Even the mild-mannered Chuck Schumer said: "Does Donald Trump need a copy of the Constitution? What he is saying is outlandishly illegal."
Yes, it's totally unconstitutional. OTOH, his friends in the judiciary have systematically taken apart the voting rights act, a federal override on actual, not imaginary, vote fraud and suppression.
In short: Having ones cake and eating it, too.
Once again, Wilhoit's Law: [0]
Frank Wilhoit: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition … There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” This seems increasingly true.
Just found this post saying that Georgia voter rolls are basically clean. [1]
I could be wrong but I think that would first require legislation in all first world countries with some serious teeth to add headers or labels for any content that may be AI generated and then the browser updated to look for the header or label.
By serious teeth if a country contains a big platform that is not labeling correctly then after so many times they get fined millions then billions then sanctioned then embargoes after repeated offenses. Anything short of that in my opinion will be ignored as the cost of doing business.
California Governor signs key artificial intelligence transparency bill into law [0]
Quote:
What AB 853 does
Last year, SB 942 was enacted to ensure provenance information will be embedded into AI-generated content that will allow users to identify its origins. AB 853 complements this effort by:
• Requiring that large online platforms, such as social media sites, mass messaging platforms, and search engines, provide consumers with an easy, conspicuous way to discover if there’s any provenance information available that reliably indicates whether the content was generated with (or substantially altered by) a generative AI system or an authentic content capture device. If that information is available, the large online platform shall make clear the name of the generative AI system, or the name of the device, among other information.
• Prohibiting platforms and websites that make source code or model weights available for download from knowingly making available a GenAI system that doesn’t provide the disclosures required under SB 942. That law requires providers of certain GenAI systems to include latent disclosures in the content their system generates, including the name of the company, the name and version of the GenAI system that created or altered the content, and more.
• At the point of content creation, AB 853 enables provenance markings on authentic, human-generated content by requiring that recording devices sold in California, such as cameras and video cameras, include the option to embed such information.
Together with the foundation laid by SB 942, AB 853 empowers consumers to distinguish between AI-generated and human-created content, helping to slow the tide of misinformation and AI-powered fraud. It equips individuals with the tools they need to make informed decisions about the trustworthiness of the media they encounter. It also would accelerate the adoption of voluntary provenance standards that major tech companies are currently developing, such as those proposed by the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA).
I like the idea. The bills have good intention but without serious fines and other consequences those spending billions and billions to grift AI will pay to get governments to look the other way. Tech and government have been bed fellows since the start of tech.
> provide consumers with an easy, conspicuous way to discover if there’s any provenance information available that reliably indicates whether the content was generated with (or substantially altered by) a generative AI system or an authentic content capture device.
AI detection vs. "humanization" has been an arms race for some time and will continue so, for at least as long as students want to cheat on essay composition tests.
So any such blocking feature would produce both false positives and false negatives. Complicated by existence of pages that commingle organic human content (possibly plagiarized) along with AI slop.
> Lockdown Mode helps protect devices against extremely rare and highly sophisticated cyber attacks.
> What is Lockdown Mode?
> Lockdown Mode is an optional, extreme protection that’s designed for the very few individuals who, because of who they are or what they do, might be personally targeted by some of the most sophisticated digital threats. Most people are never targeted by attacks of this nature.
> When Lockdown Mode is enabled, your device won’t function like it typically does. To reduce the attack surface that potentially could be exploited by highly targeted mercenary spyware, certain apps, websites, and features are strictly limited for security and some experiences might not be available at all.
> Lockdown Mode is available in iOS 16 or later, iPadOS 16 or later, watchOS 10 or later, and macOS Ventura or later. Additional protections are available starting in iOS 17, iPadOS 17, watchOS 10, and macOS Sonoma.
Details at the link. [0]
It sure doesn't sound like much of a lockdown to me.
The things that Lockdown Mode disables actually massively reduce attack surface at the expense of user experience.
For example, Graphite, the spyware used by Paragon gets stopped in its tracks by Lockdown Mode as it disables link previews in iMessage (probably one of the more vulnerable apps due to it’s system privileges alongside Safari I believe) which can prevent zero-click attacks: https://citizenlab.ca/research/first-forensic-confirmation-o....
The NSO Group’s Pegasus and BlastPass spywares are also stopped with Lockdown Mode (in Pegasus’ case, zero-click exploits at minimum are thwarted).
Lockdown Mode’s USB protection is also effective at stopping Cellebrite, although it’s means of protection isn’t as comprehensive as GrapheneOS’s usb-blocking feature.
It also disables (among other things) Safari’s JIT compiler/V8 and WebAssembly which are some of the biggest attack vectors for web-based malware.
I noted it in the Apple Platform Security thread but I would like to also see Lockdown Mode have full synchronous across the board MTE which would be a big feature but I understand that this can introduce a severe performance regression.
I can see how the USB lock would stop Cellebrite, and perhaps that's all that CART had available, but I didn't see the other features as meaningful to a device with physical access.
Those features are definitely useful for internet-based attacks.
I looked for a paragraph splitter, but it's harder to find and some writing is just impossible.
I was briefly a manager/director and I asked my people to communicate well. Why? Because there's efficiency and effectiveness. Efficiency is how quickly you can get a job done. Effectiveness is how you communicate your work and ideas. You can be the sharpest person in the company, but if you can't present your work and ideas, nobody knows. [0]
Tough love from an old-timer.
I just can't read that one long paragraph.
Hint. Invent something new if you can. That way, people will be interested in the end result and won't give a damn about how you got there, and quality still counts. In some areas and products.
[0] Blockhead bosses don't listen even if you write a Pulitzer Prize-winning report or writeup. I used to send their resumes out to other companies.
Bill Gates issues FURIOUS response to Epstein files claim he slept with Russian 'girls' and caught STD... and suggests late pedophile was desperate to be his friend [0]
> In a rare statement that clearly conveys the depths of his anger over the latest Epstein files release, a spokesperson for the Microsoft billionaire told the Daily Mail: 'These claims are absolutely absurd and completely false.
> 'The only thing these documents demonstrate is Epstein's frustration that he did not have an ongoing relationship with Gates and the lengths he would go to entrap and defame.'
When I was the I.T. guy, my users would ask me to "fix the internet", so I checked everything on our end, up to the ISP, and if that was OK, just waited it out.
Two things accounted for all the outages we experienced. Routers and bulldozers.
And leader Cook is locked onto a certain political figure who can best be described as Mis-Anthropic.
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