Microsoft President: 'You Can't Believe Every Video You See or Audio You Hear'
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Microsoft President: 'You Can't Believe Every Video You See or Audio You Hear'
"We're currently witnessing a rapid expansion in the abuse of these new AI tools by bad actors," writes Microsoft VP Brad Smith, "including through deepfakes based on AI-generated video, audio, and images.
"This trend poses new threats for elections, financial fraud, harassment through nonconsensual pornography, and the next generation of cyber bullying." Microsoft found its own tools being used in a recently-publicized episode, and the VP writes that "We need to act with urgency to combat all these problems."
Microsoft's blog post says they're "committed as a company to a robust and comprehensive approach," citing six different areas of focus:
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by Calydor ( 739835 ) on Saturday February 17, 2024 @11:58AM (#64247594)
Are we SURE that it was actually Brad Smith who said this?
They did a documentary on this in 1987: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Ok, it wasn't exactly a documentary.
We are witnessing the end of the internet.
The beauty of the internet is that you can go on there and get the opinions of regular people. You don't need a rich person that owns a media companies permission to publish anything. The rich people that are infected with greed are anxious to become the gatekeepers again.
The future of the internet is a place that you won't be able to tell what's real and what's fabricated bullshit. AI will poison all the wells, making the internet irrelevant unless you're one of those poor souls trapped in a small box and told to wear augmented reality headsets if you want to have any fun. All fun will be monitored, controlled, and it won't be free. The gate keepers will be back, telling you what's real and what's misinformation.
Society will split, there will be people who live wild and free in the country, and their will be people enslaved in large cities. They will be used to build pyramids, or whatever the equivalent is today.
Enjoy the internet while you can, it's a sinking ship at this point. If we're lucky, a big solar flare will solve the problem for us.
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The internet has brought out people's true nature - and while it is nice to engage with the entire planet from time to time, there are enough bad people to ruin the whole thing.
The sad part is: we let them ruin it through tolerance of their early actions.-
But we weren't tolerant. We were overwhelmed by Eternal September.
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Eternal September is the name of a free Usenet server - https://www.eternal-september.org/ [eternal-september.org] - although I did see a complaint that it was no longer available in the US. I have no idea if that is true or not, and you can't believe everything you read . . .
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Uh huh. Tell me again why a popular thing people did when they got a nice remote job, was find a way to leave a city.
Or why city workers retirement planning seem to have one thing in common; leaving a city to retire. Something about actually enjoying retirement keeps being the persistent reason. Go figure.
Those that used to use cities for “fun”, can’t afford it now. All small business now struggles to survive in cities for the same damn reason. And the response from Greed? More taxe
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And a lot of the fun they used the city for was stuff like nightclubs and parties and constantly DOING SOMETHING; once you're at retirement age the nightclub just doesn't hit the way it used to, I'm told, and you are much happier just sitting still enjoying the view and fresh air.
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I think you skipped a generation there. People stop going to nightclubs in their 30s generally and move to a different part of a metropolitan area they can get a house to raise a family while still being within commuting distance of their job. They still enjoy urban amenities like restaurants, theaters, museums, parks, sporting events etc. By retirement age the kids are out of the house so it makes sense to downsize. They don't all flee to rural areas many just get condos.
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That's a luxury for most people under 40. Most younger generations cannot afford a house, let alone with a family on top of that.
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The point was retirees generally weren't going to nightclubs. They already moved out and bought a house and raised a family. The current generation being forced to rent a house to raise a family in is irrelevant to that.
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What is your definition of popular? Most people didn't move to rural areas. The percentage of people in urban environments still went up. All small business now struggles in cities? Have you ever been to a city? Where are you getting your numbers from?
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The World Wide Web is about to die and take down all the garbage proprietary silos in the process, sure. But that is not a bad thing. The Internet in general, on the other hand, is perfectly safe. Real people can and will communicate peer-to-peer in environments which require some form of physical presence attestation to guarantee unwanted entities are shut out. With extremely high-bandwidth connections and a NAT-free future on the horizon, social media will soon be entirely based on self-publishing without unwanted advertising. Dedicated video game servers will see a resurgence (backed by simple directory servers to keep them organised) and trusted meatspaces of old, such as libraries, will serve as a means to bootstrap anything which can't be safely established without needing a physical root of trust.
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You're nuts if you think most people would rather give up the internet than go to a physical location once to exchange credentials.
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The internet was never a place to take anything seriously without independent IRL research to confirm.
And before the internet the same warnings existed about what you read in the paper. And without newspapers the same warnings existed for anything you might hear in the social gossip wheel.
Social networks whether they run by word of mouth, sneakernet, or screen or print have never been trustworthy sources of information without real life confirmation by the reader.
Did we have some kind of mini dark ages between the 90s and now In which basic understandings were lost?
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No, but the sheer amount of misinformation and lies has increased thousandfold, and it'll only get worse when it's not even limited by how fast a person can type and imagine stuff anymore.
And how do you do research on a lot of these things? If you see news on the web saying that Putin has been spotted sniffing coke off the boobs of a 15 year old girl... okay, how are you gonna research if that is true if you're sitting in, say, New York? And with the doom-scrolling culture we've adopted you're only a flick of your finger away from the NEXT piece you need to research and verify.
In the old days when we read a paper we trusted to some degree that the journalists and editors of the paper we read every single day had done THEIR due diligence, with their expertise in uncovering the details of a story, before sharing it with the community. We did not go out and independently verify every story in the paper every day because without really wanting to sound like a meme; NO ONE has time for that.
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To me admitting that you don't know and cannot know makes a lot more sense then demanding to believe something is true.
Always thought it was weird that so many people treat an honest realization of I don't know as if it were a death sentence.
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I just consider everything an honest Gamble, so that whenever new information turns up once again there is no internal sense of shame preventing a pivot of strategy and focus.
Seems like a hellish way to live having to assume things to be true.
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Has it increased? Seems more like the internet has exposed that misinformation was rampant but tightly controlled prior. Thanks to the internet false narratives are now being challenged.
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The WWW was a fork from USENET. So is the Darknet. Both are examples of how information sources and audiences split long ago and has always been that way.
Gatekeepers are relevant only when the clickbait shit they’re selling, is worth more than mindless entertainment. It’s not.
I do fully agree that the general destruction of trust, is a major problem. And those profiting from that destruction, stupidly assume they’re somehow immune. They’re not.
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As bullshit AI floods the internet and media in general people will be forced to think critically about the material they consume. I know it's cool and hip to assume that everybody is dumber than you and if you're in IT you have a habit of just assuming everyone is stupid because frankly you're generally dealing with the dumbest people out there because they're typically the ones who call technical support.
But critical thinking and claims evaluation are things that can be taught and learned. California i -
Whats happened, is that people are exposed to so many opinions of so many regular people, that they've learned that its no longer necessary to produce an opinion, only to reproduce the opinions they see online.
AI just takes this to the next level, by removing other people from the generation of the opinions that you are supposed to regurgitate in order to 'be a good person', and simulate the proper opinions that 'good people' are supposed to have.
Why should an actual person be required to produce opinions?
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