653: To Violate, or Not to Violate?
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2024
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Opting out of META AI data training; 11 steps, or be in the EU; why I hate Elon, let me count the ways; SCiFi Foods, Fisker shut down; social media warning labels; TikTok child privacy case; Safe SuperIntelligence; Apple Pay Later discontinued; Adobe lawsuit; Amazon labor law fines; emotion canceling & mental shields; Dell return to work not working; real phot wins AI image contest; Time Bandits reboot, Spaceballs sequel; the Boys; Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution; Runway Gen-3; SoundLabs; McDonalds ditches drive-thru AI; the Acolyte & Oreos; small home projects that spin out of control.
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11 steps to keep Meta from stealing your data to train AI
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MEDIA CANDY
Apple TV+ announces the date for “Time Bandits” starring Lisa Kudrow
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APPS & DOODADS
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THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again
Giants legend Willie Mays dies at 93
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| 0:00.0 | Grumpy old geeks a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and |
| 0:06.4 | Jason de Philippo discussing with finer points of what went wrong on the internet |
| 0:10.2 | and who's to blame. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to Gropio Geeks, I'm Jason de Philipo. And I'm Brian Schillmeister. |
| 0:20.0 | So there is a link that is making the rounds right now and I'm at first I'm always |
| 0:27.0 | skeptical about these things at first this is a you know this is like when you see |
| 0:30.2 | you're unfortunate like onson uncles copying and pasting the thing about. |
| 0:34.7 | I'm posting this now on Facebook because I do not give them the rights to use any of my images. |
| 0:38.9 | They are mine and mine only and by posting this that is legal, except it's not because we all know that was all |
| 0:44.8 | dumb but this is a link I did see on a friend posted on Facebook and I did follow |
| 0:49.2 | up on this it's 11 steps to keep Meta from stealing your data to train AI. |
| 0:54.0 | You only have until June 26, 2024 to say no to Meta taking your personal photos and |
| 0:58.2 | words and using them to train their generative AI. |
| 1:00.5 | Here are the 11 step-by-step directions for opting out. And this is a post over on, I think, was it medium? No, substack. Substack by Deborah Copacane. Copacane? Copacane? Copacane? Copacane. Copacane, Copacane, Copacane, Copacana, I'm not sure exactly how she |
| 1:16.8 | pronounces her name. |
| 1:17.8 | That the Copa, Debbie was blogging. But she's a legit New York Times best-selling author of war photographer TV writer Emmy Award winning TV news |
| 1:26.8 | producers so you know a annoying overachiever |
| 1:29.6 | annoying overachiever but respectable so the other reason I actually believe it and did it is because |
| 1:35.7 | Meta has taken great pains to not let anybody know about it, buried Elder settings as far as they possibly could, |
| 1:41.8 | and made it very amorphous and odd and I'm |
| 1:44.2 | assuming and you even the response when you get through it doesn't really tell you |
| 1:47.3 | anything so seems legit to me. Okay Brian I can do this in one step for you. |
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