i.e. The movie "The lives of others." :|
If they remade that movie with a modern spin, it would be an AI model deciding who is loyal and who isn't.
Readit Newsradicaldreamer commented on Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 1 libroot.org/posts/going-t... · Posted by u/libroot
> Only downsides are in the polish department
What an understatement. It has me thinking „man, fuck this“ on the daily.
Just today it spontaneously lost an entire 20-30 minutes long thread and it was far from the first time. It basically does it any time you interrupt it in any way. It’s straight up data loss.
It’s kind of a typical Google product in that it feels more like a tech demo than a product.
It has theoretically great tech. I particularly like the idea of voice mode, but it’s noticeably glitchy, breaks spontaneously often and keeps asking annoying questions which you can’t make it stop.
Google’s standard problem is that they don’t even use their own products. Their Pixel and Android team rocks iPhones on the daily, for example.
radicaldreamer commented on The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora openai.com/index/disney-s... · Posted by u/inesranzo
$1B sounds huge, I don't understand what Disney has to gain. Is this only to have some control over the videos generated on Sora with their IP?
$1B is nothing for OpenAI or Disney
radicaldreamer commented on The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora openai.com/index/disney-s... · Posted by u/inesranzo
There are people in this world who will do anything for money. They will destroy your children mentally if it makes them a single dollar, they will traumatize them and cause lasting damage. We have created a world in which these people have free access to our children.
Generative AI and getting everyone on the planet online is going to contribute massively to this. You’re already seeing a massive rise in sextortion scams, pig butchering scams, scams of all kinds.
Whatever the reason is (maybe online doesn’t feel “real” to people or something), a person with an internet connection where $100 is a great monthly income will do anything to make that money, even if that means endangering someone else’s children or mentally scarring them. Combined with poor enforcement in places like Nigeria and India, we’re already in the midst of a scam epidemic.
radicaldreamer commented on The Big Vitamin D Mistake [pdf] (2017) pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/arti... · Posted by u/felineflock
In the US, you can get 50000 IU on Amazon, good enough for weekly supplementation if you're low (same as prescription strength).
IMEI is already tied to your identity. You need ID to buy a phone or a SIM.
I think this is to crack down on sharing a SIM card which is registered to someone else. It ties identity + location + aggregates all SIMs registered to someone with their current location.
Not to mention they can probably payload anything into the app whenever they want.
I am not defending it's use but a secret program is a targeted program, you can't use it in sweeping arrests without parallel construction. Whereas with an openly existing program you can point out that someone has been talking to their friend about how to get abortion medication and arrest them.
The real issue with 100% enforcement of law is it requires a society with differing values to not just agree on which laws exist but what just punishment is. Without leeway for differing social judgement or bifurcation.
Parallel construction is incredibly easy though with confidential informants and honeytraps/entrapment (for another crime, for example).
https://sancharsaathi.gov.in
- Report fraud/scam calls and SMS directly from your phone.
- Block or track lost/stolen phones by disabling their IMEI so they can’t be misused.
- View all mobile numbers registered under your ID and report any unauthorized SIM cards.
- Verify if a phone is genuine with an IMEI/device authenticity check.
- Report telecom misuse, such as spoofed calls or suspicious international numbers.
The stated goal is protect users from digital fraud and safer telecom usage, who knows how good it’ll be. Probably a PITA.
So a pretty transparent way to tie IMEI to someone's identity and track their location under the guise of "finding lost phones" and "checking your phone's authenticity"
> These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people.
The whole mess surrounding Grok's ridiculous overestimation of Elon's abilities in comparison to other world stars, did not so much show Grok's sycophancy or bias towards Elon, as it showed that Grok fundamentally cannot compare (generalize) or has a deeper understanding of what the generated text is about. Calling for more research and less scaling is essentially saying; we don't know where to go from here. Seems reasonable.
I think the problem with that is that Grok has likely been prompted to do that in the system prompt or some prompts that get added for questions about Elon. That doesn't reflect on the actual reasoning or generalization abilities of the underlying model most likely.
https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/layoffs-the-intercept.p...