I am 100% sure that their measures will not only be at best marginally effective, but also that they’ll drop the measures at some point because “they’re unprofitable”.
IMO branding all this stuff as AI is an issue, this stuff is just chatbots and image generators still at this point. None of it is actually "intelligence" in a sense. It's like saying autocorrect on your phone is AI.
All this random generated "gibberish" should be watermarked digitally where it's embedded in the image. This way platforms can detect and alert the image is not verified/real. Like this photo I just took.
Watermarking is a flawed argument and would only serve the incumbent corporations who have products, fucking over any open source projects or researchers.
Aka, if we pretend to vaguely do something with no consequences for not following through, we can argue that we're responsive and self-regulating, and hopefully avoid real regulation with teeth.
I guess having ideas about what could be done to address this problem is better than nothing. None of these organizations have demonstrated the capability to actually prevent abuse of AI and proliferation of disinformation.
"Oh no, now everyone knows I was part of a campaign to get people fired for being anti-genocide".
Police your own involvement with hate groups and white supremacists. If you get implicated because you were tangled up with those people, it's your own fault.
The past week saw Democrats take up Trump’s hard-right immigration policy as their own for campaign fodder, with the liberal press’s assent. The very xenophobia that Democrats decried as “fascism” has become their policy agenda.
Just from the word "go", this article smells of alarmist and hyperbolic bullshit.
Yeah, I don't expect Trump to be the kind of fellow that would answer calls to arms from defending allies. I think most of us probably guessed that one.
It's a pretty simple question: Were the documents requested back? Trump's keeping of his would have all gone away if he hadn't ignored the request of the archives to give them back.
An error is one thing. Willfully retaining them is another.
How they responded definitely shows that one of them (and their staff) made an oopsie and returned them immediately while the other (and their staff) were hoarding documents they shouldn't have and kept them even after being caught.
It is ridiculous how they are often presented as the same thing. It is like comparing someone who is in accident and exchanges insurance to someone who does a hit and run.
But even as President Biden tried to downplay concerns about his mental acuity, he had yet another misstep: Referring to the President of Egypt as the President of Mexico.
"I think that, as you know, initially, the President of Mexico, el-Sisi, did not want to open up the gate to allow humanitarian material to get in," he said, referring to the border between Egypt and Gaza.
I cringed when I heard him say that, but it is exactly the sort of slip of the tongue I make all the time: I know exactly what I mean, but the wrong word comes out of my mouth. This week, I was talking about oxygen and alveoli but said areolae. No, no, stupid brain. Lungs, not breasts.
Anyway, from context, he obviously meant Egypt when he said Mexico because he was referencing the Hamas/Israeli war and was referring to the border with Israel and opening it up. It isn't in the linked article, but Biden continued as follows:
I talked to him. I convinced him to open the gate. I talked to Bibi to open the gate on the Israeli side. I’ve been pushing really hard, really hard, to get humanitarian assistance into Gaza. There are a lot of innocent people who are starving. There are a lot of innocent people who are in trouble and dying. And it’s got to stop.
So I don't doubt that Biden meant Egypt, but it was unfortunate timing that he'd say the wrong country in a conference questioning his memory.
I certainly agree that, in a vacuum, a slip up like this is no big deal. But given the rest of the special counsel report, it is really just one data point in a huge cluster of red flags. I really wish he would step down. Trump has to be defeated, and between this and Gaza, he is really looking like far from the best candidate to do that.
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