March 31, 2023
AI and the American Smile
A really good critique of AI images. The training data is on photos of modern Americans, who have a certain cultural conditioning for photographs. This is not universal, and doesn’t apply to many other cultures particularly historical cultures. So when MidJourney is asked to create pictures of historical cultures they look like Americans playing dress up.
I believe this sort of bias will produce similar errors in other domains. Which might make AI quite poor at creating authentic non-western non-modern images. There was a Twitter thread about an AI fantasy kimono, where all the errors were pointed out. Including the use of a white undergarment only used to dress corpses.
AI and the American Smile. How AI misrepresents culture through a… | by jenka | Medium
How AI misrepresents culture through a facial expression.
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Fully declassified by #CIA in 1999, the report is still a relevant read 70 years after its production. I provide Table of Contents below.
For the full report, go to cia.gov/readingroom/do…
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Virgin Orbit fails to secure funding, will cease operations and lay off nearly entire workforce
Virgin Orbit funding plans fail, will stop operations, conduct layoffs
Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart gave employees an update in an all-hands meeting on Thursday, according to audio obtained by CNBC.
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AlienFox cloud token stealing toolkit
This tooling is exactly what you target with canary tokens. An automated tool that scrapes known locations for known information and then uses it is the ideal target for Canarytokens. You know that attackers will find them because you put them where attackers look.
Dissecting AlienFox | The Cloud Spammer’s Swiss Army Knife - SentinelOne
A sophisticated new toolset is being used to harvest credentials from multiple cloud service providers, including AWS SES and Microsoft Office 365.
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this tool lets you extract text from an audio recording of keyboard strokes, right now, for free
i am not making this shit up, you can potentially steal a password from an audio recording in an office
