Get 20% off your first Hunt A Killer box here: www.HuntAKiller.com/insideamind Use code: insideamind Some extra things I should've mentioned in the video: 1. The software I used to digitally recreate my voice is known as, Descript. 2. I believe people had tried using facial recognition searches in the past for this, but yielded no results. Which further adds to this being more of a waiting game than anything else. 3. I said Andrew Hon instead of Adrian Hon because I'm a dummy.
@@ummyh5660 "if satoshi wasn't aware of this", op was probably refering to if satoshi was never told that his picture was used and what it was used for
Laura was so committed to fulfill the project without cheating that she had the answer with her the whole time but didn't cheat. This is some real committment
Well, her husband might have known the answer to verify but he might not have known the person or how to contact them. So even if he told her it would still be a "Find him" situation.
The internet has found terrorist training camps by the transmission towers in the backgrounds of videos and the precise location of Shia LaBeouf's flag just by the planes in the sky. Now they have face recognition AI? Satoshi never stood a chance.
Actually, this makes me curious about how many missing people, who maybe were moved and became disconnected from others only to maybe have a picture or two online, could be found like this. A lot of them even have ai generated age up photos, so if that is used and yields similar successful results that'd be quite interesting then: not only could the AI identify people so precisely but also could age up an image of a person so perfectly that it can predict the features of a person as well.
Yeah the govetment and police probably have accses to even more stronger technology so its even easier to find similarities between different pictures.
@@piss7610 several years ago now, it was like a shidan maker or something like that where you enter your username and then it generates a picture you add to or change how you like
As helpful as that would be I really don't want any government or corporation to have the power to monitor my entire life, like china does, by using generated algorithms that let them find pictures matching my face and then allowing them to find aspects of my daily life to know where I am, or my daily routines and preferences. If I had to choose one or the other, I would prefer governments to have the power and not corporations, but either one of them having that power is really bad, and really good at the same time, and I don't see the good outweighing the bad caused from abuse.
Finally, closure! It was so gratifying to hear that Satoshi was found at the end of last year, thanks mainly to the resurgence in interest due to your video, the subreddit, and Laura's relentless dedication to the hunt. Minor correction: I actually released that podcast episode back in March 2016, before Austin's video (I just posted the transcript to Medium a couple years later). I first came across it on the Wikipedia page for "Six degrees of separation". The podcast didn't get much attention besides from die-hard Satoshi-hunters (being a podcast and my not really having any audience). Still, it was very fun to make and it's cool to have been even a tiny part of such compelling mystery. Thanks for making this wrap-up, and for including part of my podcast episode as well. You've earned a new subscriber!
I can imagine him on a jacket going to the high council of Andromeda,and saying: gentleman and stars...i think our collision will be faster than i thought As he shows his laptop with this documentary,the high council,looks to the sky in direction to our Galaxy,and Mark It with a red market as: next colony
also me, sitting here on my lunch break: "Finally, inner peace". I didn't realise how long I've been carrying this puzzle in the back of my mind; I remember making wanted posters to stick round uni in my naive youth. Ohh, mid-00s self. Thank you all relevant people for your commitment over those years. When lockdown finishes I need to go to visit mom's house and get my copy/copies of that card. Wild.
I litteraly saw a post on reddit (about the gamestop thing) saying: "I didn't know about this whole thing until after it happened, but I still feels right to say 'We did it' :D" Ugh...
Can we just give this guy an applause knowing that he just joined the search at the start of the pandemic and just use some websites he found on google and baaam! 14 year mystery ain't that mystery no more. Like "Yeah, Lemme google it"
The thing is, it isnt just a google image search. Its an ai face search which is much more complicated and has only gotten better over recent years. Not to mention you wouldnt be able to get much farther without trying to confirm other pictures with identifiable locations or events
@@shade0636 He used google search (Very very very popular) to find the website. Just search. And then used that website to find him. As simple as that. And that girl has been trying to find him for years and is married to the card maker lmao 😂😂😂😂😂
I broke my feet today because I kicked my computer because someone commented that my videos are bad! I hate unjustified criticism. Please wish me a speedy recovery, dear ted
Satoshi remained undiscovered purely due to the fact that most Japanese were unaware of the "find Satoshi" challenge, as he's a totally regular guy, with many people aware of his likeness and identity, rather than being a hermit in a cave somewhere, deceased, or non-existent.
I think that just goes to show how, even in our interconnected world, where there are many bilingual people things are still locked behind language barriers. Still I am always astonished by the pace that world news sweeps across the globe. Lots of my Japanese colleges are telling me about the news in the UK before I hear about it
@@darkjapan It might be a little OT, but I know of some - including academics - who are deeply entrenched in the non-English spheres who're convinced that they know the world as well as everyone else, are simply deluding themselves. Their visions are totally at the mercy of translators who became the arbiters of what they're allowed to know. Say for instance, the first edition of a book could have been translated into their language, but if the second edition was not translated, they would not have the updated information and corrections. The door swings both ways, as news items from non-English spheres might not be translated into other languages: we would never be as informed as those within their native languages which are different from our own.
