U.K.-based startup Yepic AI claims to use “deepfakes for good” and promises to “never reenact someone without their consent.” But the company did exactly what it claimed it never would.
In an unsolicited email pitch to a TechCrunch reporter, a representative for Yepic AI shared two “deepfaked” videos of the reporter, who had not given consent to having their likeness reproduced.
The digital experience has wreaked untold damage, especially upon the young. But all is not lost.
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Crypto Startup Bankrupt After Losing Password to $38.9 Million Physical Crypto Wallet
One of the big promises of NFTs was that the artist who originally made them could get a cut every time their piece was resold. Unfortunately, that’s not the case anymore.
OpenSea, the biggest NFT marketplace still fully enforcing royalty fees, said today that it plans to stop the mandatory collection of resale fees for artists. Starting March 2024, those fees will essentially be tips — an optional percentage of a sale price that sellers can choose to give the original artist. If the seller doesn’t want to hand over any money, that’ll be their choice.
Scammers be scamming.
Holding onto thousands of photos, films, and other files may not seem like a pressing problem. But the cloud of the digital realm is also material, with switches, lights, HVAC—and a growing carbon footprint.
Favourite being Water 3D.
Pop-ups, farmed content and sponsored posts have ruined a web that once told us whatever we needed to know.
Linked for the content, and the irony of the article being behind a cookie popup and paywall. Maybe read it here instead.
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