I've said before, what's needed here is an independent org or maybe even multiple that can provide certification that pieces of media were created without the use of generative tech, and then open up companies that publish anything missing the cert to lawsuits from the public.
Verify then trust publishing would go a long way to contain misinformation in general, not just deep faking and other generated content.
Nah just get the work certed, it'd be available for anyone, it just needs to pass the "No AI was used at all" test, and that can be done by giving creative software tools the ability to sign files whenever AI or screen shotting tools get used in their making
I think the approach of providing software tools the ability to grant the cert if no AI tools are used will be the way to really spread the practice, can even work with them to create a cert mode that just doesn't even present those tools to the user in the first place.
The next step would be getting publishing sites to use the cert or signature as a check that either blocks the upload or more leniently get a visual marker that indicates it was not made with generator tools.
Plus checking for the cert also eliminates the crisis of teachers having to outsmart GPT to avoid their students cheating on takehome essays.
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Yeah no the rest of the series outlines that he basically turned himself into a slave of fate and condemned humanity to having to suffer milenia of tyranny under a self appointed god king before they could achieve freedom.
Also that self appointed god king is a sandworm human hybrid that considers himself to be filling the role of a predator in an ecosystem oversaturated with prey animals.
Gossips will tend to respond to outright rejection by gossiping about you instead, and being a man in a predominantly woman's field is gonna mean that gossip can get very dangerous for you and your career very quickly.
Remember, gossip doesn't have to be true to still be hot, and scorned gossips will be more than happy to exploit that to the fullest to spite you.
Don't tell them you don't care about religion and politics either, because even if you don't women have learned from shitbags to translate that to "I may or may not have been at the capital on Jan 6th and held a bonfire celebration burning IUDs when Dobbs came down, but I still want to get laid ever."
My advise, try just being boring. Contribute duds to any conversations they try to involve you in where you're uncomfortable.
Most importantly speak to a supervisor you feel you can trust to not tell the gossips and tell them the gossip makes you uncomfortable so that if the boring act doesn't work and they start gossiping on you already, there's a previous record indicating they might do that and it'll at least insulate your future career prospects.
As for sex life talk, women are under two impressions, 1, that they aren't being raunchy when they talk about their sex lives, and 2, that men do it way more and are way grosser about it.
It is entirely possible that they keep bringing up sex lives because they're trying to relate to you and extravert adopt you, so if you gently explain that you don't feel comfortable talking about sex with coworkers you might find yourself in a more open conversation about mixed signals and how you all can create a better working relationship.
Some people keep trying to talk to ya because they really do just want to be friends! That sounds obvious but trust me it's hard to actually internalize that to the point that you can believe it when it's happening to you. Missed out on chill compsci bonding time with this pretty cool dude named gabe because I didn't get that he was being so spontaneously friendly to me so much because he's just a friendly guy. I met tech wiz Ned Flanders and it didn't register to me for a solid year lol.
You strike me as a bit of an introvert so I'll add, uncomfortable but tactful conversations now can save you exponentially more awkward and embarrassing ones later.
Slowly dying out as our descendants evolve into divergent races and species and stop being technically classifiable as human.
People who think doom is upon us really don't understand just how hard it is to kill all of us, it would take a confluence of several extinction level events at this point to completely wipe us out just because of how resilient we've made our society to collapse factors.
We're gonna live, we're not gonna escape living with the world we've made as easily as just all dying because of it, and someday one of your descendants is gonna regard you the same way we do the savannah apes that figured out how to walk upright to get a better vantage over the tall grass.
As for what our descendants will evolve into, honestly, it's gonna be a much more designed process as we continue to master gene editing tech. I could genuinely see several branches just being different "forks" of the base human body plan that try to resolve "design flaws" like disconnecting the respiratory and digestive systems or restoring partial water breathing or fully activating our potential for bioluminescence.
I think 40k is on to something too, the practice of the mechanicus of augmenting their bodies with tech to the point of even enabling their own brains to perform mass data analysis akin to a binary computer will be where a lot of folks end up too.
