Techmeme: Today's fear mongering about AI-enabled “deep fakes” is similar to the end of truth panic that followed the Photoshop launch in the early nineties (Jeffrey Westling/Techdirt)

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Simone Stolzoff / Quartz:

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Josh Dzieza / The Verge:

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Dani Deahl / The Verge:

A look at AI-powered audio mastering services like Landr, which promise artists access to professional-sounding mastering without the cost of human engineers — The last step in audio production is being taken over by machines — Making music is one of the most human things we do …

Jeffrey Westling / Techdirt:

Today's fear mongering about AI-enabled “deep fakes” is similar to the end of truth panic that followed the Photoshop launch in the early nineties — In just a few short months, “deep fakes” are striking fear in technology experts and lawmakers.

James Vincent / The Verge:

Head of Google Translate on gender-specific translations, tackling bias in training data, and why Translate turned nonsense messages into religious prophecies — An interview with Google's Macduff Hughes — You might remember a spate of news stories last year about Google Translate spitting …

Tweets: @jeromobot and @ritaparada

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Google bans 29 apps downloaded 4.3M+ times from the Play Store after researchers discovered they were being used to perform malicious acts like serve scam ads — The 29 apps concealed their malice and were hard for many infected users to uninstall. — Google has banned dozens …

More: Android Police, TrendLabs Security …, Gizmodo, Engadget, Mashable, Firstpost, and SlashGear

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Jeremy Kahn / Bloomberg:

Accenture will begin selling SynOps, a robotic process automation system that it claims was used internally to automate tasks and redeploy about 40,000 workers — - Company unveils new system to help firms streamline work — Consulting firm says clients testing system saved millions

More: Gizmodo, Accenture Newsroom, FierceTelecom, PYMNTS.com, and ZDNet. Tweets: @accountingtoday

Kiran Stacey / Financial Times:

Cisco joins Apple in praising Europe's GDPR and calling for similar regulations in the US — Cisco has joined Apple in calling for a US version of the European General Data Protection regulation, underlining the divisions among big technology companies over how to tackle privacy concerns.

Tweets: @fukuyamafrancis. Thanks:@cremnob

Jennings Brown / Gizmodo:

A look inside Blind's anonymous chat forum used by Google employees shows transphobic and racist comments and messages critical of Google's diversity efforts — In early January, Google systems reliability engineer Liz Fong-Jones announced she was leaving the company after 11 years …

South China Morning Post:

How a 14-year-old developer from Hong Kong built Timeless, an app that uses an AI and facial recognition to help Alzheimer's patients identify people in photos — For many teenagers, their lives typically might revolve around schoolwork and spending time with friends. Not so for Emma Yang.

Karl Bode / Motherboard:

AT&T lost 14% or 267K DirecTV Now subscribers in Q4 after a $5 price hike in the summer, as it struggles with managing debt from DirecTV and Time Warner deals — Massive merger debt forced company to raise rates, only driving users to cut the cord even faster.

More: SlashGear. Tweets: @trengriffin

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