Privacy & Surveillance
Data privacy, surveillance technology, and civil liberties
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Meta's Mind-Reading AI Sparks Urgent Call for Brain Data Privacy
A new urgency to protect brain data has emerged after tech giant Meta developed an AI system that can reconstruct visual images from a person's brain activity in real time.
November 13, 2025
Memetic Lexicon
Memetic behavior does not share language across sectors but boy does it have presence. Resistance + Critical thinking boxes are defense the others offense to...
October 7, 2025
How consciousness edits the universe
more from the thinking around - stories are code, code is lore -line of thinking - when lore become fact or as I like to say - printing the legend. The...
September 22, 2025
New places
A couple of weeks ago my productivity hit a boost by deploying the agents that I scoped to specific tasks in unity. Note the security-auditor - coding or...
September 21, 2025
stories are code, code is lore
stories are code, code is lore As a part of my current work on an instrument to help tell stories better. I've been reading a lot of books that contain the...
September 21, 2025
SELLING MY LIFE / NOSTALGIA MARKET
September 19 – October 19, 2024 This installation blurs the lines between private sanctuary and public marketplace, inviting visitors to rediscover the gallery...
September 17, 2025
Grace Notes
THE GREAT JOY IN THINGS THAT ARE SAD A Documentary Theatre Piece Structure: Three interwoven timelines presented simultaneously on stage: - 1994: The night of...
September 11, 2025
Mediaeater Digest August
Linkblog — Early September 2025 AI, Tech & Misuse Anthropic: Detecting and Countering Misuse (Aug 2025) DeepMind SynthID ch.at – lightweight LLM chat service...
September 2, 2025
Flinching
The Coldplay concert video perfectly illustrating the public is now complicit participating in the surveillance state. As we race to the bottom becoming the...
July 29, 2025
AI Executive Orders: Thought Control by Procurement
On July 23rd, the Trump administration issued a series of executive orders on artificial intelligence that amount to a sweeping federal power grab. These...
July 24, 2025
Mediaeater Digest July 24.2025
Regulation by Deal Comes to Higher Edhttps://balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regulation-by-deal-comes-to-higher-ed.html Czech president signs law criminalising...
July 24, 2025
Visibility and Control: Tools in Relation to Government Power
US Gov officials create searchable national citizenship database. Homeland security and Doge merge immigration data with social security to create index it...
July 5, 2025
Humans Are Having Problems With Humans Being Humans
In an age of technological complexity, global interdependence, and ideological polarization, humanity seems increasingly at odds with its own nature. The...
July 4, 2025
The Perfect Crime: When AI Completed Photography's Murder of Reality
Jean Baudrillard died in 2007, just as Instagram was born. He never saw his theories about photography and simulation play out in real time, but he predicted...
June 9, 2025
Mediaeater Digest
AI Changes Everythinghttps://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/6/4/changes/ My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nutshttps://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/ Broadcast...
June 8, 2025
The rush to outputs
The rush to outputs diminishes intentionality in creative works and reduces opportunities for the serendipitous discoveries that often occur during dev.
June 8, 2025
Copyright Updates
“There are some people who are, like, ‘all AI art is terrible’, but then there’s a lot of artists who are, like, ‘this is the best tool ever, it’s like the...
May 13, 2025
Mediaeater Digest Vol 31, No 119
Slate Auto https://www.slate.auto/ Project Kuiper https://www.aboutamazon.com/what-we-do/devices-services/project-kuiper LLMs and World Models, Part 2 Evidence...
April 29, 2025
Securing Agentic AI Systems
As agentic AI systems become more prevalent and powerful, the need for robust security frameworks is critical. Autonomous systems require specialized...
April 27, 2025
Mediaeater Digest
Tips and tricks that have proven effective for using Claude Code https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-best-practices Anthropic's educational...
April 24, 2025
Mediaeater Digest Monday 4.21
The Effect of Deactivating Facebook and Instagram on Users’ Emotional State https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w33697/w33697.pdf OpenAI Is A...
April 21, 2025
Mediaeater Digest Weekend Edition
Deafening Silence From The Cybersecurity Industry https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonybradley/2025/04/16/deafening-silence-from-the-cybersecurity-industry/ Where...
April 19, 2025
AI Alignment
While Altman speaks about respecting creative work and developing new models for compensation, OpenAI is simultaneously arguing in court cases that their use...
