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International coalition joins the call to ban ‘surveillance advertising’(techcrunch.com)
2 points by eivarv 5y ago|0 comments
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International coalition calls for ACtion against surveillance-based ads(forbrukerradet.no)
3 points by eivarv 5y ago|2 comments
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by eivarv 5y ago
I think at least partial offline-support was a requirement.
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by eivarv 5y ago
It's a satirical movement ;) https://birdsarentreal.com
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by eivarv 5y ago
I'm currently trying to solve this and more in an application called Cleave. https://cleave.app Cleave lets users persist OS state as a "context" - saving and loading open applications, their windows (and their po
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by eivarv 5y ago
I don't get it either. I actually sat in a management meeting not so long ago, where we all agreed that efficiency and productivity was higher than before (according to our metrics) – and still, one of the people present said that they
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by eivarv 5y ago
Yup. I use it for most cross-platform apps as a default. Quick prototyping with Python and wx would be my typical use-case.
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by eivarv 5y ago
These issues should solved by making problematic AI-use in breach of individual rights (e.g. privacy), rather than regulating the technology itself (with govt. exceptions) – which increases the power-imbalance between the state and the citi
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by eivarv 6y ago
I think you should differentiate between (or use one of) "personal data" and "personally identifiable information" – which are different concepts. A user-token – if consistent and mappable – would, for instance, be &quot
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by eivarv 6y ago
https://cleave.app Cleave is an application that lets users persist OS state as a "context" - saving and loading open applications, their windows (and their positions), tabs, open files/documents and so on. Think
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by eivarv 6y ago
https://cleave.app Cleave is an application that lets users persist OS state as a "context" - saving and loading open applications, their windows (and their positions), tabs, open files/documents and so on. Think
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by eivarv 6y ago
It might not be systematically biased toward religion as such, but I know of few other developed countries where creationism is taken seriously and taught as an "alternative" in school [0]. Or where books are stricken from reading
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by eivarv 6y ago
No it's not, because there can be no technical guarantee wrt to the accuracy of its assessment because of an arms race power balance in perpetual fluctuation. There's also computational cost, hackable vendors, inevitable implement
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by eivarv 6y ago
This is why we have the American College of Pediatricians and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Seems to me like strengthening consumer rights and/or striking down on fake marketing and quacks in regulation could solve at l
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by eivarv 6y ago
In this case, authenticity cannot necessarily be expected, though (hackable vendors, supply chain, implementation errors, inevitable vulnerabilities, corruption, ...) – not to mention the ever-fluctuating assessment accuracy because of the
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by eivarv 6y ago
But why should we ever go with this as a "solution" – with its computational cost, hackable vendors, inevitable implementation errors and vulnerabilities, vulnerable supply chain, inability to make any technical guarantees wrt to
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by eivarv 6y ago
However, bias can show up in what’s not reported just as easily and in that case their is nothing to detect. You're right about not knowing what you don't know. But that doesn't mean that you should blindly trust so
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by eivarv 6y ago
Sure, but no tech can make that guarantee. As the balance in this arms-race will always be in fluctuation, you can't rely on tech to tell them apart in one moment.
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by eivarv 6y ago
Sure, but the opposite is also plausible. Why not learn to how to deal with the fact that we can't trust any information at face value, rather than keep making cognitive shortcuts based on assumptions?
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by eivarv 6y ago
Sorry; "Societies"
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by eivarv 6y ago
"Don't believe anything without sitting down, investigating and evaluating" holds true for most cases, including your own impressions/emotions, what you see, hear, read, etc.
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by eivarv 6y ago
I agree on the regulation-part, but I still think many more are able to be educated (at least partway) out of the problem than are given an opportunity. And laws have retroactive impact via e.g. police and courts. Education would have a pre
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by eivarv 6y ago
No, it doesn't. It requires teaching people the tools to evaluate arguments, statements and media. I don't claim anything wrt objective truth (though I tend to think there is one, but whether we're able to directly observe it
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by eivarv 6y ago
I agree media literacy (and critical thinking, for that matter) is a difficult problem, which is why we should get going already. We've had some of the tools needed to distinguish good from bad thinking for millennia, so I find it kind
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by eivarv 6y ago
Sure – but technical development is the only positive outcome, it won't solve the social side of the issue.
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by eivarv 6y ago
That's still just a shortcut to a faulty thought-process. We can't inherently trust content on the basis of its medium.
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by eivarv 6y ago
We should measure harm and then fine the businesses that spread the harm. Maybe, but this has nothing to do with deepfakes, and can be generalized. Societies should teach people to recognize and deal with mis- and disinformation,
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by eivarv 6y ago
Trying to "solve" deepfakes with recognition is a dead end, as it's an arms-race between generators and detectors. We stop treating video as if its some perfect representation of reality that's inherently trustworthy, an
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by eivarv 6y ago
I don't know – but as far as I see it, that's irrelevant in pointing out that video (in and of itself) should not be trusted by virtue of being video. The fact that you can't imagine – and I don't provide – any alternati
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by eivarv 6y ago
Jibes with my own experience. It infuriates me to no end that (bad) leaders would rather go by their own feeling of control, rather than look at the numbers.

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