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Shared emphasis This 'Digital Camouflage' Shirt Confuses AI-Powered Surveillance Cameras Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions Multiple readings Texas Police Used AI to Write Report About Using Flock to Search for Woman Who Had Abortion Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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New Culture, work & education Development 21h ago
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Cocomelon studio mandates AI experimentation

Cocomelon's Studio Tells Its Artists to Start Experimenting With AI

6 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

6 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
404 Media Joseph Cox Jason Koebler James Grimmelmann Woodrow Hartzog Charles Logan

“Moonbug Entertainment, which makes Cocomelon, Blippi, and other popular content for children, says it will begin using AI but will always have a 'human in the loop.' www.404media.co/cocomelons-s...”

“New: the studio behind Cocomelon is telling its artists to start using AI, according to documents seen by 404 Media. Moonbug, the studio that makes Cocomelon, one of the most important children's entertainment studios on the planet www.404media.co/cocomelon…”

Primary source 404media.co ↗
Developing AI field signal Development 1d ago
⚡ 6 h early
digital camouflage shirt defeats AI surveillance

This 'Digital Camouflage' Shirt Confuses AI-Powered Surveillance Cameras

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
404 Media Joseph Cox Jason Koebler Marielza
How the network is reacting 2 experts are emphasizing concern & critique.
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Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Simon Weckert designed digital camouflage as a response to the proliferation of AI-powered surveillance cameras that detect people, vehicles, animals, bicycles, and other objects in their field of view. www.404media.co/this-digital...”

3 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Joseph Cox: We got a live demo of the shirt that is designed to fool certain people detection systems. Read more here: www.404media.co/this-digital...
Meredith Whittaker: were that it weren't fugly
404 Media: We got a live demo of the shirt that is designed to fool certain people detection systems. Read more here: www.404media.co/this-digital...
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Primary source 404media.co ↗
Established AI field signal Development 4d ago
⚡ 3 h early
Texas police AI-written abortion report

Texas Police Used AI to Write Report About Using Flock to Search for Woman Who Had Abortion

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
404 Media Joseph Cox Sarah T Roberts, PhD Jason Koebler Amanda Tepski
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
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Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“The incident shows how quickly police departments have come to use AI surveillance tools even in critically sensitive cases”

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“New from 404 Media: the Texas police who used Flock to track a woman who self-administered abortion also used AI to write their report about the whole situation. They used AI to summarize a discussion of “the legal implications of the situation.” www.404med…”

Primary source 404media.co ↗