I hope so, but from what I can tell, we are going to have a repeat of the Patriot Act and the horrors that caused as showed by Edward Snowden.
The politicians are only getting one side of the argument about AI from CEOs and those in positions of power. It is important that the politicans recognize the good AI is doing as well. This is why I made this post to try to get some voice out there.
It would be difficult indeed, but without a doubt they will still try and cause massive damage to our basic freedoms. For example, imagine if one day all chips require DRMs at the hardware level that cannot be disabled. This is just one example of the damage they could do. There isn't much any consumer can do if they do this since developing your own GPU is nearly impossible.
They are requesting for something beyond watermarking. Yes, it is good to have a robot tell you when it is making a film. What is particularly concerning is that the witnesses want the government to keep track of every prompt and output ever made to eventually be able to trace its origin. So all open source models must somehow encode some form of signature, much like the hidden yellow dots printers produce on every sheet.
There is a huge difference between a watermark stating that "this is ai generated" and having hidden encodings, much like a backdoor, where they can trace any pubicly released ai image, video, and perhaps even text output, to some specific model, or worse DRM required "yellow dot" injection.
I know researchers have already looked into encoding hidden undetectable patterns in text output, so an extension to everything else is not unjustified.
Also, if the encodings are not detectable by humans, then they have failed the original purpose of making ai generated content known.
Of course! Please share this senate hearing around if you want to help. We need to bring awareness to what they are trying to do. Advocating for universal backdoors is insane...
It's very sad indeed that this is the "best". The only thing better would probably be specific youtubers who go get news sources for themselves. But I'm not aware of many.
I'm unable to access the wiki for any sub-reddit and I get the "Forbidden" message. It may be for only some users, or all, I'm not sure. But I'm glad we have lemmy!
Half Life is awesome! If I had to choose from all the games I've played, the half life series has to be best in my opinion. There are so many small details and world building elements in each half life game that it really does make it feel like you are in the game. And then there is Half Life: Alyx...
It was so immersive, I smashed my head against the wall trying to run away from something lol
Not a channel, but some resources. The addons are all open source. Also unfortunately many subreddits that had quality channel suggestions have been either banned due to being "unmoderated" or are lost to time. Please post any finds here or help archive them if you can. The Datahorders community is a great place to start!
Awesome! Thanks for this post by the way! It has been my favorite post to go through since I don't have a google account and can't use their recommendation system. Plus, the recommendation system definitely doesn't give us as high quality channels as some from this thread.
There are still hundreds if not thousands of hidden gems on YouTube. I'll come back to this post and share some as I rediscover them.
Here is another one before I go. Astartes. Sad they stopped but glad they found employment at least for their skills.