In fact I believe that the moment a "third hemisphere" implant to the brain is successfully developed will be the actual singularity point for humanity rather than the development of an independently intelligent artificial being. Unlocking the potential of human pattern recognition in harmony with binary number mastery would instantly change so much about how people even understand the world let alone interact with it that predicting beyond that point is more an experiment of speculative evolution than of more standard futurism.
As for immediately, I believe we're a lot closer to a solar punk world than anyone's really comfortable with accepting, because doing that means giving into fatalism means them having personally failed a goal within reach instead of "just accepting reality."
I think that's what people really ought to fear about our future. Once there are enough of us, once we've spread out widely enough, horrors and disgusts the likes of which we speak of in hushed tones praying we never find ourselves even adjacent to them will be cut loose into the universe.
Until we develop means of consistent and viable FTL travel and communication, we're going to all live with knowing that any heinous act we can possibly imagine is not only playing out somewhere, but the victims of it were probably bred for the purpose of making the show as enjoyable as possible for whatever freaks arrange for it.
Even when we regain the proper footing of being able to enforce basic rules of prevention of the worst things we can imagine, the sickos will always be finding another remote world, another star at the fringes where justice can't reach reliably yet.
We will live in a universe of untold prosperity, and yet also one of an eternal game of whackamole against the worst kinds of us that could ever exist, and some that can't yet but will come into existence with what we learn going forward.
Even colonizing the solar system, we will regularly see headlines that force us to ask if we are doing enough to protect others, if everyone can live like kings while some are made to be the victims of Caligula, or of Pol Pot, or of Jim Jones, or of any of the other depraved madmen of history who made those underfoot their playthings for the worst impulses that not even the call of the void dares give an ear to.
I was lucky and my parents were able to get me one of those ceiling projection globes that makes the shadows in your room look like a night sky in a forest clearing, been thinking a lot about inspirations from growing up because I was able to find one of those rare actual starter homes we've all been told of in myth and legend and have started to hype myself on all the ways I get to make it mine
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Don't worry, if Kyiv's getting nuked, so are all the rest of us, so you'd have found out long before you had time to read about it! :D
More seriously, someone's really gotta figure out how to attack the nuclear arms specifically. Putin is making it obvious that the world will never be safe if there's even the remotest chance some lunatic could gain the ability to fire those things.
It would have to be the fastest military operation ever conducted in human history, but if it worked, it would save the world.
I refuse to believe that there isn't a secret containment plan that all nuclear powers are coerced into agreeing to that basically gives every other nuclear power the right to intervene and secure the nukes from paramilitaries and terrorists in the event of state collapse.
The only reason I would presume NK isn't in on it is because everyone's agreed by now that if they fall it's gonna be a race between China and South Korea for who can press a legitimate claim first.
I guess pursuing the question much further is necessarily going to take us to the big one, "what happens after we die?"
And there's only so many times I can deliver the punch line "lots of things that just don't involve us anymore." before I start to feel like a "that guy" about it.
My take is that the afterlife comes in three phases, yes phases because as much as it gives the fundies a hard-on there's literally nothing humanly possible to do that could justify a permanent state of the worst torment imagineable.
Phase 1, atonement, you do the hard work for the souls you've harmed in your life to forgive you and release the chains that bind your soul.
Phase 2, forgiveness, you do the harder work of forgiving what wrongs have been done to you. Those chains hold you to your material existence, and you have to let go of them to be ready to move on.
Phase 3, reunion, the veil behind which no eyes may see. All you'll know is that by now anyone you haven't met yet from your life has done the soul rending work you have and walked beyond it. They're on the other side, and they're waiting for you to join them, what that'll look like, probably some 4-D amalgamation of every heaven or paradise or state of eternal bliss ever foretold by human words, and yet also none of those things, because not only do we not understand it, doing the hard work of being forgiven and doing all the forgiving is what it takes for you to be ready to understand it. I think it is what specifically god spoke of when they said they are both and yet neither of human binaries, and incomprehensible in their true essence to the human mind.
