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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 sremani »

dagmx wrote: post #149
codegeek wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For non Indians, NRI = Non Resident Indian i.e. an Indian who lives outside India. In case someone wondered. It is easy to shit on the party in office which is BJP right now but show me a country that can have hundreds of languages, all religions and still survive for centuries as one country. Europe couldn't do it. They broke into EU (for better or worse). There are flaws but India is a complex country of various cu…

All I see is a lot of whataboutism to justify some truly heinous actions that have been committed in the past several years. Yeah, Indira Gandhi wasn’t great either. Congress has its flaws. None of that justifies the actions of today. Yes, the BJP has done some good things, but that’s true of many heinous authoritarians in the past as well. No number of good things simply wash their hands of the bad stuff along the w…

The right word would be 'Abuse of power', if every center-right politician is labeled Authoritarian -- it will become a meaningless word.

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

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Post by whamlastxmas »

d3vmax wrote: post #33
capableweb wrote: post #8

> 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…

I have seen so many pro-Russian bot accounts with blue verified symbol. These accounts also get priority on their replies, which are positioned at the start of the tweet conversation compared to non-blue / non paying twitter handles, giving them a bigger amplification. Whenever I see blue tick accounts now, I notice most of them have Elon has broken the verified system on purpose to fit his new anti-government / anti…

This is wrong on most every level

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

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Post by dagmx »

shri_krishna wrote: post #185
dagmx wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I absolutely hate the way fellow Indians will just try and deflect negative stories about India as western propaganda. You do a disservice to your country by following that tired playbook. Did you ever stop to consider that I am actually well informed and genuinely disappointed with my country. Criticism of the country and party doesn’t mean I’m simply misinformed. I was critical of things when I lived there, I consu…

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The sheer amount of hubris in your post is astounding.

So any opinion other than your own is propaganda fed by the west, but the only true reality is the one you agree with that paints India in a flattering light.

Using “the world happiness index” as some kind of gotcha propaganda is hilarious, when we’re discussing actual issues like arresting protestors. Just ridiculous.

I won’t be replying again to you because I don’t think you are capable of accepting that other people disagree with your world view. It’s unhealthy and I really think you need to leave your own bubble.

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

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Post by pjc50 »

tdehnel wrote: post #131
ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #37

What's with India and the shift towards the right? I thought it had too many religions and different cultures to pull this off.

Why would diversity necessarily be associated with leftism?

People are bad with labels; diversity is associated with liberalism, which often gets conflated with a whole spectrum of other positions from social-democrat to actual Marxists (who tend not to be all that pro-diversity, depending on how "tankie" they are)

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

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Post by jeswin »

archagon wrote: post #186
jeswin wrote: post #183

This has devolved into a political discussion unfit for HN. The OP's submission history[1] is almost entirely political, and promoting a specific viewpoint. While I believe it's ok to discuss politics on HN, my view is that accounts that exist solely for political propaganda should be discouraged. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=throwaway384629

If politics emergent from SV technology can’t be discussed on HN, then I’d call this community an abject failure.

My point was that submitters who only submit political articles (in line with their biases) are detrimental to the site. Such articles attract more politically charged engagement, and over time draw in people who care more about politics than tech.

The article btw is of questionable newsworthiness; and is a link to a propoganda blog. It's not really an accredited news organization.

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Post by grecy »

capableweb wrote: post #8

> 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…

Why do people care about Twitter at all?

It doesn't matter what people say on 4chan or fox "news", why is twitter any different?

It's all just opinions, not worth anyone's time. Ignore it.

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

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Post by thisisit »

I am amazed that the title is allowed to stand despite the original title and the content.

The origin of the image is unclear. Sure, one can speculate that "India ruling party's IT cell" is behind the morphed image. This is what this comment section is for. But without hard proof the title is as much of an propaganda as are the morphed image.

Are we going to tag everything a Democrat does as "US ruling party's" doing?

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

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Post by ceejayoz »

whamlastxmas wrote: post #190
throwaway384629 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also, twitter shows the comments from "verified" handles on the top of other comments. Government sponsored trolls have unlimited flow of money to buy verified status and dominate the general public accounts. This is how BJP government uses public money to run troll campaigns on social media against opposition leaders. [1] Possibly hundreds or thousands of persons or "journalists" are getting funds from government to…

The problem isn’t money, it’s unique phone numbers and credit card numbers. Over time there is much easier ways to detect and mass ban platform manipulation accounts. I’m sure the government of India can make as many numbers and cards as they want, but the problem is still that Twitter can know who issued both and a lot of information about them, including if they’re burner numbers. It still helps tremendously

That’s the promise. Whether they do anything with it is questionable.

https://imgur.com/a/6blpTqF shows my recent advertiser blocks from about 10 mins of browsing. Clearly inauthentic accounts, some paying the $1k gold check fees.

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Post by forgetfulness »

kalam_throw wrote: post #121
lagolinguini wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The sad thing is they will probably win again in 2024. The damage that 15 years of BJP has done to the social fabric of India, and the undermining of the core founding principles of the republic will last for generations. It's hard to imagine it going away :(

Most Indians were never secular. Before, they hadn’t got a voice or representation. BJP came into power by tapping into the latent sentiment in majority of Indians. It's much like how Trump was elected. If you think that majority of Indians were ever secular, I think that you never left the bubble of upper middle class, city based society. Hindus are, generally much more advanced than Muslim in terms of education, fi…

BJP is also hard at work at creating a single, homogeneous Hindu and Indian identity, where something more of a cultural sphere existed, to create fanatics to their cause. They're re-engineering Indian society in a way that we've seen end up in tears for everyone in the past, in other places.

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Post by bogwog »

ffgjgf1 wrote: post #83
collsni wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With this whole AI push, there have been pretty serious advancements in technology. I wouldn't doubt in 5 to 10 years will have a vastly different threat landscape. Nation states can afford supercomputers, so can some private corporations.

How is AI related to this? Did LLMs figure how crack encryptions?

That doesn't seem too unbelievable. Maybe a sufficiently large LLM will be able to find a flaw in the algorithms or logic behind some encryption schemes which even our greatest monkey brains overlooked.
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