Zionism is the motivating factor in removing/killing Palestinians. Jews that believe in Zionism literally believe that the only way for Judaism to survive in the future is for Jews to have a majority ethnic presence in all of the places that they consider, "Israel" which is based on religious mythology and a tiny little hill (just 750M tall) called, "Mt Zion."
It's a religious belief and it's the official policy of the government of Israel.
The solution is obvious...governments need to make non-consensual reproduction of an individual's likeness illegal and actively enforce it.
This is a non-starter. If you're in public, people can take your picture. It's rude to do so without asking permission but it's still perfectly legal. If it were not legal, all those people recording ICE doing horrible things wouldn't be able to do so.
Even if there were an exception for recording people working for the public, you'd still end up recording bystanders in the background. It's too dangerous—from a societal perspective—to place roadblocks in the way of recording people or taking their picture. People do bad things every day and one of the only ways to deal with that is doing stuff like taking pictures without consent.
You could pass a law that bans this very specific use case: Distributing fake nudes but that's the thing: They're fake. They're just guesses (by a computer). From a legal perspective, it's no different than paying an artist to paint a nude painting of someone from a (non-nude) photo, which is not illegal.
Not only that, but you'd need a law like this to exist in every country, everywhere. Then you'd need some sort of enforcement mechanism. How would that even work?
"This person uploaded their likeness to the Internet, which was reproduced by Twitter 1 million times but then someone used it to make a fake nude of them which was reproduced by Twitter 10 million times. The Twitter TOS says that when you upload an image, they have no responsibility over it and retain the right to modify it in any way they see fit."
Do you go after the user, who might be in a completely different county? It might even be a bot, which would further complicate things.
I stand by what I said: There's no realistic way to prevent this other than to not upload pictures of yourself to the Internet.
We need people to understand that there's bad actors out there that will do things like make fake nudes of them and there's nothing that can be done to stop them. Once they have the image on their computer it's game over.
In regards to Xitter, specifically, STOP USING IT. If you haven't figured out that it's a total shithole by now it's time to wake up.
As an IT person, this situation always seemed inevitable. Even before AI, software becomes better, with more features, and easier to use over time. It's the natural progression of things. There's hiccups here and there but the arrow of time always moves the bar forwards.
You can't stop the software from existing. That's like trying to make water not wet. It's just bits that are easily copied or re-created from scratch using the knowledge that now exists everywhere.
You could make it illegal to distribute fake nude (or nude-ish) photos of people without their permission but that won't actually stop this. Because anyone with a GPU can do this using local software (AI) running on their PC and people will just upload the images to a server in a county that doesn't have that law.
This isn't a technical problem. It's a human problem. You can't fix human problems with technical solutions.
I don't think there's a fix. We're just going to have to live with it. Just like we live with other things we don't like.
If only we had Gun Maintenance 101 in public schools. Americans are issued "Baby's First Glock" at birth as part of the APGAR-USA-USA-USA! test and then... Nothing.
"Anything they post now has the ability to be undressed, in any way a person wants, and they can do whatever they want with that photo of you.”
I don't want to defend the "nudify" thing but this statement was true ten years ago, twenty years ago, and even all the way back, shortly after the invention of photography.
I remember when Photoshop began to be regularly pirated and people were pasting the faces of girls into porn images. There was news about it back then too.
The lesson here is this: If you don't want people to manipulate your images do not post them. That is the one and only true way to prevent something like this from happening. Nothing else will work.
There's no way to put this genie back in the bag. People are just going to have to learn to live with the possibility that they will have public images of themselves that they themselves posted to the public will be manipulated by the public.
When you post an image to the Internet, you're posting it to the entire world. That's approximately 6 billion people who have access to it (people with Internet). That's way too big a number to expect that there will be no bad actors.
MechaTrump, trained on his own speeches (the actual transcripts, not the stuff in the teleprompter) and Xitter/Truth Social posts, will be:
Constantly flushing toilets
Attacking wind turbines ("it's not tilting!")
Insisting that McDonald's be delivered, even though it doesn't eat
Ordering and "consuming" an endless stream of Diet Cokes that it insists can on be served by the can (it in fact has a button on its head, "Diet Coke Me" that it presses constantly)
Yelling at anyone it sees with brown-ish skin
Running up to any and all podiums to speak incoherent nonsense
When handed a roll of paper towels, it will throw them into a crowd
Isn't that the point of all innovation though? To reduce labor or QOL improvements.
This is like saying the automobile was invented to put ferriers out of business. Because... Yeah. Sort of.
The AI paradox: It is simultaneously going to destroy the market for human labor because it's just that good while also being completely useless, only good for generating "slop".
If both of these are true, then the only human labor AI is going to replace is that which generates slop. Because... Yeah. Humans do generate a lot of slop without AI. Now slop can be generated and deployed faster than ever before!
The Void already has claims to all of us. The Void actually enjoys and needs the screaming, so it'll be patient and wait until your warranty runs out; when your particular version stops getting patches and reaches EOL.
When that happens, it'll welcome you, and you'll get sent to /dev/random instead of the recycle bin or the trash can.
Note: You'll have to wait for enough entropy in order to get to your next destination. How long that takes depends on how many people are screaming into the void at that time 🤷
Can we just get rid of the "I" and keep the "CE"? I don't want invasive species taking over any more ecosystems and we don't need any more illegal pets.
This is super interesting. I think academia is going to need to clearly divide "learning" into two categories:
What you need to memorize.
What you need to understand.
If you're being tested on how well you memorized something, using AI to answer questions is cheating.
If you're being tested on how well you understand something, using AI during an exam isn't going to help you much unless it's something that could be understood very quickly. In which case, why are you bothering to test for that knowledge?
If a student has an hour to answer ten questions about a complex topic, and they can somehow understand it well enough by asking AI about it, it either wasn't worthy of teaching or that student is wasting their time in school; they clearly learn better on their own.
They totally fucked this up. AI dubs "aren't there yet." They're still years away from being decent enough to get the job done.
If they really want to save money using AI, the correct way, with today's technology, is to use an AI voice changer! Hire a real voice actor and then make them do all the voices, then use the AI voice changer to make them sound like each character.
...but they're so fucking cheap and lazy they won't even do that.
I used to live down the street from a great big data center. It wasn't a big deal. It's basically just a building full of servers with extra AC units.
Inside? Loud AF (think: Jet engine. Wear hearing protection).
Outside: The hum of lots of industrial air conditioning units. Only marginally louder than a big office building.
A data center this big is going to have a lot more AC units than normal but they'll be spread all around the building. It's not like living next to an airport or busy train tracks (that's like 100x worse).
Those both sound like solid reasons to let out an evil giggle.