AI deepfakes are fooling job interviewers, world leaders can't prove they're alive, a grandmother went to jail over a facial recognition false match, and a dead Val Kilmer just got cast in a new movie, so Hunter and Daniel ask whether anything on a screen can be trusted anymore. Daniel's proposed solution to the AI accountability crisis: bring back Aztec-style human sacrifice, which is now the official position of this show.

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AI deepfakes just cast a dead actor in a new movie, and one podcast host thinks human sacrifice is the answer.

This week on They Might Be Self-Aware, nothing is real and nobody can prove otherwise. Netanyahu held up five fingers at a coffee shop to prove he's alive. People said that was fake too because the cash register showed the wrong year. Val Kilmer, who has passed away, is starring in a new film using AI deepfake technology and a cloned version of his voice, with SAG's blessing, his family's sign-off, and his estate getting paid for the work. Deepfake job candidates are ghosting interviewers the second they're asked to put a hand in front of their face. And a grandmother from Tennessee spent six months in jail because AI facial recognition matched her to a bank fraud suspect in North Dakota, a state she's never set foot in.

But here's where it gets philosophical. Hunter poses a brutal thought experiment: what if AI could save 6,000 lives a year on the roads, but the price is that nobody is ever held accountable for the 30,000 who still die? Would you take that deal? Turns out, no, because humans demand someone to blame, even if it costs us thousands of lives. Daniel's solution? Bring back human sacrifice. Aztec-style. On top of a pyramid. He's shirtless, he's wearing a headdress, and this is now the official stance of They Might Be Self-Aware. Hunter is dying inside. The algorithm will never show this to anyone. Daniel says find the episodes with four views, those are the spicy ones.

The AI deepfake era is here. Nobody can prove they're real. And the only honest response might involve a ziggurat.

⏱️ CHAPTERS

00:00 Gary's Payphone Dispatch
01:53 Hunter Fails to Prove He's Real
03:27 Deepfake Job Interviews Are Out of Control
05:35 Netanyahu's Six Fingers & the Fake Coffee Shop
10:05 How Do You Prove Anything Is Real Anymore?
12:28 AI Facial Recognition Jailed the Wrong Grandma
18:40 Save 6,000 Lives but Nobody Gets Blamed
23:15 Daniel Proposes Human Sacrifice (Official Show Position)
26:06 Val Kilmer's AI Deepfake Movie (He's Dead, by the Way)
29:48 Will AI Turn Movies into Slop or Start a Renaissance?

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