We start this week with Joseph’s story about how we obtained Haotian AI, a sought-after piece of realtime video deepfake software that lets you turn into anyone else during Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp, or Zoom calls. After the break, Matthew tells us about some insane Yu-Gi-Oh trading card drama. In the subscribers-only section, Jason explains how the hard drive shortage is impacting those archiving the internet.

‘HELLO BOSS’: Inside the Chinese Realtime Deepfake Software Powering Scams Around the World

Man Finds $1 Million Worth of Yu-Gi-Oh Cards in a Dumpster

The AI Hard Drive Shortage Is Making It More Expensive and Harder to Archive the Internet

YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/O_d1VxuBdAU

Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code 404MEDIA at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: https://incogni.com/404media

Subscribe at 404media.co

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode details and artwork are published by the show’s own feed. Sentinel plays short cited excerpts and links every episode back to its publisher.

← All episodes from 404 Media

The Chinese Deepfake Software Powering Scams

Search the Record

404 Media Episodes Around May 13, 2026

The Marketing Tricks of "Artificial Intelligence"

The Company Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into Podcasts

The Journalist Who Tracked Epstein Island Visitors’ Phones

Inside the AI Slop Propaganda Wars

The Lawyer Fighting Government Surveillance for 30 Years (With EFF's Cindy Cohn)

Wildlife Cops Are Searching AI Cameras for ICE

How the Internet Became Hell (with Whitney Phillips)

How the FBI Extracted Deleted Signal Messages

Why Journalists Are Leaving Big Media (with Maddy Myers)

How Algorithms Make Us Feel Bad and Weird

Government Hacking Tools Are Now in Criminals' Hands (with Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai)

How This Trippy Image Started A Massive Conspiracy Theory

The New Luddites: Why People Are Destroying Surveillance and AI Infrastructure

Flock Used Cameras at a Children’s Gymnastics Center for a Sales Pitch

How the World Became a Casino (With Natasha Schüll)

The Chinese Deepfake Software Powering Scams

The Physical Politics of the Internet with Britt Paris

Boo-sters

Millions of People Are Installing Malware on Their Partners’ Phones

How Deepfakes Destroyed a High School

A Repairable, No-Tech Tractor

Hackers Asked Meta AI To Let Them In. It Worked

It’s So Not Over for Hollywood (with Devindra Hardawar)

Google Employees Meme About How Bad Their AI Is

Meet Me at the Opsec Rave (with Imani Thompson)

The Government Wants to End Anonymity on Phones

Stopping Tech Company Censorship (with Jake Hanrahan)

Summary