<h2>Artificial Intelligence generates artificial news</h2>Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a new source of misinformation. AI-generated news is churning out made-up news, including murders and crimes that never occurred.&nbsp;<h3>Popular app publishes fake news reports</h3>Newsbreak, a popular app for local news, has been spreading fake news. The Chinese-affiliated company, which has about 50 million monthly users, has published 40 fake news stories since 2021, as <a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/top-news-app-us-has-chinese-origins-writes-fiction-with-help-ai-2024-06-05/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">revealed</a> by Reuters. Newsbreak obtains licensed content from major media outlets but also scrapes the internet for local news which it then rewrites with the help of AI, explained author Jim Pearson.<blockquote>It publishes licensed content from major media outlets, including Reuters, Fox, AP and CNN as well as some information obtained by scraping the internet for local news or press releases which it rewrites with the help of AI.&nbsp;</blockquote>AI tools enabled the app to create ten stories from local news sites under fictitious bylines. Internal memos show that the company itself was concerned about its “AI-generated stories." Other documents revealed that it was guilty of copyright infringement:&nbsp;<blockquote>[T}he app's use of AI tools affected the communities it strives to serve, with Newsbreak publishing erroneous stories; creating 10 stories from local news sites under fictitious bylines; and lifting content from its competitors, according to a Reuters review of previously unreported court documents related to copyright infringement, cease-and-desist emails and a 2022 company memo registering concerns about "AI-generated stories."</blockquote>In March, Newbreak added a disclaimer to its homepage, warning that its content “may not always be error-free.”Reuters highlighted a false Newsbreak story that told of a murder in a small New Jersey town on Christmas day. The article, "Christmas Day Tragedy Strikes Bridgeton, New Jersey Amid Rising Gun Violence in Small Towns," was totally false according to police. “The Bridgeton, New Jersey police department posted a statement on Facebook on December 27 dismissing the article - produced using AI technology - as ‘entirely false.’”&nbsp;Newsbreak said the false article came from another news source, findplace.xyz. &nbsp;<blockquote>The company said "the inaccurate information originated from the content source," and provided a link to the website adding: “When NewsBreak identifies any inaccurate content or any violation of our community standards, we take prompt action to remove that content.”The operators of the website, findplace.xyz, did not respond to a request from Reuters for comment. The police declined to provide further comment.</blockquote>Reuters tweeted about the fake news story, including its diagram of the company’s China relationship.&nbsp;<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">NewsBreak, a popular app with Chinese roots, published a Christmas Eve New Jersey shooting story that turned out to be false, using AI. When it publishes inaccurate information, the company says it takes swift action to remove it <a href="https://t.co/8JfA0QOV4a">https://t.co/8JfA0QOV4a</a> <a href="https://t.co/cahAkMH7N0">pic.twitter.com/cahAkMH7N0</a>— Reuters (@Reuters) <a href="https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1798396900841816289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 5, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><h4>Original source was also AI?</h4>ArsTechnica, in its <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/top-news-app-caught-sharing-fake-ai-news-based-on-ai-summaries/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">report</a> on Reuters' false murder report, leaves the reader wondering if the source Newsbreak's AI picked up was also written by AI. The mysterious journalist who ostensibly wrote the story has no public profile and her image appears to be a stock photo.<blockquote>&nbsp;The content source identified by NewsBreak is an article on a news site called FindPlace.xyz. It was written by a journalist named Amelia Washington, who has contributed most of the site's most recent content. There is no public profile for Amelia Washington outside of the news site, and a reverse image search of the photo used with her bio suggests a stock photo was used. The same photo appeared on a testimonial for a nutritional supplement on Amazon and on posts for foreign freelance sites where her name and background do not match her FindPlace.xyz bio.FindPlace.xyz did not respond to Ars' request to connect with Washington or provide comment.</blockquote><h3>Google AI Overviews “flawed by design”</h3>ArsTechnica&nbsp;author Ashley Belanger pointed out that shortly before Reuters published this story, Google had "admitted its AI Overviews summarizing the Internet were flawed by design after people quickly found the tool spouted inaccurate, misleading, and dangerous answers."<h3>AI “content farms” look like regular news sources</h3>Belanger also referred to a report by The Register which discussed the large number of AI content farms that popped up during the past year, which look like regular news sites but aren't.<blockquote>The Reuters report also follows a spike in AI content farms last year, The Register reported, which look like regular news sites but are entirely AI-generated. Not only do these increasingly common AI content farms not seem to break Google's rules—perhaps increasing the likelihood that they will be surfaced and scraped—but Internet jokesters have also already started pranking these AI sites to intentionally place false information on them.&nbsp;</blockquote><h3>AI turns basketball star into a criminal&nbsp;</h3>Tech.co has been <a href="https://tech.co/news/list-ai-failures-mistakes-errors" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">keeping track</a> of false AI-generated stories, some of which besmirched reputations. One such incident was when Golden State Warriors Guard Klay Thompson was accused of vandalism because X's chatbot didn't recognize sports slang.