I feel like schemes like this warrant a law that you're failing your fiduciary duty as a company owner and can be sued by any of the stakeholders for it if you can't prove failure to at least break even is due to genuine misfortune. Not even gross incompetence, that should just get you sacked with a dunce cap on top of having the company broken off and sold to a bidder that isn't hellbent on stripping it for parts.
That or company owners are only allowed to draw funds from the company's profits and funds coming from anywhere else, including from layoffs and corner cutting, are seized at 150% the value stolen and the company owners involved get treated as though they had committed embezzling so long as the books can indicate that the executives and owners drew more in compensation than was recorded as profit.
If the executives could have just had less pay, yes, cutting someone off from their entire livelihood is theft. Especially if there wasn't even cause like criminal behavior or inexcusable misconduct.
And I think it's perfectly fair to just assume executives are lying about everything they say since *gestures wildly at all the everything since as far back as Smedly Butler.
I disagree with the Great John Stewart's maxim on the subject, but I will say that Deep Dish is definitely there to satisfy a different taste than traditional pizza makes.
Just watch Food Theory's perfect burger video, stack order matters! And the ideal crust can stand up to the sauce beginning to soak it a little so don't try to say that it's to put a wall between the crust and the sauce. The Bear had it right, you wanna be doing that kinda jazz because you're looking to get caramelized sauce crust to get a crunchy sweet rim on the whole deal.
IIRC the ring mold donut pizzas were specifically for that meeting and what they were cut out from was what you'd usually get if you ordered that pizza
Point still stands that the caramalization is why you'll see really good deep dish pizzas and skillet pizzas stop building up the sides of the dough with enough space for the sauce to overflow a bit.
It cooks and brings out the sweetness, and then hardens into effectively being the rest of your crust
Of course if you're going traditional there's other routes to get other mixes of flavors but the sauce rim is something pretty specific to the pan made family.
Part of it is that America just has an insane amount of resource richness even compared to historical empires of it's comparative influence.
Let me try to explain it in agricultural terms. America is a nation of immigrants, and yet a common phenomenon is an observed disconnect between what Americans consider local cuisine from a given country and what people from that country today consider average cuisine of their culture.
This is because those immigrants were the tired, the poor, the hungry masses yearning to be free. The cuisine they brought was the stuff people would make to subsist as peasants, notice how many different varieties of "take this basic grain as a filler then layer on bitsins and fixins to give it flavor and nutrition." Meanwhile in the home country, cuisine culture continued to be defined by the elites who had already been defining it. What's really interesting is that the cuisine brought by the poor, did not stay pauper meals.
This is because America as a country is so packed to the gills with farmable land that ingredients considered a rarity for sheer cost in "the old country" were abundant to the point of being cheap. American serving sizes are so big because they were pioneered by people who were thanking god that they could be that big. Chop Sui literally was just "whatever you can throw in the pot, serve it up!", tacos and sandwiches were invented basically to maximize the flavor and nutrition of expensive fresh ingredients on limited supply, Pizza has roots as the equivalent of a street pretzel in NYC.
Imagine if someone took the NYC pretzel, moved to a land of unheard-of plenty unseen by human eyes thus far, and decided to spice that pittily ass bread and salt with choice of topping by loading that shit with the most unimaginably luxurious ingredients they could conceive of because that shit is all cheap there. That's the story of Pizza. That's what happened to basically every peasant food culture that made contact with the US and its because American resource richness is just that unprecedented for anyone who isn't from America already to conceive of.
Stalin once stated that WWII was won with, "British Intelligence, American Steel, and Soviet Blood.", but America wasn't just a factory for the world, the American kitchen put into that war just as hard as the American foundry, arguably more, America's first casualties of the war were the merchant marines who faced U-Boats head on to run food aid to the British public and anywhere else they could slip past the Nazis.
