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rottingleaf , (edited ) to Technology in You Think You Know How Misinformation Spreads? Welcome to the Hellhole of Programmatic Advertising

Of course.

The best solution against HIV is not to use protection - it's to avoid brothels and strangers.

Just like with governments - the best solution against corruption is not oversight, it's to remove the particular area from governmental management.

If you don't need anything from some interaction - don't interact.

Which is why the modern Web, the social media, the fashion tech toy crap, the "AI", the cryptoscams, ... - these are all things that can't stand. They don't intend to frankly, just like with Ponzi schemes, the goal is to run very fast until you can't. What's the profit in it - the profit is in one-time theft, or one-time murder, or anything else like that. While it lasts, misinformation and censorship and oppression get an easy time. It will end, but the harm will be done and the profits reaped.

EDIT: Which is very close to the "business plan" of NSDAP frankly - a few one-time big scams to fund rearmament of Germany, then a few mass thefts from Jews and whoever else, then a few invasions ... at some point they couldn't keep going this way, though.

technocrit ,

If you don’t need anything from some interaction - don’t interact.

Ah yes the freedom to just not interact with endless propaganda. Solid plan. Easy as curing HIV... jfc.

rottingleaf ,

I don't watch TV and mostly don't use Facebook. Not reading TG news is an unending battle. Not participating in discussions on Lemmy - eh.

Didn't mean it's easy, just that when you can cut something off completely, it's better than filtering the stream of shit coming your way.

Or in other words - you don't owe anybody to keep some windows open.

SnotFlickerman , (edited ) to Technology in You Think You Know How Misinformation Spreads? Welcome to the Hellhole of Programmatic Advertising
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How Advertising Propaganda Broke the World

Fixed that for you, Wired. They're the same fucking thing. One is just somehow legal for companies to spew lies about their products and services.

Advertising in the modern world is nothing but propaganda for corporations. Same with Public Relations.

If this wasn't the case, why the fuck would any corporation need a "Fusion Intelligence Center" that specifically targeted scientists and journalists who were simply producing information that made the company look bad?

misk OP ,
@misk@sopuli.xyz avatar

That's a really weird thing to get angry over. Advertising as a term is much better at conveying what they wanted to.

technocrit ,

whoosh

misk OP , to Technology in You Think You Know How Misinformation Spreads? Welcome to the Hellhole of Programmatic Advertising
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In case of paywall: https://archive.is/EWaBS

shnizmuffin , to Technology in Burnout Is Pushing Workers to Use AI—Even if Their Boss Doesn’t Know
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... according to a work trend index published Wednesday by Microsoft

Yeah, I'm going to go out on a limb here and call bullshit. No one is turning to AI to alleviate burnout. The only tasks these LLM tools can reliability accomplish aren't worth using an LLM for.

Gutless2615 ,

Patently not true

Joelk111 ,

Not a day goes by where I don't use our company's internal LLM instance to generate or debug some code. It isn't due to burnout, it's due to convenience.

amzd , to Technology in Burnout Is Pushing Workers to Use AI—Even if Their Boss Doesn’t Know

The report also found that 46 percent of people want to quit their jobs this year.

Is that a normal amount?

Imgonnatrythis , to Technology in Burnout Is Pushing Workers to Use AI—Even if Their Boss Doesn’t Know

Of course burnout is a real thing and most of us are increasingly overburdened. Most work just seems to suck more and more and the lines between personal life and work life keep blurring. Nonetheless, this AI use would happen with or without burnout - it's just opportunism.
Also, Who the hell is supposed to do this training the article refers to? Does your office already have an AI tsar that could train people on best use? I haven't seen much of that yet.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod ,
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The headline sounds a bit like "Burnout is pushing construction workers to use nail guns."

MNByChoice , to Technology in Burnout Is Pushing Workers to Use AI—Even if Their Boss Doesn’t Know

Yup. Throw in multiple levels of contractors in various counties and guaranteed AI is being used. (Think subcontractor's employee using AI to keep up.)

AI is a great spying tool.

vk6flab , to Technology in Burnout Is Pushing Workers to Use AI—Even if Their Boss Doesn’t Know
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Not just burnout, opportunism features with several users I've spoken with. The level of ignorance surrounding ChatGPT is staggering.

One egregious use I know of was a developer who used it to write software to analyse a government dataset despite their department having put in place specific and targeted restrictions specifically against any such activities.

