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bryanrasmussen · 2 years ago
So my company says "This site is blocked due to a security threat that was discovered by the Cisco Umbrella security researchers."

Anyone have any idea why?

speps · 2 years ago
ByteDance is the company behind TikTok which might be blocked by your company, try loading a TikTok URL.
bryanrasmussen · 2 years ago
when I got into the office I tried it again and I got more info -

This site was blocked due to the following categories: Newly Seen Domains

pretty weird.

opening up the description of the site says Host: malware.opendns.com

malware.opendns.com is also blocked, which in my experience here they will block for silly reasons. I wouldn't be surprised if they blocked anything not whitelisted that had the word malware in the url.

Ukv · 2 years ago
Do any github.io pages load for you? Might be that they got reports of a github.io page being used to link to malware, and decided to block the entire domain.
bryanrasmussen · 2 years ago
mdrzn · 2 years ago
ByteDance Research working hard to generate all future content on TikTok via AI
corytheboyd · 2 years ago
They have the entire world generating content on their platform for free, why the heck would they ever give that up?!
pedalpete · 2 years ago
They can control the entire narrative.

If the viral spread of the letter was the weaponization of tiktok, now they don't have to convince people to even do a "challenge" just make the videos. If we can't tell if it was made by a real person or not, isn't it all the same?

We need digital fingerprinting of people generating their content to validate they are not computer generated. This is a good use-case for blockchain.

dirtyhippiefree · 2 years ago
[Citation Needed]
whelp_24 · 2 years ago
They won't give out the model due to "Security Risks"
mg794613 · 2 years ago
On their example page you can sometimes see what data it got to train on. https://imgur.com/a/CuXNATp for example is without a doubt "Ragnaros" from the game "World of Warcraft".

Probably due to not having much different sources for "A fiery humanoid monster with flames burning".

cubefox · 2 years ago
I guess Pixar will be safe for a while. While text-to-image models work pretty well, text-to-video is pretty hard to look at, judging from the example video.
alexmolas · 2 years ago
when dalle2 was announced in 2021 the text to image models were pretty bad, and now we have models like midjourney that are almost indistinguishable from real images. If I've to bet I would expect the same progress from text to video models

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judiisis · 2 years ago
The sample video with a lovely story for children looks good. This has the potential to bring down costs in content production
twilightzone · 2 years ago
Lovely story.