April 16, 2025
Sunday Shift Log
Entertainment Shifts Terminating the AI vs. Hollywood Tropes https://spyglass.org/ai-vs-hollywood-james-cameron/ AI driving a shift in music that has all the...
April 13, 2025
Mediaeater Digest - Weekend Edition
How TikTok’s Parent, ByteDance, Became an A.I. Powerhouse ByteDance uses its 1 billion users' data to fuel its AI growth, after investing $11B in 2024....
April 12, 2025
AI Music Generation through Chain-of-Thought Prompting
Teaching AI to Think Before It Plays Instead of predicting sound one token at a time, it introduces a "chain of musical thought" — a planning stage where the...
April 10, 2025
The Crisis of Context: Why You Can No Longer Trust the Narrative
Or, The death of Necessary Factual and Normative Context. I've watched social media and blogging transform over the years, shifting from relatively open spaces...
April 8, 2025
Mediaeater Digest April 5th, 2025
DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data https://www.wired.com/story/doge-hackathon-irs-data-palantir/ AI giants reject...
April 5, 2025
Travel OPSEC - Phone Security for Border Crossings
Device Preparation Consider using a burner phone (buy a cheap phone at your destination) For iPhones, enable Lockdown Mode, especially for overseas travel Put...
April 5, 2025
Mediaeater Digest Vol 31, No. 76
The emergent agentic marketplace has many facets, most interesting to me right now is. ... Agent Intent and Inference. Agent Intent and Inference refers to the...
March 17, 2025
Mediaeater Digest
AI-generated recordings in music streaming services Sony Music says over 75,000 items removed in battle against AI deepfakes. Hundreds of your Warner Bros DVDs...
March 11, 2025
AI + Critical Thinking
This Microsoft study surveyed 319 workers to investigate how using generative AI tools like ChatGPT affects critical thinking. They found that while AI can...
February 16, 2025
The Emergence of Deceptive Behaviors in LLMs
The Emergent "Language of Deception" and the Need for a Methodology to Determine Large Language Models' Deception Levels LLMs are not merely producing errors...
February 10, 2025
Untitled Post
List of Consumer Reporting Companies related reading. Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads Links to archived versions of every...
February 4, 2025
Measuring LLM models ability to deceive.
Seriously who is measuring llm models ability to deceive? They actively practice it. Deception Scores are needed now. Self assigned Chatgpt deception ranking 5...
January 29, 2025
Automotive Data
Tesla - your public data, theirs, not yours. Same for that lock. "The sheriff said Tesla CEO Elon Musk helped the investigation by having the truck unlocked...
January 4, 2025
Strengthen Your Networks
A Fresh Start for 2025: Building Habits That Matter The New Year acts as a nice cosmic reset. I love it for creating habits, serialization of creative efforts...
January 3, 2025
Multi-Modal Models
Multi Model Models. from https://huggingface.co/collections/merve/mit-talk-31-10-papers-671f6a16e156f77739820c89 (MIT Talk 31/10 Papers) NVLM: Describes images...
October 28, 2024
Mapping Data Surveillance Infrastructure : US
Audio narrative for this datamap of US (click for full view)
October 3, 2024
AI in Film and Video Production: A Incomplete Glossary of Terms.
AI in Film and Video Production: A Incomplete Glossary of Terms. (RFC) REQUEST FOR COMMENTS This glossary provides definitions and examples of key AI terms...
August 24, 2024
MED Weekend Edition
FaceTune.ai What you get when you combine the junk science of emotion recognition and ai music creation. Did not have the ven of music creation and human...
August 17, 2024
Mediaeater Digest Vol 30, No. 227
Inside the "3 Billion People" National Public Data Breach (troy hunt) Script-kidding the Bitcoin blockchain (ccc.de) CONCORD vs.ANTHROPIC PBC, Defendant (pdf)...
August 14, 2024
Information and Knowledge Yield Loss Across Transcoding Eras
As someone who's lived through the mind numbing pace of technological change, I've been fascinated by how we've transformed the way we store, share, and...
August 10, 2024
Mediaeater Digest Vol. 30, No. 223
How Mastercard sells its ‘gold mine’ of transaction data (reddit) AI Comes for Music (dancohen) How to Know If You're Living in a Doom Loop (honest-broker) I...
