196 skillissuer • 2 months ago • 100%

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_disease

A Boring Dystopia skillissuer • 4 months ago • 98%

www.bbc.com

cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/12110745 > "I don't want anyone to think that I ever said these horrible things in my life. Using a Ukrainian girl for a face promoting Russia. It's crazy.” > > Olga Loiek has seen her face appear in various videos on Chinese social media - a result of easy-to-use generative AI tools available online. > > “I could see my face and hear my voice. But it was all very creepy, because I saw myself saying things that I never said,” says the 21-year-old, a student at the University of Pennsylvania. > > The accounts featuring her likeness had dozens of different names like Sofia, Natasha, April, and Stacy. These “girls” were speaking in Mandarin - a language Olga had never learned. They were apparently from Russia, and talked about China-Russia friendship or advertised Russian products. > > “I saw like 90% of the videos were talking about China and Russia, China-Russia friendship, that we have to be strong allies, as well as advertisements for food.” > > One of the biggest accounts was “Natasha imported food” with a following of more than 300,000 users. “Natasha” would say things like “Russia is the best country. It’s sad that other countries are turning away from Russia, and Russian women want to come to China”, before starting to promote products like Russian candies. > > This personally enraged Olga, whose family is still in Ukraine. > > But on a wider level, her case has drawn attention to the dangers of a technology that is developing so quickly that regulating it and protecting people has become a real challenge. > > **From YouTube to Xiaohongshu** > > Olga’s Mandarin-speaking AI lookalikes began emerging in 2023 - soon after she started a YouTube channel which is not very regularly updated. > > About a month later, she started getting messages from people who claimed they saw her speak in Mandarin on Chinese social media platforms. > > Intrigued, she started looking for herself, and found AI likenesses of her on Xiaohongshu - a platform like Instagram - and Bilibili, which is a video site similar to YouTube. > > “There were a lot of them [accounts]. Some had things like Russian flags in the bio,” said Olga who has found about 35 accounts using her likeness so far. > > After her fiancé tweeted about these accounts, HeyGen, a firm that she claims developed the tool used to create the AI likenesses, responded. > > They revealed more than 4,900 videos have been generated using her face. They said they had blocked her image from being used anymore. > > A company spokesperson told the BBC that their system was hacked to create what they called “unauthorised content” and added that they immediately updated their security and verification protocols to prevent further abuse of their platform. > > But Angela Zhang, of the University of Hong Kong, says what happened to Olga is “very common in China”. > > The country is “home to a vast underground economy specialising in counterfeiting, misappropriating personal data, and producing deepfakes”, she said. > > This is despite China being one of the first countries to attempt to regulate AI and what it can be used for. It has even modified its civil code to protect likeness rights from digital fabrication. > > Statistics disclosed by the public security department in 2023 show authorities arrested 515 individuals for “AI face swap” activities. Chinese courts have also handled cases in this area. > > But then how did so many videos of Olga make it online? > > One reason could be because they promoted the idea of friendship between China and Russia. > > Beijing and Moscow have grown significantly closer in recent years. Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Putin have said the friendship between the two countries has “no limits”. The two are due to meet in China this week. > > Chinese state media have been repeating Russian narratives justifying its invasion of Ukraine and social media has been censoring discussion of the war. > > “It is unclear whether these accounts were coordinating under a collective purpose, but promoting a message that is in line with the government’s propaganda definitely benefits them,” said Emmie Hine, a law and technology researcher from the University of Bologna and KU Leuven. > > “Even if these accounts aren’t explicitly linked to the CCP [Chinese Communist Party], promoting an aligned message may make it less likely that their posts will get taken down.” > > But this means that ordinary people like Olga remain vulnerable and are at risk of falling foul of Chinese law, experts warn. > > Kayla Blomquist, a technology and geopolitics researcher at Oxford University, warns that “there is a risk of individuals being framed with artificially generated, politically sensitive content” who could be subject to “rapid punishments enacted without due process”. > > She adds that Beijing’s focus in relation to AI and online privacy policy has been to build out consumer rights against predatory private actors, but stresses that “citizen rights in relation to the government remain extremely weak”. > > Ms Hine explains that the “fundamental goal of China’s AI regulations is to balance maintaining social stability with promoting innovation and economic development”. > > “While the regulations on the books seem strict, there’s evidence of selective enforcement, particularly of the generative AI licensing rule, that may be intended to create a more innovation-friendly environment, with the tacit understanding that the law provides a basis for cracking down if necessary,” she said. > > **'Not the last victim’** > > But the ramifications of Olga’s case stretch far beyond China - it demonstrates the difficulty of trying to regulate an industry that seems to be evolving at break-neck speed, and where regulators are constantly playing catch-up. But that doesn’t mean they’re not trying. > > In March, the European Parliament approved the AI Act, the world's first comprehensive framework for constraining the risks of the technology. And last October, US President Joe Biden announced an executive order requiring AI developers to share data with the government. > > While regulations at the national and international levels are progressing slowly compared to the rapid race of AI growth, we need “a clearer understanding of and stronger consensus around the most dangerous threats and how to mitigate them”, says Ms Blomquist. > > “However, disagreements within and among countries are hindering tangible action. The US and China are the key players, but building consensus and coordinating necessary joint action will be challenging,” she adds. > > Meanwhile, on the individual level, there seems to be little people can do short of not posting anything online. > > Meanwhile, on the individual level, there seems to be little people can do short of not posting anything online. > > “The only thing to do is to not give them any material to work with: to not upload photos, videos, or audio of ourselves to public social media,” Ms Hine says. “However, bad actors will always have motives to imitate others, and so even if governments crack down, I expect we’ll see consistent growth amidst the regulatory whack-a-mole.” > > Olga is “100% sure” that she will not be the last victim of generative AI. But she is determined not to let it chase her off the internet. > > She has shared her experiences on her YouTube channel, and says some Chinese online users have been helping her by commenting under the videos using her likeness and pointing out they are fake. > > She adds that a lot of these videos have now been taken down. > > “I wanted to share my story, I wanted to make sure that people will understand that not everything that you're seeing online is real,” says she. “I love sharing my ideas with the world, and none of these fraudsters can stop me from doing that.”

