29 Jul 2024
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Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 211

July 29, 2024

Microsoft technical breakdown of CrowdStrike incident (msft)

Web-check: All-in-one OSINT tool for analysing any website  (github)

Kamala-holding-vinyls (glitch)

AlphaProof, AlphaGeometry, ChatGPT, and why the future of AI is neurosymbolic (gary marcus)

GPS jammed on commercial flight over Atlantic  (telegraph)

TikTok Collected US Users’ Views on Gun Control, Abortion and Religion, US Says (wsj)

How to Run Llama 3.1 405B on Home Devices? Build AI Cluster! (medium)

The Video Feedback Kinetic Sculpture Fractal Time Machine II  (youtube)

27 Jul 2024
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Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 209

July 27, 2024

Copyright Traps for LLMs  (github) 

AI start-up Anthropic accused of ‘egregious’ data scraping (ft)

Media Bias Detector (mediabiasdector)

Opt out of  x /settings/grok_settings (x)  related (ft)

New AI Actions and Receives Additional Major Voluntary Commitment on AI (whitehouse)

Privacy on iPhone | Flock | Apple (ft)

Senators to FTC: Car companies’ data privacy practices must be investigated (sentate.gov)

Klee Privacy is the Key in AI Age  (klee)

appendix: TIKTOK INC. and BYTEDANCE LTD.,  (courtlistener)  more (wsj)

Video game actors are on strike. Here’s what that means (latimes)

22 Jul 2024
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Making Music

July 22, 2024

Suno
https://www.suno.ai/
Creates complete songs from text prompts, including lyrics and vocals

Brev.ai
https://brev.ai/
AI Music Generator Free Online  (stability AI)

AIVA (Artificial Intelligence Virtual Artist)
https://www.aiva.ai/
Specializes in creating original music for various media

Soundraw
https://soundraw.io/
AI-powered music generator with customizable parameters

Boomy
https://boomy.com/
Allows users to create and distribute AI-generated music

Amper Music
https://www.ampermusic.com/
Offers AI-powered music creation for content creators

OpenAI’s Jukebox
https://openai.com/research/jukebox
Generates music with vocals in various genres and artist styles

Mubert
https://mubert.com/
Generates continuous streams of AI-produced music

Beatoven.ai
https://www.beatoven.ai/
Creates royalty-free music tailored to video content

Loudly
https://loudly.com/
Provides AI-generated music tracks for various purposes

Endel
https://endel.io/
Generates personalized soundscapes for focus, relaxation, and sleep

MuseNet (by OpenAI)
https://openai.com/research/musenet
Deep neural network that can generate 4-minute musical compositions

Google’s Magenta
https://magenta.tensorflow.org/
Open-source research project exploring music and art generation

Amadeus Code
https://amadeuscode.com/
AI-powered songwriting assistant for melody creation

Aiva Music
https://aivamusic.com/
AI composer for creating original music

Splash
https://www.splashmusicai.com/
Produces custom music and sound effects for games and apps

 

this is a test:  “i_was_served_an_ad_that_featured_an_ai_photo_of”.  of turning spam into a honeypot

22 Jul 2024
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A Weekend of Letting Go

July 22, 2024

This weekend marked two significant firsts in my life, both involving parting with cherished possessions.

Photograph Sale

I sold a photograph that had adorned my walls for years, bringing joy every time I looked at it. This was my first time ever selling anything. Christie’s handled the sale, and I hope the piece will find a new home with someone who will appreciate it as much as I did.

CD Collection, Farewell

I also sold off my collection of 5,000 CDs, which I hadn’t touched in some time. Initially, this seemed like an obvious decision – a no-brainer when I first considered it. However, as I went through the collection, I found myself awash in memories and rediscovering music that’s no longer available online. At the last minute, I almost changed my mind.

(The decision feels even more perplexing when I remember that I still have most of the important music on vinyl.)

A New Perspective

My new theory is that this is just another step in the journey of artworks and books finding their place in the world. These possessions are moving on, continuing their own stories beyond my walls and making me lighter and more focused in the process.

21 Jul 2024
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Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 203

July 21, 2024

Gutenberg’s message to the AI era  (Brookings) A second effect of AI is its expansion of already existent digital era abuses, such as privacy, competition, truth, and online safety. We have already lived through the exploitation of digital information to manipulate individuals and markets.

Inside the fight over California’s new AI bill  (Vox) The shutdown provision requirement [a provision in the bill that requires model developers to have the capability to enact a full shutdown of a covered model, to be able to “unplug it” if things go south] was very high on the list of what person after person was concerned about

Academic authors ‘shocked’ after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AI The Bookseller asked Taylor & Francis if it was possible to opt out and requested clarification over whether authors had been told about the AI deal. The publisher’s spokesman said he couldn’t comment further. 

 

 

17 Jul 2024
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Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No.199

July 17, 2024

Privacy OpSec

Company squanders 3.6 billion people’s locations in Germany Data traders are spreading the locations of people in Germany – sometimes even for free, as research by netzpolitik.org and BR shows. A data set with 3.6 billion entries reveals precise movement profiles and a new dimension of mass surveillance.

How to tell if your online accounts have been hacked

AI/ML/Generative 

FT:  The bear case for AI

odyssey.systems  “hollywood grade” generative media
flowgpt.com Flow Studio – Text to movie show

The making of Eno, the first generative feature film
Japanese media say AI search infringes copyright, urge legal reform
The golden age of scammers: AI-powered phishing

ChatGPT outages and trading dips

Andrej Karpathy ” We are Eureka Labs and we are building a new kind of school that is AI native.

13 Jul 2024
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Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No.195

July 13, 2024

A change log for significant digital events and their drivers. 

-ATT Breach :Nearly all  ATT customers’ text & call records breached this has to be top 3 in US hexor history,  2022 hack was not revealed until now and after they copped an DOJ exception.  Criminals and nation states now have NSA-level view into Americans’ lives.  || American Hacker in Turkey Linked to Massive AT&T Breach. – Toll of Snowflake Hack Widens related to Ticketmaster and other exploited and exposed business.  /Noteworthy here: AT&T received a National Security Exception from DOJ under the SEC Reporting Requirements. First such exception I’m aware of.  (CKrebs)

-The full and final text of the EU AI Act, the European Union’s landmark risk-based regulation for applications of artificial intelligence, has been published in the bloc’s Official Journal.

-The Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act (COPIED Act), Ec. 4. Facilitation of development of standards for content provenance information and detection of synthetic content and synthetically-modified content. (a) In general.—The Under Secretary shall establish a public-private partnership to facilitate the development of standards regarding content provenance information technologies and the detection of synthetic content and synthetically-modified content, including with respect to the following: (1) Facilitating the development of guidelines and voluntary, consensus-based standards and best practices for: – Watermarking, Content provenance information, Synthetic content and synthetically-modified content detection, including for: • Images  • Audio • Video  • Text  • Multimodal content – The use of data to train artificial intelligence systems Such other matters relating to transparency of synthetic media as the Under Secretary considers appropriate.  (standards not law -ed)

RIP : Bill Viola, pioneer video artist who explored nature of human consciousness, dies at 73 (LAT) Bill Viola.com