The bankruptcy court will sell, and someone will buy, the Thrifty ice cream brand and continue to produce it. It’s a popular brand and therefore a valuable asset, and the creditors will want to get money for it.
Maybe Rite Aid just needs content-proposal-analysis marketing and writing services. Then again, Bredemarket does B2B/B2G identity/biometrics and technology, not B2C ice cream and cough syrup.
Imagen 4 tried to generate this picture, but even with my second prompt attempt (below) it didn’t understand what an FBI tenprint card was.
I couldn’t get Walter Cronkite in there either, so I settled for a generic newsman.
My prompt:
Please generate a realistic picture of a 1975 television show called The Amazing Computer. The picture shows an FBI fingerprint card with ten rolled inked prints and four slap prints sitting on a gargantuan flatbed scanner. A newsman is talking about the technology.
My Google Gemini account does not include access to Google’s new video generation tool Veo 3. But I’m learning about its capabilities from sources such as TIME magazine.
“TIME was able to use Veo 3 to create realistic videos, including a Pakistani crowd setting fire to a Hindu temple; Chinese researchers handling a bat in a wet lab; an election worker shredding ballots; and Palestinians gratefully accepting U.S. aid in Gaza. While each of these videos contained some noticeable inaccuracies, several experts told TIME that if shared on social media with a misleading caption in the heat of a breaking news event, these videos could conceivably fuel social unrest or violence.”
However, TIME notes that the ability to create fake videos has existed for years. So why worry now?
“Veo 3 videos can include dialogue, soundtracks and sound effects. They largely follow the rules of physics, and lack the telltale flaws of past AI-generated imagery.”
Then again, some of the Veo 3 deepfakes look pretty good. Take this example of Will Smith slapping down some pasta at Eminem’s restaurant. The first part of the short was generated with old technology, the last part with Veo 3.
I’m experimenting with more detailed prompts for generative AI.
If you haven’t noticed, I use a ton of AI-generated images in Bredemarket blog posts and social media posts. They primarily feature wildebeests, wombats, and iguanas, although sometimes they feature other things.
My prompts for these images are usually fairly short, no more than two sentences.
By the way, here is my prompt, which Google Gemini (Imagen 4) stored as “Eerie Scene: Sara’s Fake Bills.”
“Draw a realistic picture of a ghost-like woman wearing a t-shirt with the name “Sara.” She is holding out a large stack of dollar bills that is obviously fake because the picture on the bill is a picture of a clown with orange face makeup wearing a blue suit and a red tie. Next to Sara is a dead tree with a beehive hanging from it. Bees buzz around the beehive. A laptop with the word “HiveLLM” on the screen sits on the rocky ground beneath the tree. It is night time, and the full moon casts an eerie glow over the landscape.”
I didn’t get exactly what I wanted—the bills are two-faced—but close enough. And the accident of two-faced bills is a GOOD thing.
As promised, I am going to continue to write about third-party risk management (TPRM).
And as the abstract for a September 9 Gartner roundtable points out, TPRM isn’t just the concern of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) any more…
“Third-party networks are expanding, with startups and business model innovators increasingly joining them. The increasing high risk in these networks is prompting boards and senior leaders to enhance and better focus their oversight of TPRM programs.”
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I have observed that we are living in a time of uncertainty, in which surprises happen every day.
This week has been no exception. As I type this, Donald Trump and Elon Musk are feuding, with accusations of pedophilia leveled against Trump, threats to yank the government contracts of Musk, and who knows what all. Just a typical week in Washington.
But that’s nothing compared to the shocking news I learned Friday morning.
Sit down and don’t bother to bring out your CHF wallet
It’s not shocking that ISO has published a standard. It does this all the time.
It’s also not shocking that ISO published a standard on consent. Consent is required by many privacy regulations, and therefore a standard information structure for consent requests is beneficial throughout the European Union, California, Illinois, and elsewhere.
“This document builds upon ISO/IEC 29184 by addressing the concept of giving the PII principal a record for their own recordkeeping, which includes information about the PII processing agreement and interaction. We call this record the “consent receipt”.
“This document specifies a structure that is used by both principals in consent management: namely a specification for data to be held by the organization to allow record-keeping with good integrity (subject to the defined controls), and an artefact (the “consent receipt”) that is given to the individual whose PII is being processed.”
No, none of this is the shocking part. I’ll let Chris Burt reveal the surprise, but please sit down before you read this. Emphasis mine.
“The International Standards Organization has published a standard for obtaining and recording consent, as is necessary to legally use people’s biometric data in a number of jurisdictions, and is making it available for free.”
Yes, you read that correctly. FREE. As in ZERO CHF.
ISO doesn’t normally give standards away, but there’s an exception for this one.
As a result, I have “purchased” this ISO standard—the first one that Bredemarket has ever owned.
Government Technology shared an article entitled “Talking Agentic AI Cameras: Can They Prevent Crime?” In the article, Nikki Davidson spoke with Steve Lindsey of LiveView Technologies about the surveillance company’s newest capability:
“The technology analyzes footage to detect activity and determine a best course of action. This can include directly speaking to individuals with personalized, AI-generated voice warnings, without human intervention….
“Lindsey explained the newest update with the technology uses contextual detection as well as generative AI behavioral deterrence. He said the new tech doesn’t just automate tasks; it gives AI agents the ability to make smart decisions based on evolving situations — such how to react to different scenarios.”
Lindsey clarifies that the intent of the agentic technology is to handle low-priority situations (such as trespassing on private property), while leaving high-priority situations in the capabilities of human security personnel.
I wonder if LiveView Technologies’ object recognition capabilities are able to detect guns as other video analytic programs do.
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