@@Seele2015au It's very true. Stories reported one way in Japanese are reported totally differently in English. But even more than that some important stories are just not reported at all in other countries, I assume because it does not fit the news profile
@@darkjapan A reason is that there are far too many things happening all over the world, so news outlets have to be selective in order to fill the papers or screentime in the most effective manner: it is more than the story translated or reported differently, but more about whether it is reported at all. In this case, if the Japanese media in all forms have never reported about this real live "Where is Waldo" challenge, not even his closest friends would be aware that he's the one being sought out by many people all around the world.
These openings and outros are so fucking _good._ The editing, the music, the atmosphere that he creates with his tone of voice and words is immaculate.
Many ordinary people that has time and willpower will eventually be the equivalent of the work of that. And it doesnt only apply to our day. This applies to every age even topics outside of intelligence & communications
I'm just glad that Satoshi was in on it lmao. It would have been alarming for him if his face was just a random picture they pulled off goggle and he found himself being randomly emailed by strangers that had been hunting him down for 14 years using facial recognition
I founded the subreddit so it's honestly heartwarming to see you make this video. I never thought anyone would actually find it when I started the subreddit. When he was finally found I genuinely didn't believe it for a moment. Thanks to everyone who helped
@@daiskie yeah could have had an AI do it completely and it would have been done. To be honest it sounds like he is a bit giddy someone remembered him... unfortunately he didn't send a video clip saying hi!
I went from "Yay, we found Satoshi! Great work everyone, props to Laura and her dedication" to "fuck, look at what AI can do, no one's safe anymore, can't upload pictures of me now"
Meanwhile Satoshi rn just chilling, working like a normal Japanese citizen in Southern Hokkaido as an office worker while living in Northern Aomori watchIng this and changing his ID every week
Should we be amazed or terrified that, in the decade since this game ended, technology had advanced to the point that we can locate a single face among billions, in a matter of seconds
Terrified. We should all be f-ing terrified. Any technology that can be abused by those in positions of power and authority will inevitably be abused. This software and other software like it will absolutely do far more harm than good. I feel like the people currently developing it will, much like Einstein with the Atomic Bomb, be regretful that they did. For every genuinely "good" and useful way this tech can be utilized, I can think of 10 ways it can be abused to horrific consequence. Im someone who loves technology too, but even I can see what an absolute nightmare for society as a whole this will be going forward. Just imagine, any insane crazy violent person who is able to snap just a single photo of you in public can track you down, track your friends down, your family down etc. Fuck. The world gets more Orwellian by the moment. Everyone seemed to be freaked out by the dancing Boston Dynamics robots, well those robots don't pose 1/1000th the potential danger to society that software like this does. It gives me the chills thinking about it.
@@tgreaux5027 it is already kinda being abused with skynet. It can also identify you by the way you walk and it does even if you try to walk in a different way
Wait your telling me this search went on for years and no one put the image through a facial recognition algorithm? That shit was literally the first thing I thought of when he was describing the challenge in the beginning. To be fair though they haven't been around as long as this has been but still
Additional: If you're looking for the bad part, you'll end up just having the bad part. Not every side of the internet is black or white as much as it may seem that way.
On the idea of "how many mysteries are there just waiting for technology developing enough to solve them" there's the Dyatlov Pass mystery. They used the technology from the film Frozen to help work out that there was an avalanche and that the injuries sustained from a piece of ice and the avalanche contributed to the students deaths. It's fascinating.
I genuinely thought that the dude already went to another timeline after taking that picture tbh. It's even more surprising that he wasn't even hiding anywhere, yet the people near him didn't notice he was being looked for by millions of people
@@buttermebuns6974 "When 22-year-old Sunil Tripathi disappeared in March 2013, his family turned to social media to get the Brown University student’s name and face out to the public. They never expected that the platforms they used to help them with their search would become tools that aided a digital witchhunt, a case of “mistaken identity” taken to the extreme in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing. In the blink of an eye, the Tripathi family watched as the image of their missing son appeared side-by-side with blurry images of a man only known as “Suspect 2” after the bombing. Amateur internet sleuths declared the two men were one and the same, even prompting some journalists (including Digg's Ross Newman, Politico's Dylan Byers, Newsweek's Brian Ries, NBC's Luke Russert, and Buzzfeed's Andrew Kaczynski) to spread word of Tripathi's possible guilt."
