The Blacklist

Chapter 466 AI Software and Deep Transformation

After killing the evil doctor killer Norman Devine, we learned that the fake Catalina was trying to treat a man named Patrick Masuda, but we still couldn't find her and needed more clues.

However, the good news is that the case was solved quickly enough, and Kerry can now spend a happy new year in peace!

Others didn't know why he was so determined to celebrate the Chinese New Year, and Carrie didn't explain. He just arranged a vacation for himself as usual, from New Year's Eve on January 1 to the end of the month.

He left his tenement building job to Elizabeth and Jeffrey, and took Gina to Hawaii for ten days, not returning to New York until February 2, the ninth day of the first lunar month.

On the plane, Carrie excitedly told Gina: 20200202, today's date is a symmetrical day that comes once in a thousand years. It is symmetrical whether you look at it from the front or the back. It is a day worth remembering.

Gina didn't feel anything about this, she just looked at Carrie with amusement...
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On February 2, a new Monday, Kerry and Gina spent the whole morning dealing with official documents and finally finished the desk work that had accumulated previously.

Both departments in the tenement building are currently operating very normally, with only a small personnel adjustment - Nawabi is officially on leave due to her pregnancy, and the General Administration recommended several candidate agents to SER. Elizabeth should have been influenced by Kerry and chose a Chinese female agent transferred from the FBI. She just reported for duty this morning and will be doing a three-month internship afterwards. She can only officially join the company and stay after passing the internship.

Carrie looked at her relevant information and didn't say much. As long as Elizabeth agreed to it, it would be fine. He didn't intend to interfere. However, before she passed the inspection, some real secrets could not be known to her. I believe Elizabeth is clear about this.
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While having lunch in the restaurant, Elizabeth told him about a new blacklist case - using AI to deep fake videos!
Last Friday, a serious incident occurred at the Richmond DEX Laboratory, one of the most important defense contractors. An abnormal video appeared on the Internet. The protagonist was Dr. Michael Alexander, a senior programmer who had worked for the laboratory for ten years. He was wearing a bomb vest and claimed to blow up the laboratory!
Later, when he was going to work, he was intercepted by the police. The police mistook the mobile phone in his hand for a detonator and shot him on the spot! However, it was later confirmed that the doctor did not have any bomb on him.

Reddington believed that someone deliberately used a fake video to frame Dr. Michael and kill him with a borrowed knife, so he blacklisted the operator behind the case and handed it over to SER.

In the morning, Alam had specifically sought Abby's help to analyze the video on the Internet and determined that the video had been deeply modified using AI software. The specific method was to extract images and audio from Dr. Michael's multiple public speech videos, and then modify and synthesize them to the point of being indistinguishable from the real thing.

SER detectives also found similar related news on the Internet and discovered that this was not an isolated case.

A few weeks ago, a video of a shooting in Phoenix was posted online, and the police dispatched a large number of officers to investigate, but when they arrived at the scene, they found out that there was no such incident;

A doctored video about patent fraud at a Silicon Valley technology company caused the company's stock price to plummet;

A senator lost his seat because of a cheating video, but after an investigation, it was found that he was very loyal to his wife;
This time, Dr. Michael was killed because of a fake video, and DEX Labs’ stock price plummeted as a result!

The four deep transformation videos were confirmed to be four malicious scams, which have caused tragedies in the real world, posed a serious threat to social stability, and also posed a major threat to national security!
After hearing this, Carrie sighed and said, "The development of technology is not always a good thing!" Gina and Elizabeth both nodded. They agreed with this statement. If AI software develops to this level without effective supervision, it will really confuse the world!
What the two of them didn't know was that Kerry suddenly had a strange idea in his mind at this moment, and he couldn't help imagining it...
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Because he had an idea, after work in the afternoon, Kerry went to the SER command hall and started to pay attention to the case. Of course, he was still prepared to take action at the last minute and take away the thing he wanted most.

Abby and Alam were tracking the account that uploaded the three videos for the first time, but the uploader had hidden the videos very well after uploading them using a virtual private network and jumping through countless zombie machines. With their skills, they couldn't find out the real IP address after spending two hours in the morning and afternoon. This was an extremely rare situation.

Seeing Carrie coming in, Abby hurriedly asked for help and asked him to come online to help.

Carrie also became interested and used Elizabeth's terminal to search the Internet. With his current computer skills, even without the master key, he could already be a master hacker. But after an hour, he returned empty-handed!

In fact, Carrie knew how to find the initial IP address using other methods, but he just wanted to try to track it by force himself. Unexpectedly, it was not impossible. However, this made him very happy, because it proved that what he wanted was very advanced and worth his effort.

Of course, now that the original IP has not been found, the method of the plot must be used. But before he could say it, a young Chinese woman who was less than 1.65 meters tall, but with sharp eyes, agile body, and like a little cheetah came over and said in a cold voice: "Director Keane, I found the IP address with another method..."

Seeing the way Carey was looking at the Chinese agent, Elizabeth said, "Lee, this is the new intern Agent Alina, who was originally from the FBI Alaska branch. Agent Alina, this is our CTU's first deputy director Richard Carey, who is in charge of SLR and SER and oversees the CTU state bureaus in 19 states in the Eastern District."

"Hello, Director Kerry!" Alina immediately shouted, "I'm Alina Parker, and I'm honored to join CTU and SER!"

Carrie nodded at her and suddenly said in Chinese: "Agent Parker, do you have a Chinese name?"

Alina was obviously stunned, and after a pause she replied in Chinese: "Director Kerry, my Chinese name is also Alina."

Well, it's OK! Kerry thought to himself. He knew that this girl had some psychological problems, but as a Chinese-American born in the United States, she could speak Mandarin so fluently, which had already won his initial recognition. If he could help her in the future, he would help her.

"Tell us about your findings so that we can all learn from them!" Carrie switched back to English. When it came to work, she still had to take care of the other agents of SER.

(End of this chapter)