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On this week’s episode, we’ll dive into several hot topics. We’ll examine the UK’s decision to penalize creators of sexually explicit deepfakes and explore their potential consequences. In addition, we’ll delve into why content creators like Dude Perfect on YouTube and other startups are currently attracting significant investment from venture capital.
The show opens with Amazon and its Just Walk Out technology. This cutting-edge technology allows shoppers to scan an app upon entering a store and exit with their purchases without having to pay at a register. While Amazon has been promoting this technology to retailers outside its own domain, recent reports suggest that it is scaling back its use in its own brick-and-mortar stores.
To get more information about these developments, we spoke with Natasha Mascarenhas, a reporter at The Information. She provides us with valuable insights on these topics and shares her thoughts on where they are headed in the future.
For those who want to learn more about our topics this week, check out these sources:
– “Amazon to push cashierless shopping tech into more third-party stores, while backing off itself” from Reuters
– “How Amazon’s Big Bet on ‘Just Walk Out’ Stumbled” from The Information
– “Creating sexually explicit deepfake images to be made offence in UK” from The Guardian
– “U.S. Creator Funding Surges for First Time in Two Years” from The Information
– “7 VCs explain why the creator economy still has legs” from TechCrunch
Tune in for more stories on topics such as deepfake videos, AI, and the creator economy, as well as their impact on various aspects of society.
