Thanks for all the messages about the new @Digiday AI Briefing I’ll be writing each week! The next edition published today, but we’ll be building it out with more reporting, analysis, commentary & other briefing-specific sections. Ideas welcome!
@martyswant
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California Delete Act Enhances Consumer Data Privacy Rights
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“Rights that are too complicated to use are not really rights.” – @SenJoshBecker I spoke w/ Becker about his Delete Act bill to regulate data brokers, improve transparency, add accountability and give Californians better control of their data. #SB362 https://
digiday.com/marketing/cali
fornia-state-senator-josh-becker-on-privacy-data-brokers-and-why-hes-sponsoring-the-delete-act/
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Bria AI Launches Licensed Foundation Models With Getty Images
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Israel-based AI image generator Bria AI has created new foundation models trained with licensed content from stock image powerhouse Getty Images and other sources. Bria’s also made new data attribution tools for AI researchers & for compensating creators.
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California Senator Sponsors Delete Act for Data Broker Regulation
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I interviewed California state @SenJoshBecker about the Delete Act he’s sponsoring that would further regulate data brokers and give Golden State residents more control over their personal information. https://
digiday.com/marketing/cali
fornia-state-senator-josh-becker-on-privacy-data-brokers-and-why-hes-sponsoring-the-delete-act/
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Digiday Launches Weekly AI Briefing for Marketing Professionals
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PSA: I’m excited to start a new @Digiday weekly “AI Briefing” with news/analysis/research/recaps/interviews and other AI-related info about marketing, media, commerce, regulations, etc. The first one published on Monday, but we’ll be building this out more in the coming weeks.
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AI-Generated Content and Copyright Law: Training Data Perspectives
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Any AI, marketing and/or legal experts have 5-10 minutes today to briefly chat? I looking for a few quick POVs for a a story about AI-generated content, copyright law, and training data for AI models. (Feel free to DM or email me.)
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Weekly AI News: Tools, Regulation, and Misinformation Research
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I wrote a @Digiday recap with just a small sample of this week’s AI news including: -State legislative efforts
-Newly announced #GenAI tools for marketers
-Various research related to topics like misinformation & martech https://
digiday.com/media-buying/t
he-week-that-was-in-ai-the-latest-in-creating-using-and-regulating-generative-ai
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California’s Delete Act: Privacy Regulation Impacts Ad Tech Industry
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For @Digiday
’s “WTF Series” — which explains the complexities of adtech — I wrote an overview about the proposed “Delete Act” in California, what #SB362 entails, why privacy groups are in favor of the bill and why the ad world wants the #CALeg to kill it. https://
digiday.com/media-buying/w
tf-is-californias-proposed-delete-act/
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AI and emerging tech during FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023
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It’s no surprise AI showed up this summer Down Under during the 2023 @FIFAWWC
. #FIFAWWC For my latest @Digiday story, I wrote about some of the ways advertisers, social platforms and FIFA itself used emerging tech during the @FIFAWorldCup
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digiday.com/media-buying/h
ow-ai-and-other-emerging-tech-showed-up-during-the-fifa-womens-world-cup/
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Data Privacy Lessons from Cambridge Analytica for AI Era
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Data privacy wasn’t on everyone’s radar until the Cambridge Analytica crisis, but what can the past teach us for the AI era? Even if future risks aren’t clear based on a platform’s intended use, we can still learn from adtech’s history. My latest: