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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 #461

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I think you're accidentally making a jump in meta-levels: The equivalent of an existing handwriting recognizer for e.g. RSA wouldn't be a model that tells you how to crack RSA, it'd be a model that _does_ crack it (maybe by returning a probability distribution over the plaintext that's better than uniform). That feels pretty unlikely to me personally, but maybe that's doable, who knows. For the standard of "the LLM t…

> The equivalent of an existing handwriting recognizer for e.g. RSA wouldn't be a model that tells you how to crack RSA, it'd be a model that _does_ crack it (maybe by returning a probability distribution over the plaintext that's better than uniform). That feels pretty unlikely to me personally, but maybe that's doable, who knows. Well, my point was based on the assumption that there is a flaw/backdoor in RSA, but n…

> So you'd just need a model that can take a textual description of the algorithm as input, and spit out a list of logical errors/flaws.

Right, I'm saying that this is the thing that's dissimilar from handwriting recognition -- the nearer equivalent would an LLM creating a textual description of a novel approach to handwriting recognition, which as far as I'm aware, is beyond current models.

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

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post #25

You will be happy. :)

Why would anyone be happy with atrocities being committed at people by the government? Do you like such stuff?

It's a play on the phrase, ‘You'll own nothing and be happy” [^1]. Looks like it wasn't especially well received.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27ll_own_nothing_and_be_ha...

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

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post #409

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I've always wondered if the push towards centralization is a reaction to fear of the lack of control. True decentralization and censorship resistance requires taking the bad with the good. I'm the case of Mastodon, if I can't be censored for sharing my views on technology, politics, or sports then the person wishing to sharing illegal photographs of threats that may be illegal in some jurisdictions can't be censored…

In my experience, the only person who has a right to tell me what is acceptable to say in public is myself, which is why it's absolutely essential for me to do so with integrity and discretion. As we start to build trust economies (which really may only be the way forward), we have to start valuing integrity and discretion, or... as you say, all or nothing. I think this has something to do with Jefferson's "the corne…

Oof, the idea that the edit includes a quote from an AI attempting to understand and explain the founding fathers' opinions on public education really cuts to the core of my worries about AI research.

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

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We are used to a time when constitutional rights were suspended and state governments were dismissed on the whim. Regardless of what happens to BJP, India will continue to move ahead.

We also used to a time in Germany in 1940s. We should not let that happen again anywhere in the world.

India has its own examples. Foreign examples only leads to whataboutism.

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

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post #41

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"Verified" is now an anti-signal. It's more likely than not to indicate that the poster is a crank who's paying money to have their opinions disseminated.

It was an anti-signal before.

It was at least a reliable signal that the person is who they say they are. They are shifting away from actual verification towards attempting to sell status, which rarely works.

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

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post #111

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Technical solution to a social problem. It's not that it's impossible to tell the difference between real and fake, it's that there's no consequences for posting fakes. (A "solution" which requires end users to authenticate everything themselves is going to have the same level of adoption as pgp, i.e. near zero)

It's not even a solution because it completely ignores the analog hole.

I explicitly acknowledge analog hole in my other comments in this thread and suggest advanced sensors (as used in existing biometric authentication) and LIDAR as potential solution. Nevertheless, I think this system can be very useful even without those countermeasures and even if it can still be bypassed with effort. Additionally, if the signatures are securely time-stamped it makes proving which photo is genuine straightforward.
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