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Senior podcast producer at the Financial Times (@FT) making Tech Tonic, listen here: https://t.co/IUSsp2EySA

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@love_persis
Persis Love
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After seeing nonconsensual deepfake porn of herself online, Anita found little recourse for having it removed, or holding the perpetrators to account. 98% of deepfake videos are porn. What's being done about it? @MsHannahMurphy @ManuelaSaragosa @EdwinLane https://t.co/L2TuhGqucL
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Financial Times
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A new breed of AI-generated fake pictures, videos and audio clips is spreading across the internet - content anyone with an internet connection can generate. Our new series on Tech Tonic investigates what can be done about deepfakes: https://t.co/7AaOLTBYjS
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@EdwinLane
Edwin Lane
2 years
You can listen on https://t.co/aLlyExHEpk here: https://t.co/oTuGksDBi9 Or find Tech Tonic on your favourite podcasting app here:
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Edwin Lane
2 years
Episode 6: New frontiers - China has big plans to lead the world in science and tech. But whether it will succeed could depend on geopolitics and China’s own authoritarianism, rather than the technology itself. With the FT's @EleanorOlcott, plus @mattsheehan88 and @YashengHuang
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@EdwinLane
Edwin Lane
2 years
Episode 5: Chatbots and chips - China is lagging behind the US when it comes to generative AI. To catch up it needs the latest AI chips, and that means either smuggling them in, or making their own. The inside story from @QianerLiu, a visit to @Huawei and chip expert @crmiller1
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@EdwinLane
Edwin Lane
2 years
Episode 4: Robot generation - China is filling its factories with thousands of robots. That’s because the population is starting to shrink, and China will need robots to take the place of human workers. Featuring Chinese robot makers @RobotAnno, @Youibot1 and @Hans_Robot_
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@EdwinLane
Edwin Lane
2 years
Episode 3: Embracing Africa - You can find Chinese technology all over the world. In Africa, the biggest mobile phone brand is a Chinese company you’ve never heard of. Featuring former Nigerian minister @TundeIrukera and fintech entrepreneurs @dejiolowe and @le_yanu
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@EdwinLane
Edwin Lane
2 years
Episode 2: Driving into Europe - China’s car giant BYD rivals Tesla as the biggest EV maker in the world. But exporting its cars to Europe has provoked sanctions and talk of a trade war. With analyst @StefanBratzel, @FTLex editor June Yoon and @EU_Commission's Olof Gill
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Edwin Lane
2 years
Episode 1: Shenzhen speed - The Chinese city of Shenzhen has decades of experience making other people's tech products. Now that's helping it become a centre of tech innovation. Featuring @noazark, robots from @Youibot1, drone giant @DJIGlobal and China watcher @mattsheehan88
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@EdwinLane
Edwin Lane
2 years
🧵Is China destined to become the world's no. 1 tech superpower? Find out in a new @FT podcast 🎧series, hosted by the amazing @JKynge, featuring drones, robots🤖, cars🚘, chip smugglers💽, Chinese chatbots, and the dark side of the moon🌗. https://t.co/hxsk6nh6AL
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@JKynge
James Kynge
2 years
In our latest Tech Tonic podcast on China and AI, we ask a Chinese chatbot about Xi Jinping (glowing praise) and the Tiananmen massacre of 1989 (a different reaction). Big thanks to @EdwinLane
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China wants to lead the world in AI. It’s going to need more chips.
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@ManuelaSaragosa
Manuela Saragosa🌍 also on bluesky and threads
2 years
How about speaking to a whale? Are we on the verge of a ‘google translate’ for the zoo? A new series of Tech Tonic from ⁦@FT explores how better microphones & new AI are being deployed to understand the non-human world. All episodes out now 👇🏼🎧🐋🦇🐘🐝
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Podcast Episode · FT Tech Tonic · 19/09/2023 · 25m
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@ManuelaSaragosa
Manuela Saragosa🌍 also on bluesky and threads
2 years
A ‘google translate’ for the zoo? How better microphones and new AI are being deployed to understand the non-human world, narrated by ⁦@johnthornhillft⁩, produced by ⁦@love_persis⁩ & mixed by ⁦@breen_audio⁩ & Sam Giovinco 👇🏼🎧🐳🐋🦇🐝🐘
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@ManuelaSaragosa
Manuela Saragosa🌍 also on bluesky and threads
2 years
Sound on! 👇🏼🎧🐳🐋
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@EricFrohnhoefer
Eric Frohnhoefer
2 years
No limit? 🤔
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
2 years
If you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill. No limit. Please let us know.
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@EdwinLane
Edwin Lane
2 years
Episode 6 - What the future of social media will look like: TikTok, Threads and artificial intelligence with the FT's own @CristinaCriddle, @tim Bradshaw and @MsHannahMurphy https://t.co/3S5Q2A50Ng (7/7)
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From Meta’s Threads to artificial intelligence, we ask how platforms will look and feel in years to come
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Edwin Lane
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Episode 5 - Can we build a better social media? @ethanz on designing better platforms, Reddit moderator Sarah Gilbert, and the man who invented Friendster @abrams https://t.co/MB8Ly3Vt5L (6/7)
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What should the social media of the future look like?
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Edwin Lane
2 years
Episode 4 - How influencers and content creators took over social media - the FT's @JoshGD meets TikTok and Youtube star KallMeKris https://t.co/xPbSGvNrFs (5/7)
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How the creator economy is reshaping platforms
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Edwin Lane
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Episode 3 - Is social media really bad for us? The debate over the harm social media is doing to children, and the US lawmakers who want regulation. Featuring @EmmaLembke and @OrbenAmy https://t.co/sECX7TgFe9 (4/7)
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How will regulation impact the social media business model?
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@EdwinLane
Edwin Lane
2 years
Episode 2 - How Facebook used ads to conquer social media, and where Meta goes from here, with inventor of the pop-up ad @ethanz, former Zuckerberg mentor @Moonalice, and Wired's @StevenLevy https://t.co/6jgFcsIyLe (3/7)
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