Fri. 07/16 - People Have Reservations about Deep-Faking Bourdain’s Voice

The flood of robocalls may soon abate due to a technology named after James Bond’s martini instructions to bartenders, an ethical debate over whether we can revive the dead’s voices to simulate what they said or wrote in life after a documentary filmmaker deep-faked Anthony Bourdain, and dropping fish from planes, Among Us in Irish, and the Hubble, rebooted.

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How Do You Stop Robocalls? (New York Times) National Do Not Call Registry FAQs (FTC) Robocall Mitigation Database (FCC) A new Android feature tells you why someone’s calling so you know who to ignore (Input magazine) Caller ID Authentication May Tame the Scourge of Spam Calls (TidBITS) Use the AT&T Call Protect app (AT&T) Scam Shield (T-Mobile) Screen and automatically block incoming spam calls for free with Call Filter (Verizon) An AI Bourdain Speaks From the Grave (Kottke.org) A Haunting New Documentary About Anthony Bourdain (The New Yorker) What Was Anthony Bourdain Searching For? (GQ) Ottavia Bourdain denying she gave approval (her Twitter account) Anthony Bourdain’s ex-wife says she didn’t say he’d be okay with recreating his voice for documentary (EW) Voice clone of Anthony Bourdain prompts synthetic media ethics questions (Tech Policy Press) Helen Rosner on the Bourdain deep-fake audio (Twitter) Fred Astaire dances with vacuums in commercials set for Super Bowl debut (AP) A Plane in Utah Lets the Fish Fly (New York Times) Utah’s Division of Wildlife Resources has released footage of an airplane dumping fish from the air into a lake (NPR’s Instagram account) Among Us gets an official Irish translation (The Verge) NASA Successfully Switches to Backup Hardware on Hubble Space Telescope (NASA) Orkestra Obsolete play Blue Monday using 1930s instruments (BBC Arts) New Order, olden style: A unique take on Blue Monday (BBC Arts) More Cover Songs from the Man Behind Orkestra Obsolete’s ‘Blue Monday’ (Dangerous Minds)

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