This little simulation is as distressing as it is amusing.
Which, I realize I’m delinquent in commenting on the three-card monte in which Bush & Pointdexter play “now you see it, now you don’t” with Total Information Awareness, but weariness forfends. Don’t worry however. Soon enough John of Wetmachine will make such a blog post about the all-compassing info-maw as to shake the Moloch/Overmind/Military-Industrial-Prison-WarInfotainment Complex to its very foundation!
But while the uproar has swayed much of the public to Johansson's defense at a time when #genAI is increasingly under scrutiny, this may not quite be an open-and-shut case should she decide to sue . Read the breakdown from @M_F_Rose in her latest article:
The release of @OpenAI's new digital assistant "Sky" stirred controversy after actress Scarlett Johansson alleged that the company had infringed on her rights by using a soundalike voice of hers after she'd declined to voice it herself.
Just saw @MargotSusca fantastic interview with @adamconover about the death of local news at the hands of hedge funds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N21YfWy0-bA A theme I have written about *a lot*. Like this blog post from 2018: https://wetmachine.com/tales-of-the-sausage-factory/we-need-to-fix-the-news-media-not-just-social-media-part-i/ This has been a long time in the making.
I wrote yesterday on the terrifying escalation of antisemitism in Canada, citing events just over past week. Now there is more: last night a firebomb attempt at a Vancouver synagogue. Daily antisemitic incidents is who we are now.
https://www.jewishvancouver.com/important-community-updates-may-20-2024
https://x.com/mgeist/status/1796233336203194446
Click on the ‘Take Action” to stop this from happening. Get 404: Not Found at the ACLU Web site.
Cute.
I guess all that information is available right now to pretty much anybody through. As I understand it, you are not legally considered to own any of this personal information about your. In fact, the “Fair” Isaac trioka claims that THEY own the data and can give it to whomever pays them.
I suppose that there’s some pretense of requiring that the receiver of the information has a business relationship with you. But with electronic commerce as it is, that seems to be anyone who can look up your email adress. Or consider evil cell phone company A that buys out evil cell phone company B with whom I had a contract. The service from A may suck, and I never signed up with A, but they still claim to the tune of $200 that I have a legal (if unintended) business relationship with them and an obligation to keep paying them.