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Kind of nuts all the ways audio data can be used now.
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Please provide a link.
You would need 4 and change of these 245tb Kioxias to hold 1 petabyte, and an entire server grade computer to run them. https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/kioxia-unvei... Or 250 of these ~$400 4tb flash drives and an insane number of dongles to connect them all: https://www.slashgear.com/1847725/largest-usb-thumb-drive-hi...
I was floating near some ex agency and GS15 folks yesterday in Houston, they explained to me that the Israeli cybersecurity apparatus has had everyone's voicemails for the last 20 years because they inserted themselves into the supply chain of voicemails somehow or another. Kind of nuts all the ways audio data can be used now.
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Has your identity been stolen? Try our free credit monitoring for a month! Selling the solution to the problem you caused ought to be illegal.
This would eliminate the credit report, monitoring and fixing industry, which would be a good thing. Court records are public in the US. If creditors want to know if you’ve been in financial trouble, they should check for bankruptcies and lawsuits, not the extrajudicial version of those that the credit reporting companies run based on hearsay.
It’s not better in all ways, of course, but the alternative is not “everyone gets cheap credit extended to them” but rather “people who rich people know and trust get cheap credit extended to them, some others get more expensive credit, and some get no credit extended”. It’s not obvious to me that that’s better.
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The underlying reason is to break the law and not get caught. Let’s be real here.
Did you go to high school? A sister of a friend of a friend says blah blah blah and everybody knows that yadda yadda. Same thing happens in big companies, especially among people who are out of the loop but wish they knew all the inside details. I see this all the time and sometimes it sounds like something that would be pretty damaging in a court case. In other cases I have heard people who ought to know better spec…
Hey, fuck you too buddy.
I said this based on my years of working at companies on projects specifically to do things like delete all data as soon as it was legally permissible so it could never come up in court again.
And most of my “let’s take this offline” chats have led to discussions around doing illegal shit.
Hell, I had one manager give me handwritten code on paper and instructions to commit it under my name. The code in question would cause sales to go through without the discounts presented to customers because the discount service was buggy and his metrics were based on successfully completed sales. Even threatened to fire me when I said no, and only backed down when I put the paper in my pocket and asked if he would like for anyone else outside the room to see it or if he would not use me as a fall guy.
If your employees “don’t know what they’re talking about” then either they are not representative of the companies views and have no power to enact illegal policies for the company, or they do and you don’t have controls. Trying to hide that shit by default means you don’t get the benefit of the doubt, like you are giving them.
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I'm taking some college courses, and one of them explicitly suggests to keep maybe-not-okay communications off of email so that "you don't expose your company to risks of litigation." Ah, I see. So, when discussing ways to ensure cuatomers cannot utilize our warranty process, I'll make sure to do so in ways that are not traceable and won't show up in discovery.
The underlying reason is that employees don't always know what they're talking about, but their nonsense could be useful to the other side in a court case. The bigger the company, the more speculation there is about stuff people don't actually understand.
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The irony runs deeper than the free analysis offer. The whole Mercor contractor relationship was this exact pattern: hand over studio-quality voice recordings and ID scans to get paid for data labeling work that didn't require either. "Explicit consent" was buried in the terms, and people clicked through because they needed the paycheck. Now 40k people have learned that biometrics aren't passwords. You can't rotate y…
> biometrics aren't passwords. You can't rotate your voice. "My voice is my passport. Verify me." I have to renew my passport every 10 years or so. How do I do that with my voice? I guess it's time to take some vocal lessons.
Well met, fellow Uplinker!!
> If you were a Mercor contractor and you believe your voice may already be in circulation, ORAVYS will analyze the first three suspect samples free of charge. Awesome, if you're a victim of an AI company having your voice, you can help yourself by sending another AI company your voice! > Audio is never used to train commercial models without explicit consent I'm sure Mercor has explicit consent as well, legal teams…
The irony runs deeper than the free analysis offer. The whole Mercor contractor relationship was this exact pattern: hand over studio-quality voice recordings and ID scans to get paid for data labeling work that didn't require either. "Explicit consent" was buried in the terms, and people clicked through because they needed the paycheck. Now 40k people have learned that biometrics aren't passwords. You can't rotate y…
also this took me way too long to realize it had nothing to do with warhammer.
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> biometrics aren't passwords. You can't rotate your voice. "My voice is my passport. Verify me." I have to renew my passport every 10 years or so. How do I do that with my voice? I guess it's time to take some vocal lessons.
>> "My voice is my passport. Verify me." Well met, fellow Uplinker!!
I'm pretty sure this person worked at Playtronics.
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Easier to inhale an undisclosed amount of helium before recording your password voice
I recommend sulfur hexafluoride for something harder to replicate. Nothing like making hackers risk their life to impersonate you
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