Yes, that is true.

But the source of murders is always a person, not the tool.

Just to be clear, I’m not making some kind of anti-gun control argument. I’m just explaining why that metaphor is flawed.

The problem at a murder scene isn’t the gun, it’s the person who used it. Nobody is mad at the gun, or worried that it will suddenly murder again.

Much like here. The problem isn’t AI, the problem is the people who are choosing to deploy AI in this way.

It’s the people

AI as it stands is a symbol of Capitalism and the problems it embodies.

I know and agree.

I’m only saying that promoting that symbol is damaging in other ways, such as to the sciences.

Some people may be expressing an opinion with that type of nuance (and I do agree with it) but, what appears to be the large majority of social media users on this topic don’t make that distinction and those people attack the sciences/non-LLM uses of the technology.

Yes, overuse of local water and power supplies is damaging, the replacement of workers is causing all kinds of economic issues, the ability for AI to enable mass surveilance and authoritarians is an urgent problem that needs to be addressed AND ALSO the people trying to fight against it are causing collateral damage to other important aspects of society, an example being that it’s making ML/AI a less popular major which will result in less researchers/slower advancement.

It’s important to point out that there have been several advances in AI that have significantly reduced the computation requirements. So, whatever the demand for AI will ultimately be, it will require an order of magnitude less datacenters because of this kind of research.

The source of the problems here are the people making the decision to deploy the technology in this way and their outsized influence on the government that should be regulating their actions.

AI is just the current topic. Outsourcing was another huge topic in the Clinton era. After that we had the post-crash bailout and the mass acquisition of housing by large capital funds in order to control the rental/real estate markets.

All of these things caused massive economic issues for the vast majority of people and were entirely done because the people that benefitted were able to influence the government and prevent their regulation.

This isn’t an AI problem. It’s a power, influence and corruption problem. AI’s destructive deployment is just the current symptom.

Nothing to jack off on

Oh you sweet summer child 😂

I was thinking things like skimming credit card numbers or some creep hearing you give you phone number to the clerk and stalking you.

Video is different, but the ability to record 24/7 has all kinds of criminal possibilities.

prioritize ground speed for your endeavour rewards because the faster you run the quicker you can complete ground daily TFOs.

Prioritizing movespeed is like the secret weapon of most games like this.

and my axe!

I played in the beta (2012??) and even then it felt dated. WoW was right there, absolutely slaying, and all they had to do was copy it… but instead we get something that looks more like Shadowbane (nerd points if you know what that is without googling).

This is a real problem, I already see it with CS students.

AI is useful in some limited scenarios, the problem is that when you’re learning CS all of the scenarios that you’re given as exercises are almost trivial to solve and fall within AI’s capability to do for you. That completely handicaps a student in ways they don’t even understand until much later.

It isn’t until they get into more complex projects, where AI flounders, that they recognize that they have rarely had to troubleshoot an issue so they don’t have the mental framework to do so. They’re not comfortable with the tools, and they haven’t internalized the methodology so they hit a brick wall.

If you’re a student now, avoid it at all costs. It’s easier to use AI, of course, but facing the difficulty and overcoming it is probably the most important part of learning anything.

Pervert watches to complement the pervert glasses.

It’s nice to find someone on the same wavelength :P

Yes of course there are a large number of people that criticise any use of generative AI, whether it’s for good or bad. But this doesn’t mean that every criticism involving AI is a criticism of the use of AI, rather than a criticism of the way that it is being used by the person using it. You would have to be extremely inept to make that mistake of comprehension.

I can tell you, as someone who is against the capitalist orgy of datacenters while also understanding the world changing implications of neural networks, that the loudest people/bots in the anti-AI conversation do not recognize such nuance.

There is very much a real push by some people in this space to label any use of AI technology as evil. That’s a dangerous meme to spread on social media. How many future ML scientists and researchers are we losing because people swap out of the field due to this misdirected hatred being pushed in social media?

Which isn’t illegal.

What is illegal is when a person makes the decision to use a tool immorally, i.e. to murder. The problem in that scenario is the person, not the tool.

If you could magically cause every gun to disappear, there would still be murder because it’s the people who are doing the murder.

Your problem is with capitalism, not AI.

Blaming a field of machine learning because some rich assholes are exploiting it demonstrates a failure to diagnose the issue.

AI isn’t building data centers, a human being made that decision.

