Video AI tools will likely be able to generate fake dashcam or home security camera footage with the typical frame rates, lens angles and artifacts those would have. Are there legitimate use cases for generating such videos?

Wow.

The Visa/MC merchant settlement announced last month will be challenged … by er merchants (specifically the largest ones)

Pretty stunning that the NRF (major merchant advocacy group) was only informed of the settlement after the fact. Perhaps they didn’t want to engage

The Texas Department of Insurance emailed me *the next day* to let me know that they sent my complaint to the insurance company, who now has 25 days to respond. When this is resolved, I'm going to write it all up. The basis of this is actually about privacy. More on this later.

This ad experience seems very broken.

I use Google maps to try to find the opening time of the (beloved Austin institution) JuiceLand that’s less than a quarter mile from where I’m sitting in my car right now.

Setting aside that Google probably shouldn’t get paid for such a

When greedy insurance companies are coming up with nonsense reasons to cancel my home insurance, I'm happy for what I learned from my lawyer dad about needing to write an affidavit + happy for ChatGPT to just go ahead and compose it (well, they can't notarize it yet lol)

IP address limitation is very real and inevitable, so worth paying attention to. Two useful notes from the referenced deck:
- fraud prevention is an important use case to preserve;
- geotargeting granularity will change and have some new limitations

This was funny. Hard to know how web and AI will interact. Thus…

Meta’s AI recommends … Mapquest?

I’ve noticed Austin home listing prices tending to be higher than they should, often because of the Texas laws re: non-disclosure of home sale data: “Without access to historical sale prices, buyers may find it challenging to gauge the true market value of properties accurately”

Deepfake audio isn’t just for election interference and fake ransom threats.

The faked audio triggered an investigation after it was posted to a popular Instagram account, by the way.

Deranged engagement hacking coming to a professional network near you

“In sum, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the two biggest DSPs have the best anti-fraud solutions in place (Trade Desk through its partnership with Human, Google through its acquisition of Spider.io and ongoing development). Or that Trade Desk is taking share

Lots of implications here, ad $ might be among them

Great insights from a fellow former FBer/Googler. Mat Harris makes some excellent points! They'll eventually figure it out, but likely lots more pain before that happens.

Important conversation with Alex Stamos and Evelyn Douek regarding: CSAM open.spotify.com/episode/3g9fjv…