This is the first time I’ve heard of a hack. I hope they have evidence that it actually occurred and had a significant impact.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/23/ticketmaster-cyberattack-taylor-swift-tickets-00079119
Ticketmaster says cyberattack disrupted Taylor Swift ticket sales
The disclosure comes ahead of grilling by lawmakers over antitrust concerns in the ticketing industry.
Ticketmaster was hit by a cyberattack in November that led to the problems with ticket sales for Taylor Swift’s upcoming U.S. tour, the president of its parent company plans to tell a congressional committee Tuesday.
A massive influx of traffic on the Ticketmaster website caused the slowdown in ticket sales, and part of that was due to a cyberattack, Joe Berchtold, president of Ticketmaster parent company Live Nation, will tell the Senate Judiciary Committee, according to prepared remarks.
During the Swift concert sales, Ticketmaster was “hit with three times the amount of bot traffic than we had ever experienced, and for the first time in 400 Verified Fan on-sales, they came after our Verified Fan access code servers,” Berchtold plans to say.
… “While the bots failed to penetrate our systems or acquire any tickets, the attack required us to slow down and even pause our sales,” Berchtold will say. In his testimony Berchtold describes an “arms race” between companies like Ticketmaster and the scalpers and cyber criminals looking to illegally obtain tickets for resale, and apologized to Swift and fans alike for the consumer experience.
… Two people familiar with the cyberattack, granted anonymity to speak about the incident ahead of the hearing, said that a culprit for the attack — which took several hours for the company to address — has not yet been identified. They said Ticketmaster reported the attempted attack to the Federal Trade Commission and to the FBI, which are looking into the incident.
An over reaction to the use of AI? How much is too much?
Copyright Office Officially Cancels Registration for AI Graphic Novel
“If there is no ability to register a generative work with the USCO, or understanding of the points at which —or circumstance around when— the use of AI tools may qualify, it remains unclear as to where this leaves such works for purposes of ownership, exploitation…and protection.”
On Monday, January 23, the U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) officially cancelled the registration for a graphic novel that was made using the AI text-to-image tool, Midjourney. The USCO previously registered the work in September 2022. However, a month later, and following significant press attention, the Office issued a notice indicating that the registration may be cancelled. With Monday’s development, the cancellation is now final.
… As part of the September 2022 Notice, the Office asked Kashtanova to provide details “to show that there was substantial human involvement in the process of creation of this graphic novel.”
Van Lindberg, Partner at Taylor English, served as Kashtanova’s counsel in drafting the response to the USCO’s cancellation notice. The response letter argued that there was sufficient creativity in the prompts and inputs used which, when combined with the artist’s use of and control over the tool, should have been sufficient for protection.
Perhaps these are earth shaking, but I doubt it. Still might be worth exploring…
If You're Not Already Doing These 10 Productivity Hacks in ChatGPT, You're Definitely Missing Out
In case you've missed the buzz, OpenAI just publicly launched its latest language generation robot, ChatGPT. ChatGPT is a powerful language model that uses deep learning techniques to generate human-like text. In other words, the robot is capable of answering all of your questions and prompts like an intelligent human would.
The model can be fine-tuned for specific tasks, such as language translation, summarization, and question answering. Here are 10 different ways you can use ChatGPT to do work for you and increase your productivity.
Seems like ChatGPT is all the rage.
Perspective: ChatGPT and the dawn of the new Dark Ages
In a post-literate era, those who continue to read and to practice critical thinking skills will increasingly be unable to effectively communicate with those who don’t
… There’s some larger questions here, though. With the advent of ChatGPT, there has been increasing discussion about whether Western civilization is moving into a “post-literate” era. We’re at a 40-year low in the U.S. in terms of young people reading for pleasure, according to Pew Research. Bosses complain their younger employees boast that they don’t read emails — even work emails — at all. Universities are dropping requirements for standardized test scores and even personal statements from applicants. Short TikTok videos and 280-character tweets are the limited and limiting daily fare of the rising generation. One high school student told a writer that “I should be on TikTok, because Andrew Tate is, and because it’s neither here nor there if I write books because his generation doesn’t read.”
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