Kashmir Hill, Award-winning Technology Reporter

Author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US, Kashmir Hill works as a tech correspondent for The New York Times. She writes on how technology is transforming our lives in surprising and often unsettling ways, especially in regards to privacy. After working at Forbes Magazine, Above the Law, Fusion, Gizmodo Media Group, and Forbes Magazine, she joined The Times in 2019. Her work has been published in The Washington Post and The New Yorker. She studied journalism at New York University and Duke University, where she received her degrees.

2023

In her most recent piece, Hill examines in detail a startling tale that she broke in the New York Times in 2020. It told the story of a small, clandestine corporation called Clearview AI, whose facial recognition software could scan a database of several billion photographs that were stolen from the internet using a user’s provided photo and show each match along with the source link. It was the kind of amazing, but privacy-invading invention that big digital corporations, like Google and Facebook, have long considered an inaccessible third rail. After more than ten years of covering technology and privacy, Hill has released Your Face Belongs to Us, a book that delves further into the history of Clearview AI, its purpose, and future directions.

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• Artificial intelligence has revolutionized various industries, including the arts, with the emergence of ChatGPT and tech giants leading the race in generative AI. Ross Goodwin, an AI researcher, conducted a road trip with an AI writing machine to create his first book, 1 The Road, in 2018. The experiment raised concerns about AI replacing human creativity, but it remains an experimental read with flaws. Goodwin also explored AI capabilities in writing movie scripts, such as the experimental short sci-fi film “Sunspring” (2017).
• Pearson CEO Andy Bird has proposed dropping textbooks as NFTs to capitalize on secondary market sales. However, critics argue that this approach could be advantageous or even possible given market conditions and the lit industry’s other blockchain forays. While NFTs offer a beneficial tool for self-publishing, the problem with Pearson’s scheme lies in motivating customers to own the rights to their book. The Verge noted that digital database technology already exists, empowering resale tracking, but a fully decentralized, open system is unlikely.

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