<blockquote>X’s chatbot accuses Golden State Warriors Guard Klay Thompson of vandalizing a string of homes in Sacramento. The story was generated after Grok took social media posts that said Thompson was “shooting bricks” (Basketball slang for “missing his shots”) a little bit too literally.</blockquote>The app mistook the term “shooting bricks,” which in basketball slang means missing shots, for smashing windows with bricks. The app duly reported his “crime” but added that he hadn't injured anyone.<blockquote>“In a bizarre turn of events, NBA star Klay Thompson has been accused of vandalizing multiple houses with bricks in Sacramento,” Grok wrote. “Authorities are investigating the claims after several individuals reported their houses being damaged, with windows shattered by bricks. Klay Thompson has not yet issued a statement regarding the accusations. The incidents have left the community shaken, but no injuries were reported. The motive behind the alleged vandalism remains unclear.”&nbsp;</blockquote><h3>Can't trust Google's Bard AI Chatbot either</h3>Another time, reported Tech.co's Aaron Drapkin, false allegations by Google's Bard AI chatbot against four consulting firms resulted in their being called out during a parliamentary hearing in Australia.<blockquote>A team of academics from Australia apologize after Google’s Bard AI chatbot makes a number of damaging accusations about the Big Four consulting firms and their involvement with other companies. The false allegations are then referenced during a parliamentary inquiry calling for better regulation of the companies.One of the accusations was that consulting giant KPMG was in charge of a Commonwealth Bank audit during a planning scandal, when in reality, KPMG has never audited the bank in question. Several other, similar errors were made about Deloitte during the inquiry.</blockquote><h2>&nbsp;</h2><h3>AI not yet ready for real-time</h3>In another incident, as <a href="https://wach.com/newsletter-daily/new-facebook-ai-chatbot-spread-misinformation-carolina-forest-high-school-bomb-threat-active-shooter-situation-false-information-social-media-rumors-community-concerned-artificial-intelligence-cfhs-meta-horry-county-police-south-carolina-april-25-2024" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a> by WACH Fox, the Facebook chatbot misinformed Horry County, South Carolina parents, worried about bomb threats at the local high school, that there was a shooting incident with multiple wounded. In its reporting of the AI misinformation, HTC Cybersecurity professor Stan Greenawalt explains that AI is “not great for real-time yet.”<blockquote>'It's not great for real-time yet. We haven't gotten there. . . . So if I'm a parent, I go to other sources. . . . &nbsp;If I want something close to real-time, I'm going to go to a news agency and look for real-time information because they'll vet that information."</blockquote>Watch WACH Fox's video tweet of his warning to parents not to rely on AI for current information:<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Amid bomb threats at Carolina Forest High School, Facebook's new AI chatbot was giving parents false information about an "active shooter." For the full story: <a href="https://t.co/8bTh29kWre">https://t.co/8bTh29kWre</a> --<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/news?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#news</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/localnews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#localnews</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ai?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ai</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/artificialintelligence?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#artificialintelligence</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/chatbot?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#chatbot</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/misinformation?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#misinformation</a> <a href="https://t.co/xH88Stf6Mu">pic.twitter.com/xH88Stf6Mu</a>— WACH FOX (@wachfox) <a href="https://twitter.com/wachfox/status/1784021480163901466?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>&nbsp;<h2>Real problems with AI beyond real-time news&nbsp;</h2>Greenawalt appears to be correct in his assessment that no one should rely on AI for real-time news. However, considering the magnitude of the problem, one has to wonder what AI can safely be relied upon for in the foreseeable future and how it imagines the news stories it makes up.<h3>GIGO — garbage in, garbage out</h3>Benj Edwards, who <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/googles-ai-overview-is-flawed-by-design-and-a-new-company-blog-post-hints-at-why/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a> on Google's AI Overview's flawed design for ArsTechnica, identified part of the misinformation problem as stemming from Overview's use of Google's faulty algorithm results.<blockquote>Here we see the fundamental flaw of the system: "AI Overviews are built to only show information that is backed up by top web results." The design is based on the false assumption that Google's page-ranking algorithm favors accurate results and not SEO-gamed garbage. Google Search has been broken for some time, and now the company is relying on those gamed and spam-filled results to feed its new AI model.</blockquote><h3 style="margin-left:0px;">Inaccurate conclusions from accurate data</h3><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/aflds/image/upload/v1718342633/image_57ba6caf60.png">Edwards also showed, in the image above, that Google's AI can take accurate information and compile a false report.&nbsp;<blockquote>Even if the AI model draws from a more accurate source, as with the 1993 game console search seen above, Google's AI language model can still make inaccurate conclusions about the "accurate" data, confabulating erroneous information in a flawed summary of the information available.&nbsp;</blockquote>The moral of the story — if you want accurate information do your own homework.&nbsp;AI doesn't seem to be replacing humans any time soon.

