https://gizmodo.com/leica-m11-p-content-credentials-anti-ai-1850963601 The hotel lobby, or more correctly the bar, was where they spent their time. It was no safer than their rooms but its opulence offered some comfort. The hacks grouped on the sofas when they came back from following a story. There was always a feeling of relief when someone walked in who’d not … [Read more…]
https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/the-influencer-scandal-flurry-crisis-comms-future/ I understand what you say and I know how you feel. None of us wanted to do this. Our relationship has always been built on your personality, the real you connecting with our brand. The name “influencer” never really captured our partnership: your voice and ours together. But then you… er said… what you … [Read more…]
https://www.ft.com/content/a182c0f6-3f1c-4850-88de-9924daf343a6 The tickets weren’t cheap. But so worth it. Even though we were miles away from the stage, the screens and sound were so well set up… He’s never going to play a small, intimate club again. Most of us will always be far away but there: like him, watching a screen, catching a glimpse. … [Read more…]
https://www.engadget.com/the-desantis-campaign-used-ai-generated-images-to-attack-trump-062923571.html Can a lie about a lie be a lie? It was one of those big questions she thought about as she watched the screens. She’d got into the campaign because she believed in the candidate – too many hours watching The West Wing in her youth, perhaps. He wouldn’t use synythetics, “And he doesn’t… … [Read more…]
https://www.wired.com/story/where-memory-ends-and-generative-ai-begins/ Twenty five years. If we were a customer we’d have a label our strategy people could make decks around… When I first started the business I never thought we’d ever be a “grown up”. It was an adventure that Steve and I started for the crack. Look at the pictures from those days. Just … [Read more…]
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/03/23/donald-trump-shares-fake-ai-created-image-of-himself-on-truth-social I don’t know how to talk to her about this. You know what she’s like – opinionated is one way of saying it. I’ve spent my whole time in this job trying to gently say that she should stick to what she does best and leave me to do the comms. That’s what she … [Read more…]
https://interestingengineering.com/advertising-company-wants-deepfake-clones-of-your-face An Advertising Company Wants to Make Deepfake Clones of Your Face They look down on us as though we’re sinning. Maybe it’s a hangover from that: “my body’s a temple” thing. We should “save” ourselves for… well what? It’s my body after all. What I choose to do with it is my business. If … [Read more…]
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/08/15/1031804/digital-beauty-filters-photoshop-photo-editing-colorism-racism/ It’s all wrong. I look wrong. I mean, look! They’re just more attractive, more together, more real… just more. Who would you want to meet? Who would you want to talk to? Who would you want to..? I’m just not right. I have to be out there but when I’m out there, I’m so … [Read more…]
https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/this-new-tool-lets-brands-create-digital-humans-that-are-more-lifelike-than-ever/ I was one of the first. Perfect. A dream. Everything about me was, well… perfect. That was my USP and why so many brands wanted me. I was the face – and the body – of so many. They knew that, with me, they had the perfect look. That’s why they’d programmed me like … [Read more…]
https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/18/22430340/deepfake-dubs-dubbing-film-tv-flawless-startup They say they’re windows to the soul. They say they’re individual, unique, special. We look deeply into them when we’re in love or when we’re judging somebody’s truthfulness. Maybe that was why I always thought she has what used to be called ‘star quality’, that way with the camera. My streaming profile is full … [Read more…]