first step to solving any problem is accepting that the problem exists.
"How to Safeguard U.S. Elections From AI-Powered Misinformation and Cyberattacks"
Well for starters, accept that social media is being manipulated in real time by AI to not just increase engagement, but also to manipulate users opinions for the agendas of whoever is paying.
Anywhere bots can emulate actual users, this is running rampant. Places like reddit are more bots than actual users.
Whatever happened to the huge bot problem that twitter had? Musk pointed it out then bought it and went all quiet on the subject. It's almost like after buying twitter, he learned the bots WERE twitter and with those, massive influence can be had.
AI is just a tool, the threat to democracy was when lobbying became legal.
Sorry to sound so defeatist-- until LITERALLY BRIBING is illegal, I hope no one expects change. The system is profitable and will resist all attempts to get away from how it is.
People are getting the best politics money can buy at this point.
"The trains were designed to break if they sat idle for 21 days or if a GPS detected them at independent repair centers or competitors’ rail yards. Perhaps most interestingly, one of the analyzed trains had code in it that was supposed to artificially lock the train’s compressor on the seemingly arbitrary date of December 21; a NewAg train then actually had a compressor malfunction on December 21."
They need to sue because they're going to go out of business. This isn't DRM, it's just fraud.
Case in point: what else is there not yet discovered? I'm sure there's more.
“We want to make sure that people know that the incident was very distressing to us. We can’t believe that it happened,” he continued. “I don’t think anything can really remedy this. We’ve been remunerated for the insurance value, but it’s not about the money. It’s about the preservation of American musical history and heritage.”
They sure are clutching pearls over something that supposedly isn't about the money. Of course, they only insured it for 40k by accident, but they did say it wasn't about the money, so it must not be about the money.
You know what they mean when they say it isn't about the money?
Its about the money. Thing was massively uninsured.
Personally I know nothing about guitars and as such, if I saw a replica in a movie versus the original, I would have no idea it was different. I think this is more about Terantino wanting the original to be used than about any potential viewer.
What would the outrage be, exactly, if it was discovered the one portrayed wasn't the original? None, that's what.
If the Martin Museum forever more will no longer lend musical instruments to all of hollywood.... oh well, I guess?
in 2024, "ruined lives" is often a bit of an exaggeration. I clicked into this thinking, did their paychecks get halted for a few weeks or months? That would just really suck if a programming bug caused so many people's finances to fall apart, though I'm not sure "ruined" would be the term I would use. But the article is not about that at all. Instead, all I can say is.. oh my.
"The stubbornness of the administration in trusting their technology impacted and ruining a number of lives: many of these people faced prison time, divorce, and suicide."
that is indeed good use of the term ruined lives. :(
to be accused of those crimes and convicted of them, when for sure they didn't happen. That is a very hard pill to swallow.
too short. keep going!! A lot of abuse results in PTSD. How will that manifest with online?
Through the use of llm's, bots now talk just like the people the llm's are trained off of. They have hobbies, opinions, they will aggressively and convincingly argue that they are not a bot and feel insulted to be called one.
They also cost non-insignificant resources to configure and operate, so how exactly a bot turns into revenue to pay for those resources is up for a lot of conjecture.
I just spotted another article on a similar topic earlier today on hn. It's over six years old, but you may find it relevant. I would imagine the art has changed significantly, and the horror stories have only grown.
extremely sobering. and also mirroring so many of my own personal feelings.
the article is now over 6 years old. I'll repeat what the author says-- I don't know what to think anymore.
It's like finding a glitch in the matrix at this point, when you think a "bot" is real, and the only indication it isn't is some mistake it's made that no human would ever make. Raving about the 0-60mph acceleration times on your new snowblower, for example. It all looks so real, until you see that part and realize without a doubt, this is fake. A brief mistake and you won't see it again as the system corrects itself.
A little piece of me dies every time that happens. I get a little more untrusting. I get a little more jaded and bitter. If abuse can happen on the net by seeing malign content, then PTSD is happening
unfortunately, it unintentionally describes what my last marriage was like. Nice to see the techniques all have a name. Not so nice to be under constant assault by people arguing in bad faith.
Early on in my marriage, my partner was tipsy one time and admitted to arguing any topic even if they knew they were wrong. Subsequent arguments were far worse, somehow, knowing that. which was perhaps the whole point?
6 months of marriage, 2.5 years of breaking up. that sums it up well.
I feel a lot of sympathy now for the people working to keep wikipedia on track. keep up the hard work.
food is inherently full of confirmation bias to the one with the hunger
witness the reaction to finding a hair in it. and how much worse it is if the hair is only discovered halfway down your throat and you pull it out.
meal now unappetiziing? but it could be Kobe beef ... it doesn't matter. the mind is trying to save you from potential toxins, poisonous spoiled foods. There is only one way to make an animal that's starving suddenly not eat the meal in front of him. so the levers in the head are very heavy-handed.
tldr, this tech has a lot working against it.
