Police forensics is already plagued by human biases. Experts say AI will make it even worse.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjk745/ai-police-sketches
#Tech #generative #forensics #DALL-E #OpenAI #Developers #police
Motherboard spoke to multiple voice actors and advocacy organizations, some of which said contracts including language around synthetic voices are now very prevalent. “I can only hope that synthetic voices just go away entirely, but at the very least, act
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d37za/voice-actors-sign-away-rights-to-artificial-intelligence
#OntheClock #voiceAI #ArtificialIntelligence #labor #synthetic #voiceactors #deepfake #AudioDeepfakes
New euphemism for "racist" just dropped. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/06/racially-fueled-attack-baltimore-power-grid-00081320
Disney's strategy to win its battle with DeSantis is to just wait until he runs for president, says a top Florida Democrat
Worth reading this post on a right wing publication in which they -- like their favorite person, Christopher Rufo and their favorite white nationalist-seeming governor, Ron DeSantis -- give away the game, Scooby Doo Villain style: they want to take over universities across the station, and strip them of the dreaded "diversity, equity and inclusion" that they straight-up label as "anti-white." Welcome to 14-words conservatism.
How AI de-aging VFX are increasingly used on actors, including Harrison Ford in the new Indiana Jones movie, and the possible impact on Hollywood's economics (David Smith/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/feb/06/de-ageing-on-screen-ai-artificial-intelligence-film
http://www.techmeme.com/230207/p12#a230207p12
I've seen and heard a few comments saying Brazil's situation "resembles” the U.S. January 6 attack. It's worse than that.
It was inspired by and consciously modeled on the American insurrection. The GOP is no longer a pro-democracy party. They have been for years trying to destroy faith in our democracy and those around the world, undermine our institutions, and gain power to end our democracy.
They are a clear and present danger to our way of life, liberty, freedoms, and rights.
Many Americans used to believe our country was a beacon of freedom and democracy for the world. Republicans turned us into a beacon of how to stage a coup.
All of us need to come to grips with this. We need to act. We need to work to stop them. We need to organize at all levels. This certainly won’t be the last they have inspired. #Bolsonaro #Brazil
What the Rioters in Brazil Learned From Americans-
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/brasilia-riot-bolsonaro-lula-trump/672677/
@chancerydaily I think I’ve sorted out why Elon erect a financial barrier to Twitter’s API. I suspect the NYT had to use Twitter’s API to run the program they used for this story. This seems like a very Elon way to discourage evaluation of Twitter through controlling access to the tools.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/technology/twitter-child-sex-abuse.html
Here's an advanced open-source pitch correction plug-in not entirely unlike #Melodyne :)
https://liuanlin-mx.github.io/
#MusicProduction #OpenSource #FOSS #LinuxAudio #Libre #GNU #Autotune #VST
An AI Company Using Stolen Code Is Trying To Silence the Person Who Found Out - segaboy81 writes: Jailbreak hacker @ronsoros found stolen, open-source code in voi... - https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/02/07/0214252/an-ai-company-using-stolen-code-is-trying-to-silence-the-person-who-found-out?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #opensource
Little FYI:
Loazy is just a 'frontend' for #ChatGTP made by #OpenAI, I do not have any control about the 'outcome' / replies that the chatbot is sending
I only provide an easy way to access the thing without you giving away personal data
You can learn more about the engine behind it here: https://openai.com
The crisis group CK SOS, which helps LGBTQ+ people and their family members who find themselves in mortal danger in the North Caucasus, claims that there are "a growing number of 'rehabilitation centers' in Russia that supposedly treat homosexuality, transgenderism or atheism."
Xgayru
https://www.xgayru.info/news/rainbow/2023/02/07-46783.htm
#humanrights #LGBTQmentalhealth #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #Trans #Queer #Atheism #StopRussiaNow #StopRussiaAgression
Catholic hospitals are really going all in on 'forcing women to get pregnant against their will.'
#BirthJustice
#ReproJustice
#WomensReproHealth
#Abortion #BirthControl
https://coloradosun.com/2023/01/31/durango-hospital-tubal-ligations/
@freemo IIRC, obviously your statement is correct at one level. Many studies have shown pretty strongly that there's no causal link between, say, violent video games and real-life violence. But I think the relatively-recent rise in anti-Asian violence (a subject near and dear to my heart) points to a much subtler effect.
My hypothesis is that when X number of isolated people harbor anti-Asian hatred (for example), but all of society is collectively telling them that's wrong, they mumble and grumble and keep their hatred to themselves, but when that same number of people are no longer isolated, but find themselves supported in large numbers by something like a large online community, a prominent political leader, or both, well, clearly the mask comes off, and the violence becomes very real.
This is why people are rightly (IMO) worried about the limits of speech on the internet.
Another example: there have been people angry at the government for decades, but it seems like it took Facebook connecting them and feeding them information they wanted to see about how to act on that hate, plus a prominent political leader spouting related nonsense, for them to travel to Washington DC and try to overthrow the government.
Seeing hateful nonsense isn't going to turn you or me into a hateful person. It isn't going to turn anyone who isn't already hateful into a hateful person. But leaving it available provides a very thin patina of credibility, and since information on the internet is not generally divorced from the people posting it, it also provides a means of social connection when left in place.
One angry hateful person is a person. Angry hateful people online are literally the basis of a violent armed mob.
This is why I'm actually finding myself more and more against an "anything goes" policy online, while still very strongly supporting free speech in person.
If you're willing to stand on a street corner and speak what you believe is true, anybody that is willing to be seen associating with you can do so, and I don't think anybody should interfere. If you want to print a crank newsletter and pass it out, go ahead. In this is freedom!
But it takes nothing, less than nothing, to post nasty stuff online, where it lives side-by-side in the same interface with good information, granting it that very thin patina of credibility I mentioned, and associations are anonymous or hidden until it's too late.
I don't think that's so simple. I think all of this [waves at everything] demonstrates that.
Former Republican State Senator in Arkansas sentenced for stealing and misappropriating thousands of dollars in state campaign contributions for his own personal use and then filed false federal income tax returns from 2011 to 2014 to conceal his conduct. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-arkansas-state-senator-sentenced-bribery-and-tax-fraud
NYPD Narcotics Detective Facing 26 Criminal Charges Walks After Prosecutors Withhold Evidence https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/06/nypd-narcotics-detective-facing-26-criminal-charges-walks-after-prosecutors-withhold-evidence/
A 6-year-old Virginia boy who shot and wounded his first-grade teacher constantly cursed at staff and teachers, tried to whip students with his belt and once choked another teacher “until she couldn’t breathe,” according to a legal notice filed by an attorney for the wounded teacher. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/6-year-old-boy-shot-teacher-allegedly-tried-choke-another-rcna69440
The suspected Chinese spy balloon that the U.S. shot down over the weekend was 200 feet tall, officials say — or roughly four times the size of the Snoopy balloon at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/downed-chinese-balloon-was-200-feet-tall-us-military-says-rcna69371
Silicon Valley needs to stop laying off workers and start firing CEOs
Link: https://www.businessinsider.com/fire-blame-ceo-tech-employee-layoffs-google-facebook-salesforce-amazon-2023-2
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34687125