Why was this flagged?
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Except that now our fancy silicon valley tech is used. So we can discuss the tech, but not the social impact of it.
Minnesota activist releases arrest video after manipulated White House version
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I don't think they'd ever answer. They'd probably block you on X if you asked. Why do you think that is?
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You are a dangerous person, and part of why America is at the point it is. You are the degenerate. Disgusting. This woman is a civil rights ACTIVIST, arrested with NO CHARGES, for fuck's sake
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#63Why was this flagged?
Because some of the HN readers flag anything to do with US politics — jgc for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46693887
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#64I remember reading an article about how terrible AI could be in the hands of a regime like China's. What a time to be alive, I guess.
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#65I think we're never going to be able to have robust ai detection, and current models are as bad as they'll ever be. Instead we really need to have the ability to sign images on cameras that show these are the bits that came off this hardware unedited, that professional news outlets can verify. But that's going to cost money to make and market all these new cameras and I just don't know how we incentivize or pay for t…
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What, pray tell, can we do? Tens of thousands of people are protesting and some getting arrested, anyone with a voice is doing what they can to sway public opinion. Our higher courts are compromised (and feckless at times even when used correctly), and the police help ICE. And a large number of Americans do, in fact, want this. Others don’t care until it hits them personally. So what specifically are people to do, li…
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What, pray tell, can we do? Tens of thousands of people are protesting and some getting arrested, anyone with a voice is doing what they can to sway public opinion. Our higher courts are compromised (and feckless at times even when used correctly), and the police help ICE. And a large number of Americans do, in fact, want this. Others don’t care until it hits them personally. So what specifically are people to do, li…
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The current discussion is about the US, where that is very much the case.
https://thefederalnewswire.com/stories/673148305-fbi-announc...
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/us/fbi-agent-ice-shooting...
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More like I won't trust anything that doesn't come from a press photographer.
And what will make them more trustworthy?
Their career prospects would vanish if caught doctoring images with AI. Unfortunately, the same can't be said of governmental employees.
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Come on now. This is a readily observable phenomenon; everyone notices it on both sides of the spectrum. It doesn't deserve your aggressive polemic.
From Wiktionary, "The observation that the longer it takes the media to identify a mass shooter in the United States, the less likely it is to be a white male."