Your reasoning is, excuse my french, completely biased and stupid as fuck.
Every world leader holds millions of lives in their hands, whether by economic or military decisions. You don't just get to kill the ones you don't like.
It's the warmongering pieces of trash, who think that wasting unfathomable amounts of human life and labor blowing up their rivals for personal or geopolitical benefit is justified, who need to be placed under permanent arrest so the rest of us can get on with building useful things, living fulfilling lives, and loving each other as the vast majority of credulous, earnest people do.
Iran has been repeatedly attacked by Western imperialism over the last ~100 years (look it up), which directly created the extreme regimes currently in place, who have been ACTIVELY NEGOTIATING even while the US unilaterally initiates EVERY escalation in this conflict.
I don't think that any violent power structure is good, but you won't deceive anyone with a brain and a conscience thinking that the US is the good guys or that Iran deserved this, by pointing at the shortages that are a direct result of US imperial aggression
Trump is in the Epstein files thousands of times. Trump is current waging lawfare again a woman who proved in court he is a rapist. Trump is threatening every aspect of american civil life and global rules-based geopolitics because he is a bully.
Is there any legitimate reason for adding a prompt injection attack to your codebase? Seems like by the same logic he could disavow 'script kiddies' who just want to run his project without reading the code and have it auto-nuke if not run with a special flag?
Would never use anything by a maintainer who adds malicious code or instructions to their codebase to attack less experienced users, same thing.
Nah. When an intelligent human makes a decision (say, someone who can get themselves hired at google), they're aware of the systemic effects of their behaviour.
Google is not a lawnmower. Google is people. And they hate you.
It's more like a company unaffiliated with the toll booth offering a better deal that lets you avoid the toll booth, pocketing all the money, and the road becoming unusable from lack of maintenance.
You have to be informed that you're not allowed to be on the premises ("trespassed") and be allowed to leave before you can be charged with trespassing.
Didn't get past the paywall but, recently a friend had their primary school targeted by blackmailers who took public photos of children and made (I'm told) extremely explicit images with them, threatening to release them if not paid.
What's the defense? Intelligent screening of incoming messages so that the threat never reaches the blackmail target? I imagine they'll find an unprotected channel.
Don't post innocuous images of children ever? Seems like losing.
Don't post innocuous images of children ever? Seems like losing.
I do have to say that I find it disturbing how liberally parents seem to post pictures of their children in public though. Respect the privacy of your children, they’re not your pets.
I'm more thinking, the winning school sports team, a choir performing, etc. Things that would be posted in normal institutional participation and give children positive affirmation and recognition
Certainly in my lifetime we never posted such things publicly across the globe, neither for myself nor my peers, nor for my children and most of their peers at school.
Such things were printed and handed out and rarely made it past that years parents and students and the school archive (physical visit required).
Some schools will (try to) do this, but under European privacy and portrait right laws, they have to get explicit permissions from parents first.
I think a school news letter / yearbook is cute, but it should be private and only for the students and parents. A physical version would be best, you can put those in the archive instead of realize 20 years later that the digital versions are gone.
It's nice to see pictures of people. I like when parents share photos of my kids at events where they're having a great time but I couldn't make it. It's nice when the local paper shows a picture of happy graduating 8th graders.
Saying "you shouldn't do this thing that was basically harmless from the birth of photography until the ~2010's" is ignoring a lot of history and context.
Broadcasting private photos of children to strangers and corporations was common until 2010s? Were you posting them on classified section on newspapers in 1999?
> What's the defense? Intelligent screening of incoming messages so that the threat never reaches the blackmail target? I imagine they'll find an unprotected channel.
Same defenses that are used against fraud and other crime.
criminal prosecution of the blackmailers AND the services used to generate the pictures.
This is effectively child porn... so penalties would be pretty harsh.
There are extradition treaties to most of the world, so unless the blackmailers are in China/Russia they will end up in jail.
That same thing played out with piracy with people extradited to the US from various countries
I just looked it up and according to Wikipedia distributing child porn is a crime in both, possession is a crime in China. Blackmail is a crime in both too. So even if they do not extradite the blackmailers they are likely to face jail under the their own laws.
Although I agree this is necessary, I don't think it is sufficient.
Hackers and blackmailers on the internet can be anywhere from trivial to impossible to identify.
