director of AI and privacy at Consumer Federation of America | teaching tech policy law/reg @udclaw | formerly EPIC (the privacy one not the bad ones), and DOJ Civil Rights division| ⚫️⚪️+🗽 | 🐦 🐿 | he/him
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Ben Winters
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We reported earlier this year on Meta's plans to roll out a facial recognition feature in its smart glasses and the company said it was "still thinking through options." Now Wired discovers that the code to do it is already in Meta's AI app: www.wired.com/story/meta-s...
Social platforms have started to automatically apply labels to distinguish AI-generated images, videos, and music from those made by real, human creators.
But you know what would be better? Letting us filter out the AI slop.
Read more from @zombiewretch.bsky.social: buff.ly/9OMUCdc
stoppppppp :(
Well put -- this bill simply does not meet the moment
Meta says the feature hasn't shipped.
The code is nevertheless embedded in the Meta AI app distributed to tens of millions of phones. During testing, independent researcher Buchodi loaded Michel Foucault's faceprint into the app's local database and triggered the notification shown below.
sheeeeesh, not good
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The AI industry’s primary super PAC has been secretly running an X account pretending to be an anti AI doomer that posted about killing AI executives and destroying data centers.
This reveal and the news yesterday— about Meta having shipped the code for facial recognition in their glasses—should be understood as very deeply intertwined.
Consumer Federation of America's Director of AI and Data Privacy, @benwinters.bsky.social, called the bill a framework that "would instead create a weak and convoluted regulatory state that lets #AI companies continue to do whatever they want with impunity."
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
www.wired.com
SignalTrace “links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate.” It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to license ...
Lonliness influencers, death of YouTube face, Airbnb robot cleaners, Suno addicts, George Santos Kalshi crimes, VidConization of Hollywood, why Alex Hormozi publishes 250 videos a day to social media
Federal AI regulation took its most ambitious congressional step June 4 with a 269-page bipartisan bill that would freeze state AI development laws for three years while requiring semi-annual audits o...
As Co-Chair of the House Democratic AI Commission, I want to be clear that I do not support the draft AI bill proposed by Reps. Obernolte and Trahan in its current form.
Please see the Commission’s full statement below.
The former NFL player's Lumi Story AI, aims to help middle and high school students work with an AI-powered chatbot to write their own stories, comics and graphic novels.
New: we've obtained a DHS document outlining ICE's plan to give potentially more than a thousand local law enforcement agencies a facial recognition app that would query a database of hundreds of millions of images to verify someone’s immigration status
www.404media.co/ices-plan-to...
ICE plans to give potentially more than a thousand agencies access to a facial recognition app that verifies a person's immigration status.
The former NFL player's Lumi Story AI, aims to help middle and high school students work with an AI-powered chatbot to write their own stories, comics and graphic novels.
