There is a state of emergency presidential address. In Video A, the politician says X Y Z. In Video B, the politician says A B C. Both videos have equal credibility. The videos show no artifacts from tampering. The alteration is undetectable by experts. The broadcast has dire consequences in a divided country.
50% of channels are pushing Video A, 50% of channels are pushing Video B.
We are now in a position where the public actually cannot determine which video is authentic. The politician could broadcast a new statement, to clarify the validity of the first video. But, you could just as easily fake that too, to publish a statement that declares the opposite.
So, then you load up Hacker News or wherever, to determine for yourself what the hell is going on. But someone spins up 1,000 bots to flood the comments in favor of Video A, and someone else spins up 1,000 bots to flood the comments in favor of Video B. These comments are all in natural language, all with their own individual idiosyncrasies. It's impossible to determine if the comment is a bot. And because the cost is essentially free, these bots can be primed for years, making mundane comments on trivial topics to build social credibility. Actual humans only account for maybe 1% of this discourse.
Now imagine: our entire world operates like this, on a daily basis, ranging from the mundane to the dramatic. How about broadcasting a deepfake press statement from a CEO to make a shorted meme stock crash. If there are financial/political incentives to do so, and the technological hurdle is insignificant, these tools will be weaponized.
So how do we "not believe the media", do we all have to be standing in the same room together where something notable happens?
I understand that there could be upsides, the world isn't all doom and gloom. But, I think engineers get myopic, and do not heed the warnings.
I would say, at least it’s not as predatory and unethical as crypto, where the people involved are knowingly harming others.
But it seems like the current trendline for “AI” is going to be worse. Why be excited about building tools that will undermine democracy and cast doubt on the authenticity of every single photo, video, and audio clip. Now it can be done cheaply, by anyone. It will become good enough that we cannot believe any form of media. And also make it impossible to determine if the written word is coming from an actual person. This is going to be weaponized against us.
And at the very least, if you think blogspam sucks now, wait until this becomes 99.9999% of all indexed content. It’s going to jam all of our comms with noise.
But hey it looks great on your resume, right?
Maybe I’m too cynical, would love for someone to change my mind. But you are not alone in your unease.
Search is losing the arms race. I think we'll need to revert back to the model of manually curated and moderated listings, a human-approved island, surrounded by an endless sea of autogen noise.
All of that multimedia experimentation was a good time. I remember kirupa.com being the destination for tutorials and actionscript snippets, I built dozens of Flash sites. It was also popular for awhile to burn Flash packages to mini CDs, they would autoload as a multimedia brochure or portfolio etc.
I'm glad we moved beyond this. It was ultimately the wrong direction for the web, but we had some fun along the way.
I prefer the higher information density of earlier designs. The surface-level styles make them seem old, but structurally, these sites provided a lot more utility.
When I hit your homepage, I don't care about the fullscreen photo and bland headline. I'm blind to it, these things don't even register. Please give me a list of news headlines, a full product lineup, top support articles, etc.
I think GitHub Discussions* strikes a nice balance between hierarchical and chronological comments.
The main comments are chronological, but you can also inline reply to a main comment. So the hierarchy is restricted to one level deep. I think this design flows more naturally, you avoid deep branching, and you avoid quoting a comment that was 3 pages back.
Same here. First time order, and it was poor quality so I requested a return. They refunded and didn’t even want it back. It was $200 but I guess they knew it was junk and not worth the shipping.
When there are little to no consequences, it will keep happening. We need severe penalties for losing sensitive data, as in, an actual threat to the survival of a company, not some minuscule fine.
I wonder how having evidence of fraudulent transactions publicly accessible on the blockchain will affect the investigation time. It seems like once they figure out exactly which addresses to look for, they'll have timestamped fingerprints that trace back to all sorts of irrefutable evidence.
I also used Modo from version 101 to 501. Maybe it’s because of baby duck syndrome, but I have never found anything that even comes close to Modo, in terms of ease of use and workflow.
You can get the Blender viewport behaviors to match Modo, but you'll need to customize all the Input/Navigation/Keymap settings. The modeling tools themselves are mostly kind of there at a foundational level, but it’s all really clunky in comparison. I wish that Blender had the work plane and tool pipe. I just learned the Blender way to do things, instead of trying to fight it.
If you select a command and press 'Control+Command+?' it will open the man page in a new window. You can also customize the theme by editing the 'Man Page' profile in the settings.
There aren't technical decisions driving this, they are in the business of advertising.
But yeah, pretty much this. We have access to billions of hours of video, but without advanced filter controls, most of it is inaccessible. Same problem with search engines in general.
Hm I guess it depends on use cases, and machine configurations. I encounter many, many bugs. Off the top of my head:
- On reboot, sometimes the Menu Bar fails to load entirely, and I have to keep rebooting until it appears.
- WindowServer process memory leaks that require a reboot to fix.
- Finder steals focus from other apps. For instance, when I cmd-tab to quick switch between Mail and Notes, Finder will insert itself into the quick switch stack and replace the last focused app.
- Finder drag and drop randomly stops working.
- Spotlight fails to find files in normal directories, so I have to drop into Terminal to find them.
- Terminal sometimes loses input focus for no discernible reason.
- Calendar notifications either don’t show up at all, or dismiss themselves automatically, or the snooze action dismisses them and they never return.
- Safari page content crashes when the I resize the browser window. No discernible pattern for what causes this.
Death by one thousand paper cuts. The list just keeps going.
I also migrated a few years ago, after having used Photoshop and Illustrator professionally for a long time.
The underlying features are there, but the lack of “flow” is the main source of frustration. A lot of common or frequent actions require needless extra steps, or simple actions require convoluted workarounds.
They would benefit from starting an in-house creative studio, to get constant feedback from professionals using it for daily production. That or just start copying Adobe workflows verbatim, these are already solved problems.
There is a state of emergency presidential address. In Video A, the politician says X Y Z. In Video B, the politician says A B C. Both videos have equal credibility. The videos show no artifacts from tampering. The alteration is undetectable by experts. The broadcast has dire consequences in a divided country.
50% of channels are pushing Video A, 50% of channels are pushing Video B.
We are now in a position where the public actually cannot determine which video is authentic. The politician could broadcast a new statement, to clarify the validity of the first video. But, you could just as easily fake that too, to publish a statement that declares the opposite.
So, then you load up Hacker News or wherever, to determine for yourself what the hell is going on. But someone spins up 1,000 bots to flood the comments in favor of Video A, and someone else spins up 1,000 bots to flood the comments in favor of Video B. These comments are all in natural language, all with their own individual idiosyncrasies. It's impossible to determine if the comment is a bot. And because the cost is essentially free, these bots can be primed for years, making mundane comments on trivial topics to build social credibility. Actual humans only account for maybe 1% of this discourse.
Now imagine: our entire world operates like this, on a daily basis, ranging from the mundane to the dramatic. How about broadcasting a deepfake press statement from a CEO to make a shorted meme stock crash. If there are financial/political incentives to do so, and the technological hurdle is insignificant, these tools will be weaponized.
So how do we "not believe the media", do we all have to be standing in the same room together where something notable happens?
I understand that there could be upsides, the world isn't all doom and gloom. But, I think engineers get myopic, and do not heed the warnings.