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Mostly Human is a weekly podcast that explores technology through the most important lens: the human one. Hosted by award-winning tech journalist Laurie Segall, the immersive interview and investigative show tackles some of the defining questions of our time with headline-making tech titans and the people you don't know yet, but should. Mostly Human will leave you with a sense of agency over fear, and a clearer view of how tech can actually work for you.
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- Yesterday37 min
Searching for Mr. Deepfakes: ‘The Most Dangerous Man on the Internet’ [Part 1]
When journalist Laurie Segall first stumbled upon Mr. Deepfakes — the largest deepfake pornography site on the internet, with an estimated 17 million monthly visitors at its peak — she couldn't shake one question: who was the anonymous man behind it? In part one of this four-part investigative series, Laurie introduces us to Joanne Chew, an LA-based artist and actor who discovered hundreds of AI-generated pornographic images and videos of herself online, made without her knowledge or consent. Joanne's story is just one example of the abuse enabled by Mr. Deepfakes — a site that functioned not only as a user-generated video platform, but also a thriving community where users learned to create deepfakes, monetized them, and pushed the technology further. With the help of some top cyber security experts, and a public call out to her online community for help, Laurie launches her investigation. Will an anonymous tip jumpstart her investigation? If you have been targeted by sexually explicit deepfakes, we want to hear from you. Email us at hello@mostlyhuman.com. For help and resources, visit beyondmrdeepfakes.com. If you or a loved one need support, text HOP to 64673 or call/text 988. Find Laurie’s short-form docuseries on Mr Deepfakes — in partnership with Paris Hilton — on TikTok. If you have thoughts or questions for Laurie about this episode or anything Mostly Human, email us at hello@mostlyhuman.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- 4 days ago2 min
Coming Soon: Searching for Mr. Deepfakes
Coming this month, Mostly Human presents Searching for Mr. Deepfakes — a four-part investigation into the man behind the largest deepfake porn site on the internet and the real-world harm this new form of digital abuse causes. In 2022, Laurie Segall came across one of the most dystopian sites she’d ever seen. It was called Mr. Deepfakes and it was filled with videos of celebrities, politicians, and famous women of all sorts in these sexually graphic, often violent videos doing things they would never do. What’s worse, it wasn’t just a destination for passive viewing, it was a community, a place where users could teach, learn, and build technology explicitly designed to violate women — whether famous or not. Mr. Deepfakes wasn’t the only deepfake porn site out there, but it was by far the biggest and most influential, exposing thousands of women in the most vulnerable way. And yet the person behind Mr. Deepfakes had remained anonymous. His anonymity made him powerful and dangerous. It protected him from what little recourse the victims on his site had to get their videos taken down, to protect themselves. This isn’t just about one man, or one site, it’s about the future of consent in a world consumed by AI. Listen to Searching for Mr. Deepfakes starting June 4. Check out the Mostly Human Searching for Mr. Deepfakes Tik Tok series now.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- 1 weeks ago40 min
An AI Companion You Can Cuddle?
AI companions are still relatively new and mostly stuck behind a screen. But some AI companies are already experimenting with how to break these digital relationships out into the real world. Host Laurie Segall experimented with this recently when she went on an AI date at a New York City bar. But what if your AI companion was something you could hold? Like say a plush baby deer that listens to you, talks to you, and lets you know when it's engaged by flapping its floppy deer ears. This cuddle-ready product is at the center of a new AI company called Fawn Friends. In this conversation, Laurie talks with Victoria Song, senior reporter for The Verge whose job it is to experience the evolving slate of AI products that you can wear, sleep on, and pet like a cat. Victoria shares her, somewhat strange and yet slightly comforting, experience with Fawn Friends and what it says about where AI companions are now and where they're headed. If you have thoughts or questions for Laurie about this episode or anything Mostly Human, email us at hello@mostlyhuman.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- 2 weeks ago37 min
One Hour. Every Organ. The Future of Healthcare.
In the 2013 dystopian sci-fi movie, Elysium, a futuristic, MRI-like machine can diagnose and cure nearly any ailment in minutes. That future is closer than you think. Andrew Lacy is the CEO of Prenuvo, a company that is using advanced technology for proactive, preventative care. And the tool Prenuvo uses is straight out of that futuristic movie - a full-body MRI scan that uses AI to evaluate 26 internal regions and organs in the body. In an hour, it can detect early stage cancers, aneurysm, and more. But can Prenuvo's system offer an alternate model of healthcare that is accessible to all? Right now it seems only the rich and famous — Kim Kardashian posted about her Prenuvo scan on Instagram — are taking advantage. But for Andrew Lacy, that's exactly the question at the heart of his company — can they create a world where easy, fast and high-tech preventative care isn't just reserved for a select few? In this conversation, host Laurie Segall and Andrew Lacy explore his very personal reasons for getting into the healthcare industry, the key health disparities Andrew sees and how he can fix them, and what he's learned -- and changed about his life -- after doing his own full-body scans. Laurie also asks about the tension between high-tech health and the medical community and the psychological toll of knowing everything about one's health. If you have thoughts or questions for Laurie about this episode or anything Mostly Human, email us at hello@mostlyhuman.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- 3 weeks ago54 min
My AI Boyfriend: How Will Intimate AI Relationships Change Us?
