Friday Night Live: AI Scams, AT&T Outage, Google Gemini Blunder & Macarena Mandela Effect [Feb 23}

Edge of Wonder

A.I. scams, Google Gemini’s major blunder, AT&T outage, and a new Macarena Mandela Effect: these are some of the weirdest things that happened this week. Scammers are getting sophisticated as they use artificial intelligence to con tens of thousands of people out of billions of dollars. Group texts, emails, phone calls, AI-generated voices, and “deep fake” videos are just the beginning of what the scammers are using. Now, in what police are calling “spoofing,” criminals can call from any phone number they want, placing a call in any country, but it shows up on the caller ID as a legitimate number.

What do you do when the scammers provide real badge numbers and actual police identification? Find out how you can begin to protect yourself and the right questions to ask. In other tech news, AT&T and other providers experienced a major network outage, and explanations from solar flares to foreign attacks are being thrown left and right. What caused the AT&T outage? In other artificial intelligence news, Google suspended its image generator service Google Gemini after it was unable to return correct images. See the hilarious photos it created instead. For this week’s “Bendela Effect” (Mandela Effect segment), hear about the shocking truth of the Macarena. Do you remember how the dance went? Did it change?

On this Friday Night Live, also hear about a man who claims to have participated in making the Georgia Guidestones. Why is he coming out now? Did he really create them? What did he say in his CNN interview? Join Ben and Rob from Edge of Wonder as they go deeper into these topics, plus Rise.TV exclusives: a “Dig Deep” Live Q&A and the Top 10 Weirder News of the Week. See you out on the edge!

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