It is harder to apply a watermark to text than to images, because word choice is essentially the only variable that can be altered. DeepMind’s watermark — called SynthID-Text — alters which words the model selects in a secret, but formulaic way that can be detected with a cryptographic key. Compared with other approaches, DeepMind’s watermark is marginally easier to detect, and applying it does not slow down text generation. “It seems to outperform schemes of the competitors for watermarking LLMs,” says Shumaylov, who is a former collaborator and brother of one of the study’s authors.
The article author notes the danger of AI fake data and briefly notes that AI training on AI source is a real problem. I expect the latter is the real reason for this.
Wonder if the MSP was Solarwinds or someone else.
Among the donors are organizations linked to Wisconsin billionaires Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein and Hobby Lobby founder David Green.
The Trump campaign and the RNC have spent $28 million from 2020 through August of this year on lawyers who have filed more than 100 lawsuits seeking observer access to election facilities and questioning the security of mail-in ballots and the accuracy of voter rolls. An RNC spokeswoman said the party is “protecting every legal vote.”
Fuck.
sigh
. . . I’ll allow it.
Oh it took me a solid month of trial and error, scrolling through xda and other forums reading every how-to and watching plenty of vids and I finally got it to work. But it was not even fun. Yes starting with a Pixel is better, but f* teh googlez.
Are we doing this again?
No. No, we are not.
Good point - but it didn’t work in my mastodon app (it linked to the tweet but as I say I have that blocked). I did read up on the Kamala tag though, so thanks for the pointer!
Not just that, but I was watching some video about i dunno, some kinda hardware, or something - nothing even particularly recent or popular - and the comments underneath it were so obviously and horribly bots. They all used the exact same words, they all used the exact same phrasing, and they all had different user names. Just one after the other, probably 100 of them
So I think YouTube has abandoned attempts to make it good - or even usable - probably for profit reasons. Enter russia4trump
Totally not terrifying
Neat. We should still save this one tho.
OK so I don’t have Twitter and I have social media blocked basically so I wanted to see the ad, right? I went to YouTube to pull it up.
It was really bizarre - if you search for “Harris ad trump sleeping” you get about 100 - OK 20 of the exact same clip from any number of local TV stations (most of the Fox) where Trump claims Harris is sleeping. And one - exactly one - MSNBC clip, which runs for 12 minutes talking about “exhausted” trump, and doesn’t even show the Harris ad. The Harris ad did not appear in the search at all.
Now I’m not “signed in“ there, I don’t have cookies or anything so I’m just some random browser showing up asking to see the Harris ad and seeing 90% Trump ads.
I don’t know what else going on at YouTube, other than it’s awful and worse than ever, and appears to be subsumed with Trump crap.
RepubliQan owners
Trump wants his money, sure but the attention he takes away from trump will be his undoing. Pence and Rude were toadies, but Ketamine Elmo isn’t gonna play that.
Aw man, no Patagonian Toothfish crackers. Again!
Just Sayin'
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14476567
> A staged propaganda photo of Italy's facist leader, Benito Mussolini "harvesting" wheat, 1938
At a Fox News town hall focused on women's issues, Donald Trump treated Amber Thurman's death and her family's grief like a laugh line.
According to a ProPublica report: “She showed up at Piedmont Henry Hospital in need of a routine procedure to clear (fetal tissue) from her uterus, called a dilation and curettage, or D\&C. But just that summer, her state had made performing the procedure a felony, with few exceptions. Any doctor who violated the new Georgia law could be prosecuted and face up to a decade in prison. Thurman waited in pain in a hospital bed ... as doctors monitored her infection spreading, her blood pressure sinking and her organs beginning to fail. It took 20 hours for doctors to finally operate. By then, it was too late.”
And as he does, the extremists around him move closer to power.
>A disintegrating Trump puts Vance a heartbeat away from the presidency, but there’s more than Vance to fear. Although Trump has publicly disavowed the architects of Project 2025, any distance between him and the scheme is a mirage. We know, for example, that at least 140 people who once worked for his administration have contributed to the plan, which was orchestrated primarily by the Heritage Foundation. Vance even wrote the forward to a book written by Kevin Roberts, the president of Heritage. Trump has to fill a second administration somehow – and for years, his allies in Washington, D.C., have been strategizing for just such an occasion. “Eighty percent of my time is working on the plans of what’s necessary to take control of these bureaucracies,” said Russell Vought to a pair of undercover British journalists this summer. Vought, a former Trump official, is widely considered to be a candidate for Trump’s prospective chief of staff. He added that “we are working doggedly on that, whether it’s destroying their agencies’ notion of independence … whether that is thinking through how the deportation would work.”
A controversial Facebook post from Portage County Sheriff Bruce D. Zuchowski instructed followers to note the addresses of residents with political signs supporting Harris-Walz in their yards so illegal immigrants in need of housing could be sent there.
DoJ to monitor voting in Ohio county where Sheriff threatened to record the address of everyone who voted for Harris.
Fox News did not disclose its all-women town hall with Trump was packed with his supporters
>The Georgia town hall, where Trump took questions on reproductive laws, transgender rights and other issues, aired Wednesday morning. But Fox News did not disclose that the female audience it selected for the event was packed with local Republican supporters and the network edited its broadcast to remove some of their vocal advocacy of Trump. > >The Georgia Federation of Republican Women wrote on its Facebook page Wednesday that the group helped host the event, posting photos from the venue and writing they were “Super excited for the opportunity of hosting this event right here in Georgia!” > >Shortly after CNN reached out to the group and Fox News about their role, the post was edited to state they were “excited for the opportunity of attending this event right here in Georgia!” > >. . . The first question posed to Trump at the town hall came from a woman identified as Lisa, who asked the former president a question about the economy. The network did not disclose that Lisa is also the president of the Fulton County Republican Women group. > >. . . “I want to thank you for coming to a room full of women the current administration would consider domestic terrorists,” a woman named Alicia said to laughter from the audience before a question about foreign policy. > >But a portion of Alicia’s question was edited by Fox News to remove her admission that she was voting for Trump.
An invisible detonator and wafer-thin plastic explosives turned batteries into bombs
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20910140
Mood
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20874558
> A peek into the past, shared by Nimoy's son.
Rawe Ceek
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20852113
> It's that time again