August 10, 2024
Mediaeater Digest Vol 30, No. 219
Neuralink second implant patient working well (twitter) DARPA semanticforensics.com DEF CON 32 Home Page Drake 100gigs.org (music 2024) Amazon Topics...
August 6, 2024
Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 211
Microsoft technical breakdown of CrowdStrike incident (msft) Web-check: All-in-one OSINT tool for analysing any website (github) Kamala-holding-vinyls (glitch)...
July 29, 2024
Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 209
Copyright Traps for LLMs (github) AI start-up Anthropic accused of ‘egregious’ data scraping (ft) Media Bias Detector (mediabiasdector) Opt out of x...
July 27, 2024
Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No.206
Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2024 Results (abc.xyz) Meta just released Llama 3.1 405B (zuck interview) Open Source AI Is the Path Forward (meta) WWDC 2024...
July 24, 2024
4D Reconstruction from a Single Video
Shape of Motion: 4D Reconstruction from a Single Video MoSca: Dynamic Gaussian Fusion from Casual Videos via 4D Motion Scaffolds Dynamic Gaussian Marbles for...
July 23, 2024
A Weekend of Letting Go
This weekend marked two significant firsts in my life, both involving parting with cherished possessions. Photograph Sale I sold a photograph that had adorned...
July 22, 2024
Making Music
Suno https://www.suno.ai/ Creates complete songs from text prompts, including lyrics and vocals Brev.ai https://brev.ai/ AI Music Generator Free Online...
July 22, 2024
Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 203
Gutenberg’s message to the AI era (Brookings) A second effect of AI is its expansion of already existent digital era abuses, such as privacy, competition,...
July 21, 2024
Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No.199
Privacy OpSec Company squanders 3.6 billion people's locations in Germany Data traders are spreading the locations of people in Germany – sometimes even for...
July 17, 2024
Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No.195
Today: HOPE Schedule and streams Hackers on Planet Earth NYC HOPE Deep Fakes HOPE in memoriam (hard to look at that line up of hacker brothers gone, grateful...
July 13, 2024
We want to see your work
OpenAI to the NYT show us your reporters notes we want to see if its even copyrightable. NYT responds, “given the wildly improper scope of this request, one...
July 5, 2024
Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No.185 (video editing tools)
AI, Synthetic Data & Media Transcript: Robo DJ — YouTube invests in AI-generated music (ft) "So YouTube is trying to make it bigger and make it a proper...
July 3, 2024
Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No.181
The AI we could have had (ft) But the rebels at the lab thought this kind of automation was the antithesis of true responsiveness. They saw human relations,...
June 29, 2024
Tools to realize and render a better future
"And when I opened the curtains they were taking the set away and packing up for the day, the cameras and lights turned off. ; The darkness replaced with strip...
June 27, 2024
Suno + Udio Lawsuits
What happens to music, happens to everyone. Suno: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24776034/1.pdf Udio:...
June 25, 2024
Mediaeater Digest Vol 30, No. 173
Seeing Like A Network- Dark Forests, Dense Networks ( strangeloopcanon.com ) culture is composed of the communication patterns, behaviours, and symbols that...
June 21, 2024
This Weeks Model
Audioseal (meta) Cutting-edge audio manipulation toolkit. Florence (msft) Microsoft's advanced conversational AI. Open-Sora v1.2 (github) Community-driven...
June 19, 2024
Licensing Deals for Dataset Creation
It's encouraging to see that the market is moving towards licensing deals for dataset creation, but the current model, where tech companies make one-time...
June 18, 2024
Mediaeater Digest Vol 30, No. 68
NYT workplace advice columnist brings it - Goodbye Work Friends….”Still, in my heart of hearts, I always wanted to tell you to quit your job. Negotiate for the...
June 16, 2024
Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 163
States Take Up A.I. Regulation Amid Federal Standstill (nyt) State lawmakers across the country have proposed nearly 400 new laws on A.I. in recent months,...
June 11, 2024
Generative AI Video: Embracing Interoperability and Open-Source Tools (Clapper AI)
Pointing out an important AI video opportunity: Open source script to screen AI video editor Clapper AI. This project and format is singular in the market....
June 10, 2024
Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 159
YouTube Copyright Transparency Report (youtube) paid out over $70 billion to creators, artists, and media companies in recent years, and it boasts over 100...
