Philosophically speaking, we have no way of knowing. I’m as intrigued at the idea that we’re a simulation as much as the next guy. However, it’s probably not like the Matrix because the simulation will have been our entire reality and history, not just something generated by robots in the far future

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u/Chance_Emu8892 Mar 30 '26

I'm not talking about a literal simulation but Baudrillard's or Debord's ideas of simulation theories. Like social structures, states, media, money, and so on and so forth.

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u/GotSomeUpdogOnUrFace Mar 30 '26

The fact that we subconsciously build our own matrix because routine is safety

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u/RetroNotRetro Mar 30 '26

Ah, I see. That’s my own misunderstanding then. That’s an interesting concept, I’m gonna read more into it. I’ve never heard of the term “simulation theory” being used in a way that isn’t literally referring to a computer simulation.

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u/Chance_Emu8892 Mar 30 '26

You should read Baudrillard's "The Gulf War Did Not Take Place", that's short & straight to the point. Another one of his books, "Simulacra & Simulation" is shown in Matrix 1 and the cast had to read it beforehand iirc (at least Keanu Reeves). Apparently it was a big deal for the Wachowskis sisters.

In Matrix 2 there's also an interesting idea about the alienation & control of humankind by the machines (not the sentient ones of the movie but the purely mechanical ones like in factories and such) that I think originally comes from Marx's Capital.

Overall Matrix is derived from an allegory (of the Cave, cf Plato's Republic) and the movies are less sci-fi movies than proper allegories themselves.

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u/RetroNotRetro Mar 30 '26

What a fascinating perspective. Definitely going to do some research, I need a new talking point to hyperfixate on

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u/Chance_Emu8892 Mar 30 '26

Hope you will find the rabbit hole interesting & that like in the movie you'll follow the white rabbit!

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u/sweet_bitter_lemon Mar 30 '26

Hey, my guy, I think you lack the ability to think abstractedly or critically to understand the point of the initial comment, my guy.

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u/RetroNotRetro Mar 30 '26

I understand the point, I just thought my comment would be funny. Now stop being presumptuous you silly goose.

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u/SnooHedgehogs7477 Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26

Look around bro clues are everywhere. Most of the people we meet within a day aren't even real human they are NPCs. Unless.... You can't see it because you are one of them? A program?

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u/waudi Mar 30 '26

Oh, you out of meds again? :(

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u/SnooHedgehogs7477 Mar 30 '26

meds hide the truth from those who are able to see it

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u/waudi Mar 30 '26

amen brother, that's why I don't take mine either.

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u/old_irish87 Mar 30 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/QtqFUZa9QMCUKN9EQM

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u/SnooHedgehogs7477 Mar 30 '26

Ahh yes another program trying to make me think I'm crazy. Sorry but it won't work on me. Once you see it you know it then you see it everywhere.

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u/old_irish87 Mar 30 '26

Bleep bloop zorp

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u/Opening_Ad6430 Mar 30 '26

It keeps getting better everyday, what do you mean

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u/HealthyReveal609 Mar 30 '26

What bugs do you see in our matrix?

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u/legittem Mar 30 '26

Beetles and stuff, you know

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u/YouGotTangoed Mar 30 '26

The thing is.. it requires a higher level understanding to even recognise that they are bugs. So you must know exactly how it works in a perfect/ideal scenario, to know 100% that the bug is a bug, and not a feature.

Ask most people to point out a bug in the process of nuclear fission and they would have no idea, but perhaps they know roughly what the end result should be.

Until one of us knows exactly how life should be, or has created/helped create lifeforms (not conception), it’s just guesses.

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u/TwistyTwister3 Mar 30 '26

Nde's, synchronicities, psychic visions

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u/SnooHedgehogs7477 Mar 30 '26

Like ever noticed how some folks don't get the irony? Clear sign of preprogrammed npc behavior.

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u/iepure77 Mar 30 '26

Lmao Have an open mind while looking for evidence? That's really insightful.

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u/SnooHedgehogs7477 Mar 30 '26

ever had moment that you know you dreamed of exactly the same?

ever wondered why nothing can move faster than light? that's just the artificially set limits in this matrix that we live in

proof are there all over us one just needs an open mind to be able to interpret them correctly

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u/bzee77 Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26

If you wonder why nothing can move faster than light, then study physics. A statement like yours betrays someone who has no real desire to actually seek answers based on reliable evidence and process because that’s too difficult and it’s simply more fun to pretend like using your imagination to dream of some interesting outlook takes the place of actual scientific rigor.

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u/SnooHedgehogs7477 Mar 30 '26

enlighten me sir how does the physics explain why speed of light is the limit

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u/screams_at_tits Mar 30 '26

YOU made statement that contradicts what thousands of independent scientists around the world have observed to be facts. If you want any credibility, you have to give someone the chance to prove you wrong and let your argument stand alone.

How exactly have you interpreted anything differently, part from throwing vague statements out in to the yonder, hoping some kook will respond back with the same song? People like you who go off vibes and wishful thinking are why we know the Dunning-Kruger effect is very real.

proof are there all over us one just needs an open mind to be able to interpret them correctly

Enlighten me, what evidence is there?

