Source: The Register
Summary
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) temporarily blocked access to its docket system after users employed AI to reconstruct cockpit recordings from spectrogram images. The NTSB had previously made the spectrograms publicly available. The agency has since restored access to the docket system, but with restrictions on accessing the spectrograms.
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The NTSB’s docket system was blocked after AI-powered reconstructs of cockpit recordings were made from spectrogram images. The agency had made the spectrograms publicly available. It’s not the first time AI has been used to reverse-engineer sensitive information from seemingly innocuous data. The NTSB has since restored access, but with restrictions on spectrogram access. Because, you know, hiding the pretty pictures will definitely stop the determined. The NTSB just discovered that “publicly available” means “publicly available”.
Author: Evan Null