June 7, 2024
Recommended reading
Introducing Stable Audio Open - An Open Source Model for Audio Samples and Sound Design (stablityai) Stable Audio Open is an open source text-to-audio model...
June 6, 2024
Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 151
Announcing Showrunner (The Simulation) We believe the future is a mix of game & movie. Simulations powering 1000s of Truman Shows populated by interactive AI...
May 31, 2024
Mediaeater Digest Vol. 30, No. 149
Taxonomy of Human Rights Risks - Connected to Generative AI this document explores human rights risks stemming from the development, deployment, and use of...
May 28, 2024
Mediaeater Digest Vol 30, No. 144
Meta AI chief says large language models will not reach human intelligence. (FT) At an event in London on Tuesday, DeepMind’s chief Sir Demis Hassabis said...
May 23, 2024
On device
When Google announces it can monitor phone conversations for hostile scams, and Microsoft claims it can search everything you've ever touched on your computer,...
May 21, 2024
MED Vol.30, No. 139
Songs I listened to compiling this: Quarters of Change - Turn It Away (youtube) Rosie Tucker - All My Exes Live In Vortexes (youtube) Remi Wolf - Cinderella...
May 18, 2024
OpenAI Spring Update, Google IO
OpenAI Spring Update Google IO
May 15, 2024
MED Vol.30, No.132
Random notes... Music is always first, always. Surviving the first wave of digital disruption on the first beachfront gave me the tools needed to understand...
May 11, 2024
MED Vol.30, No.121
News Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says (arstech) Will An AI Movie Win An Oscar Within Seven Years? (forbes) Industry Google...
April 30, 2024
DHS / AI and open-source technology
Over 20 Technology and Critical Infrastructure Executives, Civil Rights Leaders, Academics, and Policymakers Join New DHS Artificial Intelligence Safety and...
April 27, 2024
LLM's From Skill to Proficiency
Early on, LLMs had a reputation for laziness, often stopping short of a complete answer or list. But that final 10% is crucial – it's the difference between...
April 27, 2024
MED Vol.30, No.117
Survey reveals translators and illustrators losing work to AI (societyofauthors) FCC Restores Net Neutrality (fcc) Start Your Own ISP (startyourownisp) A look...
April 26, 2024
MED Vol. 30, No. 116
Personal Explorations in Distributed Cognition with Foundation Models (medium) Meta Platforms, Inc. (META) First Quarter 2024 Results Conference Call...
April 25, 2024
MED Vol. 30, No. 110
We announce the successful editing of DNA in human cells with gene editors (x post) Generative A.I. Arrives in the Gene Editing World of CRISPR (nyt)...
April 23, 2024
Inference + Intent
AIML - Inference and intent intent. - 1 : a usually clearly formulated or planned intention : AIM the director's intent 2 a : the act or fact of intending :...
April 18, 2024
MED Vol.30, No.109
Llama 3 The Life and Death of Hollywood High-speed trader Jane Street raked in $4.4bn at start of 2024 LF AI & Data Foundation Launches Open Platform for...
April 18, 2024
Showrunner Agents in Multi-Agent Simulations
- Infinity and Beyond: SHOW-1 and Showrunner Agents in Multi-Agent Simulations - ChatGPT Can Predict the Future when it Tells Stories Set in the Future About...
April 15, 2024
MED Vol.30, No.101
Coachella Streams (youtube) MusicGen Web (huggingface) Infinity AI. (huggingface) Adobe Is Buying Videos for $3 Per Minute to Build AI Model (bloomberg) Report...
April 11, 2024
Draft: Data Privacy Legislation - Deep Dive
House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Chair Maria Cantwell...
April 8, 2024
M.E.D. Vol 30, No. 98
How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I. YouTube's CEO says that OpenAI training Sora with YouTube videos would violate YouTube's ToS, and Google...
April 7, 2024
CityGaussian: Real-time High-quality Large-Scale Scene Rendering with Gaussians
CityGaussian dekuliutesla.github.io/cityg… Video composites are quite disorienting - the inverse of that OSINT feeling. Like when a studio shoots a movie about...
April 2, 2024
OpenAI’s comment to the NTIA on open model weights
OpenAI’s comment to the NTIA on open model weights: This comment was submitted by OpenAI in response to NTIA’s March 2024 Request for Information on Dual-Use...
