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How AI-Powered Cameras Took Over One Small American Town
Episode 12
This week goes in all sorts of directions. First, Joseph runs through his in-depth article on Fusus, a surveillance company that took over one small …
2 years, 6 months ago
YouTube Profiting from a Drug Market, and SIM Swappers Working with Ransomware Gangs
Episode 11
We're shaking things up with a new format! As well as the two stories available to all listeners, we have a third discussion at the end which is only…
2 years, 6 months ago
OSINT, Twitter, and a $30 Million Bitcoin Ring
Episode 10
For the first half of the show, we talk about a couple of stories around the Israel-Palestine conflict. First, Instagram "sincerely apologizes" to Sa…
2 years, 6 months ago
AI is Muddying the Horrors of War, and a Film Community Implodes
Episode 9
Content warning for the first half of the episode because it touches on violent themes. Emanuel takes us through how so-called AI detectors are, inst…
2 years, 6 months ago
SpongeBob, AI, and a Crisis Among Ticket Sellers
Episode 8
This episode is a fun one. First, Sam takes us through her story about generating images of SpongeBob and 9/11 with Bing's AI. Why? Because a bunch o…
2 years, 7 months ago
A Glitch Is Hiding Porn on YouTube, and Food Delivery Robots Feed Footage to the LAPD
Episode 7
This week we start with a super interesting set of stories about how a small community has found a glitch in YouTube. It lets the group upload basica…
2 years, 7 months ago
Ticket Scalpers, The New Frontier of AI Chat Bots, and Mass Doxing on TikTok
Episode 6
Holy moly that's a big ol' episode. Jason is back and tells us how ticket scalping actually works on a technical level, and how Ticketmaster benefits…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Tool That ICE Can Use to Track Pregnancy Websites and Fortnite
Episode 5
On this week's episode you won't hear Jason because he is out on location reporting from a right to repair conference in New Orleans! Before that, he…
2 years, 7 months ago
We Reveal One of the FBI's Most Closely Guarded Secrets
Episode 4
On this week's episode Joseph, Jason, Emanuel and Sam first talk about something that sounds like a Harry Styles story, but it's actually an artifici…
2 years, 7 months ago
Amazon Is Selling AI-Generated Books That Are a Matter of 'Life or Death'
Episode 3
On this week's episode Joseph, Jason, Emanuel and Sam first talk about how Amazon is selling mushroom foraging books that appear to be AI-generated. …
2 years, 8 months ago