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Why Taylor Swift AI-Generated Deepfake Images Raise Wider Worries

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Why Taylor Swift AI-Generated Deepfake Images Raise Wider Worries

The world is awash in deepfakes — video, audio or images that make people appear to do or say things they didn’t, or be somewhere they weren’t. Many are devised to give credibility to falsehoods and damage the reputations of politicians and other people in the public eye. But most deepfakes are explicit videos and … Read more

Surveillance Tech Has Turned Knowledge Workers Into Panopticon Prisoners

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Surveillance Tech Has Turned Knowledge Workers Into Panopticon Prisoners

Frederick Winslow Taylor was the most influential management thinker of the 20th century. His The Principles of Scientific Management (1911) quickly put management on a new foundation: replace rule-of-thumb work methods with rules based on the objective study of work; divide work into discrete tasks; provide “detailed instruction and supervision of each worker in the … Read more