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⚠️🎙 AI Voice Cloning Scam Is On the Rise
You risk receiving a fictitious scam call that could break your bank account.
Let me explain further.
What would you do if you received a phone call with news that your family member or friend is in danger or needs money NOW?
Let me explain.
With the rise of AI and unscrupulous bad actors, a new scam has reared its ugly head. It's called the AI voice-cloning scam.
Fraudulent AI voice cloning scams are enabled when criminals create synthetic audio clips. These clips deceive victims into believing a family member or friend needs help immediately or is in imminent danger.
Through AI voice cloning technology, which is achieved by extracting audio snippets from various digital outlets, scammers create audio replicas of voices. It might be your daughter, son, or wife…you get the picture.
What is the goal of these scams? You are put into a position that will influence you to make a swift decision without thinking about it or reacting irrationally.
The result of these quick actions is severe financial loss, mainly in the United States. To protect oneself, it is imperative to be aware of unsolicited messages, verify the person's identity, and not wire money on the spot.
How does AI get your voice? Watch this video from Good Morning America.
Key Message: Protect yourself, your family, and your friends. Be aware. Don’t jump, and most of all, DON’T PANIC!
🥂 🥳 Congratulations Lens Protocol 🌿 🥳
They secured a $15 Million seed fund to accelerate the next generation of the internet and decentralized social graph.
They will be using this to continue building Lens and securing the protocol for mass adoption. The funding was made by a large group of notable investors
"IDEO CoLab Ventures led the round with participation from General Catalyst, Variant, Blockchain Capital, and Palm Tree among other prominent VCs such as A. Capital, Seed Club Ventures, Robot Ventures, and DAOs such as Flamingo DAO, DAOJones, Punk DAO, DAO5 and Global Coin Research. Prominent angel investors include Uniswap CEO Hayden Adams, OpenSea Co-founder Alex Atallah, Entrepreneur Balaji Srinivasan, Sandbox Co-founder Sébastien Borget, Emily Yang (pplpleasr), Denis Nazario (Mirror.xyz) and Polygon Co-founder Sandeep Nailwal, among others."
🌿👇 You can continue reading about the details and how the funding will be used on their Mirror Blog and on Twitter.👇🌿
Lens Protocol Closes $15 Million Funding Round
Aave Companies, the tech company that develops protocols and applications that incorporate decentralization and blockchain technologies, announced today that $15 million in funding has been raised for Lens Protocol - the user-owned social layer of the Internet. The new funding will provide resources for the continued development of the Lens ecosystem that benefits web3 users, creators and builders.
🌿 💙 🌿
Today, we're excited to announce our $15 million funding round to accelerate the adoption of the next generation of the internet powered by human connection –- the people-powered social layer.
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🛳 🚢 Just Keep Shipping, Just Keep Shipping- Play Chess With Your Friends on Lens ♟♖
With so many applications being launched on Lens you'd think the first game they were shipping was Battleship! lol. 🤣🤣
Checkmate!
They are much too sophisticated than a corny pun, They have rolled out "Chess with Frens" check out the details below. 👇
Not knowing how to play Chess myself, If you happen to play a game, I would love to hear how it goes in the comments! 💜
Let’s play! ♟
Always. Be. Shipping 
I'm excited to share, "Chess with Frens", a Web3 Chess App powered by @LensProtocol.
-Login with Lens
-On-chain game results (as NFTs) and ratings
-Peer to peer
-On-chain prizes
-and much more...
Sign-up now for early access!
chesswithfrens.com
I'm excited to share, "Chess with Frens", a Web3 Chess App powered by @LensProtocol.
-Login with Lens
-On-chain game results (as NFTs) and ratings
-Peer to peer
-On-chain prizes
-and much more...
Sign-up now for early access!
chesswithfrens.com
🔥 Bonfire Is On Fire
They have a Lengthly thread of updates you can start diving into here👇 and continue on Twitter 💙
For the past few weeks we’ve been rolling out new Lens features on Bonfire and today it all comes together.
Excited to announce the full suite of tools now possible between @Lensprotocol
@bonfire_tweets along with some of our fave examples of creators using these integrations
Excited to announce the full suite of tools now possible between @Lensprotocol
@bonfire_tweets along with some of our fave examples of creators using these integrations
Gate content, pages, and drops by Lens followers, or people who collect or mirror a postCollect Lens posts natively on Bonfire Add a Follow on Lens button to grow your Lens communityShare new activity on your Bonfire site to Lens in 1-clickEmbed Lens posts or feeds
🛠 💻 Devs Karma3 Labs Released New API's
Karma3 Labs released discovery & recommendation APIs! karma3labs.com/lens
Now Lens devs can query and customize scores of Lens profiles and content, powering various kinds of personalization of user feeds.
demo: youtu.be/g_etXTgsqAs ranking lens.k3l.io
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