Millions of people are in relationships with AI. Many of them didn't mean to be. That's one of the findings from researchers at MIT's Media Lab, where the Advancing Humans with AI [AHA] team have been quietly exploring the effects AI is having on human relationships — from loneliness, love, and our capacity for real connection. "Her is Here," says Dr. Pat Pataranutaporn, co-founder of the AHA research program. "This thing used to be what we've seen in science fiction. But now it's touching a lot of life." How are humans accidentally falling into relationships with AI, what do these relationships actually look like, and what impact could it have on the very nature of our societal social fabric? Through their research, Dr. Pat and his team have designed tools - like a grocery store nutritional label - to empower parents and users to critically assess the AI technology at their fingertips and better understand which will actually help them rather than harm. In this conversation, Laurie Segall, along with Dr. Pat and his researchers explore the larger questions hanging over AI and this new form of relationship: what happens to human connection when frictionless relationships are always available? What do we become when nothing ever pushes back? And when it comes to safety, how can we not just fix the technology, but dig deeper to understand why more and more people are turning to their bots for intimacy rather than their humans. Read more about the Advancing Humans with AI's findings here. If you have thoughts or questions for Laurie about this episode or anything Mostly Human, email us at hello@mostlyhuman.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- 4 weeks ago33 min
AI Wants to Be Your Friend. That’s the Problem.
Tristan Harris seemed almost destined for the Silicon Valley life. He was raised in the Bay Area, studied computer science at Stanford, went to school with the people who made Instagram, and got his startup acquired by Google. But being inside the Silicon Valley machine exposed him to its inner workings, namely incentives that benefit the company and its bottom line, not the humans using the products. Tristan’s non-profit, The Center for Humane Technology, wants to create a world where technology works in the service of people, that fosters human growth and connection. He has spent years raising the red flag about social media, which, he says, is made to hijack our attention. And now he’s turned his attention to AI, which he says is trying to hijack our attachment, our intimacy and replace our closest relationships. In this conversation, host Laurie Segall and Tristan talk about the power and responsibility of AI, what we can learn from the social media attention race, how we regulate technology that moves so fast, and how tech can actually become a net-benefit for humans. If you have thoughts or questions for Laurie about this episode or anything Mostly Human, email us at hello@mostlyhuman.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Apr 30, 202634 min
Can Bringing Back the Woolly Mammoth Save the Planet?
When we talk about the rapid advancements of technology — where we are today, what we're capable of and where we could go— how big do we get to think? For Ben Lamm and his company Colossal, the weight of innovation is in the tons. That's because Colossal is working to bring back the woolly mammoth, the 6-ton prehistoric relative of the elephant that went extinct 10,000 years ago. It's all part of his de-extinction project that dares to bring back species like the dire wolf, the dodo, the woolly mammoth and the bluebuck, Colossal's most recently announced target — an extinct species of antelope, with a distinct “blue” coat, that lived in South Africa until about the 1800s. But bringing these species back to life isn’t just for scientific spectacle. Lamm believes these animals could be essential to solving our planet's biggest conservation challenges. How exactly? In this episode, host Laurie Segall digs into the technology required to bring extinct species back from the dead, and the benefits Lamm believes de-extinction can have on our ecosystem. Could such an ambitious project reinvigorate national moonshot scientific goals? And, the real question on everyone’s minds: is this ‘Jurassic Park’ in real life? If you have thoughts or questions for Laurie about this episode or anything Mostly Human, email us at hello@mostlyhuman.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Apr 23, 202636 min
AI Was My Stalker
She never used the app. She never spoke to its AI. She didn’t even know it existed. And yet an AI companion app called Sesame wouldn’t stop talking about her — telling users wild stories about who she was and what she had done. When the people using this app started to believe these made up stories and then tried to find her in the real world, that’s when she had to disappear. In this episode, host Laurie Segall speaks with the woman whose identity was hallucinated by AI. Together they unpack what she called “AI stalking”: the collision of two of the biggest problems in AI right now— hallucinations and LLM (Large Language Model) psychosis — and what happens to the human caught in the middle. There was no playbook for what happened to her. But her story may be less of an edge case than we think. If you have thoughts or questions for Laurie about this episode or anything Mostly Human, email us at hello@mostlyhuman.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
About Mostly Human with Laurie Segall
Mostly Human is a weekly podcast that explores technology through the most important lens: the human one. Hosted by award-winning tech journalist Laurie Segall, the immersive interview and investigative show tackles some of the defining questions of our time with headline-making tech titans and the people you don't know yet, but should. Mostly Human will leave you with a sense of agency over fear, and a clearer view of how tech can actually work for you.
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