Even harder to prosecute when they're in a different jurisdiction, as not everywhere has extradition treaties to everywhere else. I wouldn't be overly surprised if e.g. the North Korean government runs some schemes like this (though not necessarily actually this) to bring in money.
But yes, definitely do the easy things first, like trying to stop e.g. grok from doing it and also going after users of e.g. grok who try to get around such efforts. A lot more crime happens than can be prosecuted, so raising the minimum competence threshold to commit crimes in the first place is very necessary.
Sure, but the reality is that if it happens abroad there is no legal recourse. Laws are not global, but the internet is. The only real option there is to close the internet.
Or to elect me as god-emperor and unify the world under my rule.
I'd already realised by about 2010 that the internet was making a mockery of national sovereignty; I absolutely expect nations to demand some way to effectively close the borders of the internet without breaking everything as it presently would.
That is propagation of CSAM. We already have way of dealing with people transmitting CSAM, that is to prosecute them heavily.
You won't prevent people stabbing others with knife by banning knife or asking people to wear knife-proof vest going outside. You deter them by making everybody know that the consequence of harming somebody else is going to be a very unpleasant experience.
Why a school, in this day and age, is posting pictures of children is beyond me. At my kid’s school we refused to sign the photo release clause, and any time they might be taking pictures they had to email us to ask if it was OK if our child was included. We agreed to it for the yearbook, but refused everything else.
Prosecuting every one of those blackmailers. If this kind of crime starts going into the "you're gonna get caught and jailed 100%" category, less people will try it.
The vast majority of these offences are from apps or sites that generate and host the images themselves, often by openly promoting their ability to "nudify" people, and payment leaves them a paper trail. That makes them complicit. I agree that local/open source models are harder to police, but most grade schoolers are not going to be able to set up and run something like that.
And I think it would be an interesting question of discovery to determine if the models were or weren't trained on CSAM. (Diffusors were trained on both pelicans and bicycles, you know...)
I still think there's a lot of legal and IP landmines lying in wait from the Hoover-esque pre-training eras
Well, yes, models might be trained on naked adults and clothed children, incidental to their purpose.
Agreed on your second remark. If I'm still around it will be interesting to look back on this period on twenty years and think about how things should have been handled.
Yes, but statistics are very clear here [0]. Speaking as a dad of both, we have tried to raise our kids to treat everyone as a human first, but there are very obviously ways for boys to fall into different behaviors than girls, both from culture (probably mainly) but also from testosterone when older. Girls can absolutely be cruel in other ways, though, and of course incidents diverging from statistical patterns, as with most things.
That is a clear-cut case of extortion. The defence is having the police do their job and apprehend the criminals in question. If you screen incoming messages and stop them from reaching their target, extortionists will switch to publicly releasing one risque image with threats of releasing more explicit ones. There is always an unprotected channel as you noted.
As an aside, please do not use the b-mail word. It is insensitive towards BIPOCs.
So, a footer to make sure they've already engaged with the content in good faith before seeing the spam warning, and which doesn't actually explain that the content is AI generated?
Just go post on black hat forums. Plenty of people want this, it's a spam service. You don't need to be here.
How could this possibly be enforcable now after they let it go for 50+ years, and the design is ubiquitous? Prima facie absurd, I really hope the legal system is equipped to deal with this.
Your reasoning is, excuse my french, completely biased and stupid as fuck.
Every world leader holds millions of lives in their hands, whether by economic or military decisions. You don't just get to kill the ones you don't like.
It's the warmongering pieces of trash, who think that wasting unfathomable amounts of human life and labor blowing up their rivals for personal or geopolitical benefit is justified, who need to be placed under permanent arrest so the rest of us can get on with building useful things, living fulfilling lives, and loving each other as the vast majority of credulous, earnest people do.
Iran has been repeatedly attacked by Western imperialism over the last ~100 years (look it up), which directly created the extreme regimes currently in place, who have been ACTIVELY NEGOTIATING even while the US unilaterally initiates EVERY escalation in this conflict.
I don't think that any violent power structure is good, but you won't deceive anyone with a brain and a conscience thinking that the US is the good guys or that Iran deserved this, by pointing at the shortages that are a direct result of US imperial aggression
Trump is in the Epstein files thousands of times. Trump is current waging lawfare again a woman who proved in court he is a rapist. Trump is threatening every aspect of american civil life and global rules-based geopolitics because he is a bully.
Go on, get crushing.
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