So it’s a top 4 race now, then #Lfc

Comes as Amazon makes it harder to use its Firestick as a dodgy box, by updating the operating system to disallow app side loading (Vega OS). Firesticks are a common device offered by sellers as modified dodgy boxes.

In May, Italy issued first wave of 2,266 administrative fines (€154 up) to home dodgy box users. Now issuing thousands more. = Big change to usual ‘sellers only’ fines/prosecutions. Sky, which leads anti-piracy here, looking at thus for Ireland; would prob need legal/reg update.

Maybe FF and FG fielding unserious candidates has a logical outcome

Up to 400,000 Irish dodgy box home users may soon face direct fines for the first time. Broadcasters here looking to copy Italy, which has a new fine system of €154-€5,000 per user, imposed when subscriber data in seized in police raids on sellers. https://t.co/5vcu8zLWUv

Absolutely brilliant detail from the new Reddit AI copyright lawsuit vs. Perplexity. They set a trap for Perplexity - a test post only crawlable by Google, existing nowhere else on the internet. Within hours, it was on Perplexity 😳 https://t.co/xBcKGs8lmT

!! Trump pardons convicted founder of crypto exchange Binance, Changpeng Zhao. Zhao has spent months boosting Trump family’s own crypto company

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Autumn colour from a trip to Michigan last week

@Independent_ie European Commission weighs in on Catherine Connolly AI deepfake video https://t.co/OR03IPPfmq

@Independent_ie Catherine Connolly files formal complaint to Electoral Commission over AI deepfake videos on FB — says the "malicious" videos are an attempt to "undermine democracy". Meanwhile, both main regulators say it's not their job to find out who made the videos. https://t.co/uqocZ54XT8

Ireland disinformation update: Reddit locked down one of the most-used parts of its platform in Ireland (r/ireland, claiming 1.2m members) due to what moderators called a “wave of new and inactive accounts spreading disinformation and hate speech connected to recent events.”

@Independent_ie Electoral Commission tells me it has contacted Meta (and YouTune, where the same account had a much smaller presence) about the AI deepfake video. But it can’t say whether it will take action, saying it might not have the power.

@Independent_ie It’s a challenge that we’re now in an AI era where it’s incredibly easy/cheap to make synthetic video, simply from a text box on an app on your phone. OpenAI, Google etc have policies against creating politically deceptive deepfakes. But other tools make it easy.

Update: Facebook has now removed the deepfake AI video after being contacted by @Independent_ie for comment. Some of that account’s most-viewed content (100k+ views) up for days, though. Supposed to be spotted quickly. https://t.co/sunxIgO33Y

Over 160k views and 100s of comments/shares on Facebook for series of Al deepfake videos about Irish presidential candidate Catherine Connolly https://t.co/sunxIgO33Y

Interesting reactions to this. 1. Lots of people here can spot it’s a deepfake 2. Lots don’t realise that a great many people can’t, as seen by large number of credulous comments/shares on FB

https://t.co/JGDqVUSeka

This particular political deepfake account uses the same brand styling as RTE. Its last fake video here, not quite as slick but still passable, got 114k views, 268 comments and 309 shares on Facebook. It’s still live after four days.

Note how realistic the visuals and voices are. This AI deepfake video of Catherine Connolly ‘withdrawing’ from presidential contest and that Friday’s poll is ‘cancelled’ is live and viral on Facebook tonight. 1000s watching, commenters believing it. We knew this would happen.