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So why are we doing this now? Has anything changed fundamentally? Why can't we let software do everything and then blame the user for doing bad things?
You can design a racist propaganda poster, put someone's face onto a porn pic or manipulate evidence with photoshop. Apart from super specific things like trying to print money, the tool doesn't stop you from doing things most people would consider distasteful, creepy or even illegal. So why are we doing this now? Has anything changed fundamentally? Why can't we let software do everything and then blame the user for…
The example you gave about preventing money counterfeiting with technical measures also supports this, since this was an easier thing to detect technically, and so it was done.
Whether that's a good thing or bad thing everyone has to decide for themselves, but objectively I think this is the reason.
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>Even urban dictionary doesn’t contain a definition for skub as a slur. What about this then: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/skub
That literally defines it as a word from the PBF comic I cited? Nothing on that page defines it as a slur, just as a word used to mock people who argue about inconsequential things.
You can design a racist propaganda poster, put someone's face onto a porn pic or manipulate evidence with photoshop. Apart from super specific things like trying to print money, the tool doesn't stop you from doing things most people would consider distasteful, creepy or even illegal. So why are we doing this now? Has anything changed fundamentally? Why can't we let software do everything and then blame the user for…
You can design a racist propaganda poster, put someone's face onto a porn pic or manipulate evidence with photoshop. Apart from super specific things like trying to print money, the tool doesn't stop you from doing things most people would consider distasteful, creepy or even illegal. So why are we doing this now? Has anything changed fundamentally? Why can't we let software do everything and then blame the user for…
I think what changed is that we at least can attempt to limit 'bad' things with technical measures. It was legitimately technically impossible 10 years ago to prevent Photoshop from designing propaganda posters. Of course today's 'LLM safety' features aren't watertight either, but with the combination of 'input is natural language' plus LLM-based safety measures, there are more options today to restrict what the soft…
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This is a bigger issue, especially with Apple, than people may realize. I use iOS “Slide to Type”, aka swipe typing, and have noticed over time that among several other glitchy bad UX issues, there a clear heavy hand on what can be typed that way. I cannot recall all the specific patterns I have encountered that are basically impossible to write, some very similar in that they have a serious but also innocuous or fig…
Complete bollocks, you cannot even type multiple words with spaces via Slide to Type.
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then congratulations on making white supremacists define your langyage
Do you still use swastikas as symbols of peace and love because you don't want white supremacists to define your language? I strongly doubt you do that. Whether you like it or not, the Nazis defined what the swastika means now.
Taboos are a cultural thing, and the world is (thankfully) very far from having a monoculture shaped by NYC's neurotic intellectuals.
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This is a bigger issue, especially with Apple, than people may realize. I use iOS “Slide to Type”, aka swipe typing, and have noticed over time that among several other glitchy bad UX issues, there a clear heavy hand on what can be typed that way. I cannot recall all the specific patterns I have encountered that are basically impossible to write, some very similar in that they have a serious but also innocuous or fig…
Complete bollocks, you cannot even type multiple words with spaces via Slide to Type.
Maybe you’re unaware that it will leave the cursor at the end of the word, with no space, which indicates that if you backspace it will delete the whole word, or replace it in full with one from the predictive word list above the keyboard if it got it wrong. If you keep typing it adds a space automatically.
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Interesting that it didn't seem to include "unalive". Which as a phenomenon is so very telling that no one actually cares what people are really saying. Everyone, including the platforms knows what that means. It's all performative.
No-one cares yet. There's a very scary potential future in which mega-corporations start actually censoring topics they don't like. For all I know the Chinese government is already doing it, there's no reason the British or US one won't follow suit and mandate such censorship. To protect children / defend against terrorists / fight drugs / stop the spread of misinformation, of course.
Write a spicy comment and a mod will memory-hole it and someone, usually dang, will reply "tHat'S nOt OuR vIsIon FoR hAcKeR nEwS, pLeAsE bE cIvIl" and we all swallow it like a delicious hot cocoa.
If YC can control their product (and hn IS a product) to annihilate any criticism of their activity or (even former) staff, then Apple is perfectly within their rights to make sure Siri doesn't talk about violence.
No, there's no difference.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes corporatum?