Vinson·Li
Index

On ethics

  1. Fake Drake

    An AI-generated song imitating Drake and The Weeknd got millions of plays before it was pulled. Voice is identity, and the industry needs consent and attribution systems, fast.

    2 min
  2. IBM, Amazon and Microsoft step back from face recognition

    In one week, three of the biggest companies in the field paused or ended police sales. Where I agree, and why a pause isn't a policy.

    2 min
  3. Datasets have a consent debt

    Microsoft quietly took down MS-Celeb-1M, ten million photos of a hundred thousand people. A lot of the face recognition industry was built on data nobody agreed to give.

    2 min
  4. Face swaps on Reddit: I built the harmless version years ago

    Someone on Reddit is putting celebrities' faces into porn with a home GPU and open-source tools. How it works, and why consent has to be designed in now.

    2 min