We got so much shit we will literally give it to you for free sometimes
That is how 4% of the world population ends up sitting on 25% of its GDP
Edit to elaborate, GDP is calculated based on final goods and services, outsourced work exclusively counts towards the GDP of the country that work is done in, and only affects the GDP of another country when they buy what the first country made, but the outsourced work still happens in country A, so country A gets all the GDP created by selling finished goods, and all the GDP of the work done on unfinished products within their borders.
Basically, the US isn't sitting on everyone else's money, it just genuinely makes and sells that much shit
I dunno how much I'm about to date myself with this one but I still remember the heartbreak when my favorite squid shaped silly band snapped after I'd used it enough, whoever designed those was either a complete idiot for designing something that breakable for children, or a maniacal genius for designing something that would need to be replaced that often for children.
Either way, child targeted advertising should be completely illegal, that's just hitting the parents with emotional blackmail.
Hey, find a medicine man and you can actually get some good trade for those.
Apparently even today still, IIRC leaches actually do get used for legitimate medicinal purposes in the modern day. Them and maggots, I believe for cleaning out necrotic flesh.
Rust is to programming languages what a drunken orgy is to a night out.
That is to say, you have no idea where all these new tattoos came from have a head pounding migraine afterwards and some the hell how you learned how to use Rust as an end result.
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I both agree and disagree, I think Sonic does have normal eyes and those are his goggles, but I don't think those are all the white of his eyes as we see them.
I think they look white just because that's how the light reflects off them and they're actually polarized lenses to help him see even when he's traveling through deep sunset or sunrise when shit's at its most blinding, or through brightly lit cities that can hit pedestrians with heavy glare.
Actual answer, ya gotta learn to prioritize what you can manage at any one time, otherwise you're gonna bury yourself under the weight of mounting project pressure.
My boss and I wanted to do some fancy data formatting shenanigans this year, but I've fallen sick enough that we gotta backburner it until I can get back at full capacity.
I just can't fathom how a woman can overpower a man in that manner. Even if a woman is physically stronger than the man. If a man really doesn't want to, how could she even make him erect by force, let alone force it inside her?...
"If you try to put up a fight I'll scream, guess who everyone's gonna believe?"
Or if you're really unlucky,
"Be my baby's daddy!", suddenly locks legs like a vise and begins grinding like there's no tomorrow
With girl on guy it's a lot less about physical overpowering and a lot more about weaponized social biases or lying about the intent of consensual sex for the purpose of trapping them into something.
If you've seen the infamous "Female Dating Strategy" forums, a lot of "tricks and tips" they come out with to "lock down your man" or "make him commit already!" basically amount to some form of Girl on Guy SA, either socially blackmailing them with the fear of you dragging them into a public accusation, which they aren't ever gonna recover from even if found completely innocent, or by sabotaging contraceptives or tricking him into finishing inside to make a baby on purpose and then trying to shotgun wedding the whole thing.
I agree pretty heartily with this metadata signing approach to sussing out AI content,
Create a cert org that verifies that a given piece of creative software properly signs work made with their tools, get eyeballs on the cert so consumers know to look for it, watch and laugh while everyone who can't get thr cert starts trying to claim they're being censored because nobody trusts any of their shit anymore.
Bonus points if you can get the largest social media companies to only accept content that has the signing and have it flag when signs indicate photoshopping or AI work, or removal of another artist's watermark.
There are ways to secure signatures to be a problem to recreate, not to mention how the signature can be unique to every piece of media made, meaning a fake can't be created reliably.
Importing and screen capping software can also have the certificate software on and sign it with the metadata of the original file they're copying, taking a picture of the screen with a separate device or pixel by pixel recreations could in theory get around it, but in practice, people will see at best a camera image being presented as a photoshopped or paintmade image, and at worst, some loser pointing their phone at their laptop to try and pass off something dishonestly. Pixel by pixel recreations, again, software can be given the metadata stamp, and if sites refuse to accept non stamped content, going pixel by pixel on unvetted software will just leave you with a neat png file for your trouble, and doing it manually, yeah if someone's going through and hand placing squares just to slip a single deep fake picture through, that person's a state actor and that's a whole other can of worms.