NonCredibleDefense skillissuer • 5 months ago • 97%

[source](https://libreddit.eu.org/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/1by26av/hmm/)

Buttcoin skillissuer • 7 months ago • 100%

dude argues that he completely didn't intend to steal exchange funds, nuh uh it's all there, there's even an assertion (just like with tether) damages are only whatever fees liquidators took, pinky swear. wire fraud? no wai >The lawyer's submission was accompanied by letters of support from Bankman-Fried's parents, psychiatrist, and others. his fellow cultists and equally complicit parents even wrote a letter! what do you mean power of friendship is not get out of jail free card? and he has given money to ~~cultists~~ charity that obviously means he's a good man with impeccable moral integrity -- on a slightly unrelated note, on r/buttcoin i've stumbled upon a take on tether that it's used as a device for capital flight from china. allegedly ftx had major role in this

SneerClub skillissuer • 8 months ago • 100%

www.independent.co.uk

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11485138 > > Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal, has joined a multi-million dollar investment in the controversial Enhanced Games, a proposed Olympics-style mega-event without drug testing. > > ... > > > The idea is the brainchild of Dr Aron D’Souza, the Australian lawyer who helped mastermind Thiel’s proxy war against news media organisation Gawker, which led to Gawker’s bankruptcy in 2016. > > ... > > > But in a recent interview with The Independent, D’Souza was defiant, and outlined how he hoped the Enhanced Games would not only shake up the world of sport, but would provide a public platform for life-extending science to thrive. > > > >“This is the route towards eternal life,” D’Souza said. “It’s how we bring about performance-medicine technologies, that then create a feedback cycle of good technologies, selling to the world, more revenue, more R&D, to develop better and better technologies. > > > >“And what is performance medicine about? It’s not about steroids and getting jacked muscles. It’s about being a better, stronger, faster, younger athlete for longer. And who doesn’t want to be younger for longer?” >

SneerClub skillissuer • 8 months ago • 100%

futurism.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11178564 > Scientists Train AI to Be Evil, Find They Can't Reverse It::How hard would it be to train an AI model to be secretly evil? As it turns out, according to Anthropic researchers, not very.

NonCredibleDefense skillissuer • 10 months ago • 94%

(they didn't learn their lesson)

NonCredibleDefense skillissuer • 11 months ago • 99%

russians seem to have launched another offensive on Vuhledar, there won't be any other result so you can pretend this meme is from the future

NonCredibleDefense skillissuer • 11 months ago • 94%

edit: orange bar was entirely too long and also i don't know how gradients work

NonCredibleDefense skillissuer • 12 months ago • 97%

don't ask whose plan tho

NonCredibleDefense skillissuer • 12 months ago • 100%

streamable.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/6146353 > https://t.me/operativnoZSU/116474 wrong answers only

NonCredibleDefense skillissuer • 1 year ago • 98%

when T-34? there were already two T-55s lost per Oryx [first](https://nitter.net/CalibreObscura/status/1670510694838546436) and [second](https://postimg.cc/9ryL62n8)

NonCredibleDefense skillissuer • 1 year ago • 95%

might be too credible of course he was afraid of russian nuukes. this only prompted Ukrainian engineers to bypass use of starlink entirely and current sea drones, like the one used in second Kerch bridge strike, or these used against SIG tanker and Olenegorsky Gornyak landing ship use domestic technology only