@@RONALDII0 joke /dʒəʊk/ noun a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter, especially a story with a funny punchline. "she was in a mood to tell jokes"
Not a vocaloid fan, but I can usually recognise smaller audio changes for whatever reason, so I caught the blips, not sure where I learned it from tho hm (maybe listening to people who edit their voices?)
All you idiots talking about just google searching it... Origionally from 2006-2010... this tech wasn't around them. no where near what it is today to do something like that. So of course it was "easy" now
@@SuperLifestream @Simon H Yeah yeah, you gotta be rude because it's the internet, edgy boy? You're pathetic. Nobody is that dumb. We are however saying the truth. It took him just one google search. Doesn't matter if it was possible or not before. It's besides the point.
@@Anvekeen OP's point was this guy solved with a google search what took people years, how is a post that explains why that would happen "beside the point"? Seems on point to me.
We first met in person during the Perplex City live event in San Francisco in August 2006. (Technically, we crossed paths earlier than that at the London live event, but we didn't actually meet.) We got along well and developed crushes on each other during that time, kept in touch, met up again in person, dated long distance for several years, and decided to get married so that he could come to the US. Perhaps it's not too surprising that two geeks into this weird art form of ARGs and puzzle games would find that they had a lot in common! Now we make puzzle games and escape rooms together.
@@Trolligarch reverse image search is not what you are describing. A regular image search is describing an image with words and using a search engine to take those descriptions and churn out pictures that fall into those predetermined categories. This limits what you can find mostly because of the vastness of the internet, but also the broadness of using key terms that, perhaps, dont translate into different cultures or languages among other things. A reverse image search is taking an image input by the user and the generated search finds all the sites that THE EXACT SAME IMAGE (or close to identical to it) has been uploaded to. This technology has been around for a while and certainly has it's uses, but in this instance is almost completely useless unless Satoshi uploaded this picture onto a personal account; which he obviously didn't. What you are describing in your comment is facial recognition, or at least a search engine built on that concept. This is when an image is input by a user and the generated image search pumps out NOT ONLY the exact same image, but uses key features to pull up images that are similar or "pretty close" to the input. This is akin to how spotify will generate a playlist based on a song that you love without playing the exact same song over and over again. While this technology has existed for some time, it has not been made to be reliable or even publicly available as a search engine until very recently. (Think of the first time facebook started auto suggesting tagging people in your uploaded images). It's cool to think that we've advanced so far, but frankly, it's a little creepy to be able to single out a single person among literal billions.
Imagine being this guy and just living your life and then one day you find out there’s a group of people on the internet searching for you and they’ve been looking for over a decade.
he already knew. he was the developers friend and agreed to be a part of the challenge. like they said at the end, he even had a secret phrase in case someone found him in person.
@@SkyLimit101 but they would’ve had no way to know that? Like they only knew the first name satoshi, so a list that included a dead person by the name of satoshi wouldn’t definitely be him, it would be very unlikely
I'm not sure what shocks me more-the fact that Satoshi was found, or the reveal at the end that Inside a Mind's voice for this video (near the end at least) was entirely AI generated. Edit since this comment's getting quite a bit of attention: If any of you guys are interested in this AI-voice stuff, there's a site called 15.ai that allows you to replicate the voices of a number of characters (including MLP characters, GLaDOS from Portal, Spongebob, and HAL from 2001 A Space Odyssey), and it's currently down for maintenance, but it should be back up in a few days according to the creator's Twitter and I'd highly recommend you check it out once it's back up.
@@Cawld Yeah, there was a bit of static and some points weird inflection on "You should be" in particular, but it was a very faithful replication. If you're interested it more stuff like this, there's a good site called 15.ai that allows you to replicate the voices of a number of characters (including GLaDOS from Portal and HAL from 2001 A Space Odyssey), and it's currently down for maintenance, but it should be back up in a few days according to the creator's Twitter and I'd highly recommend you check it out.
Ngl I'd be uncomfortable if I found out people all over the world were attempting to track me down for 14 years while I was just livin my life.... this lad is a legend.
I was thinking how, in reality, there's more cases similar-ish to Satoshi. Look at all the John and Jane Doe's cases. People that have been found dead, but their identity never found. Although that's much bigger of a challenge, since there's no name, and usually you have to go with a drawn portrait of the deceased along with other random factors, and a lot of these cases are quite old already. We have to admit that some of these cases will stay cold forever, but with the help of technology, we can definitely put some to rest.
It happens regularly, many people went missing without any reason or clue. It’s not because we can’t find them, it’s because there’s only minimal amount of effort into it, I mean by how many people were involved with finding them. People are persistent, the clear determination on the internet, maybe if it were to be broadcast properly, maybe many talented people would go and add their part in it. Not saying they Should allow everyone to just post an evidence, clearly that’s not practical and it might be fake, they should place it side by side on what similar and test if that ‘evidence’ is relevant.
