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

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Post by ceejayoz »

shaan7 wrote: post #64
juujian wrote: 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…

I am hoping that AI tooling like this becomes even more widespread (Google Photos is doing that) that more people will finally understand that they cannot trust everything they see online. I hope.

But the conclusion becomes “you can’t trust anything”. I worry about a civilization that can’t agree on even the most basic of facts.

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

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Post by shagie »

dmbche wrote: post #61
collsni wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/resources/news/press-re...

We're good! It's a risk assessment - nothing has been broken, but they propose that with a computer with these specs it could be done. I wouldn't worry too much about encryption being easily broken soon.

For those who worry about it, it isn't that it's broken soon, but that it will be broken within a timeframe that the data is still useful.

Veritasium : How Quantum Computers Break The Internet... Starting Now - https://youtu.be/-UrdExQW0cs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_now,_decrypt_later

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

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Post by EGreg »

confoundcofound wrote: post #63
pjc50 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure what you're arguing here?

I suspect they’re referring to using blockchain as a system of cryptographically-verified facts and shared reality to counteract the AI risk you mention. Why was GP flagged? They made a good point.

It was flagged because it's a taboo on HN to say anything good about Web3, or even that Web3 is not as bad as something else, like AI that will destroy our trust in anything digital.

The point was that Web3 was mildly zero-sum for society, while AI is shaping up to be massively negative-sum, as more people get access to it. It's like giving bombs to everybody and hoping no one will use them in bad ways. At least with nuclear bombs we knew who was enriching the plutonium. Here, everyone has access to weapons, to be used as they please.

The key to when things go bad is swarms. When HN is overrun with swarms of bots a few years from now, you'll remember reading this. Web3 by contrast is just an immutable ledger, its worst applications are convincing people to voluntarily put some money into a buggy smart contract.

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

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Post by hutzlibu »

skinnymuch wrote: post #79
juujian wrote: 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…

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"Is there something dystopian about India or Soviet Union that is unlike the Global North?"

Actually, I would place the soviet union in the global north (you cannot go much further north, than russia is). And the difference is the extent, what they did to rewrite history. The famous removal of Trotzki out of revolution pictures, after he was not with the main party anymore. Stuff like this, did not happen in the west. Lots of other manipulation and misinformation, sure, but not blatantly rewriting history.

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

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Post by kalam_throw »

dagmx wrote: post #22

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 coun…

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

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Post by praveen9920 »

ta_vf7xjd34cc wrote: post #76
lagolinguini wrote: post #11

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The inauguration of the new Parliament building where: - None of the major opposition parties attended - The President and other constitutional heads were not invited - The protesting athletes were arrested - One religion was in the spotlight, as opposed to the Indian brand of secularism where ceremonies of all religions should have been conducted - On the day of Savarkar's (Hindu nationalist) birth anniversary - The…

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Ever wondered why these "laws" were not repealed or even questioned by the ruling party in the last 9 years, even with an overwhelming majority in parliament?

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

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Post by ffgjgf1 »

ta_vf7xjd34cc wrote: post #76
lagolinguini wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The inauguration of the new Parliament building where: - None of the major opposition parties attended - The President and other constitutional heads were not invited - The protesting athletes were arrested - One religion was in the spotlight, as opposed to the Indian brand of secularism where ceremonies of all religions should have been conducted - On the day of Savarkar's (Hindu nationalist) birth anniversary - The…

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> It is only in "secular" India that organized religious conversions were allowed that led to Christians going from less that 1% of the population 100 years ago to 90% today in some states

But all that happened before India was even fully independent so how is it relevant? Are you saying Christian should be forcibly converted back to Hinduism?

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

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Post by dagmx »

EGreg wrote: post #94
dagmx wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How would the Web3 concept solve this?

It wouldn't, that's not what is being claimed.

I read your other post explaining what you meant after I asked. I don’t think the initial claim was clear but I get where you’re coming from.
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