Even if it tastes and looks perfect, I doubt I could get it down. So I'm a picky eater? My mom spent a good 15-16 years trying to overcome that. If she can't, no one can.
it depends on how much charging you want. all EV's can charge off of a slower 115vac 15amp circuit. At my last place I had a dedicated 40amp 230vac socket much like you'd have installed for a big electric heater in a garage or a pool heater or a dryer. Good recharge times which I actually have only needed once in my life.
At my current place I'm just using an extension cord to my outdoor outlet and I give it the 1500 watt option. You can even cut that in half if you don't want the "my this cord is warm.." effect.
In the end, the slower charge is the better charge, so my laziness has been winning. I don't see installing a 230vac socket any time soon given how well it's been working.
I've got an older phev that originally only got 14 miles of pure electric @ up to 79 mph, it's battery is down to about 9 miles expected. And that isn't a lot, but it is enough for 90% of my trips around town. Where you REALLY see this working well is if you have to go out every day to pick something or someone up locally. The amount of fuel burned on warmup cycles and local trips is not insubstantial.
The gas tank needle just LOVES to move with every small trip otherwise.
I sometimes go months without buying gas using that tiny miniscule range.
Like how car ads at bargain prices require the vin to be shown on the ad. There really may only be one car at that price but at least this way you know it’s not completely fake.
I’ve worked at a few companies that also are just super slow about removing job listings that get filled. There is not much incentive to drop it, and lots of different incentives of leaving it up.
"If a site doesn't work without third-party cookies and Chrome notices you're having issues... we'll prompt you with an option to temporarily re-enable third-party cookies for that website."
chrome noticing I have issues ... Oh I've got a lot of issues with this but temporarily re-enabling third-party cookies isn't the solution I was thinking of.
What metrics it uses to determine when I've got "issues" is kinda terrifying. Clippy makes a comeback, and it brought cookies.
I'm imagining a not-so-distant future where LLM's start to need daycare services and places for them to go and hang out at, social media sites. An occupied LLM is less likely to become skynet maybe? :)
it's possible to self-medicate your ADHD with things like coffee, energy drinks, and anything else that'll produce a dopamine response.
To put it another way, sometimes I manage my ADHD by hyperfocusing on something superficial, and letting it consume all my extra attention while I actually pay attention to what I want, which is usually someone talking.
An example of this is a fidget spinner. though I don't have anything like that, I just have some sort of object-- a screw, a AA battery, a paperclip, in my hand that I'll seem to be focused on. Without it, its a lot harder to focus on whos talking. I assure you, I'm not really paying attention to whatever the object is. But by doing so, it lets me herd myself and focus myself.
I also take meds to help, but not all meds work the same for people.
I'd advise to let your partner get their rounds of dopamine by whatever methods they want so long as it isn't self-destructive.
ADHD above all else is an impulsivity issue. From wetting the bed at a young age to impulse buying as an adult, decisions are made quicker than we sometimes want.
Maybe direct that decision-making to more constructive things. Your partner probably excels at these quick decisions, find a way to channel them and everyone can be happier.
ADHD isnt a walk in the park, and it impacts relationships significantly. There's a lot of common elements though and armed with knowledge the whole thing can be a lot easier to work with. To the non-adhd partner, it can be beyond maddening. I suggest addressing that issue directly, and this site has some good info about it.
Oh yeah, big common thing is how painful it can be to detach from something you have become focused on. the reason it's painful is more PTSD-- with a lifetime of distractions that led down the road of "I forgot to do it" we hold on to what we're focused on tighter... and tighter. interruption can produce explosive reactions. It's all about the fear of not being able to resume the thought. Not even remembering that you need to resume it, or if you want to, you just can't.
To the non-adhd, it would be like someone walking up to you while you're reading a book and just pulling the book out of your hands and shutting it. Before you got to see what page you were on. So the trick.. is to learn how to mark that page, before setting it down to see what your partner wants to talk about. That's a life skill right there, it is not an overnight thing.
I'm not sure what you mean by "make the way" and your working pc and stable internet connection seem to trivialize the pressures and very real limitations someone has while on parole and then subsequently after getting off parole.
"How to Safeguard U.S. Elections From AI-Powered Misinformation and Cyberattacks"
Well for starters, accept that social media is being manipulated in real time by AI to not just increase engagement, but also to manipulate users opinions for the agendas of whoever is paying.
Anywhere bots can emulate actual users, this is running rampant. Places like reddit are more bots than actual users.
Whatever happened to the huge bot problem that twitter had? Musk pointed it out then bought it and went all quiet on the subject. It's almost like after buying twitter, he learned the bots WERE twitter and with those, massive influence can be had.
AI is just a tool, the threat to democracy was when lobbying became legal.
Sorry to sound so defeatist-- until LITERALLY BRIBING is illegal, I hope no one expects change. The system is profitable and will resist all attempts to get away from how it is.
People are getting the best politics money can buy at this point.