Likewise, opened a couple in the past few years and never saw this. That said, bank lobbies have tons of ambient cameras anyway, so they don't really need a selfie.
It fits in with the rest of privacy in the US, which is slowly becoming reserved for the wealthy.
The 1% already have privacy consultants to help them keep their data private through shell corporations, legal trusts and other tricks. (The book 'Extreme Privacy' is from one such consultant and well worth a read)
Now if your want privacy in AI? Shell out $$$ for local hardware.
The government's lawyer's statement is fair in that interested parties should be named so they can participate. However there are a few major problems:
1) Unfortunately, there isn't a right to a free attorney for a civil case. This should probably be changed IMO.
2) The cities are also suing for damages and attorney costs, which is just scummy when they know their opponents can't afford it.
3) It's not really clear in the article as to why courts would be involved. Is there a legitimate procedural issue, or does the city just not like the opposition?
This is the part all the articles are glossing over. If the settlement terms include age (identity) verification, this is a big loss for everyone's privacy. The plaintiffs will take this template and apply it to other networks like Discord and push to normalize id collection everywhere.
Hahaha, I was surprised by one of those in Newark/EWR. I can't believe it's real haha. Who gets the tip? I just tipped the self-service worker in cash ;)
I am a human and I upvoted the comment immediately. Do not underestimate the wide ranging hate for age verification. Even my normie friends are against it. Meta/etc have been buying those laws but at the cost of more and more people waking up to privacy activism. I predict in a couple years it'll backlash as people first fight against AV, and then fight for more broad privacy reform in the US. At least for myself, I had never been actively calling my reps until the AV laws.
No, I wasn't suggesting that. I was saying that if there was digital art (human made) aesthetically significant that a curator would want to display it in a museum, Microsoft's GUID supplied to a data collection agency would make it possible to retrieve if ever/whenever that data were declassified (assuming it isn't purged)
It's possible a very bad curator with a terrible taste in art might select slop to display, but I was refering to "fine art" or at least finer art that is digital.
Microsoft quietly embeds a hidden tracking identifier in every AI-generated image you create using Paint or Photos on Windows.
A researcher discovered that these apps embed a server-issued GUID (a globally unique identifier) as an invisible watermark in locally generated AI images.
The watermark is tied to the prompts you type. And since those prompts are associated with your Microsoft account, Microsoft could "theoretically" trace any watermarked image back to the user who created it.
This is recycling an idea from the 80s. Back then, laser printer manufacturers added tiny yellow dot patterns to every printed page. With this, they could identify the printer.
Now Microsoft has brought the same idea to AI image generation, and added it to two of the most widely used default Windows apps.
Microsoft had disclosed its AI safety measures in official documentation, but the practical implication, that your output image file carries an invisible fingerprint linked to your identity, was never clearly mentioned, of course.
The researcher found this by reading Microsoft's own published documentation and analyzing the watermarking mechanics.
AI watermarking is a requirement by law in the EU. But "this image was generated by AI" is different than "this image was generated by AI by Mr. Winston Smith".
For anyone who values privacy, this is something to worry about. If you generate an image locally, on your own device, why should it carry a tag that can identify you to the company whose software you used?
But then, anyone who values their privacy won't be using Microsoft Windows anyway."
Since the cat is out of the bag, I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft generates an invisible watermark for ALL files and not just AI generated ones. The real story is that since AI watermarks are possible, there is no technical barrier to them adding personal EXIF metadata to a file where it can't be seen, removed, or decrypted, whether it is media, a document or other file.
Not op, but check out open code; you can turn on K/V quantization to help with increasing context if you have not already. I think K needs to stay at least 8 but I hear V can go down to 4?
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