I have said for a while now that the future is their AI vs our AI and nobody can turn the AI off because then we'd lose.
Facebook Discovers Fake AI-Generated Profiles
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#112It's ironic that as we move into a world where anyone can be a "journalist" and anyone can have a voice, we need professional journalists more than ever. Now a journalist will not only need training in writing well, conveying a story with facts, and investigating, but they will also need to become experts in identifying fake source material. In a world where anyone can make a video or photo of anyone doing anything,…
> In a world where anyone can make a video or photo of anyone doing anything, we'll need to rely on reputable journalists to vet that material for us. signed media is going to become FAR more important in the future. We're going to have cameras shipping with crypto so that news agencies can sign their video.
Sounds like the spam wars from the 2000s again.
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#113Ironic, since Facebook itself uses a sort of AI to create fake shadow profiles.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of the scariest quotes for me was Facebook's Little Red Book in 2012 (a book handed out to every employee) that had this quote: > "When everyone has a printing press [i.e., Facebook], the ones with the best ideas are the ones people listen to." In retrospect, it gives a ton of insight into the flawed beliefs within the company. https://twitter.com/nemild/status/1006533287378968576 https://www.businessinsider.com/…
In the 1850's it was widely believed that the invention of the telegraph would bring about world peace. The problem is language itself . We trust it way too much to convey meaning, and truth. But it's just a delusion, or a mirage, in much the same way that the search for artificial intelligence is. In fact, I would say that language itself is the first AI invented.
Some of the ancient Greeks were aware of the limitations and drawbacks of language. Rumor is some of the Spartans took it so far as to refuse to read or write, and even speak as spartan (heh) as possible.
Re: Facebook Discovers Fake AI-Generated Profiles
#115It's ironic that as we move into a world where anyone can be a "journalist" and anyone can have a voice, we need professional journalists more than ever. Now a journalist will not only need training in writing well, conveying a story with facts, and investigating, but they will also need to become experts in identifying fake source material. In a world where anyone can make a video or photo of anyone doing anything,…
> In a world where anyone can make a video or photo of anyone doing anything, we'll need to rely on reputable journalists to vet that material for us. signed media is going to become FAR more important in the future. We're going to have cameras shipping with crypto so that news agencies can sign their video.
Tyrannical governments would love the idea of all camera images being signed.
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#116"Discovers"
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the 1850's it was widely believed that the invention of the telegraph would bring about world peace. The problem is language itself . We trust it way too much to convey meaning, and truth. But it's just a delusion, or a mirage, in much the same way that the search for artificial intelligence is. In fact, I would say that language itself is the first AI invented.
Some of the ancient Greeks were aware of the limitations and drawbacks of language. Rumor is some of the Spartans took it so far as to refuse to read or write, and even speak as spartan (heh) as possible.
> Rumor is some of the Spartans took it so far as to refuse to read or write, and even speak as spartan (heh) as possible.
Do you have any source or pointer to learn more about this ?
Re: Facebook Discovers Fake AI-Generated Profiles
#118There's been fake generated profiles on Facebook for over a decade. I know this because I had some, I was targeted by some, and I had "security friends" who generated some. Over the years I've seen several campaigns of groups of fake profiles trying to collect access (by "friending into" friend circles).
At university my security club had a member who gave a presentation on algorithms for detecting and generating fake profile posts for Facebook, through which he created sock puppets and also found a ton of others belonging to "who knows which group". That was around 10 years ago.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
> In a world where anyone can make a video or photo of anyone doing anything, we'll need to rely on reputable journalists to vet that material for us. signed media is going to become FAR more important in the future. We're going to have cameras shipping with crypto so that news agencies can sign their video.
Tyrannical governments would love the idea of all camera images being signed.
The signing could very well be completely optional/pseudonymous. Don't fall into the trap of false dilemmas BigTech loves to impose on its users: the wonderful thing about technology is how malleable, and thus user-empowering it can be.
Re: Facebook Discovers Fake AI-Generated Profiles
#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of the scariest quotes for me was Facebook's Little Red Book in 2012 (a book handed out to every employee) that had this quote: > "When everyone has a printing press [i.e., Facebook], the ones with the best ideas are the ones people listen to." In retrospect, it gives a ton of insight into the flawed beliefs within the company. https://twitter.com/nemild/status/1006533287378968576 https://www.businessinsider.com/…
In the century that the printing press was invented, one of the most popular books to be printed was the Malleus Maleficarum, which systematized the practice of witch burning in the following centuries. Better dissemination of ideas does not necessarily mean better ideas. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malleus_Maleficarum
Nevermind that. The most popular book of all time tells its readers to kill gays.