Comment So tech companies are now the source of ethics (Score 2) 19
This is not going to last.
Comment Re:Sounds like a step in the right direction to me (Score 1) 23
True, the 'giant sack of trash' could be useful or fun for some people, but people are getting their news and world views from these compromised sources. Lets at least have the option for our classic tiny sacks of trash that are composed of real people. And label the sacks so we know which is which.
Comment Re:Sounds like a step in the right direction to me (Score 1) 23
Doing what they can, labeling obvious slop, is a step in the right direction. But yeah, a better solution is necessary.
Comment Re:Sounds like a step in the right direction to me (Score 1) 23
I am so into this, if it or anything works wonderfully. I'm not seeing community notes as being that though, I imagine that whatever telltale signs people are looking for will be non-existent by the end of the year, hell, probably right now if you include the telltale signs into your prompt (don't do this). I think we should take it as a given that the Turing test is defunct, or soon to be.
Comment Re:Sounds like a step in the right direction to me (Score 1) 23
That's the million dollar question. User verification, account age, karma systems, basically the least intrusive possible way of determining you are a human. S.Korea has a pretty robust system of tying people to online accounts. Is there a way to do that without handing the reins to a possibly corrupt government? Blockchain technology tied to anonymous accounts that have to jump through hoops to be verified on a given site? Something else?
If I truly do not wish not to interact with and/or be scraped by AI, then it sure looks like I might have to sacrifice privacy to do so. I feel I would be willing to do it selectively. Visit some websites that require draconian human-verification, and other more 'free' websites that do not, and know which is which.
Comment Re:Sounds like a step in the right direction to me (Score 1, Informative) 23
But they are trying, and it needs to be done.
Comment Sounds like a step in the right direction to me (Score 0, Troll) 23
If platforms can't prevent AI slop and disinformation, then I question their need to exist, what value does a giant sack of trash offer? The fight over what is illegal content should be waged, and then the results of that fight can be passed on to the platforms. Making tech companies take some responsibility is the only way we might have a somewhat useable internet in a couple years.
Comment How about a 'NO-AI' marketing strategy? (Score 2) 50
Seriously, if I see 10 laptops, and one says 'No AI bloatware', I'm going to be interested. Give us OLED monitors, better batteries, and chips that are optimized for our actual tasks, not buzzwords.
Comment Too late, the end is nigh (Score 1) 53
The answer to Drakes equation has been found. Stupid people + AI + "how do I" prompts.
I think we need to partition the world, some physical firewalls.
Comment Re:evil contracts (Score 1) 25
Invisible hand bullshit. A choice that is not a choice is not a choice.
Comment Quick solution (Score 1) 74
Handwritten papers.
Comment I can read the first post on reddit myself (Score 1) 44
So, no thanks. I'd like a way to disable it, or a new search engine. How's DuckDuckGo these days?
Comment Re:So what's new? (Score 1) 61
Yeah, references to saturated fat, red meat, it's just another cut/paste cherry picked 'story' from the 1960s that misses the last 50 years of nutrition research.
Chinese Scientists Report Using Quantum Computer To Hack Military-grade Encryption (thequantuminsider.com) 52
UPDATE: Forbes writes that China hasn't broken military encryption.
While factoring a 50-bit integer is an impressive technical achievement, it's important to note that RSA encryption commonly uses key sizes of 2048 bits or higher. The difficulty of factoring increases exponentially with the size of the number, meaning that the gap between 50-bit and 2048-bit integers is astronomically large...
The advances do not equate to a scalable method for breaking RSA encryption as it is used in practical applications today."
Long-time Slashdot schwit1 originally wrote: Chinese scientists have mounted what they say is the world's first effective attack on a widely used encryption method using a quantum computer. The breakthrough poses a "real and substantial threat" to the long-standing password-protection mechanism employed across critical sectors, including banking and the military, according to the researchers.
Despite the slow progress in general-purpose quantum computing, which currently poses no threat to modern cryptography, scientists have been exploring various attack approaches on specialised quantum computers. In the latest work led by Wang Chao, of Shanghai University, the team said it used a quantum computer produced by Canada's D-Wave Systems to successfully breach cryptographic algorithms.
Using the D-Wave Advantage, they successfully attacked the Present, Gift-64 and Rectangle algorithms -- all representative of the SPN (Substitution-Permutation Network) structure, which forms part of the foundation for advanced encryption standard (AES) widely used in the military and finance. AES-256, for instance, is considered the best encryption available and often referred to as military-grade encryption. While the exact passcode is not immediately available yet, it is closer than ever before, according to the study. "This is the first time that a real quantum computer has posed a real and substantial threat to multiple full-scale SPN structured algorithms in use today," they said in the peer-reviewed paper.
The advances do not equate to a scalable method for breaking RSA encryption as it is used in practical applications today."
Long-time Slashdot schwit1 originally wrote: Chinese scientists have mounted what they say is the world's first effective attack on a widely used encryption method using a quantum computer. The breakthrough poses a "real and substantial threat" to the long-standing password-protection mechanism employed across critical sectors, including banking and the military, according to the researchers.
Despite the slow progress in general-purpose quantum computing, which currently poses no threat to modern cryptography, scientists have been exploring various attack approaches on specialised quantum computers. In the latest work led by Wang Chao, of Shanghai University, the team said it used a quantum computer produced by Canada's D-Wave Systems to successfully breach cryptographic algorithms.
Using the D-Wave Advantage, they successfully attacked the Present, Gift-64 and Rectangle algorithms -- all representative of the SPN (Substitution-Permutation Network) structure, which forms part of the foundation for advanced encryption standard (AES) widely used in the military and finance. AES-256, for instance, is considered the best encryption available and often referred to as military-grade encryption. While the exact passcode is not immediately available yet, it is closer than ever before, according to the study. "This is the first time that a real quantum computer has posed a real and substantial threat to multiple full-scale SPN structured algorithms in use today," they said in the peer-reviewed paper.
Comment Re:Well, that certainly did it! (Score 1) 54
Art connects humans, it's a shared experience, meaningful on both ends. Putting AI into the creators seat destroies it's soul.
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