TechTakes skillissuer • 1 year ago • 100%

of course he was afraid of russian nuukes. this only prompted Ukrainian engineers to bypass use of starlink entirely and current sea drones, like the one used in second Kerch bridge strike, or these used against SIG tanker and Olenegorsky Gornyak landing ship use domestic technology only

NonCredibleDefense skillissuer • 1 year ago • 99%


NonCredibleDefense skillissuer • 1 year ago • 96%

and these rules are in sidebar. basically it's 1:1 of what rules on r/ncd used to be, taking into account smaller size and lack of flairs. in case you can't read them in sidebar (because for example you're using app that has it broken) these rules are as follows: ::: spoiler 1. Be nice Do not make personal attacks against each other, call for violence against anyone, or intentionally antagonize people in the comment sections. ::: ::: spoiler 2. Explain incorrect defense articles & takes If you want to post a non-credible take, it must be from a "credible" source (news article, politician, or military leader) and must have a comment laying out exactly why it's non-credible. Random twitter and YouTube comments belong in the Low Hanging Fruit thread. ::: ::: spoiler 3. Content must be relevant Posts must be about military hardware or international security/defense. This is not the page to fawn over Youtube personalities, simp over political leaders, or discuss other areas of international policy. ::: ::: spoiler 4. No racism / hatespeech No slurs. No advocating for the killing of people or insulting them based on physical, religious, or ideological traits. ::: ::: spoiler 5. No politics We don't care if you're Republican, Democrat, Socialist, Stalinist, Baathist, or some other hot mess. Leave it at the door. This applies to comments as well. ::: ::: spoiler 6. No seriousposting We don't want your uncut war footage, fundraisers, credible news articles, or other such things. The world is already serious enough as it is. ::: ::: spoiler 7. No classified material Classified information is off limits regardless of how "open source" and "easy to find" it is. ::: ::: spoiler 8. Source artwork If you use somebody's art in your post or as your post, the OP must provide a direct link to the art's source in the comment section, or a good reason why this was not possible (such as the artist deleting their account). The source should be a place that the artist themselves uploaded the art. A booru is not a source. A watermark is not a source. ::: ::: spoiler 9. No low-effort posts No egregiously low effort posts. These include Social media screenshots with a title punchline / no punchline, recent (after the start of the Ukraine War) reposts, simple reaction & template memes, and images with the punchline in the title. Put these in weekly Low effort thread instead. ::: ::: spoiler 10. Don't get us banned. No brigading or harassing other communities. Do not post memes with a "haha people that I hate died… haha" punchline or violating the sh.itjust.works rules (below). This includes content illegal in Canada. :::

NonCredibleDefense skillissuer • 1 year ago • 100%

part 1, ru pov: look, our mighty su-30sm shoot down western drone boat with its manly 25mm cannon! part 2, ua drone pov, released day later: that su-30sm missed all shots and was damaged by manpads, while not destroyed, was damaged and forced to go to airbase

Buttcoin - The Crypto-Critical Comedy GODL Mine skillissuer • 1 year ago • 100%

arstechnica.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3351001 > The Sotheby's auction house has been named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed by investors who regret buying Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs that sold for highly inflated prices during the NFT craze in 2021.

