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Users should protect themselves from this. With the expectation that they will, there will be tons of tools available and this scenario will be a nonstarter. Decentralized defenses…

Yes for the end user that will be the main difference. From the curation of the training data to the model itself a number of things have been put together that make the generation…

Exactly. The use of ad spend to talk about Russian influence in 2016 is negligent in focusing on a metric of convenience. I suspect the real channels through which they exert influ…

Would love to see any bookmarks or hear anecdotes anyone has on this. I'm doing software development with a remote team and trying to evaluate which best practices the team might a…

Thanks for posting this. I'm doing research in this area and this is fantastic

That's because a large discussion broke out underneath a comment that may not have been the most high quality?

This is a fair point under some ways of looking at the problem. It could be that advertising is just nasty no matter how it is implemented, and thus any system that uses advertisin…

I think what he's saying is that they do the inferences from localhost, more or less (see e.g. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/serving... ) There are a number …

I'm not aware of any evidence that shows that directly. But there a good number of surveys that show that people don't want advertising to target them based on their interests. htt…

Nice

It's worth saying that at a number of firms that 2% goes into the pockets of the partners. One thing to like about a16z (full disclosure, I worked there over the summer), imho, is …

Really, it wasn't that much better, at least not to me at the time. I'd switch search engines every few months, or more accurately have 3 or 4 search engines to deploy against diff…

This _IS_ a solution for payments outside the USA. Do you know how many countries with a rapidly growing middle class that Visa, MasterCard, etc won't touch because their crappy cr…

It probably won't actually matter but it could for some who do something similar to you, but are you sure you actually own your research and that the IP doesn't belong to the unive…

I don't know if I need this, but bravo for being crazy