Fri. 07/16 - People Have Reservations about Deep-Faking Bourdain’s Voice
The flood of robocalls may soon abate due to a technology named after James Bond’s martini instructions to bartenders, an ethical debate over whether we can revive the dead’s voices to simulate what they said or wrote in life after a documentary filmmaker deep-faked Anthony Bourdain, and dropping fish from planes, Among Us in Irish, and the Hubble, rebooted.
The flood of robocalls may soon abate due to a technology named after James Bond’s martini instructions to bartenders, an ethical debate over whether we can revive the dead’s voices to simulate what they said or wrote in life after a documentary filmmaker deep-faked Anthony Bourdain, and dropping fish from planes, Among Us in Irish, and the Hubble, rebooted.
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Links:
- How Do You Stop Robocalls? (New York Times)
- National Do Not Call Registry FAQs (FTC)
- Robocall Mitigation Database (FCC)
- A new Android feature tells you why someone’s calling so you know who to ignore (Input magazine)
- Caller ID Authentication May Tame the Scourge of Spam Calls (TidBITS)
- Use the AT&T Call Protect app (AT&T)
- Scam Shield (T-Mobile)
- Screen and automatically block incoming spam calls for free with Call Filter (Verizon)
- An AI Bourdain Speaks From the Grave (Kottke.org)
- A Haunting New Documentary About Anthony Bourdain (The New Yorker)
- What Was Anthony Bourdain Searching For? (GQ)
- Ottavia Bourdain denying she gave approval (her Twitter account)
- Anthony Bourdain’s ex-wife says she didn’t say he’d be okay with recreating his voice for documentary (EW)
- Voice clone of Anthony Bourdain prompts synthetic media ethics questions (Tech Policy Press)
- Helen Rosner on the Bourdain deep-fake audio (Twitter)
- Fred Astaire dances with vacuums in commercials set for Super Bowl debut (AP)
- A Plane in Utah Lets the Fish Fly (New York Times)
- Utah’s Division of Wildlife Resources has released footage of an airplane dumping fish from the air into a lake (NPR’s Instagram account)
- Among Us gets an official Irish translation (The Verge)
- NASA Successfully Switches to Backup Hardware on Hubble Space Telescope (NASA)
- Orkestra Obsolete play Blue Monday using 1930s instruments (BBC Arts)
- New Order, olden style: A unique take on Blue Monday (BBC Arts)
- More Cover Songs from the Man Behind Orkestra Obsolete’s ‘Blue Monday’ (Dangerous Minds)
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