knightly the Sneptaur

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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • The problem is Goodhart’s Law; “Every measure which becomes a target becomes a bad measure”. Implementing a verification system that depends on video evidence creates both an incentive to forge such videos and a set of labeled training data that grows more readily available as the system sees more use. The adversarial generative network is literally designed to evolve better scams in response to a similarly-evolving scam detector, there’s no computational way around the need to have people involved to make sure things are what they’re claimed to be.

    Universal Basic Income would be a good start, but the fundamental problem is money as the primary organizing force of society.




  • Does anyone know of any proof of legitimacy projects that are gaining traction? I can imagine news orgs being the first to be hit by this problem. Are they working on anything?

    In short, no. There’s no solution to this crisis of legitimacy and no way to validate that a work came from human hands that can’t be counterfeited. Short of a Butlerian Jihad, it won’t be going away either. I’m looking forward to the inevitable bubble pop that will kill the overinvestment in generative tech but the models will still be around even without big companies wasting billions to train new ones.

    In short, it’s long past time to start treating every day like April Fools Day.