April 2, 2024
MED Vol.30, No.87
FACT SHEET: OMB Policy to Advance Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management in Federal Agencies’ Use of Artificial Intelligence (whitehouse.gov) Artificial...
March 28, 2024
MED Vol. 30, No. 83
Info How Big Tech is winning the AI talent war (FT) Elon Musk’s X Needs Creators, but They Don’t Need (WSJ) Gov. Lee Signs ELVIS Act Into Law (tn.gov) HB2091...
March 23, 2024
Open Models
Open-source AI is important because it.... Fosters innovation and broad participation - Open-source AI allows developers and researchers globally to...
March 20, 2024
Compensation - The Line of Actual Control
The EU just passed a major AI law, China's taking one stance on AI-generated art, and Japan's trying to protect creators. Lawsuits abound! Here a quick round...
March 16, 2024
MED Vol.30, No.75
Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies (NYT) LexisNexis, which generates consumer risk profiles for the insurers, knew...
March 15, 2024
MED Vol.30, No.73
Artificial Intelligence Act: MEPs adopt landmark law (europa.eu) Commission presents new initiatives for digital infrastructures of tomorrow (europa.eu) Music...
March 14, 2024
MED Vol 30 No. 71
A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments (deepmind) Bad Bunny Lawsuit (axios) Pain and Suffering (NVDA corp culture) H.R. 7521 TikTok Bill...
March 12, 2024
MED Vol.30, No.63
Rethinking Privacy in the AI Era: Policy Provocations for a Data-Centric World. (HAI/Stanford) Open Sora plan (Github) The App Store, Spotify, and Europe’s...
March 4, 2024
Artificial Intelligence Policy Act - Enacted (UT)
AI Utah Law as of May 1. 2024 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AMENDMENTS 2024 GENERAL SESSION STATE OF UTAH The law introduces the Artificial Intelligence Policy Act,...
February 29, 2024
MED Vol.30, No. 55
Superstars or Black Holes: Are Tech Clusters Causing Stagnation? What 2026 looks like (from 6th Aug., 2021) How artists are fighting generative AI Will AI...
February 24, 2024
Embodied, Perceptive, Realtime AI
Over the past couple of months I found myself thinking about what does Realtime AI looks like in practice. Somewhere between the swarm behavior that takes...
February 13, 2024
Reading on: Deepfakes, Watermarks, Copyright and the Generative AI Supply Chain and Trademark Law
AI companies agree to limit election ‘deepfakes’ but fall short of ban (wapo) Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta, TikTok and Adobe developed an accord to respond...
February 13, 2024
Art+Technology: Raphaela Vogel
In the Expanded Penalty Box: Did You Happen to See the Most Beautiful Fox? January 11 – February 17, 2024 Petzel, NYC Petzel is pleased to present In the...
February 1, 2024
M.E.D. Vol. 30 No. 15
WEF Panel - The Expanding Universe of Generative Models - Speakers: Yann LeCun, Nicholas Thompson, Kai-Fu Lee, Daphne Koller, Andrew Ng, Aidan Gomez Artificial...
January 15, 2024
Genuary Art: Generative Coding Challenge
It's Genuary! The annual event that brings together artists, coders, and enthusiasts of generative art from around the globe. It focuses on the creation of art...
January 12, 2024
Music Streaming 2023 Reports - No Tail, No Royalties
158 million tracks had 1,000 plays or fewer on music streaming services last year. 45 million had no plays at all. From Entertainment Industry Trend Reports -...
January 12, 2024
Info-Sec: Adversarial Machine Learning
NIST Identifies Types of Cyberattacks That Manipulate Behavior of AI Systems [caption id="attachment_7474" align="alignleft" width="650"] An AI system can...
January 6, 2024
Media Authenticity: Photography Secure Capture Technology, Synthetic Media Watermarking
A quick roundup of authentication and watermarking initiatives. The quest for the real image: Leica camera sales are up 10x over the last decade...
January 2, 2024
Public Domain Day 2024
Public Domain Day 2024 Films that enter the public domain today include: Steamboat Willie and Plane Crazy (the silent version) (directed by Walt Disney and Ub...
January 1, 2024
Unpacking the AI Shift: Copyright, Disinformation, and the Future of News
The subversion of trust creates significant risk 2024 promises to unpack the some implications of the AI shift, with realizations and understandings about its...
