Tag Archives: artificial intelligence

BIPA Violations and “Investigative Journalism”

When I saw this statement in Biometric Update’s summary of a a BIPA lawsuit against Google for voiceprint use, I had to laugh.

“NotebookLM Audio Overviews can be used to generate podcasts, directly competing with investigative audio journalism and narration work.”

Invesigative audio journalism?

Have any of the plaintiffs ever HEARD a NotebookLM Audio Overview?

I shared one over a year ago when my LinkedIn profile was used to create the audio overview “Career Detective.” It’s so fawning about my amazing background that it is nowhere near investigative journalism.

Or maybe investigative journalisn is just that bad.

Judge for yourself whether this AI-generated “podcast” would compete with a real investigative podcast:

Using LLMs for KYC. What Could Go Wrong?

The title of this post uses acronyms for brevity, but the full version is “Using Large Language Models for Know Your Customer. What Could Go Wrong?”

Biometric Update links to a TrendAI post that demonstrates how the use of a large language model to analyze document data is a vulnerability to prompt attacks.

“In a real-world stack built with FastAPI, Claude Code, and a SQLite MCP backend, his team embedded malicious instructions inside a passport so that the AI agent followed them and leaked other customer records directly into the verification page.”

Google Gemini. I tried to create the image with a fake too-short onion address but Google Gemini prohibited that.

What does this mean?

“The takeaway here is that if your AI can read documents and call tools, your documents can potentially become executable attack surfaces even when guarded with strict schemas.”

Something a human wouldn’t do.

Putting the Tires Before the Purpose of Your Drive

So I had to fulfill a medical appointment and got into my car WITH TIRES, started it, and positioned THE TIRES so that I would head north, then west, toward the medical facility. Once I got to the parking lot I parked my car WITH TIRES and went inside. Less than a half hour later I exited, walked to my car WITH TIRES, and drove home. (Did I mention that my car has TIRES?)

Google Gemini.
Google Gemini.

Is Your Identity/Biometric Firm Too Busy Putting Out Fires to Install a Sprinkler System?

It’s the classic case of paralysis by overwhelmedness. (Not officially a word, but bear with me here.)

Your identity/biometric firm needs experienced product marketing contract help because you are drowning in work. But because you’re drowning in work you can’t take the time to set up that contract.

Bredemarket can help you contract with Bredemarket.

Now there are certain things that Bredemarket can’t do. Well, Bredemarket could do them, but you (understandably) won’t let me.

  • I can’t create my own contract with you. Actually I can, and I have with some clients, but your company probably requires that I use your contract, which I don’t have.
  • I can’t enroll myself as a vendor in your purchasing system. Trust me, that would be dangerous. Hmm…net 5 terms at $1,000 per hour?
  • I can’t onboard myself into your other internal systems. If I could, that would be a major security flaw.

But there are things that I can do to make your life easier when you onboard Bredemarket as a contractor/vendor…especially if you are an identity/biometric firm.

  • You don’t have to explain to me what a bifurcation or ridge ending are. I’ve been working with fingerprints since 1994 and know these things.
  • You don’t have to teach me how to spell NIST. While the 1985 interchange standard was before my time, I’m familiar with every ANSI/NIST standard since 1993 to the present day.
  • You don’t have to explain to me what a “factor” and a “modality” are. Heck, I wrote the book on factors and modalities.
  • You don’t have to create a briefing book. Just let me ask the questions and we’ll figure out the scope together.

So I can meet your partway. Then we’ll realize our mutual goal of making your products prominent and making the competitive products look weak.

So let’s talk and move the process forward.

Oh, and the title of this post was suggested by Google Gemini. AI is only a tool, but sometimes it’s a very effective tool. Sometimes.

Clifford Stoll Was Wrong AND Right

A former coworker reshared the story of Clifford Stoll investigating an accounting error and discovering a Cold War spy network. But a few years later, Stoll was wrong about the emerging Internet…and also right.

Stoll shared his views in a 1995 Newsweek article that was an amusing read after the fact.

Replacing your daily newspaper?

For example:

“The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper…”

Stoll lived long enough to see the decline of printed newspapers in the early 21st century.

Electronic books?

Another one:

“How about electronic publishing? Try reading a book on disc. At best, it’s an unpleasant chore: the myopic glow of a clunky computer replaces the friendly pages of a book. And you can’t tote that laptop to the beach. Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we’ll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure.”

Let’s pick this one apart piece by piece.

