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STUFF TO READ: What the Doomsayers Get Wrong About Deepfakes | The New Yorker
More realism is starting to leak through into the web. Experts have warned that utterly realistic A.I.-generated videos might wreak havoc through deception. What’s happened is troubling in a different way. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/a-history-of-fake-things-on-the-internet-walter-j-scheirer-book-review
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Platforms like Threads are experimenting with Hashtags that are essentially detached metadata, not represented in the {tweet, source of truth}; slight trust & safety problem… #VerbTheOppressedOutgroup
Having experienced “graph search” years ago within [META], I fear that it is solving for “engineers who don’t want to be doing free text search, who think that the Twitter advanced search dialogue is ugly and complex with too many input fields, and who believe that tying user intent to a pre-existing static graph must…
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So it turns out that signing up for an app which explicitly breaks the promise of end-to-end security for an end-to-end-secure messenger, in order to “have your messages all in one place”, is insecure. Who’da thunk?
Of course: Sunbird responded by denying any security issues, and justifying their implementation, doubling down on it being secure. https://texts.blog/2023/11/18/sunbird-security/
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“Fox News did to our parents what our parents were afraid video games would do to us” | it doesn’t always generationally work, but it’s too good a quote to ignore
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“Never forget the political value of pornography, which helped bring about the French revolution.”
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THREAD: “Governments – in democracies and dictatorships – systematically lie to publics and themselves about how much influence they have over migration” | …and (aside) the same goes for {public speech, the internet}
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STUFF TO READ: Twitter’s Former Head of Trust and Safety Finally Breaks Her Silence | WIRED
Interesting interview, not least because reading between the lines of stuff like “getting a semi-effective multi-account detection algorithm in place took years. Years.” — and I know from life experience that part of the reason that’s hard is that REGULATORS HATE COOKIES AND THINK THAT ALL “TRACKING” DEVICE COOKIES ARE FOR ADVERTISING Sigh. I consistently had…
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Skating to Where the Puck Is Going – Center for Security & Emerging Technology | overall I’m grateful to the AI community for absorbing so many of the professional fearmongers hitherto locked-into VR & Infosec
Really, I am. For instance, this article posits: “YES BUT SCALE, ALEC” – I disagree; we made that argument re: SPAM and we lost. Such evaluations attempt to identify dangerous capabilities such as … dangerous knowledge about sensitive subjects such as chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapon production; capacity to carry out offensive cyber operations;…
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Bright satellites are disrupting astronomy research worldwide | my, how things have changed
Back in the 1980s the passage overhead of satellites was relatively rare, and amateur observer books were published about the topic. It was a matter of public interest, so much so that the weather prediction in the Guardian newspaper would list a few predicted satellites per day. How things have changed: The summary: astronomers spent…
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How long before they have to reboot the ball? How long before somebody DDoSes it? | UEFA 2024 to feature “connected ball”
https://www.footballshirtculture.com/footballs/adidas-fussballliebe-uefa-euro-2024-match-ball.html
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Start them early…
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That feeling that 05:15h when the toddler requests a bottle of water, drinks the whole thing, and then vomits all over you
OMG