A Boring Dystopia @lemmy.world BeatTakeshi @lemmy.world 2w ago

FBI recommends coming up with a 'secret word or phrase' to make sure your family know you're you and not some hellish AI copycat

www.pcgamer.com FBI recommends coming up with a 'secret word or phrase' to make sure your family know you're you and not some hellish AI copycat

The true cost of generative AI is the erosion of trust.

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Let's not do anything about the unregulated technology that can spread lies faster than ever before as websites get absolutely flooded with believable bots that outnumber the actual users. Let's make secret passwords and handshakes like we're in a clubhouse.

Regardless, it's not a bad idea since it's probably not gonna get better for awhile if at all.
- The technology is out. While something should be done on that side of things, it also doesn't remove the technology from existence - you will still need other protections.
- Regulations virtually always lag years behind technology, don't they? In the interim period with absolutely no regulations, we must take it upon ourselves to protect ourselves and loved ones from being exploited.
  
  Given just how wealthy the AI bubble is making some people, we may not see any common sense regulation for quite some time. Best to adapt to that reality imo. Gonna tell my friends and family to call me by my hacker alias, "X360N0_sc0peX" on the phone or I'll assume they're a bot.
- Regulating it does nothing. Only rich people gets to have deepfakes? Nah, let it be public, so everyone can have some vigilance.
  
  vigilance
  
  Vigilance is like, not drinking the water that comes out of a nuclear reactor.
  
  What we’re talking about here is letting everyone run their own reactor and dump the waste into the street.
  
  You don’t gain vigilance, you lose all habitable public space.
- Websites have been full of shit, bots or not, since forever. Nothing new here.
Secret phrases seem like it could just get wiretapped and its not longer a secret.

You're gonna need to change them every day, nay, every conversation.

Might need some some RSA 4096 to handshake each phone call for authentication and might as well do encryption too.

Or we might need to generate some One Time Pads and then do a challenge-response thing by reading 5 digits, then have the other person reply 5 digits after that, then the numbers are crossed out.

The future is gonna be so weird.

I feel like CSAM might go out of control.

Any video of politicians/candidates doing bad things would be responded with "CNN FAKE NEWS DEEPFAKE".

Like you could just murder someone on 4K camera and you can claim its a deepfake.

We're so fucked.
- Could try the old school approach https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth
It's the Terminator "your mother is dead" scene.
So, let's make the formula for concentrated dark matter our secret code.
“Mom, I’m getting fed up with this orgasm!”
HA HA HA fellow humankind member. This has given me a pointer to a disk location of a friend back in university

Lol but seriously, back in uni a friend of mine got their social media hacked. The hacker was trying to beg for money and such. One person got suspicus and asked what their favorite beer was, so the scammer texted me "hey what is my favorite beer?"

Fortunately the account got locked for some reason, so no money was stolen. Bro still has not recovered it.
All of a sudden, poughkeepsie suddenly pops up inside my head as a curious "secret distress signal".
- I thought ours was "Tahiti", though.
  
  My previous comment is a reference to the Supernatural TV series. The protagonist brothers Sam and Dean Winchester had Poughkeepsie as a distress signal whenever one of them needed to inform the other to "pack up and run". One of the situations involved Dean telling Crowley the distress signal so Crowley could enter Sam's mind and warn him about his ongoing angelic possession.
Now I have a reason to spend the night looking at my Klingon dictionary.
Just ask them about something you've experienced together, assuming there has been contact.
- Remember that time we went out and talked about your father while having tea?
  
  Starting to realize I wouldn't remember most things
- Its honestly not hard
  
  "Son its dad, Ive had to borrow a phone..."
  
  "Before I transfer the money dad, whens Gran getting out of the hospital?"
  
  (Grans been dead for a decade)
  
  (puts the phone down)
  
  'Your foster parents are dead.'
Saying the same thing over and over again in different conversations would be super useful if your goal is to train an AI to listen to calls
El Psy Congroo
Father!!!

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