We recently talked to Gabriel Custodiet, producer of The Watchman Privacy podcast, and an outspoken (if mysterious!) privacy advocate and consultant.
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
A recent Business Insider story railed at the growing—and still little recognized—use of AI to set “individual pricing.”
DEEP FAKE PRESIDENT, DISAPPEARING JOBS, AND YOUR BRAIN ON AI: THE LATEST IN SYNTHETIC DEVOLUTION
Remember way back in…May, when the Biden administration was labeling actual videos of the President’s mental lapses as “deep fakes”?
THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
One of the largest U.S. shopping malls is rolling out AI powered facial recognition.
MAJOR NEW LAWSUIT TARGETS GENERATIVE AI IP THEFT
Major music record labels including SONY, Atlantic and UMG have filed a lawsuit against two leading generative AI music companies.
2021 UN IPCC REPORT: TRUST THAT SCIENCE LIES
A 2021 UN IPCC Report that has been used to justify U.S. and EU regulations progressively imposing a “radical transformation” of energy systems away from hydrocarbons, like so much “science” c. 2021, appears now to have been built on lies.
AS FORECAST: SAAS (SOFTWARE-AS-SERVICE) BEING USED TO LIMIT AND PROFIT OFF USER CREATED CONTENT
Users of Adobe PhotoShop, a leading visual content editor and creation software, are up in arms over changed legal terms that appear to give the company extraordinary rights to manipulate and profit off user content.
WIRED SURPRISED TO FIND META USING FACEBOOK MEMORIES AND PHOTOS TO TRAIN THEIR AI
The wholesale theft of human creative content and knowledge by tech companies to drive profits to themselves via generative AI, is still something that even tech savvy news outlets are coming to grips with.
SYNTHETIC DEVOLUTION: HOW TO DO AWAY WITH “UNFORTUNATE” REALISM IN AI
New AI research sponsored in part by Meta has again shown how AI developers are intent on inculcating their preferred biases into generative AI systems.
THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
The incestuous and operational ties between American tech corporations and U.S. intelligence have not been deterred by the Twitter Files, the Facebook Files—or at least as yet, the Missouri vs. Biden court case that is still awaiting review by the Supreme Court.