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Christopher Weston

Security A tense corporate video conference viewed over the shoulder of a lone finance worker…
Security · 5 min

AI Voice Cloning Fraud Doesn't Break In — It Gets Waved Through

In early 2024, a finance worker at engineering firm Arup joined a video call with people who looked and sounded like his CFO and several colleagues. He'd been suspicious of an earlier email.

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Ai Music A close-up photorealistic shot of a modern music producer's home studio at night, focused…
Ai Music · 5 min

Whose Name Goes on the Track? AI Music Policy and the Composer Identity Problem

There is a field in every distributor's upload form marked Composer. Sometimes it is required, sometimes it is not, and for a fully AI-generated instrumental it is the field where an honest person…

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Licensing An overhead close-up of a vintage hard drive resting on a worn wooden table…
Licensing · 4 min

AI Music Generation Has a Consent Problem It Was Born With

An artist opens a search box, types her own name into a public index of AI training data, and watches the results stack up. Not a track or two. Her catalog.

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Ai Voice A sound engineer seated at a professional audio mixing console in a dimly lit…
Ai Voice · 5 min

What Poland's $11M Bet on ElevenLabs Says About AI Voice Generation — And Who Builds the Next One

Last month I fed a 90-second Polish voiceover into a cloning pipeline to see whether I could ship an English dub of a short film without booking a session.

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