AI has made the voice of Emma Watson say some very strange things, and 4Chan is to blame. But trolls playing with new machine-learning tools arenât the only villain in this story. Actors are being asked to sign away the rights to their own voice for the purposes of AI reconstruction.Also on todayâs episode: Dutch police have been reading encrypted messages; some politicians in the UK want to ban encrypted phones; Apple is looking to roll out a new form of end-to-end encryption; and a police contractor that promised to track homeless people has been hacked.
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Cypher. Weâre bringing it back. For those that donât know, Cypher is a special edition of Cyber where we decipher the weekâs news. Itâs a potpourri for the panopticon. A grab bag of tech horror stories. And who better to join us for such an adventure than Motherboard reporter Joseph Cox?
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