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A Surveillance ‘Cat-and-Mouse’ Game With AI - The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com)
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[–] LuckyDevil@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The No paywall link doesn't work for me. I get a "404 Not Found," and when I go to their main page I get a generic "Sorry! If you are the owner of this website, please contact your hosting provider."

Anyone else having this issue? Removepaywalls.com was working fine for me up until about a week or two ago.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

I usually throw the URL in archive.is and that's good enough for me. Yes, the owner is sketchy and petty, but apparently that spite does a good job powering the service.

https://archive.is/RpbAC

[–] tangeli@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago

I get the 404 error on this page and with most links to removepaywalls.com. Disabling uBlock doesn't help.

[–] PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

Having no issues with the Bypass Paywalls Clean addon. It's so good, it got removed from: the Mozilla add-on store, GitLab, and Github (which is why it's now hosted on the Russian GitFlic).

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

Odd article. It's halfway speculative: a better title is "what if always-on recording devices spy on everybody around them and not just the person wearing them?" A bit long, maybe.

The article makes this All About AI by focusing on

  • AI recording devices specifically, like the joke product "Friend" (the Atlantic never mentions this one by name, I presume out of embarrassment) or an upcoming piece of Apple hardware that IIRC has been fraught with development issues from the beginning
  • AI noise cancellation algorithms, which they note have been around since 2020 and barely register to the average person as AI unless you're writing some long-form speculation piece

I dunno, I'm more worried about the microphone in my own computer, not somebody across the room rambling into a battery-powered pendant.