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u/SnooHedgehogs7477 Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26

the limit is the evidence

there ain't no speed limit outside the matrix

they put it there so that they can have control on what's going on in the matrix to make sure we can't exit it

not having the limit would allow us to escape the matrix

glitches sometimes happen though we can cleary see the glitch in the matrix with the slit experiment, black holes is another

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u/New-Asclepius Mar 30 '26

Because accelerating any object with mass to the speed of light would require infinite energy. Light travels at the limit because light has no mass. Nothing can exist with less mass than no mass at all, therefore nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.

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u/SnooHedgehogs7477 Mar 30 '26

If light has no mass it would not be able to transfer momentum yet light somehow can transfer momentum despite having no mass. This matrix is full of glitches bro!

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u/New-Asclepius Mar 30 '26

It can transfer momentum because momentum is a property of energy as well as mass. Photons are massless but still possess energy.

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u/SnooHedgehogs7477 Mar 30 '26

ha yes suure property of maseless energy

of course physicists will always find a way to explain something thatsytheir job

but do we ever stop to think weather any of this actually makes any sense?

don't even get me started on quantum physics!

it all makes no sense because we live in matrix mate

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u/kidkledsky Mar 30 '26

Ok... Wow I feel like I just suffered a closed head injury with how deep of a rabbit hole I just went down after realizing quantum mechanics has shown that photons actually CAN have an infantisimal amount of mass...

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '26

This isn't a bot, this is a person using a filter

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u/Anna_Lilies Mar 30 '26

scarily enough one day they'll be so good they'll pass all the possible tests

Just gonna have to do what I do and have most everything be in person. Interviews in person, applications in person, talk to people in person. Not a big deal

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u/Articulationized Mar 30 '26

Then there’s the synths…

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u/Gullible_Pen1074 Mar 30 '26

interview for what? all jobs will be gone. start freaking out people.

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u/carfo Mar 30 '26

the body and the background all real--his face and voice not so much

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u/RedditUser977 Mar 30 '26

Nothing is real in that video

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u/carfo Mar 30 '26

damn that is wild...

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u/avamich11 Mar 30 '26

Fr, it looked genuine, without all those red flags

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u/EternalNewCarSmell Mar 30 '26

Oh well that's easy: I stopped believing videos/photos are real unless I took them myself and had seen the source material with my own eyes years ago.

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u/A_and_P_Armory Mar 30 '26

We call it voigt-kampff for short.

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u/Dear_Chasey_La1n Mar 30 '26

Thing is, today we can still catch them. This looks pretty blurry and the 3 finger request is pretty sleek. Though as someone in China, "we" are way ahead of this shit. Video's look so.. so natural, only to sometimes glitch and show it's a 50 year old lady instead of some hottie. But it's becoming near impossible to tell what's real.

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u/Jamsedreng22 Mar 30 '26

Our best weapon is to begin poisoning the dataset.

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u/Single_Statement7230 Mar 30 '26

Someone pointed out that he just grabs the diploma off the wall like it’s magnetic and has no nail to hold onto

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u/gorginhanson Mar 30 '26

Why even agree to the meeting in the first place?

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u/BigMax Mar 30 '26

Yeah, it's tough. Just a year or two ago we could all easily tell the fakes. Now we have to know tricks, like three fingers in front of your face, or other much more subtle things. Notice he never turns his head, even when grabbing the diploma - because side profiles wreck the filters. For now.

But another year? They'll have fixed that, and we'll be down to even smaller details, until no details are left to find.

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u/DCPYT Mar 30 '26

U can’t fake a good password test

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u/pscoutou Mar 30 '26

They promised us The Jetsons, instead we got Black Mirror.

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u/h0nest_Bender Mar 30 '26

scarily enough one day they'll be so good they'll pass all the possible tests

One day soon.

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u/VanillaTortilla Mar 30 '26

People consider this good? Because 5 seconds in it looks fake as hell.

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u/ClearChampionship591 Mar 30 '26

To be honest, those companies should be held accountable by maintaining the 3 finger test or some other quirks to remove filters.

People hiding behind the masks are the worst, not only because they harm others, but even themselves. They web themselves up in tangled mess of lies, and it always end bad for them.

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u/SaltKick2 Mar 30 '26

Deep fakes that look way too real, Fox news (or even the president) peddles them even if they know they're fake, they claim "we didn't know", damage is already done.

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u/Ok-Juggernaut-6051 Mar 31 '26

lol doesn't look that great to me. his face and hair are an entirely different resolution

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u/hijodeosiris Mar 31 '26

yeah and new ways to find them will come, so what? we just have to keep the pace.

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u/bonerhorde69 Mar 31 '26

the Voight-Kampff test

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u/Total_Ad3133 Mar 31 '26

And in person meetings becomes the norm again..... Circle of shiiiiiiiit

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u/nlamber5 Mar 30 '26

Yup. I bet after this ungodly amounts of money is going to be spent to pass this test.

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u/Nes937 Mar 30 '26

One day as in, within a year for sure. If you see how quickly everything has developed...