UnpluggedFridge

UnpluggedFridge , 2 months ago to Technology in TikTok sues the US government over ban

The real question you are asking is whether inaction is worse than inconsistency. Should we not put out a fire unless we can put out all fires? What you are suggesting is to let something burn for the sake of consistency.

UnpluggedFridge , 2 months ago to Technology in TikTok sues the US government over ban

TikTok pushed a notifications to all US users with the phone numbers of their local congressmen to oppose the bill. So many calls came in that the phone lines were jammed.

Let me distill that for you: China attempted to directly influence legislation with a mass propaganda campaign targeted at its US user base.

Please explain to me why that isn't a threat and why the US should allow hostile foreign powers to directly influence internal politics?

UnpluggedFridge , 2 months ago to Technology in TikTok sues the US government over ban

This is the real question. Is there a loophole that allows foreign governments to freely exercise mass surveillance and psyops if they allow US citizens to post on a blackboard outside their offices?

UnpluggedFridge , 2 months ago to Technology in TikTok sues the US government over ban

The government can already access the data with a warrant. The ownership of TikTok has literally 0 effect on the government's ability to access user data. Not being owned by the Chinese government has a huge impact on China's ability to access that data.

UnpluggedFridge , 2 months ago to Technology in TikTok sues the US government over ban

Except the most relevant part: it is owned by a hostile foreign government.

UnpluggedFridge , 2 months ago to Technology in TikTok sues the US government over ban

Requires a warrant or subpoena. That is the difference.

UnpluggedFridge , 2 months ago to Technology in Making deepfake porn without consent could soon be a crime in England

This is a difficult issue to deal with, but I think the problem lies with our current acceptance of photographs as an objective truth. If a talented writer places someone in an erotic text, we immediately know that this is a product of imagination. If a talented artist sketches up a nude of someone, we can immediately recognize that this is a product of imagination. We have laws around commercial use of likenesses, but I don't think we would make those things illegal.

But now we have photographs that are products of imagination. I don't have a solution for this specific issue, but we all need to calibrate how we establish trust with persons and information now that photographs, video, speech, etc can be faked by AI. I can even imagine a scenario in the not-too-distant future where face-to-face conversation cannot be immediately trusted due to advances in robotics or other technologies.

Lying and deception are human nature, and we will always employ any new technologies for these purposes along with any good they may bring. We will always have to carefully adjust the line on what is criminal vs artistic vs non-criminal depravity.

UnpluggedFridge , 3 months ago to Technology in Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works

But you are not reporting the underlying probability, just the guess. There is no way, then, to distinguish a bad guess from a good guess. Let's take your example and place a fully occluded shape. Now the most probable guess could still be a full circle, but with a very low probability of being correct. Yet that guess is reported with the same confidence as your example. When you carry out this exercise for all extrapolations with full transparency of the underlying probabilities, you find yourself right back in the position the original commenter has taken. If the original data does not provide you with confidence in a particular result, the added extrapolations will not either.

UnpluggedFridge , 3 months ago to Privacy in What are the risks of sharing DNA?

I would never allow my DNA to be characterized or sequenced outside of a medical setting where strict privacy laws are in place.

UnpluggedFridge , 3 months ago to 196 in TikTok Rule

The government does a shitty job, but it is representative. American culture is dominated by billionaire worship, consumerism, and greed. We shouldn't be so surprised when our elected officials share our values.