December 30, 2023
Privacy: Google Maps Location Data
This data is dangerous, good to see the shift to device, makes geo-fence requests moot...
December 14, 2023
Privacy: EU Artificial Intelligence Act
Artificial Intelligence Act :: Banned applications Recognizing the potential threat to citizens’ rights and democracy posed by certain applications of AI, the...
December 9, 2023
Navigating the Digital Maze: Dark Patterns, Algorithm Ethics, Facial Recognition and the FTC
This digital age of ours has consumers facing a deluge of potential harms ranging from privacy invasions to deceptive practices. Being online is like a dance...
November 22, 2023
Synthetic Media: AI SAG-AFTRA Deal Points
From this document: /AIFAQs.pdf Big Picture Questions AI Ban on Projects: AI not completely banned; focus on setting guardrails around its use. Training AI on...
November 22, 2023
Navigating the Digital Maze: The Weaponization of Audio and Video
[video width="1138" height="640" mp4="/imgs/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Post.mp4"][/video] The world of audio and visual (A/V) media has...
November 21, 2023
Navigating the Digital Maze: Music Industry, Transforming the future of music creation: Dream Track, Lyria
Google DeepMind, in partnership with YouTube, has announced Lyria, an AI music generation model, and two AI experiments: Dream Track and Music AI tools. Lyria...
November 17, 2023
Navigating the Digital Maze: YouTube AI Standards and Practices
Generative AI's Potential and Responsibility: YouTube acknowledges the creative potential of generative AI but also its responsibility to protect the...
November 15, 2023
Synthetic Media: Content Creation Tools
In the ever-evolving landscape of AI-driven media production, a new era of multi-modal generative AI is unfolding, giving rise to a vibrant ecosystem. Within...
November 14, 2023
Navigating the Digital Maze: AI Current Snapshot
In an era where open models are accelerating in utility OpenAI moves to platform model and offerings to lock-in the ecosystem during its first Developer Day....
November 7, 2023
Arts: Felix Morello Circles
[gallery ids="7331,7332,7333"] Felix Morello circles You find them around the Village if you are lucky, in Washington Square Park for a few ephemeral days,...
October 30, 2023
Classification of Moving Visual Media
Classification of Moving Visual Media September 2023 Mark Ghuneim Why: Our mediascape which was static for decades is now exploding with modalities. What: is a...
September 12, 2023
Navigating the Digital Maze: User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: /
In early March of this year I started talking about the importance of implementing "robots.txt" and the "nofollow" attributes because the great AI transcoding...
August 24, 2023
Synthetic city
AI= surveillance, by definition is predatory. This, not that. This text not that text. this image not that/etc. That said its there for the subverting. To turn...
August 16, 2023
Generative AI News
This USCO office - Comic book “Zarya of the Dawn,” recent decision by the USCO shows the challenges that may be faced by those seeking copyright protection for...
August 15, 2023
Navigating the Digital Maze: From Prompts to Outputs: Safeguarding Interests in Generative AI Agreements
Some Thoughts on Generative AI Best Practices... Understand Generative AI: Recognize that generative AI identifies patterns in training data to produce new...
August 14, 2023
Laziness as a Driver in AI: The Interplay of Nudging and Boosting
Nudging, Boosting, and Self-Nudging Behavioral science interventions, with their diverse nature, can be classified in various ways, such as through UCL’s...
August 14, 2023
AI Training data and video conference software
"Just a heads up, Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out. (Technically, you can delete your data later, but the training has been...
August 7, 2023
Challenges and Considerations in AI Service Pricing and Adoption
If you are running an AI service, whether large or small, one must address the nexus of the high compute costs and the expensive nature of providing such...
July 31, 2023
Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence, 2023
Generative artificial intelligence and ChatGPT have elevated AI discussions to new levels, pushing interest to boardrooms and heads of state alike. Data and...
July 23, 2023
Pan, tilt, generate...
In another lifetime, I edited video on 3/4 inch media on Sony RM-440 editing machines. If we wanted something like this prompt generates we had to do a table...
July 9, 2023
AI round-up security, economics, scraping, open-source, video generation
Open Letter from Security and Privacy Researchers in relation to the Online Safety Bill The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier...
July 5, 2023
META’s take on Twitter
META’s take on Twitter Meta has a long history of mimicking products and product features of competitors. Most if not all of the efforts have been met with...
