The Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists have gone on a strike. Numerous background actors have claimed that production studios, represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers are keen on owning and using the AI likeness of an actor till eternity. This situation gives rise to a novel …
Facial recognition, despite much protests and alarming premonitions by privacy advocates, looks set to become mainstream. Over the past years, privacy debilitating tools like Clearview AI have underlined the threat that misuse of facial recognition technologies can present for the common people. The NYT report quotes Clearview AI founder Hoan Ton-That as saying that a system like Fawkes would not …
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