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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 actionfromafar »

quesera wrote: post #399
actionfromafar wrote: post #396

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah, like the red lines drawn up for Assad in Syria. And Crimea is strategic. Look at a map. Without it, the Ukraine and its ports are always under threat from the whims of Russia. It’s probably true that you can’t crush Russia without serious consequences. Unfortunately, you can’t let it win territory without very serious consequences either. This follows its own tragic logic now and you (we) can’t wish for a nice so…

I agree completely. We were asleep when Russia took Crimea, and unprepared to react with anything more than stern words. We were not ready for Putin. He obviously saw the opportunity, took the risk, and he won. It would be tragic to return to a world where aggressive expansionism is the norm. But fighting back through Crimea would be tragic also. And it's not clear we would have the support of the locals. That's cour…

I don’t think a long fight through Crimea has to be necessary at all. The Russian troops cab withdraw over the bridge to Russia when it’s apparent they will otherwise be trapped.

Leaving Crimea to Russia is not just appeasement, it’s strategically unsound.

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Post by shaan7 »

denton-scratch wrote: post #312
ceejayoz wrote: post #91

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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.

It's not “you can’t trust anything”. It's "you can’t trust anything you're told ”. And that's nothing new. We have been lying since we figured out how to talk. The sky is not falling.

Indeed. Its not like everything is lost. The majority of the population (anecdotal) jump the gun when it comes to believing a random forwarded message. Just that needs to change to "let me do my research first". That is all.

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Post by [deleted] »

kalam_throw wrote: post #129
throwaway2305ax wrote: post #82

The news is accurate, but not particularly newsworthy. This was posted by an unofficial, loosely defined group of accounts called the "IT cell" - not very different from MAGA folks or far-left account clusters. The linked news source (alt news) is an opposition news source/blog.

Alt news also reported on the propaganda and falsehoods of Congress and AAP.

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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 jatin085 »

There is no mention of the ruling party (why not simply say BJP?) or IT cell in the news. It seems you are here on Hacker News with only political motivations from your comments and submissions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=throwaway384629

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=throwaway384629

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

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Post by amriksohata »

Misleading title, it says the ruling partys IT cell used AI, but no evidence they created it. The article says the image was shared then later deleted by some government ministers. Also altnews.in is zoobear who is known to have edited a clip of Nupur Sharma making remarks against the Islamic prophet and sharing them out of context which put her life at risk.

Who fact checks the fact checkers and titles like this?

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throwaway384629 wrote: post #283
codegeek wrote: post #180

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Ok I will bite. I travel to India once or twice a year for both pleasure and business. I can only tell you what I feel and see. I see incredible infrastructure changes even though India still has long way to go compared to other developed or even developing nations. Tons of airports being built and improved. Many highways being built and even completed in last few years. "changed the calculation method to measure the…

As per govt, out of 140 crore Indians, 80 crore rely on government for free food. That is 57% of Indians need government help for free food. [1] If You Earn Rs 25,000 (USD 300) Per Month, You're Among India's Top 10% Income Earners [2] >> I travel to India once or twice a year for both pleasure and business. I can only tell you what I feel and see. You may be able to travel to India and got 1 USD converted to INR 80,…

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Post by _kbh_ »

actionfromafar wrote: post #431
quesera wrote: post #399

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree completely. We were asleep when Russia took Crimea, and unprepared to react with anything more than stern words. We were not ready for Putin. He obviously saw the opportunity, took the risk, and he won. It would be tragic to return to a world where aggressive expansionism is the norm. But fighting back through Crimea would be tragic also. And it's not clear we would have the support of the locals. That's cour…

I don’t think a long fight through Crimea has to be necessary at all. The Russian troops cab withdraw over the bridge to Russia when it’s apparent they will otherwise be trapped. Leaving Crimea to Russia is not just appeasement, it’s strategically unsound.

The Ukrainians can also dam the river to Crimea again and continually attack Russian supply lines to Crimea. Russia will be in a tight spot if the water supply to Crimea stops and the bridge explodes.

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Post by lucubratory »

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 know hundreds of people have already seen this, but maybe at least some people will see this: these edits were most probably made with a 6 year old face editing app. They are not caused by Stable Diffusion, Dall-E, or any other recent AI "stuff".

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Post by tim333 »

13of40 wrote: post #319
quesera wrote: post #313

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I suspect your comment is downvoted because it's ominous and substance-free. Reasonably so, I think. Your comment is in fact a negative drag on the quality of conversation here. Live a little. Go ahead and share your perspectives. The maximum downvote damage is -5 points. You'll survive. I'll upvote you even if I disagree. Unless they're just the standard talking points from one side or another on some contentious to…

OK, here's an example: A couple of months ago they were tossing around the idea of "retaking Crimea". I believe that any effort to do that should be based on a best effort assessment of the will of the people living there, because those are the people who will be getting artillery shells in their livingroom in exchange for it. Based on my own experience with expats from there and Donbas, who still have family in the…

I follow the Ukraine & Crimea goings on. I've now got two twitter accounts, one for pro Ukraine, one for pro Russia. Post something anti one on the wrong account and you soon get blocked etc. It's very polarised as you might expect in a war.

It's hard to find balanced discussion on something like the status of Crimea. Which is complicated - as you say the locals are largely Russian. Then again Russia signed an agreement recognising it as Ukrainian, then invaded and used it as a base to launch war on the rest of Ukraine which they show every intention of repeating if they can.

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