@FinancialReview Banana Republic level journalism from the AFR, we're not surprised though. Hope everyone with a working frontal lobe in Vic is enjoying their grand final long weekend!
We’re living through a mass psychosis event where restaurant owners are somehow convincing themselves that AI food with the texture of maggots looks better than an iPhone photo printed on a sign.
ok so lesson here: if you're not running local AI models, the IP does not belong to you and the AI labs will coerce, threaten, intimidate and blackmail you into giving it up
do what you will with this information
I really recommending reading this.
In summary, a company which does ID verification for in-person interactions (hotels, car rentals, ID verification for alcohol or marijuana, etc) has some how exposed over 153,000,000 drivers licenses for people in the United States and Canada.
It is a catastrophic data breach, probably one of the worse I've ever seen. If you're in the United States and have traveled, gotten a hotel, purchased marijuana or alcohol, there is a high probability you're in this.
Unlike other breaches, this includes a photo of the person (from the license), making verification you've identified the person significantly easier.
This poses a significant threat to celebrities (musicians, YouTubers, streamers, adult entertainers, actors, etc), politicians, lawyers, wealthy people (CEOs, investors, people of public interest), Law Enforcement Officers, etc
Krebs himself, and several other security researchers, have already confirmed they're in the data leak.
tl;dr gah damn dawg this company is going to be sued into oblivion
https://t.co/QpsegBUzH5
no but genuinely how do these people get their ai slop sold in stores meanwhile actual illustrators and authors struggle to get their stuff out there at all