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2015: “AI Images Look Ridiculously Fake” | 2025: “AI Images Look Ridiculously Real” | The solution to risk is education
Ten years ago we were mocking image generation algorithms which produced nothing but psychedelic dog faces, now everyone older than 25 is panicking about fake pictures of bad teen bedrooms being used to empathise real kids into being abducted. WRONG-O. This could be a predator who has synthesized an entirely fabricated persona for the purposes
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Does anyone else suspect that people who want the UK to withdraw from the ECHR are people who want to reintroduce capital punishment?
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised by the results of this conversation with ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/share/68c6c8b6-df54-8004-9ea4-e83591594604
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Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers | …this is a wonderful and absolutely necessary tool for AI policy experts
Perfect. Every day, thousands of researchers race to solve the AI alignment problem. But they struggle to coordinate on the basics, like whether a misaligned superintelligence will seek to destroy humanity, or just enslave and torture us forever. Who, then, aligns the aligners? We do. https://alignmentalignment.ai/
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If everyone (including kids) can see someone be literally assassinated on a podium as “news”, but require age verification for addiction recovery forums, maybe the online safety act tries to solve the wrong problem?
This video by Thomas Pearson raises some interesting questions but offers no answers; I would suggest that the only scalable solution is to “make better people” Regulators will soon try to draft new and unenforceable rules like “…it’s ok if somebody died so long as they weren’t in frame and Trump only had his ear
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Hey, global citizens, aren’t you glad that you have end-to-end encrypted messenger systems that meaningfully protect your chat content without being scanned or filtered by the government?
Hegseth tells Pentagon staff to hunt for negative Charlie Kirk posts by service members https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/hegseth-pentagon-staff-negative-charlie-kirk-posts-service-members-rcna230915
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California legislature passes bill forcing web browsers to let consumers automatically opt out of data sharing | WELL, GOSH, NOBODY HAS EVER TRIED THAT BEFORE. CLEARLY THIS IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO
NOT: The California legislature on Thursday passed a bill to require internet browsers to feature a setting that allows consumers to send a signal indicating they want to opt out of having their personal data shared with third parties. https://therecord.media/california-legislature-passes-bill-data-sharing-opt-out
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Leverage the CLOUD Act To Protect Encryption | TechPolicy.Press
Pending any changes to the CLOUD Act by Congress, the Department of Justice should pull the US out of the CLOUD Act agreement with the UK unless the UK withdraws the order it issued to Apple. While there were reports in August that the UK had agreed to withdraw its order, court filings reportedly suggest
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If you want to understand the UK Gov’t institutional mindset around data protection: a 40yo “top secret” document is found in the national archives, and the finder is all of a flutter…
Yes I know about VENONA, yes I understand compartmented & codeword information protection, yes I know some of it could be current, I don’t care, to get there it has gone through official process, it’s likely been in the national archives for 10+ years already, that horse has already bolted, it should not be for
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Briefing: VPNs and the Online Safety Act | Open Rights Group
If adults are using VPNs to by-pass age-checks it is because they do not trust the age assurance providers with their personal data. An adult using a VPN does not impact the safety of a child online. https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/briefing-vpns-and-the-online-safety-act/
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The EU Commission seriously claims: “There is no such thing as #ChatControl.”
Facepalm. They don’t get it.
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