What do you think of this future?

[Andrew Kimery]

On a related noted,

DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show

“You can just engineer a crime scene,” said Dan Frumkin, lead author of the paper, which has been published online by the journal Forensic Science International: Genetics. “Any biology undergraduate could perform this.”

The company offers a test that can tell the difference between real and engineered DNA, but how affordable and widespread the test is is another issue.

[Mark Smith]

Years ago I worked on a show that involved The Red Hot Chili Peppers. We interviewed the band one at a time and they were all very cooperative. One band member was barely articulate at the time, he said words but not sentences as we know them. The director and editor spent 3 weeks putting together about half a dozen complete sentences for his part of the show from various fragments of his interview. With Voco this would be an afternoon’s work, perhaps. Voco still remains a convenient but dangerous tool for many of the reasons cited in this thread.

[Michael Gissing]

[Bill Davis] “I just glanced back at the releases I’ve been using for 30 years now. The attorney I used to draft them included a phrase granting me the right to perform “digital manipulations” on the released performances.”

I wonder if in a court of law that might be interpreted as digital manipulation as it existed at the time of the signature. I wonder if it is possible to sign away rights in perpetuity without some boundaries of what can be done to manipulate. As I said the issue will be in a world where this sort of manipulation now applies whether anyone will sign such a release.