Neato

The man embarrassed the US by leaking their DMs.

When you do that to a nation about their classified intel, it’s called espionage. It’s a biiiit more serious than a social media hack.

In practical terms, espionage can affect thousands of lives directly and change the course of a war. Imagined the shitshow if someone released that kind of info now. It could jeopardize the Ukraine conflict. It’s treated as more serious than murder because it can be.

It was three or four months. Because I was doing a play in London and every night there was paparazzi outside. And I suddenly realized after like after I just had just been lazy and not changed my clothes for a few days, that they were not there. And I realized it’s probably because I’m wearing the same thing so it all looks like photos from the same day. So I was like ‘I’ll just continue wearing this.’ And they never came back because it all looks like the same picture in front of the same door.

It was pretty genius. No one wants to see 50 pics of the same person looking exactly the same.

So the tops are nearly identical. But women clearly need massive lower ventilation…or something.

Yeah this just shows Nike is being sexist as fuck. Swap these suits by gender and let’s see what happens.

That’s really nice! It’s so beautiful. The slats on the cabinets are nice since it allows you to put electronics in there like a receiver while still maintaining air flow and it’s nice to have a pattern to break up the flat wood of the middle drawer…

There’s also Rum Tum Tugger. Or just a nice spiffy eTug.

Why’s it called a Wolf? Who uses wolves to pull shit? eHusky would work since they are common sled dogs…who pull things.

Lol at t-posing pornography.

I find the same problem when searching for D&D portraits. Men? Easy and varied. Women? Hypersexualized and mostly naked. I usually have to specific old women to prevent that.

Yeah it’s very effective. It has a big downside of people losing the pegs and then those addresses are “lost” but all that means is that 2 users can’t reliably connect and when they report to IT they will be asked if they had the correct peg. And I guess quarterly do a review for unused addresses that have pegs out and create new ones for lost pegs.

When Megan, a 50-year-old mother based in Tumwater, visited the new AI-powered mobile site from Washington’s Lottery on March 30, she thought she was in for some frivolous fun. Test Drive A Win allows users to digitally throw a dart at a dartboard featuring dream vacations you can pay for with the money you win in the lottery. Depending on where the dart lands, you can either upload a headshot or take one on your phone to upload, and the AI superimposes your image into the vacation spot.

Megan landed on a “swim with the sharks” dream vacation option. She was shocked at one of the AI photos Washington’s Lottery spit out. It was softcore porn.

So I can totally see this happening. Government contracts with an genAI company and company drops the ball and erroneously includes the function for pornography or doesn’t select the correctly curated training data (I’m unsure how exactly these work). It may be quite difficult to spot this error by the Washington government is the occurrence rate is very low or none of their test training data prompted pornography to be generated. Perhaps it was only keyed to make porn (when not specifically prompted to) on certain subsets of matched facial features? I’m not suggesting this, but perhaps that affected user looks a lot like a popular porn star? It could also totally be the government’s fault for quickly selecting an AI package and not looking what it could do; but with government bureaucracy there could’ve been quite a few people with oversight.

My bigger question is WTF is this system even doing? If you win money in the lottery, you can select to apply it to a vacation package if your random draw hits it? Why wouldn’t you just take the money and buy your own? Maaaaybe if it heavily discounts the vacations or something. Seems like an unnecessary step in the lottery process.

They’d just pay a contractor to stand up a server on azure or AWS. Most of the labor would be moderation which is probably why they won’t do it.

They couldn’t remove anything without Republicans crying censorship. And because it’s government run, first amendment protections apply. Which means they couldn’t remove a lot of what moderators already do.

Imagine a prosecution or law enforcement bureau that has trained an AI from scratch on specific stimuli to enhance and clarify grainy images. Even if they all were totally on the up-and-up (they aren’t, ACAB), training a generative AI or similar on pictures of guns, drugs, masks, etc for years will lead to internal bias. And since AI makers pretend you can’t decipher the logic (I’ve literally seen compositional/generative AI that shows its work), they’ll never realize what it’s actually doing.

So then you get innocent CCTV footage this AI “clarifies” and pattern-matches every dark blurb into a gun. Black iPhone? Maybe a pistol. Black umbrella folded up at a weird angle? Clearly a rifle. And so on. I’m sure everyone else can think of far more frightening ideas like auto-completing a face based on previously searched ones or just plain-old institutional racism bias.

AI is too sexed up to get basic dates right… /s

Ship sponsored tours will have the ship wait for you most of the time. Otherwise you’re on your own.

Yeah, this is crucial. Some of the cheeses under melting won’t melt easily and will instead break under higher heats. Emulsifiers will prevent breaking and turn a lot of cheeses into melting cheeses.

Seems odd because you can get fully functioning smartphones for like $200.

I can’t believe people still do that. You aren’t saving money and you’re locked in 2 years. I guess if that’s that only kind of financing you can get.

Can you use a blocker on Android or is per app the best we can do?

Not just another country, but a hostile foreign country. If France owned TikTok no one would care. But to the US government, China is in the top 5 of most hostile nations and is definitely the top of hostile nations in terms of world power and reach. It’s essentially giving out a LOT of info to what they see as “the enemy”. And also it has a lot of potential use to track US government employees like diplomats and high-level military leaders. Even if those people don’t have TikTok installed, their kids might.

All we really need is some black hat ai developers or power users to make enough compromising and hard to detect deep fakes of Congress people in the US and all of this Gen AI will be banned so fast. I’m surprised it hasn’t happened yet.

So it just means that lemmy.world users can no longer see that specific community, right?

That last bit: yeah I imagine that’s a foghorn out to investors so they can get funded.

For the carbon footprint, I think it’ll be negligible. For the purpose of moving blades, you’ll only need a handful of these planes. Until the wind farms really get spun up but you could easily use 1 plane per 1-5 giant windmills at a time since the transport of the blades will far outpace the construction and assembly. So unless we’re building a lot all at once, a small fleet will be all that’s needed. And the costs of this aircraft to fuel will only be a few times a normal big jet, that we have going thousands a day.