Tag: deepfakes
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Circus Popcorn, Gas Pump Bills: U.S. Election Dysfunction Always Hits Canadian Wallets
Jon Liedtke breaks down U.S. midterm campaign dirty tricks, from Alaska’s decoy “Dan Sullivan” candidate to $180M in unregulated AI deepfakes. Highlighting historical election hoaxes in both nations, he warned that regardless of the winner, American protectionism and trade friction directly inflate Canadian household bills.
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AI Whiplash: Pre-Crime, Fake Reporters, & Immortality or Human Extinction
Gene Valaitis and Jon Liedtke discuss AI’s threats, from fake journalist identities scraping local Canadian news to Anthropic’s predictive surveillance tools. Liedtke argues that tech companies use apocalyptic warnings as PR spin for regulatory capture, seeking to create high barriers to entry to secure monopolies rather than protect public safety.
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Tech Talk with Carmi Levy
Tech Expert Carmi Levy discusses the most risky private spaceflight, Neuralink may have fixed its brain implants, & telecom fined $1mil for Biden deepfake.