Daily LInks
1. How green hushing is leaving companies vulnerable to deep fakes. These convincing fabrications extend far beyond political mischief into the corporate world, where realistic video forgeries of corporate executives can do serious damage to their own and their company’s reputations and businesses. – Read More on Reuters
2. Breaking record after record: The stellar figures of the ‘premium’ market. Experts are not denying that there may be a slowdown, and that the party is over. “The industry is well positioned for the long term.” – Read More on El Pais
3. Europe’s world-leading artificial intelligence rules are facing a do-or-die moment. The process has been bogged down by a last-minute battle over how to govern systems that underpin general purpose AI services like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard chatbot. – Read More on ABC
4. Can an AI chatbot be convicted of an illegal wiretap? Old Navy is facing a lawsuit in the Central District of California alleging that its AI chatbot participates in illegal wiretapping by logging, recording and storing conversations. – Read More on CNBC
5. RELATED READ: Court Refuses to Toss Out Chatbot-Centric Wiretapping Lawsuit Against Old Navy. Old Navy cannot escape a lawsuit accusing it of running afoul of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”) by way of its use of a sophisticated chatbot feature on its e-commerce site. – Read More on TFL
6. McDonald’s Crocs Merch Shows the Value of Brands With Cultural Cachet. Crocs, T-shirts, necklaces, dolls — you name it. If a company has the cool factor, consumers will buy their branded merchandise. – Read More on Bloomberg
