Comment Re: pareidolia at its finest. (Score 2) 124
Principle of Oddmatches. If you have a million samples, you can expect to find one-in-a-million incidents.
So I gave this story no credence until The Atlantic denied it.
Comment Re:Why?? (Score 2) 74
It's interesting how these multi-billion-dollar AI companies all have such remarkably terrible UI.
AI Is Intensifying a 'Collapse' of Trust Online, Experts Say (nbcnews.com) 60
Experts interviewed by NBC News warn that the rapid spread of AI-generated images and videos is accelerating an online trust breakdown, especially during fast-moving news events where context is scarce. From the report: President Donald Trump's Venezuela operation almost immediately spurred the spread of AI-generated images, old videos and altered photos across social media. On Wednesday, after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a woman in her car, many online circulated a fake, most likely AI-edited image of the scene that appears to be based on real video. Others used AI in attempts to digitally remove the mask of the ICE officer who shot her.
The confusion around AI content comes as many social media platforms, which pay creators for engagement, have given users incentives to recycle old photos and videos to ramp up emotion around viral news moments. The amalgam of misinformation, experts say, is creating a heightened erosion of trust online -- especially when it mixes with authentic evidence. "As we start to worry about AI, it will likely, at least in the short term, undermine our trust default -- that is, that we believe communication until we have some reason to disbelieve," said Jeff Hancock, founding director of the Stanford Social Media Lab. "That's going to be the big challenge, is that for a while people are really going to not trust things they see in digital spaces."
Though AI is the latest technology to spark concern about surging misinformation, similar trust breakdowns have cycled through history, from election misinformation in 2016 to the mass production of propaganda after the printing press was invented in the 1400s. Before AI, there was Photoshop, and before Photoshop, there were analog image manipulation techniques. Fast-moving news events are where manipulated media have the biggest effect, because they fill in for the broad lack of information, Hancock said. "In terms of just looking at an image or a video, it will essentially become impossible to detect if it's fake. I think that we're getting close to that point, if we're not already there," said Hancock. "The old sort of AI literacy ideas of 'let's just look at the number of fingers' and things like that are likely to go away."
Renee Hobbs, a professor of communication studies at the University of Rhode Island, added: "If constant doubt and anxiety about what to trust is the norm, then actually, disengagement is a logical response. It's a coping mechanism. And then when people stop caring about whether something's true or not, then the danger is not just deception, but actually it's worse than that. It's the whole collapse of even being motivated to seek truth."
The confusion around AI content comes as many social media platforms, which pay creators for engagement, have given users incentives to recycle old photos and videos to ramp up emotion around viral news moments. The amalgam of misinformation, experts say, is creating a heightened erosion of trust online -- especially when it mixes with authentic evidence. "As we start to worry about AI, it will likely, at least in the short term, undermine our trust default -- that is, that we believe communication until we have some reason to disbelieve," said Jeff Hancock, founding director of the Stanford Social Media Lab. "That's going to be the big challenge, is that for a while people are really going to not trust things they see in digital spaces."
Though AI is the latest technology to spark concern about surging misinformation, similar trust breakdowns have cycled through history, from election misinformation in 2016 to the mass production of propaganda after the printing press was invented in the 1400s. Before AI, there was Photoshop, and before Photoshop, there were analog image manipulation techniques. Fast-moving news events are where manipulated media have the biggest effect, because they fill in for the broad lack of information, Hancock said. "In terms of just looking at an image or a video, it will essentially become impossible to detect if it's fake. I think that we're getting close to that point, if we're not already there," said Hancock. "The old sort of AI literacy ideas of 'let's just look at the number of fingers' and things like that are likely to go away."
Renee Hobbs, a professor of communication studies at the University of Rhode Island, added: "If constant doubt and anxiety about what to trust is the norm, then actually, disengagement is a logical response. It's a coping mechanism. And then when people stop caring about whether something's true or not, then the danger is not just deception, but actually it's worse than that. It's the whole collapse of even being motivated to seek truth."
Comment Re:I'm not sure this is possible (Score 1) 57
And Europe would get instantly crushed, if it ever came to that.
It won't. But Europe is entirely reliant on the US choosing not to do that.
Comment Re:The water cycle is a closed system. (Score 1) 135
On a global scale not a closed system because over 3000 tons of water is lost to space each year.
And we'll need to start worrying about that in 400,000,000,000,000 years.
Comment Re:Poor political decisions. (Score 1) 135
Not really. Every ruling power in Iran over the past century has made the exact same bad decisions in this respect. The previous monarchy, the more recent monarchy, socialists, capitalists, foreign interests, Islamic revolutionaries, they've all been drawing too much water from the aquifers too fast for terrible reasons.
Comment You can literally just download the whole site (Score 5, Informative) 51
Available as a database, or a collection of individual pages. Mirrored and archived. There are torrents as well.
Comment Re:Why is this site so obsessed with Twitter clone (Score 0) 56
He's still delivering exactly what he promised.
The difference is that now a lot of people hate him for delivering what he promised.
Comment Re:Why is this getting posted? (Score 2) 73
Probably because Bluesky is dying.
Comment Re:Regulation (Score 1) 50
"How can we achieve regulatory capture without regulations?!"
-- Anthropic, probably
Comment Re:Hmmmmmm (Score 2) 35
And we only have estimates because Ubisoft refuses to release sales numbers.
Comment Re:You realize what's coming next right? (Score 1) 108
No, the thing it is best at is UI.
It is much worse at anything else.
Comment Re:Execute All Billionaires (Score 1) 183
Business always pass costs along to the consumer.
Always.
Comment Re:Problem with federal funding (Score 3, Informative) 151
And Samidoun linked itself to Hamas and Hezbollah, and officially called for "death to Canada", so the link to terrorism is real enough.
Not a hallucination and nothing to do with AI.
Comment Re:This is the same crap from the '50s (Score 2) 151
Joe McCarthy died in 1957.
Ronald Reagan became president in 1980.
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