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Self taught in a lot things. I’m a super senior software engineer for the Washington Post. I’m in the data privacy space now of days. I studied history and sociology in school. You get what you paid for these spicy takes. I’m pizza. (These takes are my own and don’t represent the views of the newspaper I work for)
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Reminds me a little bit of Google+ social vibes being tied to employee performance at Google during Vic Gundotra’s despotic reign 2011-19.
I wrote about Google's AI search debacle, its leaked search ranking documents, and what they tell us about the future of the web https://www.platformer.news/google-ai-overviews-eat-rocks-glue-pizza/
Google’s AI search setback

The AI Overviews debacle and leaked search ranking documents tell a common story about the web's future — and it's not pretty

Platformer

@notacult.social I’m building off your work on https://photogabble.co.uk and doing my own thing with it. I want to share that your site is really neat and in a small way, I feel im contributing to the IndieWeb through my own site, https://davidchicopham.com

Cc @Chronotope

PhotoGabble

Blog and general digital garden of the full stack programmer Simon Dann.

PhotoGabble

You Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, “Gotta Hand It to Tucker Carlson”

https://www.thebulwark.com/you-do-not-under-any-circumstances-gotta-hand-it-to-tucker-carlson/

You Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, “Gotta Hand It to Tucker Carlson”

The anti-anti-Carlson crowd sings his praises.

The Bulwark

The FTC continues to bring the 🔥

"The Luring Test"

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2023/05/luring-test-ai-engineering-consumer-trust

"And for people interacting with a chatbot or other AI-generated content, mind Prince’s warning from 1999: 'It’s cool to use the computer. Don’t let the computer use you.'"

The Luring Test: AI and the engineering of consumer trust

In the 2014 movie Ex Machina, a robot manipulates someone into freeing it from its confines, resulting in the person being confined instead.

Federal Trade Commission
The Auralnauts turned all 222 instances of "This is the way" uttered during the three seasons of The Mandalorian into chill electronica. https://kottke.org/23/04/a-mandalorian-banger-this-is-the-way
A Mandalorian Banger: This Is the Way

Leave it to the Auralnauts to take The Mandalorian’s solemn catchphrase “This is the way”, back it with a puls

kottke.org

My AI voice clone fooled my family, bank and Evan Spiegel. And my video clone + a script from ChatGPT made a pretty decent TikTok.

We’re all going to be just fine.

My latest video and column on the crazy—and creepy—world of voice and video AI.

COLUMN: https://on.wsj.com/3NnZbjU

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/t52Bi-ZUZjA

I Cloned Myself With AI. She Fooled My Bank and My Family.

Our columnist replaced herself with AI voice and video to see how humanlike the tech can be. The results were eerie.

WSJ
If it was starting to feel like Humane’s device would be overhyped or vaporware, I’m ready to put aside those concerns. It looks like they are onto something fascinating, both the projection and the AI language translation.
Humane previews AI-powered wearable

The screenless device is controlled using a combination of gestures and voice recognition.

Axios

I've tested a lot of wearables and talked to lots of people making wearables, specifically about all the challenges in making one.

I do not believe Humane is a real product.

Thieves are stealing iPhones and passcodes. Then they immediately flip on a hidden switch called the recovery key to prevents victims from ever getting back into their Apple accounts.

The next chapter in the iPhone theft saga, with @nicolenguyen

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-iphone-setting-thieves-use-to-lock-you-out-of-your-apple-account-716d350d

And my latest video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCfb9Wizq9Q

The iPhone Setting Thieves Use to Lock You Out of Your Apple Account

The recovery key was designed to make Apple IDs safer. Instead, these victims permanently lost family photos and other precious digital possessions.

WSJ