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Technology

AI accused NBA star of vandalizing homes; took basketball slang's 'shooting bricks' literally

AI 'news' apps reporting murders that never happened

<h2>Move over book burning, hello de-platforming?</h2>Closed out of your Facebook or Instagram account? Maybe your website suddenly disappeared, or your YouTube channel was demonetized or deleted? Perhaps you lost access to thousands of hours of posts and videos you produced, and your years of work were gone in an instant? That's de-platforming; the modern version of book burning, a “punishment” for going against the mainstream narrative. And, the censorship doesn't stop with social media, it includes PayPal accounts and more.<h3>Getting up again</h3>How do individuals who went afoul of the globalists, who didn't keep quiet and let others do their thinking for them, respond when they find themselves de-platformed by social media companies and other services? Here's what London Real's Brian Rose, Americas Frontline Doctor founder Dr. Simone Gold, and independent researcher James Roguski did to pick themselves up and continue their work despite the heavy-handed censorship they experienced.Brian RoseWhen London Real YouTuber Brian Rose publicly began trying to understand COVID-19 and its countermeasures, he soon found his entire life seemingly deleted from the internet by the social media giants.&nbsp;Not only did he lose all his years of work, amounting to thousands of videos which he had uploaded to the internet. He also lost access to his Paypal account, and more, because in his search for the truth about the pandemic; his counter-narrative interviews with David Icke were too dangerous for the globalists to allow. &nbsp;In his below documentary, Rose&nbsp;recounts his experiences and how he ultimately started a channel of his own. He explains that he was wholly unprepared for what happened on May 3, 2020, even though he knew that many would want to stop the interview (@about 3:36):<blockquote>Over the past few weeks, our entire world has been transformed. Everything we took for granted has now been taken away and our freedoms have been replaced with fear. All those rights we fought centuries for have been handed over without a second thought.&nbsp;We all process fear in different ways. I cope by immersing myself in my work and today my job is to ask questions. One million people will be watching and they all want answers.&nbsp;Countless others are trying to stop this from happening. At any moment they can walk through that door or lock this broadcast. I'm scared but I don't know what else to do. I prepared my whole life for a moment like This. But nothing would prepare me for what happened next. . .</blockquote>&nbsp;<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">WATCH THE MOVIE THAT YouTube DOES NOT Want YOU TO SEE (and SHARE IT Far And Wide ) <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LondonReal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LondonReal</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WeWillNotBeSilenced?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WeWillNotBeSilenced</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StopCensorship?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StopCensorship</a> <a href="https://t.co/txcVpjPDWz">https://t.co/txcVpjPDWz</a>— Brian Rose, Founder &amp; Host of London Real (@LondonRealTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/LondonRealTV/status/1796285778517221575?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 30, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>&nbsp;Dr. Simone GoldDr. Simone Gold, founder of <a href="https://www.aflds.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">America's Frontline Doctors</a>, was one of the first doctors to understand that how she was being told to treat COVID patients wasn't normal. Very alarmed at what was taking place she, along with other doctors, held the “<a href="https://www.whitecoatsummit.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">White Coat Summit</a>” on July 27, 2020, as well as a press conference on the Supreme Court steps. As she tweeted below, the press conference went viral, garnering millions of views before Big Tech and Big Media took the video down.She concluded by explaining their purpose and the result:<blockquote>Our fight was to show America the propaganda vs the truth, and then we were censored.</blockquote>&nbsp;<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Our press conference in front of the Supreme Court on July 27th, 2020 was a turning point in the fight against COVID Tyranny. After 20 million views in 8 hours, Big Tech colluded to wipe the video from online platforms. We knew in this moment that we would win the fight. <a href="https://t.co/9CP0Ogpnfp">pic.twitter.com/9CP0Ogpnfp</a>— Dr. Simone Gold (@drsimonegold) <a href="https://twitter.com/drsimonegold/status/1610416861723729921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>Dr. Gold continues to <a href="https://aflds.org/about-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">advance</a> the mission of America's Frontline Doctors, to protect medical freedom and civil liberties.'James RoguskiIndependent researcher James Roguski who, <a href="http://jamesroguski.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">according</a> to his website, has been calling out lies and propaganda for decades, found years of work gone when the company that hosted most of his websites terminated his account for what they said were “terms of service” violations. It did not deter him from continuing his work, either.<blockquote>They deleted many of my websites, but they ignited my passion to burn even brighter. I now have most of my work on Substack.&nbsp;</blockquote>Roguski is interested in building a holistic alternative to the WHO and <a href="https://jamesroguski.substack.com/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">recruits</a> others to join him.<blockquote>The old system is crumbling, and I intend to help speed its demise, but we must build its replacement quickly.If you are fed up with the government, hospital, medical, pharmaceutical, media, industrial complex and would like to help , then feel free to contact me directly anytime.</blockquote>&nbsp;The information contained in this article is for educational and information purposes only and is not intended as health, medical, financial or legal advice. Always consult a physician, lawyer or other qualified professional regarding any questions you may have about a medical condition, health objectives, or legal issues.&nbsp;Related articles:<ul><li><a href="https://frontline.news/post/covid-sceptics-won-out-globalists-fear-an-increasingly-disbelieving-public" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">'COVID skeptics won out' — Globalists fear an increasingly disbelieving public</a></li><li><a href="https://frontline.news/post/colorado-governor-signs-off-on-bill-establishing-state-ministry-of-truth-students-atarget-of-new-law">Colorado governor signs off on bill establishing state 'ministry of truth'? Students a target of new law</a></li></ul>