July 5, 2023
Links July 4th
Links from today... Voice actors are discovering that decades-old contracts have given companies the right to use their voices to train AI models that compete...
July 4, 2023
The week in AI
To say the pace of this sector is moving fast is an understatement : Links to key advances, moves and developments. Microsoft has integrated AI-powered...
July 2, 2023
Exploring the Modalities of AI in Song Creation
"AI-14 Harmonies" for the 14 modalities involving AI in song creation (named for the fourteen modalities of AI in song creation. Combing the number of...
June 21, 2023
Privacy preservation tactics using AI services
Use local models first Using AI at a local level essentially means running AI models on your own hardware, rather than relying on cloud-based services. This...
June 21, 2023
Unique Characteristics of Generative AI: Exploring the Creative Medium
Unique Characteristics of Generative AI: Exploring the Creative Medium Generative AI is a creative medium with unique characteristics, including...
May 7, 2023
Entertainment Manufacturing: Navigating the Crossroads of Creativity and Compensation
When we speak of America as a manufacturing nation, it's not just about the steel, cars, or technology we produce. It's also about our exceptional ability to...
May 3, 2023
Happiness POV
Reading this newsletter last week Happiness is a 2x2 Matrix I came across this video Interview with Hillel Einhorn on happiness. "Now, there are some...
May 3, 2023
The Luring Test: AI and the Engineering of Consumer Trust
In "The Luring Test: AI and the Engineering of Consumer Trust", Michael Atleson, an Attorney at the FTC Division of Advertising Practices, dropped some...
May 3, 2023
European Parliament Members Reach Provisional Agreement on Groundbreaking AI Act
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have provisionally agreed on the world's first rulebook for artificial intelligence (AI), known as the AI Act. This...
April 30, 2023
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
The Copyright Office has issued a new policy statement regarding the registration of works containing material generated by artificial intelligence (AI)....
March 18, 2023
The Intersection of Technology and Information Theory
Abstract: This paper explores the alignment of digital interfaces with our existing innate encoding and decoding of information. The focus is on "front door"...
February 24, 2023
Generative Entertainment Milestones
Generative Entertainment Milestones In chronological order. Milestones 1956: The first computer-generated music is created by an IBM computer in Australia....
February 16, 2023
All Your Base is Ours
Internet trend: The frontend is becoming the backend AI is leading to a transformation of the internet as a whole, turning it into a powerful computational...
February 9, 2023
MusicLM: Generating Music From Text
MusicLM: Generating Music From Text "We introduce MusicLM, a model generating high-fidelity music from text descriptions such as "a calming violin melody...
January 27, 2023
Internet Trend: All your databases are ours
The frontend is becoming the backend to a new set of smart interfaces. The integration of advanced technologies such as AI acting as long polling to the corpus...
January 14, 2023
Welcome to the unreal world of synthetic media
Where belief is suspended and provenance is unknown. Synthetic media is media created or modified by artificial intelligence and machine learning. Far from a...
January 4, 2023
Metrics for long term success
I spent a long time setting up engagement as the key performance indicator in social media. Advocating for the importance of engagement, publishing papers and...
January 3, 2023
New public domain films
New public domain films. Metropolis Putting Pants on Phillip Nevada Spring Fever My Best Girl, Get Your Man King of Kings No Man’s Land Koko in 1999 The...
January 1, 2023
Closing out the year...
Sunday Jan 1 2023 is Public Domain Day. Works from 1927 fall into public domain. Metropolis, The Unknown (Chaney), The Jazz Singer. Awful AI is a curated list...
December 31, 2022
A return to value
The internet has gone through several stages of development, each marked by significant events and challenges. Web 1.0, the publishing era, was characterized...
December 28, 2022
Watch this...
“Elon Musk, interviewed by Sarah Lacy, “A Fireside Chat with Elon Musk,” Santa Monica, CA, July 12, 2012,...
December 17, 2022
Ethical and privacy concerns: chatGPT's use
The use of chatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI, raises a number of ethical and privacy concerns, including: Bias: chatGPT is trained on large...
December 3, 2022
Weekend reading list
Everything we know about chatgpt My cyberpunk city, my cyberpunk world Drowning in AI Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT Everyone’s Over Instagram...
