Should be easy to prove, one way or another. Submit a few avatars and have a close look. If they’ve been faked up, it’ll show. If the CFO did indeed get injured, there should be a medical report, and for those kind of injuries, a police report. Ditto if m’man got injured. And, frankly, if m’man did indeed injure the CFO, the question becomes why was he not restrained until the cops arrived? One or both are lying their little behinds off.
Techie sues ex-bosses, claims their AI avatar tech was faked – and he was allegedly beaten up after crying foul
An engineer is suing Pinscreen, a startup that supposedly uses AI to generate cartoon avatars of people, claiming he was illegally fired and assaulted after confronting the CEO about its allegedly faked technology. In a court document filed in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, Iman Sadeghi accused his former employer …
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Thursday 19th July 2018 21:10 GMT Michael Wojcik
Re: Needs work
the avatars are ghastly
I don't know - that wild-eyed stare is pretty amusing. If I had to look at "avatars", those would be a better choice than many of the ones I've seen. And better than photographs of some of my interlocutors, I can tell you.
Also, what if the user is in fact a ghast? That's an untapped market.
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Thursday 19th July 2018 11:32 GMT Anonymous Coward
The word "personal" might be a clue here: perhaps it's none of your business!
Personally I always travel with four laptops: one for stuff relating to my current job, except correspondence with HR, of course, one for academic stuff like reviewing conference papers, one for my work on free software projects, and one for cat videos and photos from friends and family. And I never get data onto the wrong laptop, ever.
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Thursday 19th July 2018 12:06 GMT 2Nick3
"Why was personal data on the company laptop?"
My thoughts too - in the US your work machine belongs to the company, and most companies have a policy that it is not for personal use. A startup may not have that in place, but since he came from Google I can't believe he hadn't been living and working under that policy before.
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Thursday 19th July 2018 09:10 GMT Mike 137
Clarification needed!
"In a court document filed in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, in the US, Iman Sadeghi, accused his former employer Pinscreen of submitting bogus images and results to SIGGRAPH, a computer graphics conference, and lied to investors."
Does this statement allege Pinscreen lied to investors (whereupon it should read 'and of lying...') or does it allege Sadeghi lied to investors (which is what the current text literally means)?
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Friday 20th July 2018 15:51 GMT Bucky 2
Certainly no Daryl Hannah
The software did not do good hair.
He was hired specifically for his ability to do good hair.
Presentations were fictionalized against the belief that he would make the software do good hair.
He did not make the software do good hair.
He tried to take a work laptop out of the building after he was fired.