People: are looking for this guy with very little resources and information apart from they man’s face and first name for 14 years th0mmy: *I’m boutta do what’s called a reverse image search*
17:00 This is like the most benign mystery and there's this orchestral music playing in the background, decade long mystery and this dude is like "yeah I saw your video and I just did a reverse image search, and yeah he was like in third row " 🤣
This channel really said, "Y'know? Let's give them a sponsor that they'll actually like instead of just random bullshit." and I gotta respect it, honestly.
@@catman7858 some random guy just writes 'bob' on the paper and suddenly everyone named bob goes extinct i dont know if you can tell but ive never seen deathnote sooo
I do think the facial search functionality is quite dangerous. Imagine being able to grab an image of someone, and then digging up their entire online presence. This combined with increased surveillance from products like Ring doorbells and the overall increase in CCTV that can all be accessed by a central authority means it's increasingly likely you could find someone's home address from a photo with the right access, which is terrifying. Especially for marginalized people, sex workers, and so on where there is a history of violence being done to them, and law enforcement being overly brutal to them.
I always get really inspired when people pull off what is seemingly impossible. I'm really happy for all those who searched for Satoshi and finally get to see their efforts paid off!
I really thought at the start when he started saying "It's very clear that a lot of you who watch these video's-" was gonna go down the "ONLY A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF YOU ARE SUBSCRIBED" rant so I pre-emptively subbed since I do watch him but I was so glad it wasn't that I liked the video at the start because I know it's gonna be good.
Recently another channel pulled the same trick. I can’t remember if it was Night Docs, Nexpo or Barely Sociable - but either way I think a lot of us had seen the same magic trick a few days ago so it’s less impressive.
@@Evanz111 I wouldn't say a lot of us considering the odds of the people watching this video having seen the other lmao Especially since it apparently only came out days ago Bit ridiculous viewership analytics there
@@alexbenavidez4500 My bad, I only mention that because RU-vid does that thing where it shows suggestions of “Viewers of x also watch y” and they’re pretty similar channels! But yeah, it was a bit of a sweeping assumption on my part
everytime i finish watching one of your videos i get the same feeling I get after I watch a reallly good netflix show/movie/documentary. Literally no other video on youtube has ever done that for me. Good job man. ur honestly amazing.
Probably cause it's paid and lesser known. I did a search and aside from a lot of pictures that weren't related, it gave me tons of "Potentially explicit" that I would have to pay to unlock to even see a preview, which made the site quite dodgy, cause I'm sure the person I searched did not do porn XD Also it says on the website that the copyright is from 2017, so guess it might have been used earlier if it existed during the high time of the searc
@@brik6990 Haha yeah, I expected after "If you are not convinced by a 30 minute recording of my voice done by AI ..." that he continues with something like "consider that those are only the tools available to the public."
I think that bit of info drowned somewhat to the lot revealed in the whole story... I almost jumped off my chair when the voice just casually mentioned being created by AI...
I remember watching your video about finding Satoshi last year and thinking “damn, this is gonna be hard. How is anyone ever gonna find out who this guy is??” It’s amazing how technology has advanced so much in the past couple of years. So glad the solution is here now !
I can hear a digital like reverb, so that was a bit of a hint that this wasn’t your voice, or something was distorting it. But yeah, it’s still goddamn good. Let me add, I’m not trying to claim I wasn’t fooled. Lol. I only picked up on the digital reverb about 3-4 min before the reveal.
I think what impresses me most, is I made a deepfake back in 2019 and it sounded nothing like me. We're less than 2 years later and I have something that has improved by x100. It still has problems. But if that's how fast it can improve, we probably don't have long before we can't tell the difference between them. Which I'm excited about, but not, at the same time, haha.
the moment inside a mind changed to his "AI" version, i started getting a headache because i could hear the modulation / vibration that was being added. so jokes on your AI, my hearing is still fine
I don't know, I thought it was really good. I chalked up the inflection errors to someone pronouncing things differently from myself and my brain didn't even notice the modulation until he said the words "entirely AI."
Yeah for me when it changed, I thought something went wrong with my audio, so I checked for a couple a seconds till the reveal or I guess till I realized it was AI generated
I thought about it when I saw another channel that they sponsored think it was either Cold Case Detective or Bedtime Stories, and it sounds fun but I wasn't so sure, do you really enjoy it? Or are the better times to spend your limited free time on?
19:09 I'm sorry but everything you've said in the last minute was so insightful. What a way to finish a video! I thought I'd be watching a video just to kill time and now you have my attention and admiration. Looking forward to watch more content from you!