ETA: you can also sign the pixel art creation as pixel art based on it being a creation of squares, so that would tip people off in the signature notes of a post.
In the past several weeks, I have watched dozens of sleek U.S. military planes descend over Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where I live. They were the first flights to land since gangs blockaded and halted commercial air traffic in March. U.S. news reports suggest that the aircraft contained...
Looks like they're getting ready for whatever play they intend to make against the gangs and are trying to keep exacts on the hush hush to avoid the gangs being able to make preparations.
They're called gangs in print but it's worth remembering that these organizations have military training and equipment at their disposal far exceeding what you'd picture when someone says the word "gang", at this point it'd be more accurate to consider them warlord bands.
I don't have sources but I've heard tell the biggest gang right now is led by a guy who guys by BBQ, and his stated goals are basically a combination of Liberation rhetoric and demanding the government submit to his authority as the legitimate transitional executive.
Eh, whackamole enforcement usually cuts mustard with this kind of stuff.
Like yeah someone's gonna do it anyways just because, but then all it takes is enough people raising an alarm to bring it down, and as a side effect, remove more shitass developers from the market.
You end up with an equilibrium where not every example is getting the hammers of justice, but enough examples are that the average consumer still feels the benefit of a noticeably less toxic internet.
Homer referred to the ocean as "wine dark", if you've seen pictures of the Mediterranean around Greece, that shit's as Blue as Blue can be, so what it probably boiled down to is that they could "see" blue, but they always understood it as a blackish color or Green if they had distinguished that by that point.
Basically, there wasn't a lot of necessity use in distinguishing blue, so most people didn't until recently.
Orange being seen as shades of either red or yellow is also why they're called redheads, it predates the word Orange entering the english language and being a better descriptor of most of the shades in that range of hair colors.
Reminds me of that footage of the Chinese and Indian militaries beating the shit out of eachother with wooden sticks because they were worried even small arms fire could cause enough echo to start an avalanche.
Disclaimer: I am not trolling, I am an autistic person who doesn’t understand so many social nuances. Also I am from New Hampshire (97% white), so I just don’t have any close African-American friends that I am willing to risk asking such a loaded question.
Probably a lot of black families actually do have fried chicken, barbeque and cookouts are apparently a big part of the festivities traditionally.
If you find yourself becoming such good friends with a black person that they actually invite you to one of these cookouts, don't bring fried chicken, or watermelons, or most of the stereotypical "black" foods, they're considered black people food because the post civil war south fostered an environment of chronic black poverty on purpose that led to black families tending towards raising cheaper animals and growing cheaper crops for their own consumption.
So a white guy cracking watermelon or fried chicken jokes or bringing that kind of stuff to a black celebration comes across less as trying to share in the culture and more as rubbing salt in a, in many ways still open, wound.
As for what you should bring, bro just ask. Just making it known ya want to bring something for folks to enjoy will be good and appreciated, and if they decide they'd like to take you up on that, they'll either give you a recipe off their list of stuff they've decided they want or ask what you think you can handle making and take your word on that if anything you feel confident making sounds good. Who knows, maybe that year will go down as the year that corned beef ya mentioned becomes a staple of the annual cookout!
A few years ago I felt kinda lame whenever I had to "make a wish" blowing out birthday candles or whatnot and the only thing I could think of under pressure was "world peace"....
Really the last three are the only issues, amd there are ways to specifically address them,
Wage gap, for every twentieth multiple of the median of household incomes in the bottom quintile of all incomes, put a percent increase on the nominal tax rate for income above that 20th multiple, and just keep doing that for every 20th after that, also, start counting loans collateralized on capital assets (sans primary home mortgages, primary vehicle car loans and other socially advanceable loans) as salary income for tax purposes, either in all cases or specifically for loans with interest rates significantly lower than the market sustainable rates for loans for everyone else. That or just ban loans with interest rates below the rate of inflation as "failing fiduciary responsibility by literally throwing money away."