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Censorship

Globalism

How three individuals got up again after being de-platformed

Who's afraid of Big Bad Tech? 

A British vigilante group known as the “Blade Runners” is receiving widespread support from British taxpayers as it continues to destroy climate surveillance cameras across London.<h2>The ULEZ mandate</h2>By order of London Mayor Sadiq Khan, the city is peppered with ultra-low emission zones (ULEZs), areas accessible only to low-emission vehicles. Cars that do not meet the city’s environmental standards are charged £12.50 ($16) for entering the ULEZ. Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras positioned around the zones read license plates and check them against the vehicles’ make and model in real time. If a vehicle does not meet the environmental threshold, a fine is levied against the car owner.&nbsp;The ULEZ climate mandate has drawn heavy&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/london-hundreds-protest-against-climate-mandates">protests</a> from residents, including&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/british-veteran-launches-hunger-strike-as-unrest-grows-over-climate-mandates">hunger strikes</a> and refusals to pay fines. Taxpayers have also taken to disabling the ANPR surveillance cameras which Transport for London (TfL), the city’s transportation department, said will be used both for climate and law enforcement.<h2>Taxpayers cheer the ‘Blade Runners’</h2>Since the climate restrictions were expanded last year, the Blade Runners have taken to disabling and destroying hundreds of cameras. Between April and September 2023, Metropolitan Police recorded 200 reports of cameras being stolen and 595 reports of cameras being vandalized.TfL began placing black boxes around ULEZ camera wirings to protect them from being cut, but taxpayers found other ways to disable the cameras — like removing them completely.<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"> MUST SEE: Blade Runners topple THREE ULEZ cameras in a coordinated strike… The people are fighting back! <a href="https://t.co/Yvr2Xr7Lun">pic.twitter.com/Yvr2Xr7Lun</a>— David Morgan #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) <a href="https://twitter.com/david_r_morgan/status/1802726912050995623?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 17, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>In response, the city&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/london-taxpayers-attack-surveillance-vans-in-continued-revolt">deployed</a> mobile surveillance vans mounted with ANPR cameras across London in the hopes of evading attacks, but Blade Runners soon began targeting those as well. Some surveillance vans have been spotted covered in graffiti with their tires slashed, while others have been completely covered in tarp.Last month, 21 cameras were destroyed in the hours after Sadiq Khan was re-elected mayor of London, the&nbsp;Daily Mail&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13538797/Moment-Blade-Runner-uses-power-tool-cut-ULEZ-camera-traffic-light-latest-attack-Sadiq-Khans-hated-scheme.html">reported</a>. Last weekend, Blade Runners used power tools to topple a ULEZ camera and traffic lights to the delight of some fellow taxpayers. In a video that was posted to social media, passing cars can be heard honking in support.The video received over 37,000 likes. Comments on the post were largely supportive, with users writing that, “When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty,” and “Fair play to them, it's a complete scam that does nothing.”Blade Runner Matt Hardy told the&nbsp;Daily Mail&nbsp;that the Blade Runners are “people pissed off about the tyranny reigning over us and getting out and doing things about it – real votes, real boys here.”<h2>‘These cameras are not about the climate. They are about control’</h2>British actor and influencer Laurence Fox said this week he was just given back his electronic devices by police after being arrested earlier this year for cheering on the Blade Runners:<blockquote>These cameras are not about the climate. They are about control. They are the primary infrastructure for all sorts of things that ideologues like the midget dictator [Sadiq Khan] would like to impose upon us.I can now finally say the word ‘Bladerunners’ again. One of the ridiculous restrictions on free speech imposed by the police.It’s a dreadful shame to see so many of these cameras dying suddenly. I’m not at all thrilled about it. Just because I am smiling like a Cheshire Cat, it doesn’t mean that I am over the moon that these scameras continue to topple in high winds.&nbsp;Vive la résistance!</blockquote><div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">POLICE UPDATE Following 6 coppers bursting into my house earlier this year to arrest me for saying how pleased I was that the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ULEZ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ULEZ</a> scam was meeting such robust resistance, this morning the <a href="https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@metpoliceuk</a> were ordered by the magistrate to hand back all my devices, including my…— Laurence Fox (@LozzaFox) <a href="https://twitter.com/LozzaFox/status/1803030521095622912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div> &nbsp;

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Pushback_Resistance

Climate Change

‘Pissed off about the tyranny reigning over us’

