Flock is Tracking People, Not Just Cars
Summary
This episode investigates how police use Flock’s “freeform” search feature to track individuals via vague descriptors, leading to wrongful arrests, and reveals that AI companies are mass-purchasing and destroying physical books to train models on pre-2022 human-written content to avoid “model collapse.” Additionally, the hosts discuss a hack of AI music generator Suno, exposing its scraping of platforms like YouTube and Genius for training data.
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