Their workaround was to use their private email to exfiltrate data and subsequently introduce the code.

Their rationale was that it didn't harm anyone and their ICT department would vet any code. They were not concerned about this private data showing up on the ChatGPT public log, nor were they concerned about the accuracy of their code.

I think that this is just the tip of the iceberg and I think it's going to take a serious data breach of identifying information before people lose their jobs over this type of misuse.

CosmoNova ,

People have already lost jobs for this very behavior back in 2022. I remember reading news about Samsung managers even being sued by their employer because they fed secrets into ChatGPT. And if I remember correctly this serious breach was committed for the sole purpose of brushing up some emails.

tsonfeir ,
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What is the ChatGPT public log?

vk6flab ,
@vk6flab@lemmy.radio avatar

For a period the interactions you had with ChatGPT were public and a live stream was available.

At the time when I looked at it, there was an astonishing amount of non-english traffic, but that might have been due to the fact that my UTC+8 timezone in Perth is the same as mainland China.

I had a quick search just now to see if I could find a link, but all I can locate is posts about new privacy controls, so perhaps that "feature"went by the wayside at some point.

brbposting ,

Could that have been a public live stream log of a different provider’s model?

I’d be astonished if that was OpenAI’s. Can’t find any articles, threads, or screenshots after extensive research (a minute of web searching). And didn’t hear anything at the time going back to December 2022.

vk6flab ,
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I'm fairly certain that it was ChatGPT, but I'm going from memory. I have a hunch that I saw a Hacker News show and tell post.

Update: It was in my bookmarks.

https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/noahpersaud/89k-chatgpt-conversations

brbposting ,

Oh thank you! Very interesting.

Hope users of chatlogs[.]net (now defunct, spam redirects) realized they were conversing publicly!

Gutless2615 ,

That’s… not true at all.

vk6flab ,
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Gutless2615 ,

Someone made an app using the OpenAI api, offered it for “free”, and scooped a bunch of users conversations (sort of. 89k isn’t that large) before getting shut down. That’s not at all what you were alleging.

asdfasdfasdf ,

Don't leave me hanging. Was the dev fired / sent to jail?

BROTHERM00N , to Technology in How Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3 Million Crypto Wallet

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o5IySpAkThg
Here's the YouTube video about it

AMillionMonkeys , to Technology in How Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3 Million Crypto Wallet
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A $3 Million Crypto Wallet... A $2 Million Crypto Wallet... A $5.5 Million Crypto Wallet...
(This joke probably doesn't work anymore, but I still think it's funny.)

MedicPigBabySaver , to Technology in How Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3 Million Crypto Wallet
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I tried to tell them it was: "Password123".

They scoffed at me and never tried it.

AcesFullOfKings , to Technology in How Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3 Million Crypto Wallet

Leo Laporte will be delighted

PlutoniumAcid , to Technology in How Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3 Million Crypto Wallet
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Pay wall 🖕

AcesFullOfKings ,

Reader View gets around it.

PlutoniumAcid ,
@PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world avatar

And on Android?

Today ,

I'm android. I get a view button that skips the paywall.

AcesFullOfKings ,

No idea. Just saying what worked for me in case others find it helpful for their platform

DjMeas ,

Whenever I hit paywalled articles, I have Gemini summarize it for me. Here's what I got:

This is an article about a flaw in a password manager. It discusses a man named Michael who lost access to his bitcoin wallet. The password manager he used generated a weak password. Researchers were able to crack the password because of this weakness. They used the date and time the password was created to guess it. Michael was able to recover his bitcoin wallet.

Aatube ,
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Archive.today is way more energy-efficient and actually gives you the article details

DjMeas ,

Good call. For the commenter above: https://archive.ph/nVy4s

Aatube ,
@Aatube@kbin.melroy.org avatar

Just use an archive service lol

technocrit ,

12ft.io works for Wired. Here's a link.

Brkdncr , to Technology in How Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3 Million Crypto Wallet

Password generator used the date/time to create the password. It was fixed a long time ago.

iopq , to Technology in How Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3 Million Crypto Wallet

To be clear, this is a flaw in RoboForm

ABCDE ,

"Thanks to a flaw in a decade-old version of the RoboForm password manager"

Yes, cheers for that.

jeffw OP ,

I mean, they say it was fixed shortly after he made his password. It was a flaw until 2015

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