NonCredibleDefense skillissuer • 1 year ago • 100%

Despite what morons on twitter tell you, just because anti-tank weapons exist it doesn't mean that tanks are obsolete. Tanks are useful because tanks do things only tanks can: provide large calibre close fire support while being squarely protected inside a big metal box. If you are an infantry soldier on tankless side, this sucks. When tanks were first introduced, they were pretty effective because there were no antitank weapons yet. Balance shifted a bit when someone put shaped charge on a rocket/in tiny air-dropped bomb, this forced a change in tactics, armor, and so on. Then, somebody else discovered that C4-metal or rubber-metal lasagna can protect from single shaped charge, this led to development of tandem shaped charges. In terms of current war in Ukraine, we are here (APSs like Trophy exist but these are pretty rare) You don't have to destroy tank on the frontline to make it useless - it's even better if it's destroyed far behind frontline, but it's not the only option. Tank without fuel can't drive, tank without ammo can't shoot, tank without spares can't be repaired - that's why targeting logistics is important and was pretty successful early in the war But, after you go through this (russians partially didn't), there are plenty of ways to destroy a tank when it's on the frontline. Assumptions about why and how would that frontline look like made some planners believe that cope cages would be useful, specifically that delusional assumption of three day special operation made them believe that tanks would be used in urban combat. Cope cage is slat armor fixed to the top of turret. Slat armor works by deforming front part of RPG-7 projectile or similar, which prevents detonation  like this Cope cage was intended to protect against RPG-7 attack from top, where armour is thinnest. This makes sense, considering how common RPG-7 is in post-soviet stockpiles. This is also why slat armour or ERA is added to any Western equipment - it's much easier to replace busted ERA or steel bars than to send entire tank back for repair. PG-7V arriving from top could only possibly happen in urban combat, and this is not what happened. Later, when Javelins were proven to be quite effective, cope cages were repackaged by russian propaganda machine as a wunderwaffe armour against them, but this doesn't change that this doesn't work in reality. But let's say you have a task of destroying a tank with cope cage, what difference would it make? ATGMs - Side attack Modern ATGMs will push through up to 1m of RHA, this means these will punch through entire tank and then some, with possible exception of front glacis in modern western tanks. This is the good stuff and it's never available in numbers high enough, so there have to be other options used more liberally. One example of this system is Stugna-P ATGMs - Top attack Tanks have much thinner armor on top, this is exploited by some missiles that attack on that side, allowing them to be much lighter and more portable. This is also good stuff, and will completely ignore cope cages, because it's not detonated on impact. Examples include TOW and Javelin. Both types of ATGMs were widely credited with stopping tanks during initial push on Kyiv Artillery - Unitary Excalibur has 5kg of explosive fill and was designed, among others, as a tank killer. Because it's GPS guided, it will be best used against parked tanks (to allow for good target identification, input of coordinates and such) but direct hit from 155/152mm howitzer, 122mm Grad or maybe even 120mm mortar should be pretty damaging to a tank in any case. Close hits might not destroy tank outright, but might strip ERA, cope cage, optics, or even throw a track or damage engine with fragmentation, so it's not nothing. If heavy artillery hits cope cage and it detonates on impact, there's still heavy fragmentation that can punch through the thinnest armour, so cope cage will be probably ineffective in this case. This type of artillery was responsible for destroying most of tanks and other vehicles during initial Kyiv push Artillery - BONUS This thing uses two skeets that seek for tank with IR sensor or mmwave radar and plunge an EFP down on it. Because it's not initiated on impact, cope cage is useless here. Artillery - DPICM Each DPICM element contains small shaped charge that is supposed to penetrate some 70-100mm of steel. This is vastly more than on top of any tank and it should result in penetration. ERA on top can protect against DPICM; because DPICM detonate on impact, if cope cage gets in the way, jet of copper will disperse before reaching turret. However if DPICM element falls on engine or driver compartment, that is where cope cage doesn't extend, tank will be still disabled. Cope cage is partially useful here Artillery - FASCAM This thing deploys minefield anywhere you point your 155mm howitzer at - right in front of enemy, right behind enemy, somewhere around so they have to change plans or are forced in some killzone, or even directly at them so now they have to navigate through suddenty appearing minefield. Because these mines attack bottom and sides, cope cage is useless here RPGs Slat armour is useful against some of the older, more common RPGs, but most of the time soldiers using it are on the sides, not on top of tank. A couple of hits with RPG-7 can disable some of older tanks. Because urban combat against tanks didn't happen, cope cage is useless here. Other tank Top of tank is usually not exposed to other tank, and if it is, it means that either tank is on the side or you're fighting against [flying type 59](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8kYm0p7l-8). Either way, something went horribly wrong. Cope cage is useless here Drones - FPV These things are basically very cheap and limited ATGMs with superior maneuverability, and these can hit tank where armor is thinnest - from back or sides, bypassing cope cage entirely. Cope cage is useless here Drones - Bombers Drones have been reported to drop RPG-7 warheads, DPICM elements, RKG-3 grenades and more. All limitations of DPICM apply. Cope cage is partially useful here Drones - Lancets Some Ukrainian howitzer positions are protected by metal nets, because it was discovered that Lancets brake and stop on them without detonating. Because chicken wire is much less visible than cope cage, russian AT team might send a Lancet against it not recognizing that it will be ineffective. It seems to work against some of russian AT weapons, so it was also installed on some of tanks  like this. Yes it's Chally 2 It's probably mildly effective, but only against some threats, and you still will have a bad day if someone has ATGM, RPG with tandem charge or accurate tube artillery I don't know why i have written this, but there's a chance I might do it again. If you don't want to see this content, convince me to stop

Buttcoin - The Crypto-Critical Comedy GODL Mine skillissuer • 1 year ago • 100%

arstechnica.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3201243 > Sam Bankman-Fried is going to jail::Judge also denied SBF's request to delay jail time.

NonCredibleDefense skillissuer • 1 year ago • 97%

context: there was an incident in zagorsk optical-mechanical plant in sergiyv posad, moscow oblast. usually that plant manufactures superfluous bullshit like night vision, but after incident you could find burned out 122mm shells (?) strewn around. pictured: a russian citizen that is completely not into politics