December 3, 2022
Swarm behavior (cont't)
Back during the web 2.0 era circa 2011 I wrote and spoke about swarm behavior, specifically about attention swarms around media. As the AI era of the web...
November 22, 2022
Cold Sunday in November 2022
Random notes and links ...and why I have been thinking a wiki or a Digital Garden might be useful Paul Graham "A person I have known for more than ten years,...
November 20, 2022
Prompt chaining, trees and playgrounds
The Near Future of AI is Action-Driven Excellent framing of the here and now and what's next. Link round up ML Safety Newsletter SkyPilot: Run ML and Data...
November 17, 2022
AGI Frames of References
IDEA - REF FRAMES - AGI WHAT: The impunity to look at a specific subject instance or occurrence that takes place and be able to understand it over time and...
November 16, 2022
XR data flows + Privacy
FPF infographic visualizing how XR data flows work by exploring several use cases that XR technologies may support. The infographic highlights the kinds of...
October 31, 2022
Generative Technology (related reading)
Generative Technology related reading, resources November 2022 Generative Tech Begins [NFX] October 2022 List of over 100 generative AI startups [airtable by...
October 28, 2022
A new generation of music videos
Presenting "Robo Portraits", a collection of text-prompted music video shorts made with #stablediffussion & #mubert. 9 videos, each following the exact same...
October 9, 2022
Links and reports of note
Todays reports and news of note. Authoritative 150 page report by Tech Inquiry on government purchasing of Amazon/Google/Microsoft cloud services with a focus...
September 19, 2022
Privacy + Security Releated
"The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist," Marshall McLuhan FCC Does The Bare Minimum: Asks Wireless Carriers To Be Honest About...
September 6, 2022
Weekend reading
Weekend reading... How can we develop transformative tools for thought? [pdf] What are new ways memory systems can be applied, beyond the simple, declarative...
August 21, 2022
Link blogging
Long covid and brain damage [FT] We know so little still Hobbit IP The Ents have a new home Water Table One property sucked in 16.5M gallons of water laster...
August 18, 2022
The week in links
In no particular order - links from this week The [Peak] Attention Economy Optimizely’s Founder Wants to Augment Your Memories Can Anyone Moderate Podcasts?...
February 13, 2021
This weeks links
Cryptomedia, NFTs, and the Next Internet Related: Niftygateway, MakersPlace The new reading stack Same Energy Google has a VPN service Spy museum in NYC...
February 7, 2021
In the papers Vol. 4 2021
Architectural Complexity Measures of Recurrent Neural Networks VOGUE: Try-On by StyleGAN Interpolation Optimization ZeRO-Offload: Democratizing Billion-Scale...
January 30, 2021
Surf Report
Weekend reading / viewing Essay: The meme economy Or, a personal journey through 21st-century capitalism. Read: The Pandemic Has Erased Entire Categories of...
January 30, 2021
In the papers Vol 1. 2021
A roundup of papers of note from the last few weeks. Taming Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesis A Survey on Neural Network Interpretability A...
January 9, 2021
Vulnerable Groups
There is a law fo surveillance economics that the the less money you have the greater amount of your personal data is taken. Refugees at the boarder start with...
November 2, 2019
In The Papers 8
DeepPrivacy: A Generative Adversarial Network for Face Anonymization We propose a novel architecture which is able to automatically anonymize faces in images...
September 11, 2019
Privacy Digest
EU plans sweeping regulation of facial recognition [FT] The aim would be to limit “the indiscriminate use of facial recognition technology’’ by companies and...
August 23, 2019
Prêt-à-privacy
Hiding from machines in fashion SPF is not the only daily protection you need walking around anymore. You need to move with the fashions or be outcast put in a...
August 17, 2019
Privacy Updates
London’s King’s Cross using facial recognition in security cameras [ft] Canary Wharf Group, the company that owns both private offices and public spaces in the...
August 9, 2019
The Abstracted Absent Arbiter or The New Other
MEDIAEATER DIGEST TUE 25th, DEC, MMXVIII MERRY CHRISTMAS DISPUTE THE TEXT, SAPERE AUDE The Abstracted Absent Arbiter or The New Other The absent arbiter and...
December 25, 2018
Medieater Digest 071218
MEDIAEATER DIGEST 12TH JULY 2018 Live today... 10 AM Eastern Full House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 11:25 a.m. Eastern. Nominations for the...
July 12, 2018
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