Mark Rober On AI Deepfake Parodies

Mark Rober reacts to bizarre AI deepfake parodies of himself

Transcript

00:00someone was deep faking me on youtube i thought it was kind of funny it was like me and i built a

00:06squirrel obstacle course in my backyard for the homeless of course but then this character who

00:12was me started like swearing and doing these things and i was getting reports from parents

00:17who were like asking why mark rober is saying certain words that they wouldn't want their kids

00:22to hear so i was like okay because kids can't tell the difference right some people kind of jump hank

00:27green specifically you know got on twitter and was like hey first youtube didn't have a policy on it

00:31like i was sort of patient zero on them trying to figure out their policy youtube basically said

00:36well this is kind of fair use and then they a week later they're like actually they redid their policies

00:41and literally just today i did some face scan thing youtube's putting out some technology to kind of

00:46like use you know the ai to combat the ai stuff so it will look for things that aren't me but are

00:52defakes and then take them down or at least give me the the option to leave them hopefully they won't

00:58take down this episode