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.

https://medium.com/@socialcreature/ai-and-the-american-smile-76d23a0fbfaf

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Dreadnought Holiday @TheDreadShips

Pros: holds coffee Cons: keep smacking myself in the face with it

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦 @bert_hu_bert

Now online! 'Hello Deep Learning'. Videos & fancy demos weren't helping me understand what was really going on, so I wrote this. Starting from a blank slate, this series develops & explains a modern neural network solution that reads handwritten letters:

berthub.euHello Deep Learning - Bert Hubert’s writingsA from scratch GPU-free introduction to modern machine learning. Many tutorials exist already of course, but this one aims to really explain what is going on, from the ground up. Also, we’ll develop the demo until it is actually useful on real life data which you can supply yourself. Other documents…

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Nathalie with an h @nnnatchos

Email: *sent Attachment: wait for meeeee..

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Jordan Schneider @jordanschnyc

TIL Ukraine is running its war on discord

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Lukasz Olejnik (@LukaszOlejnik@Mastodon.Social) @lukOlejnik

More about Russian VULKAN cyber warfare/operations and information warfare/operations group/contractors. "the projects represent only some pieces of a variety of capabilities". Among plans the blockade of rail systems or TRAIN DERAILMENT. mandiant.com/resources/blog…

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elttam @elttam

Today we're releasing a public beta of Talkback, a smart infosec resource aggregator to help you keep up with news and research. Please visit talkback.sh and give it a try! We'll be releasing new features and improvements over time.

talkback.shTalkbackTalkback is a smart infosec resource aggregator, designed to help security enthusiasts, practitioners and researchers be more productive.

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Filip Kovacevic @ChekistMonitor

In April 1953, #FBI produced a report on Soviet Intelligence Travel & Entry Techniques. 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

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/30/virgin-orbit-funding-ceasing-operations-layoffs.html

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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.

https://www.sentinelone.com/labs/dissecting-alienfox-the-cloud-spammers-swiss-army-knife/

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f4mi‼️ @f4micom

github.com/ggerganov/kbd-… 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

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