Yeah, I just created a ChatGPT bot of David Birch and put him through my interview protocol and had him write an article on Deep Fakes. Good? Bad?

If you use my likeness to create porn, and not give me the money from it without my consent, then I might be upset. (By far the main reason deep fakes are used on women.) But if you use my work to create a version of me in your pocket, to answer questions about the future, to help assuage your fears about what tech might be or hear provocative ideas about the future of money, payments, technology, security or digital identity is that so bad? (If you don't give me or my bot credit, yes.) Or what if I want to license a verified version of myself? What if I've attached a verifiable credential to it? Is that a deep fake?

What you're fearing is already happening for romance scams and other not so nefarious purposes. The criminals are way ahead of us here.

And yes Jay, you are picking on me. It's a low blow and not a good look. You are trying to put me back in a box and not talk about decentralized identity by intimidating me.

-H

On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 11:17 AM Jay Meier <jay@facetec.com> wrote:
Lets bring this back to the context of our AI-DeepFake group…..

Here is a YouTube link for Heathers presentations and public appearances….

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Heather+Vescent


Remember that effectively ALL our PII is available for sale on the DarkWeb.  That along with these videos provide all the training information that a novice AI-deepfake hacker needs to build a deepfake of Heather.  (Im not picking on Heather.  I have a similar youtube listing of speeches/interviews, etc.)    

The point here is that todays AI can easily build a virtual 3D video and vocal representation (DeepFake) of almost anybody.   That same AI system can be designed so that the deepfake answers questions and follows commands, that might be presented in a remote identity verification, before a SSI/VC/mDL credential is provisioned.  

This is exactly what happened here….. https://securityaffairs.com/150981/hacking/retool-smishing-attack.html   There are many other examples.  

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On Nov 22, 2023, at 12:03 PM, Prvu, Denny (He/Him/His) <denny.prvu@rbc.com> wrote:

I know sometimes I sound like disagree with Jay, but I’m fully on the same page with this one 😊  (with the exception that the distributed ledger model for storage is a risk officers nightmare 😉
This type of model does work and your right has been around a while.  I know lots of FI’s that have looked at this and even more spaces in manufacturing or energy, but most of them from what I’ve seen don’t really have that level of trust defined.  Back to the statements that someone said: bad in, bad out in my opinion.
I had a buddy that worked at Memberpass and their stuff is super cool and easy to integrate to.  
 
Denny
 
 
From: Jay Meier <jay@facetec.com> 
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To: heather vescent <puissant@heathervescent.com>
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Subject: [DG-DeepfakesIDV] Re: Dee[fake and SSI
 
There are many examples of an SSI model that is working in the field.  The issue isn’t about whether it functions.  Nor is the issue about distributed ledger data storage.  The issue is the appropriate level of trust that the claimant is, in fact, the actual living human that was granted privileges by the issuing authority (the credit union in this case).  
 
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This screenshot from that system highlights the point.  “Bad data in is bad data out”…if you don’t know who you’re enrolling, you can’t know who controls the SSI credential or the device the credential is bound to.  Moreover, the system says it uses face and/or finger biometrics.  I promise you they refer to “device-native” biometrics supplied by the device manufacturer.  But these are “Anonymous Biometrics”, which are biometric data that’s not bound to verified identity data anywhere AND can be replaced with anyone’s biometric data, who has the device PIN.  
 
In this system, the very best applicant identity verification is weak at best and provisioning can only be done in the credit unions office. It can’t be done remotely, because you have absolutely no idea of who is supplying the verifiable identity data and who is in control of the device the credentials will be provisioned to. This exact vector is being used to commit identity frauds and breaches today.  
 
Under these circumstances, the system effectively enables fraud, by allowing for the enrollment of a fraudster in the system, as a legitimate customer. And then it will authenticate that fraudster as a legitimate customer every single time, because the claimants credentials are irrefutable.  
 
Make sense?
 
Jay
 
 

On Nov 22, 2023, at 11:22 AM, heather vescent <puissant@heathervescent.com> wrote:

 
Hi All, 
 
I got in touch with the people who did this. It is called Member Pass. Moderately successful with 20 credit unions and many millions of members. More details on how it works. 
 
Reading the info, looks like they may set up the account in a member branch, using a specific app based wallet to hold the credential, which can then be used in person or online (and I might think in the metaverse scenario too). 
 
Say what you will about decentralized identity, but this is working and has been in production for years.
 
Cheers,
 
-Heather
 
On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 9:22 AM Sean Lanzner <seanlanzner@gmail.com> wrote:
Bad in, bad out is certainly a useful way to frame it. As Pieter says, the challenge with the VCs is multifold;
 
- is the ID legitimate? Tons of good fakes, especially in the US
- is the person in the selfie being compared to the ID a real live individual?
- how to continuously authenticate the owner of the VC held within a device or wallet is the same one who enrolled?
 
On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 10:09 Pieter VanIperen <pieterwvaniperen@gmail.com> wrote:
This is not unlike other methods that have been designed. The problem here is at the initiation of linking the crypto assurance with the Identity. It's a garbage in garbage out problem. If the wallet is setup with a deep fake and a faked doc which matches each other,  the assurance is now attached to the deep fake. So what assures the identity is authentic at initiation.
 
On Tue, Nov 21, 2023, 10:01 heather vescent <puissant@heathervescent.com> wrote:
Jim, 
 
It's not so complicated. I know Darrell O'Donnell and some Canadian banks were doing something like this for call centers in the early SSI days (like 4+ years ago). Seems doable with a wallet that holds VCs and interfaces with existing communications methods. Imagine if Signal App added a VC wallet. It's not unlike verifying your identity on LinkedIn.
 
I'd have to dig in more than the 5 minutes I spent this morning to vet the level of reality.
 
-Heather
 
On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 7:48 AM jim pasquale <jimpasquale@gmail.com> wrote:
FYI: Sounds to good to be completely true. 
 
 

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