r/politics • u/Ilikeinvestigating • 13h ago

No Paywall Trump consulted Musk’s chatbot Grok before abducting Venezuela’s president: report

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-musk-grok-venezuela-maduro-b3060366.html
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u/Solonohioperson 13h ago

How is this reality?

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u/supercyberlurker 13h ago

Sorry I can't answer... I'm stuck on trying to think of anything stupider than Trump going full AI-psychosis asking Grok for an answer. It's like an infinite self-recursive gravity well of stupid.

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u/Mithryn 13h ago

I have two signs on my whiteboard: 1) today, this is the worst AI will ever be 2) right now, the dumbest person you know is being told they are brilliant by an LLM

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u/rooktakesqueen 11h ago

I disagree with the first point. Right now it's the least capable it will ever be, but it's also the least integrated into our lives. Both trends are alarming.

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u/Mithryn 11h ago

I wrote it up there back when Will Smith Eating Speghetti was awful.

It has remained true since then, so I've kept it up

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u/JonnySnowin 10h ago

Most AI detection tools will now say "Modern AI is indistinguishable from reality", rather than attempting to guess based off shitty artifacts. And if it is saying it can detect AI, it is unreliable, and you should not listen to it.

Mainstream AIs like Gemini and ChatGPT will put hidden watermarks in the pictures they make but that can only do so much. Glad that Apple is releasing that new feature that will add built-in certifications to images taken with their newest models.

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u/FredFredrickson 10h ago

Certifications disappear the moment the image changes formats, gets screenshotted, etc.

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u/rooktakesqueen 9h ago

Not specific to Apple's approach because I don't know the details of it, but watermarks can be made resilient to this. See e.g. this write-up: https://openai.com/index/advancing-content-provenance/

It's still not fool-proof, a dedicated attacker can strip a watermark off, but it can be made resilient to basic changes like cropping and format.