Cost of Living, the nordics have a good model here, not price caps, but caps on how much you're allowed to raise the price annually. I'd say tie it to the federal interest rate, because it'll be a solid limit on price jacking, and it'll also put a pretty intense counterbalance of class interests against the typical instinct to keep rates low forever because house price go up.
If anything, the fact that these problems can be tackled so simply almost makes them more infuriating, it's taking the active effort of knowingly malicious actors to keep these affronts to our rights to a respectable standard of living in place.
The thieves need you to believe they can't be caught. Their plan falls apart immediately if we act with a plan and agreed on goals.
Unity of action and purpose is the vaccine against corruption.
PPE and Vaccine maker stocks, it'll be 5 years to get the initial capital but once I've got it together, those are gonna explode in value on me.
I'd hesitate to switch my college of choice for the friends I'd lose out on, but if I did I would know where I'd try extra hard to get in instead. Def reconsidering the major I study though, the one I went with was sold to me as one of the best and turned out to be fucking useless trying to find any work.
TIL Private Prison stocks skyrocketed when Trump was first elected ( www.thestreet.com )
Deepfakes Are Evolving. This Company Wants to Catch Them All ( www.wired.com )
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is this the right way to establish boundaries with my nosy coworkers at the hospital?
read right as polite, because they get offended easily....
What's the most likely end of mankind and our world as we know it?
What did you routinely fall asleep listening to as a kid and what does it for you now?
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Man makes money buying his own pizza on DoorDash app ( www.bbc.com )
Deep Dish Pizza ( v.redd.it )
The US population only accounts for 4.2% of the world.
If throwing up means to puke, then throwing down must mean to have the shits.
I dunno, English is a funny language isn't it 😂
What's the most stupid trend (or fad) you participated in yourself?
Sometimes it's just easier to let the players shop ( lemmy.world )
How I date ( jlai.lu )
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Tech Firms Prey on Poor Under Guise of Expanding Access to Financial Services ( truthout.org )
How do you manage to do all the things you want to do?
This is mainly directed towards those who have many and broad interests, who have somehow found a way to balance all of them more or less equally....
18+ Female-to-male rape, (how) does it happen without roofies?
I just can't fathom how a woman can overpower a man in that manner. Even if a woman is physically stronger than the man. If a man really doesn't want to, how could she even make him erect by force, let alone force it inside her?...
Photographers Push Back on Facebook's 'Made with AI' Labels Triggered by Adobe Metadata. Do you agree “‘AI was used in this image’ is completely different than ‘Made with AI’”? ( lemmings.world )
Source
U.S. Military Planes Are in Haiti. Haitians Don’t Know Why. ( foreignpolicy.com )
In the past several weeks, I have watched dozens of sleek U.S. military planes descend over Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where I live. They were the first flights to land since gangs blockaded and halted commercial air traffic in March. U.S. news reports suggest that the aircraft contained...
New York bans “addictive feeds” for teens ( www.theverge.com )
TIL most cultures and peoples all over the world have historically had trouble recognizing the color blue ( www.ancientoriginsunleashed.com )
‘Only Pirates Do This’: China Wields Axes and Knives in South China Sea Fight ( www.wsj.com )
The Chinese coast guard came in small boats with axes, long knives and spears....
Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day? ( old.lemmy.world )
Disclaimer: I am not trolling, I am an autistic person who doesn’t understand so many social nuances. Also I am from New Hampshire (97% white), so I just don’t have any close African-American friends that I am willing to risk asking such a loaded question.
What's your "back pocket" wish?
A few years ago I felt kinda lame whenever I had to "make a wish" blowing out birthday candles or whatnot and the only thing I could think of under pressure was "world peace"....
This shit is getting ridiculous
If your mind got transported back 10 years right now with no time to prepare, how could you exploit your knowledge for personal gain?
Besides crypto...
Android has a "Ctrl+Z" feature, the keyboards just dont support it
Hacker's Keyboard (the first one), Florisboard Beta, FUTO Keyboard and more have a button to reverse and repeat the actions....