  • A book on disc? What’s a disc?
  • Yes, to some the myopic glow of an electronic book isn’t the best experience, whether on light or dark mode. But a traditional printed book cannot be read at all when you turn the lights off.
  • Stoll assumed that you would always need a laptop to read an electronic book. He did not envision dedicated electronic reading devices that were smaller than a laptop…to say nothing of “smart” phones with an “app” called “Kindle.”
  • Speaking of Amazon Kindles, you CAN buy books straight over the Internet. And music also, from a company that is no longer called Apple Computer.

So Stoll was not perfect. But he anticipated some things that we still struggle with today.

Unedited data!

“What the Internet hucksters won’t tell you is tht the Internet is one big ocean of unedited data, without any pretense of completeness. Lacking editors, reviewers or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data. You don’t know what to ignore and what’s worth reading.”

While many companies from Yahoo to Altavista to Google to Wikipedia to OpenAI have tried to solve this problem, it is not fully solved.

And then there’s the biggie.

Isolation!

“What’s missing from this electronic wonderland? Human contact. Discount the fawning techno-burble about virtual communities. Computers and networks isolate us from one another. A network chat line is a limp substitute for meeting friends over coffee. No interactive multimedia display comes close to the excitement of a live concert. And who’d prefer cybersex to the real thing?”

Today’s world is actually worse than the one Stoll envisioned. Not only have I conducted most of my interactions with people over chat boxes and screens. But in 2026 we are now interacting with “HAL 9000” non-person entities…and we may not even know that they aren’t human, but synthetic or deepfake identities.

Despite the benefits of remote interactions—they’ve kept me (and my former coworker) employed—Stoll’s warnings about this new world remain valid.

Wrong but right

So I wouldn’t laugh at Stoll’s derision over the emerging Internet. If you were alive in 1995, be honest: did you anticipate THIS?

Are You Using TI To Its Fullest?

Don’t fall behind.

It should be obvious by now that TI is a transformative paradigm shift that is already affecting the world economy and your own life.

Forward-thinking influencers are reimagining the tire as a sophisticated sensory organ, incorporating real-time structural diagnostics and dynamic adaptation. This is fundamentally redefining our relationship with the road, proving that the future of mobility is being built from the ground up.

But those who remain still will fall behind.

  • Those who purchase expensive TI courses will move ahead.
  • Those who reposition their marketing to always talk about TI will move ahead.
  • Those who right-size their companies to allow maximum investment in TI will move ahead.

Because the tool IS a way of life.

Google Gemini.

Look familiar?

It should.

Don’t fall into the me-too trap. Differentiate.

You’re Doing It Wrong(TM).

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Ideal Bot Profile?

While I’m currently concentrating on HUMAN identities (book on the way), the world is moving in a different direction.

Elena Verna points this out:

“Everyone (I think?) agrees that defining your ICP (Ideal Customer Profile) is important….

“But there’s an assumption baked into all of this: Your user is human. I think that assumption is breaking.

“As agents begin to interact with products on our behalf – often via protocols like Model Context Protocol (MCP) – your ‘user’ may never actually touch your product.

“Which changes pretty much everything.”

Verna highlights how to market when your ideal “customer” is a bot, and what the bots look for.

“[Other products] will become almost entirely invisible. They exist as infrastructure. As a codified set of rules that is hard to reproduce. They are never opened directly, never explored, never ‘used’ in the traditional sense. They are just… there, powering outcomes. And you know what, I think most of the B2B will fall here.”

So I’m definitely concentrating on people for the next few days, but I haven’t forgotten my bot buddies.

Maybe Health AI Is Not Working as Expected

I previously noted that electronic health records serve the billers. Perhaps EHRs serve the billers a little too much.

From the Petersen Health Technology Institute:

“Though we are still in the early stages of administrative AI adoption, it has become clear that rapid AI deployment by both providers and health plans to support prior authorization and medical billing transactions risks increasing levels of system activity without reducing costs. Under existing incentive structures, AI automation could increase the volume of prior authorization back-and-forth, rather than making the process more efficient. AI-assisted coding tools could accelerate coding intensity and charge capture, which—even if accurate—would have an inflationary impact on healthcare costs.”

Regarding prior authorization:

“AI may reduce the cost for individual organizations to execute prior authorizations, but it has not reduced overall system-level costs.”

And regarding medical billing:

“Provider deployment of AI is increasing billing intensity and inflating medical spending.”

This was not what we intended. Or maybe it was.