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Comment Re: All of the AI companies will start doing this (Score 1) 38

Interestingly, this kind of tech is an excellent response to Chinaâ(TM)s nosiness. Other smartphone OSes, and their related services in China, are an open book to the government. With the process described in the link, the government could discover that some X percentage of users are messaging on topics the government deems taboo. However they wonâ(TM)t know who is doing that.

Itâ(TM)s possible China will ban this technology all together, as it wonâ(TM)t provide the level of surveillance they have today. The other possibility would be China demands the data sets be segregated by small geographic areas, which would de-anonymize the data to some extent. They could then see if any particular city has a high rate of âoeanti-communist thinkingâ, but still not identify individuals. The question becomes, if China demands that, what is Appleâ(TM)s response?

Comment Re: Making a Mountain out of a mole hill (Score 1) 141

Exactly. It will be just like when a freezer breaks and the store is forever stuck with a giant waste of space. Oh wait, it seems theyâ(TM)ve already figured out how to deal with thing like this. The box will sit there until they figure out a new way to make money from the space, at that point it will disappear.

Comment All content needs to be signed. (Score 1) 70

It's going to get much worse. Social media already has negative value, and search is not far behind. Both will get worse until big tech embraces cryptographically signing all content. Finally, an actual use case for a distributed crypto ledger. Every photo you take, and every document you write, needs to be signed. Anything not signed is not trustworthy.

Adding metadata that says "This is AI generated" does not count. It will just be removed, and there will be tools that simply don't do it.
An image signed by Photoshop does not count, aside from knowing it's been photoshopped.
For images, only a signature from a trusted iPhone, Samsung, Pixel, Canon, Nikon, or similarly trustworthy device counts.
For test, only a signature from a trusted author counts.

Images and quotes will of course be optimized for delivery on news feeds, but they will have to cite links to the original signed content that can be verified against the ledger. Anything not cited, is not trustworthy. In reality this was always the case, but now we will be forced to address the problem because the signal-to-noise ratio is getting too high.

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