We need a way to jam up their ability to transmit the information back to Bezos’ house or whatever.

Lucky for us, there’s ultrasonic acoustic jamming. Science: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667295223000272

It’s pretty short range and only affects some kinds of microphones (the most common kind/MEMS) but it’s doable.

If you want to know all some of the ways your audio can be spied on.

Benn Jordan on audio spying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEC6PM97IRI

He, surprisingly, did another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5ynZ3lMQJc

It’s also possible to see what’s on a monitor’s display through processing the EM emissions called Van Eck phreaking.

There’s an entire spectrum of similar attacks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)

I’ve heard you can use a chip bag to the same effect.

Anything light/thin enough to resonate at vocal frequencies that can reflect a laser (without altering polarization) will work.

I do remember an experiment, using a chip bag, where university researchers were able to extract audio from a video of a chip bag. I believe they were mapping the intensity of the various specular highlights on the bag and playing the audible frequencies. It was muddied and choppy but intelligible.

Even further, your location and time of recording can be roughly estimated based on audio recordings. It’s called Electrical Network Frequency analysis. I forget the specifics, but it had something to do with the frequency change of the power grid (the hum of which can be picked up in some audio recordings, or inadvertently captured as noise from the audio equipment). They can take the recording, determine how the frequency shifted during the recording (corresponding to grid conditions at the time of recording) and compare them to historical data from various utility monitoring stations looking for matches. wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_network_frequency_analysis

Probably in the way as every single online source/influencer/social media user.

No. None of your network traffic is private and you can assume it’s being read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street#Usage

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/16/the-nsas-spy-hub-in-new-york-hidden-in-plain-sight/

https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hubs/

https://www.propublica.org/article/a-trail-of-evidence-leading-to-atts-partnership-with-the-nsa

Things like HTTPS (web traffic) are backed by certificate authorities which could be compromised. Your cellular radio traffic is encrypted, with keys controlled by the phone company which has the same problem. It’s been shown in several cases (like the Snowden leaks) that ISPs and tech companies cooperate with the NSA.

That being said, well implemented encryption using sufficiently large keys allows you to communicate over networks even if they are compromised. All of this is only secure as the endpoints. All of the encryption in world doesn’t help you if an adversary has root access to a device in the conversation.

I can’t tell you that you should trust Signal, I’m just a screenname on the Internet. However, if you look at the people who have the authority to directly ask intelligence services about their collection capabilities… those people use Signal.

That’s an odd issue.

Holding W shouldn’t prevent the Esc key from being sent. It makes it sound like something happening in the hardware.

Are you using any gaming mice/keyboard that may have a macro enabled? For example, if you wanted to run forward for a long time and the game doesn’t support autorun you could have a macro that held W which could be toggled on and off through a keyboard/mouse key.

I wouldn’t worry about it too much since you were able to resolve it by rebooting. If it’s something happening constantly then it would be worth troubleshooting, but generally you are wasting your time trying to find out what happened during a one-off issue.

If it were happpening to me, I’d wait for the issue to occur again and then SSH into the machine from elsewhere and run evtest, select the suspect keyboard, and see if it is emitting scancodes.

This will tell you if the problem is the hardware or something in the system. Seeing scancodes that are showing the W key would mean that the hardware is sending the keys, not seeing scancodes either means that the problem is your system OR that there is another device sending the scancodes (the other device will show up in evtest as well).

Even privatebjets emit a transponder signal. I wonder how hard it would be to sniff this out of the air. Maybe some of our HAM friends would know.

It’s called ADS-B, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Dependent_Surveillance–Broadcast

There are websites that will let you view the data across the world. You can use a cheap software defined radio and open source software to listen to and decode local traffic.

More to the topic are websites such as Elonjet which, tracks jets owned or associated with Elon Musk: https://grndcntrl.net/falconlanding This is all done with public information (Elon has already tried to kill the site, and he banned the owner from Twitter, of course).

OP, a term you may find useful is ricing. This is the sub-community of Linux users who focus on customizing their desktops. You can look at the unixporn subreddit to see examples of how much a DE can be customized.

Ex:

This is KDE Plasma

This is also KDE Plasma

This is also a, very customized, KDE Plasma

(video)https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/1w2afj0/kde_my_2nd_ever_linux_rice/

Another is dotfiles or dots, ricers will sometimes make their .config files available for other users. (Be careful here, this can include hidden malicious scripts and such uglies. Use your best judgement).