British taxpayers cheer vigilante group destroying climate cams

Fisker is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the electric vehicle (EV) company announced Tuesday.<h2>‘Like other companies in the electric vehicle industry’</h2>“Fisker has made incredible progress since our founding, bringing the Ocean SUV to market twice as fast as expected in the auto industry and making good on our promises to deliver the most sustainable vehicle in the world,” a spokesperson <a href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/cghen8gr8e1n/6W19OiEBJDVIFVEmo4feHA/df902c5cb2b067251a300efb0b35f611/Fisker-Filing-FINAL.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said</a>.The California-based company added it is not the only EV maker that has been struggling to stay in business.“We are proud of our achievements, and we have put thousands of Fisker Ocean SUVs in customers’ hands in both North American [sic] and Europe. But like other companies in the electric vehicle industry, we have faced various market and macroeconomic headwinds that have impacted our ability to operate efficiently. After evaluating all options for our business, we determined that proceeding with a sale of our assets under Chapter 11 is the most viable path forward for the company.”Fisker’s collapse is the latest indication that the EV industry is folding due to sinking demand. Other EV industry players are also cutting their losses as they jump ship.<h2>Hertz</h2>In March, Hertz CEO Stephen Scherr&nbsp;<a href="https://www.motorfinanceonline.com/news/hertz-ceo-resigns-amid-ev-investment-setback/#:~:text=Scherr's%20departure%20coincides%20with%20Hertz's,electric%20vehicle%20(EV)%20rentals">resigned</a> after his bet on EVs cost the car rental giant its biggest quarterly loss since 2020. Hertz had been praised by the Biden administration for its ambition to convert 25% of its fleet to EVs by the end of this year. In January, however, the company announced it would instead be selling its 20,000 EVs — including Teslas — at heavily discounted prices and replacing them with gas-powered cars.<h2>Mercedes-Benz</h2>Mercedes-Benz also recently had to give up its ambition to only sell electric cars by 2030. Instead, EVs are expected to make up only 50% of the German carmaker’s sales over the next decade.<h2>Apple</h2>In February, Apple abandoned its multi-billion dollar effort to create an electric car. Despite being a decade in the works and employing 2,000 people, Project Titan was axed due to falling consumer demand.<h2>Aston Martin</h2>A lack of consumer demand is also partly to blame for Aston Martin&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13138123/Aston-Martin-puts-brakes-new-electric-supercar-2026-bosses-say-drivers-want-engines-throaty-roar.html">placing</a> its battery-operated “supercar” on hold until 2026.“Demand, certainly at an Aston Martin price point, is not what we thought it was going to be two years ago,” said Aston Martin Executive Chairman Lawrence Stroll.&nbsp;<h2>Ford</h2>In December, Ford slashed production of its flagship EV at its assembly plant in Dearborn, Michigan by half. The automaker cut the monthly production quote for the all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck from 3,200 units to 1,600 units per month.<h2>Biden administration continues to force EV production</h2>Nevertheless, the Biden administration in March issued new climate mandates aimed at forcing more EV production. The new rules from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) contain tight emissions standards that will&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/epa-electric-vehicles-emissions-limits-climate-biden-e6d581324af51294048df24269b5d20a">require</a> 56% of new vehicle sales to be fully electric by 2032, with an additional 13% required to be hybrids.

