After wolf escaped zoo, man arrested for creating fake AI sighting “for fun”
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The misuses of AI continue. So many bad use cases like this one. "For fun." Lies for fun. Disruption for fun. Stuff like this is what has many calling for the destruction of anything AI.
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Police like to claim that taking videos of them disrupts their search too. Five years seems... crazy?
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It's like dystopian 6 Million Dollar Man. "We can make him dumber. Lamer."
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Morons gotta moron, and they tend to get really indignant if you try to stop them. If their perpetual stupidity only affected them and no one else, what a beautiful world it would be.
I can still recall an idiot in high school (a very long time ago) who went around challenging other students to crush a matchbox for money, if they could do that. He had pushed numerous pins up through the box bottom, but short enough to not penetrate the box top. He considered that to be a "funny prank", and is likely now a member of the sadistic moron MAGA Republican Party.
I can still recall an idiot in high school (a very long time ago) who went around challenging other students to crush a matchbox for money, if they could do that. He had pushed numerous pins up through the box bottom, but short enough to not penetrate the box top. He considered that to be a "funny prank", and is likely now a member of the sadistic moron MAGA Republican Party.
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It is depressingly common for media outlets to describe US crimes with respect to a theoretical statutory maximum sentence, which often has almost no relation to the sentence the real-life actor plausibly faces. The highest-quality journalism does not cite statutory maxima without adding this context.
IANAL and I am definitely not a SKlawyer, but I assume something similar is happening here.
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On the other hand, most countries think that lying about a matter of public safety being protected free speech is crazy, yet here we are.
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This has been the case ever since the Internet was invented, TBQH.
I wrestle daily with the fact that technological advancement rarely or never releases with a plan to curb the most obvious abuses, and make examples of the highest income brackets doing the abuses in the process even if you have to bait them (so you lose multi-billion dollar corporations not only from capital punishment for the billionaires but forced dissolution of even critical infrastructure as a result of criminal prosecution with fewer opportunities for appeal).
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For deterrence, a high monetary fine (or wage garnishment if the guy can't pay upfront) for sure. But five years jail time seems both expensive (for the state) and counterproductive (for the forty year old man - who should be working)?
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Many are calling for it, some very smart people, I can't say who, but I heard it many times. I think destruction is a harsh word, but that's what they are saying.
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Nora Lenderbee
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That lead photo is rather special. What a handsome critter. Perhaps we should have "Moon Wolf" to go along with "Moon Shark".
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The death penalty for making a tool that allows image creation. Sounds like a healthy opinion.
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dunno what an article about a wolf in South Korea has to do with MAGA but aight
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The Norse already got that one on lock. Two Wolves chase the Sun & the Moon.
Sköll and Hati. Children of Fenrir. Child of Loki.
Eclipses happen when they get too good at the chase.
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It's always crazy to hear about countries without free-speech protections. Giving this guy any amount of prison time for a fake picture would be dystopian.
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Korea is kind of famous for laws that heavily penalize speech: you can get arrested for insulting someone, you can be arrested for defamation even if you say something 100% truthful, and criticizing politicians or praising North Korea are both illegal.
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Embarrassing the cops by highlighting their abuses or stupidity is the highest of high crimes.
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Don't they have the phrase "if not friend, why friend shaped"? Seems like something they might have invented actually.
-Garak, ST: DS9 S03E20
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1GFofUY3jg
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Authorities overreact to something trivial, get embarrassed, scream “hoax” to save face, and retaliate in wildly disproportionate ways? It’s a tale as old as time.
https://meincmagazine.com/tech-policy/2007/05/mooninites-meet-the-terrorist-hoax-improvements-act/
https://meincmagazine.com/tech-policy/2007/05/mooninites-meet-the-terrorist-hoax-improvements-act/
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Glad woofie is safe, and I really, REALLY hope the guy gets all 5 years.
I got a kick that a memecoin was almost instantly created. After looking at the Trump and Melanoma memecoins I had to look what it would take to start my own.
Answer? Frigging cheap and easy. I had fun thinking what to name it, then I went for some coffee and forgot about it. I still may create one, name suggestions will be a great help!
cockroachcoin? We’ll take over the world! A noble endeavor.
I did also find a 3 step process that skips writing code and creating a crypto wallet, and it was free.
I got a kick that a memecoin was almost instantly created. After looking at the Trump and Melanoma memecoins I had to look what it would take to start my own.
Answer? Frigging cheap and easy. I had fun thinking what to name it, then I went for some coffee and forgot about it. I still may create one, name suggestions will be a great help!
cockroachcoin? We’ll take over the world! A noble endeavor.
I did also find a 3 step process that skips writing code and creating a crypto wallet, and it was free.
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Last time I reported "dogs on the runway", the only response I got was "yeah, we know" !
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Although ANOTHER way to think of the story is from the perspective of someone investigating it as a report. It's always told from an omniscient narrator's perspective, but did you ever wonder how anyone would know what happened if the only witness is dead, and how they are so convinced he was lying?
"He lied the first two times, there wasn't a wolf!"
"He's DEAD, there was obviously a wolf!"
"But- but listen... we didn't find one those first few times, so he must have been lying."
"But there WAS a wolf!"
"We didn't do anything wrong! It's not our fault, you have to believe us!"
"You left a boy with a dangerous wolf by himself. What did this boy do to you exactly?"
"He lied about there being a wolf."
"Stop saying there wasn't a wolf, there clearly WAS a wolf, because it ATE half the flock and the boy!"
Really if you think about it, the boy was warning the villagers, who left a single child in charge of their whole flock for SOME suspicious reason, they claimed they couldn't find a wolf and told him to stop lying, and then the boy got eaten by a wolf that was clearly there. The only logical conclusion? The villagers are lying. They're covering up a plot to get the boy eaten for some stupid backwards villager reason, disguising it as the boy's own mischievous ways.
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Posting the very realistic fake without saying it’s a fake (or indicating it’s a fake in some obvious way) is as good as saying it’s the truth.
It’s unreasonable to expect authorities to spend time carefully vetting every single picture in a time constrained situation. So they are vulnerable to exactly this kind of thing. And whether the guy intended harm or not, he did harm.
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I am going to go out on a philosophical limb and say how your communications are understood is more important than the communications themselves.
If you're leading people to believe something that is untrue, I can't really see how that's any better than lying-- especially if you're aware of it.
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