These are bizarrely different situations. The USG has jurisdiction given the definition of fraud, the role of the SEC, and how the company Terraform Labs was formed and operated.
“Be part of the richest portion of the middle class and never have to worry about money again orrrrr mysteriously die 6 months from now leaving no identifiable impact”
Its recovery keeping up with expenditure. -1000 cal deficits limit recovering from muscle/ligaments soreness leading to build up of stress that is more damaging than simply not eating
If you ask about more niche language features or libraries, chatgpt will make up libraries or functions to fill the gap.
When asking an LLM to write a script for you, I would say 10 to 30 % of the time that it completely fails. Again, making up an API or just getting things straight up wrong.
Its very helpful, especially when starting from 0 with the beginner questions, but it fails in many scenarios.
I think the media is dropping the ball from hammering home just how bad this is for national security and world politics. Banning tiktok is superfluous in a world where every device can be compromised, every telecom is compromised, and government agencies are unable to mitigate attacks.
The reality is that the follow up to this information exposure is never connected to the outcome. How many government agents have been compromised using the OPM hack data? nobody knows. How many politicians/corporations intimidated via blackmail?
How have these hacks changed the outcome of world events?
I don't understand what TikTok has to do with this. As I understand it the concern with TikTok is that it's essentially a way for China's government to manipulate (mostly young) Americans by shaping what they see regarding specific issues. As far as I'm aware there's no "it's an insecure app" angle being pursued, these are very different issues.
Besides, even if they weren't, I can be worried that I broke my leg and that my house is on fire.
To make the life of hostile foreign powers harder? Currently they are allowed to run code written by them on the devices of unsuspecting citizens, and curate the content these citizens watch.
The argument sounds like a non sequitur: because we cannot defend against all threats, we should not defend against any threat.
We each have our priorities. I want to secure government secrets held by OPM/US Treasury and key infrastructure like telecom networks, and others want to secure the average citizen's social media feed.
We can have different priorities for what is more impactful, easier to secure, and less restricting to fundamental freedoms without resorting to black and white thinking.
Cybersecurity is failing across the board causing damage worth 1000x of what it would cost to secure these systems.
I am all for securing critical IT infrastructure, I think we agree on that.
Hostile powers will exploit any vulnerability they can find. In democracies, ordinary citizens are a target. In Romania an election was annulled, and TikTok specifically named in the investigation: https://apnews.com/article/romania-election-president-george...
Therefore I think we should not underestimate this threat. I admit that doing this in a way that preserves fundamental freedoms is not easy, and I don't claim to have the answer. Consider freedom of movement: few people seriously deny the need for passport checks on international borders.
This keeps coming up in spaces like this, and makes me wonder just how aware of what's happening people are. Do you think that the content is being censored? Even the platform isn't being censored, it's just that the current owners won't be allowed to own it.
That's it. It isn't regulation of speech, it's regulation of commerce, which is entirely within the rights of the US Congress to regulate.
I think the media is dropping the ball from hammering home just how bad this is for national security and world politics. Banning tiktok is superfluous in a world where every device can be compromised, every telecom is compromised, and government agencies are unable to mitigate attacks.
The reality is that the follow up to this information exposure is never connected to the outcome. How many government agents have been compromised using the OPM hack data? nobody knows. How many politicians/corporations intimidated via blackmail?
How have these hacks changed the outcome of world events?
It's amusing that the TikTok ban is being hyped up as solving the problem. Banning TikTok won't solve a thing, nor will banning much from China.
We need a re-think of what it means to use technology in a connected world. Actually prioritizing security is the only fix, and the private sector rarely has a reason to do this beyond compliance needs, and the government is limited for a myriad of other reasons..
Rest assured, the FBI/other agencies will still push for backdoors for investigative purposes without publicly acknowledging that these can be used by malicious actors, too.
To really top things off: wait until they leverage the ability to purchase data from data brokers in the US to build profiles on individuals with elevated access to target. That's capitalism, baby!
People really underestimate the damage these tools are doing to society.
Who can afford these tools? What lengths have people gone to earn/keep large sums of money? What problems are society going through right now?
Its just stealing your data, which doesn't seem bad. But now, someone who probably doesn't like you has your location, habits, friends, future events. There are so many things that these people can do to interrupt the lives of journalists, activists, and just regular people with stalkers, and all of those things are covert because "How is your ex-girlfriend's friend supposed to know you made a bumble profile 2 days ago, find it, and match with you?"
> People really underestimate the damage these tools are doing to society.
Even when heads of state are being extorted. Morocco used it against France and Spain. It fizzled out of the news cycle and nothing happened. And those countries later announced multi-billion Euro investments in Morocco. If anything, this is a signal hiring Pegasus is very profitable and they can do whatever they want.
Who can afford these tools? The IC and security agencies of every country in the world with a GNI greater than, say, Bahrain†. So: probably like 300-500 different global threat actors (countries like the US have dozens of capable agencies; I assume Bahrain has 1-2).
† I picked Bahrain because they're the smallest country we know for a fact has been a customer of multiple CNE vendors, but that probably means Bahrain plus the next 20-30 countries down the list.
The new method to manage political dissidents/whistleblowers in the 21st century is chemical weapons that produce profound states of depression/anxiety that can bring about obsessive thoughts about suicide.
These poisons work miracles. If the person talks about it, most people will believe they are crazy before believing they are being poisoned. There is no way to prove you have been poisoned without spending millions of dollars. All of the advances in medical science pave the way for these poisons to be developed and manufactured cheaply.
OpenAI has direct connections to the military industrial complex in the US. The leaders in these orgs have huge egos that don't like to be double-crossed, and despite it not making sense long term for their business, they are perfectly safe to retaliate using these methods and choose to do so.
> These poisons work miracles. If the person talks about it, most people will believe they are crazy before believing they are being poisoned. There is no way to prove you have been poisoned without spending millions of dollars.
They’re called satellites. They probably made him hallucinate.
> The leaders in these orgs have huge egos that don't like to be double-crossed, and despite it not making sense long term for their business, they are perfectly safe to retaliate using these methods and choose to do so.
If you don't think so, can you explain why not?
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