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For the last two years, British authorities have been testing AI-powered emotion recognition cameras on travelers in train stations, according to recently disclosed documents.<h2>What can the cameras see?</h2>In each of eight train stations around the UK, five to seven cameras or sensors scan the passing crowds. Using AI software from Amazon, the cameras use object recognition algorithms to spot criminal activity, trespassing, weapons, wet floors, overcrowding, and overstuffed trash cans.&nbsp;They can also alert authorities when passengers engage in “unusual behavior,” such as shouting, running, smoking, or skateboarding.&nbsp;A combination of existing cameras and newly installed smart cameras are being used for the surveillance project. All are equipped with Amazon’s Rekognition surveillance system.<h2>Emotional recognition</h2>Through a combination of facial and behavioral analyses, the Rekognition software allows officials to also <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-ai-cameras-emotions-uk-train-passengers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">analyze visitors’ emotions</a>. Internal documents note that the cameras can detect whether a passenger is “happy, sad [or] angry.” They can also recognize passenger satisfaction, which “could be utilized to maximum advertising and retail revenue.”<h2>Anti-social behavior</h2>Authorities can also detect passengers who exhibit “anti-social behaviour,” which&nbsp;<a href="https://www.met.police.uk/advice/advice-and-information/asb/asb/antisocial-behaviour/what-is-antisocial-behaviour/">according</a> to London’s Metropolitan Police Service means “behaviour by a person which causes, or is likely to cause, harassment, alarm or distress to persons not of the same household as the person.”<h2>Social distancing, face masks, and demographics</h2>Other&nbsp;<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24757655-usecases_dpas_review_managed_stations?responsive=1&amp;title=1">use cases</a> for the surveillance cameras include detecting whether passengers are keeping to social distancing rules and wearing face masks. The cameras can also scan for demographics by identifying people’s age profiles and “socio-economic classification,” which the documents note can create “revenue opportunities for better targeted advertising and product placement.”<h2>‘Quite a concerning step’</h2>The documents were obtained by Big Brother Watch, a civil rights and government watchdog group, in response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request. Network Rail, a body within the Department of Transportation which manages most of the country’s train network, has been overseeing the surveillance project.&nbsp;“The rollout and normalization of AI surveillance in these public spaces, without much consultation and conversation, is quite a concerning step,” Jake Hurfurt, head of research and investigations at Big Brother Watch,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-ai-cameras-emotions-uk-train-passengers/">told</a> Wired.As of now, the surveillance systems do not use facial recognition technology, which analyzes faces and matches them against facial images stored in certain databases.

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