I'm working on an open-source event tracking infrastructure based on AWS (think Heap or Mixpanel but all infrastructure is in your AWS account and you own the data). It's incredible how much can be done just by combining AWS services.
It would be great if GPT-3.5 could remember everything it did as part of this project. So if you ask it a week later, you won't need to clarify the context.
Belta (the state news agency) was using YouTube for propaganda for almost a year since the protests in 2020 in Belarus. Videos of "confessions" by beaten protestors were very common. I'm not sure how much the government spends on ads but you can hardly watch anything on YouTube without stumbling into a propaganda video.
I've not seen Western states using videos of tortured hostages to signal boost their propaganda channels. I think this is a significant difference, don't you think?
I mostly share your view on this, but don't forget that when our TV stations show on repeat how our cops are beating Antifa members in demonstrations, that this has also the same chilling effect on us. They are usually followed by interviews from higher-ups in the police force who then frame their view of things. Also, you don't see them followed by interviews from Antifa members, which might have something just as valid to say.
It is a different thing, but there are similarities.
It's not allowed in the States either, but it still happens. It happens in the EU too. In general, the Western countries are not free from blame when it comes to war crimes due to complicity with the US :/
Nice read! I can add that from my experience using DNS for load balancing isn't the best idea because of the complexities with the DNS caching. The DNS caching happens on DNS resolvers, OS level but also some clients do it too which might be tricky to watch for. Basically you might end up with an IP address of a failed server and no way of retrying until TTL of the DNS record expires.
Telemarketing or political campaigns. Check out the Robocall article on wiki. In Europe it depends on the country. In Poland I receive a few calls daily but they are people calling me, not bots. Never received a robocall here.
In the US, the vast majority of them are simple frauds. For a year I got a robocall every few days from a Chinese woman (in Chinese) that a friend of mine said is a threat to get (the hypothetical Chinese immigrant) me deported unless I pay them.
Right now I'm getting a fake credit card debt collection call (I've never had a credit card in my life, only debit), and a call telling me that I'm eligible to have my AT&T (phone) bill halved (I don't have AT&T phone service) and all I have to do is call the number "on my caller ID." I think those two are both being read by the same woman (not the Chinese one.)
I'm more of a texter than a caller, so the vast majority of calls I get are robocall frauds. I'd love to get a robocall that was just annoying for a change, rather than completely predatory.
Some companies lost close to half of their followers. Looks like a good sign of cheating. It's interesting that Twitter lots 12% of followers, I guess following Twitter is the first thing that comes to mind to bot makers when they try to make accounts look real.
I think somebody should develop a standardized and open auto redaction flagging scheme for anything printed, where cameras and any software meant to share photos can offer the user to redact every sensitive field in a secure manner.
Something like a Qr code saying "this stuff in that position relative to this code is sensitive", giving the user a prompt saying "this was redacted; undo?"
https://github.com/manymetrics/manymetrics
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