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India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces

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Re: India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces

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Delhi Police arrested the protesting Indian women wrestlers. Various social media handles of IT cell of ruling party shared morphed picture of protesters to show that they were smiling in the police van. https://twitter.com/SakshiMalik/status/1662729269532065792

Is that an all female police squad?

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As an NRI, I continue to be disappointed by the country I called home for most of my life.

Between the politics and the pollution in Delhi, I fear I can never really return home.

The last time I was home, I was struggling every day to breathe because Delhi has crazy air in the winter. While high school friends were telling me about how they don’t believe in equal rights, justifying any means to achieving a Hindu country. This is just one more nail in the coffin of a potentially great, secular country that once dared to v̵o̵t̵e̵ place a g̵r̵e̵a̵t̵ scientist as president. How far we’ve fallen since.

I’m just heartbroken over what my country has become.

Edit: for the countless fans of India that will show up to tell me how to feel about the country, please don’t. I really don’t care to hear the latest talking point on why Infrastructure is worth human rights abuses or whatever lets you sleep at night. My opinion is my own and you can please pound sand. You are part of what makes me mourn my country.

Re: India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces

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post #13

Just the beginning, what happens when it becomes impossible to parse fact and fiction? I mean rsa 2048 can be currently broken in 104 days, and we'll be at quantum levels sooner than we realize. How we validating anything after that? Biometric?

Need a source on RSA 2048 being breakable. QC like that is still quite far off and it can’t be conventionally breakable unless there has been some kind of mathematical breakthrough.

Re: India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces

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post #21

Delhi Police arrested the protesting Indian women wrestlers. Various social media handles of IT cell of ruling party shared morphed picture of protesters to show that they were smiling in the police van. https://twitter.com/SakshiMalik/status/1662729269532065792

Is that an all female police squad?

> Is that an all female police squad?

Not to assume anyone's gender here, but does it look like a all female police squad? https://i.imgur.com/OSnyrFH.jpg

Re: India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces

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post #13

Just the beginning, what happens when it becomes impossible to parse fact and fiction? I mean rsa 2048 can be currently broken in 104 days, and we'll be at quantum levels sooner than we realize. How we validating anything after that? Biometric?

> I mean rsa 2048 can be currently broken in 104 days

Only if one has a sufficiently-large fault-tolerant quantum computer with 10,000 qubits and 2.23 trillion quantum gates [0]. Which is currently an unachivium.

[0] https://www.itnews.com.au/news/quantum-computers-wont-break-...

Re: India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces

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That is getting real freaking dystopian. Sure, we would have been able to do this before, and the Soviet Union did a ton of photo editing. But doing this particular edit must have been so easy. No cost at all, no mental barrier. You would almost think 'why bother'. And before anyone says 'yeah, but the truth came out'. Well, we saw it, but how many of the particular audience of whatever that outlet was will never see…

> yeah, but the truth came out The truth came out this time. To borrow from Ozark: this isn't the only time they doctored photos, it's the only time they got caught.

The truth came out too late anyway. The fact that it's been fact checked doesn't matter. People wo want to believe in a certain agenda have already got the misinformation they need, and it's not like they're seeking out other sources to fact check their information. They're not even the target audience of people who are fact checking this misinformation so the damage is already done.

Re: India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces

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post #6

That is getting real freaking dystopian. Sure, we would have been able to do this before, and the Soviet Union did a ton of photo editing. But doing this particular edit must have been so easy. No cost at all, no mental barrier. You would almost think 'why bother'. And before anyone says 'yeah, but the truth came out'. Well, we saw it, but how many of the particular audience of whatever that outlet was will never see…

> yeah, but the truth came out The truth came out this time. To borrow from Ozark: this isn't the only time they doctored photos, it's the only time they got caught.

And those having seen the doctored images wont know (or care) that they were fake.

Re: India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces

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> Verified account @wokeflix_ tweeted the same image in a meme > Verified account @randomsena tweeted the same image > Another verified account, @RealAtulsay, tweeted the same image Isn't "Verified" on Twitter just a subscription now, meaning it's just that these people have given Twitter money? Why it matters (in a journalistic sense) who has paid Twitter or not? And why are only some of the verified accounts mentio…

Well let’s see what Twitter says about their new blue program

Your account must have no signs of being misleading or deceptive

Your account must have no signs of engaging in platform manipulation and spam

So Twitter is telling us that those accounts should not be deceiving. Yet, they are.

https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/about-twit...

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