Well maybe they just have like a lot of linked lists that they need reversed? With that many people working in parallel you could really increase the throughput of the reversing process. Of course this is assuming that you previously hired people to identify and remove any cyclical nodes in those link lists.
Also if it was actually about free speech, he wouldn’t immediately capitulate every time a foreign government asks him to remove content they deem inappropriate.
> you can't actually trust the signatures for anything.
Do you bank online? Public-private key encryption work well enough to support millions (billions?) of dollars worth of transactions per day - I don't think it's as broken as you make it seem
> Bob produces something with AI but claims he produced it himself and signs it with his private key. … because Bob can sign whatever he wants with his private key.
Whether or not to trust Bob is an entirely different problem space than being able to prove an image came from Bob. In most scenarios Bob would be “trustworthy news source” who cares about their reputability. The important piece here is that if someone shares something on e.g. twitter and says Bob produced it, that claim can be verified.
> crack any camera by any manufacturer can extract the private key and use it to sign whatever they want, which is inevitably going to happen … Since that makes the whole system worthless, what's the point?
Think about what happens today when a private key is leaked - that key is no longer trusted. Will it be such a large scale problem such that the day any camera is released the keys are leaked? Maybe. Even in that scenario though we end up in the same spot as today except with the additional benefit of being able to verify stuff coming from NPR/CNN/your preferred news source that is shared on third party platforms.
Watermarks can be helpful, but I believe that provenance via digital signatures is ultimately a better solution. Curious why Google doesn’t join the CAI (https://contentauthenticity.org/) and use their approach for provenance of Google’s generated audio files.
It's a shame they don't use a SQLite database for version control. I know it's probably the least efficient way to store code changes but it would bring a whole new level to bootstrapping processes. Each code change would be inserted into the db by the code produced by the prior change.
Does Amazon do literally anything to pro-actively prevent the selling of counterfeit goods?
> Prior to the deal, Apple sent “hundreds of thousands of take-down notices” to Amazon to reduce counterfeits, and the company conducted test purchases on Amazon that “consistently returned high counterfeit rates
I think ideally we'd get to a point where end users could easily see who signed an image so if someone was claiming an image was from cnn it could be validated. I imagine the end goal would be to put a warning on images that aren't from a signed source or maybe not displayed at all by default - similar to the uptake of https
This is correct - the overwhelming majority of people did not get involved with crypto. Even for people and companies who did most put a fraction of their money into it.
What are the laws around the government punishing government employees for criticizing the government?
I'm not an expert but it doesn't really seem like a first amendment issue although I think most would agree that the government shouldn't be punishing its own employees for conduct like this.
The problem isn't that websites owners want to promote their website to the top of the search results, the problem is that Google's financial interests are aligned with those pages instead of its users.
If Google was putting significant resources towards combating SEO spam instead of encouraging it, the sites returned from a query (e.g. the sites that make Google the most money) would be the ones that the user most wanted, not the ones that maximally participate in Google's ad-extortion business.
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