Day: August 19, 2019

Google’s AI can be manipulated into “accidentally” deactivating targetted user accounts

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Jordan B. Peterson had his gmail account deactivated and I had the opportunity to inspect the bug report as a full-time employee. What I found was that Google had a technical vulnerability that, when exploited, would take any gmail account down. Certain unknown 3rd party actors are aware of this secret vulnerability and exploit it. Read more about Google’s AI can be manipulated into “accidentally” deactivating targetted user accounts[…]

Google “open sources” LiveTranscribe – except not really: only gives away android coding examples to connect to Google’s cloud speech products

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Live Transcribe is an Android application that provides real-time captioning for people who are deaf or hard of hearing. This repository contains the Android client libraries for communicating with Google’s Cloud Speech API that are used in Live Transcribe. […] The libraries provided are nearly identical to those running in the production application Live Transcribe. Read more about Google “open sources” LiveTranscribe – except not really: only gives away android coding examples to connect to Google’s cloud speech products[…]