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Authored by: Allison Guenther
Imagine your favorite Disney princess or Marvel superhero. Your brain may visualize Snow White, Cinderella, Iron Man, Captain America…. You see them clearly in your head. If you saw an image of that character, you would recognize them instantly. Artificial intelligence has begun penetrating countless fields, particularly the entertainment industry. By…
Authored by: Shmuel Wyckoff
Lawyer: “As we know, in Illinois, we require three particles. . . That’s the State Police threshold. I would add this morning besides looking at the common law record, I did a Chat GPT, and I think it’s called a Grok search, to see if there was any states [that allow…
By: Tasneem Mewa
This week, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) prohibited Rite Aid from using and relying on facial recognition technology that misidentified customers and wrongly accused them of shoplifting based on matches to Rite Aid’s database. Matches often resulted in customers being accused, searched, and expelled from stores.
The statement by Commissioner Alvaro M.…
