The main limiting factor seems to be the original video onto which the new face is being mapped. Odd angles, things obscuring parts of the face, poor lighting and the like all make it struggle and look less realistic. Of course, it also helps if the actor the face is being applied to looks somewhat like the target.
As such, I expect there will soon be a market for porn stars who look a bit like a famous actress and who produce videos specifically designed to make the algorithm work better. If they could get away with things like dots on their faces they would, but for plausible deniability they might have to rely on the deepfake algorithm alone.
The Screen Actor's Guild cares about this for the same reason they care about impressionists and rubber masks - they want to protect their member's likenesses. A big star is an attraction by themselves, even if they are only voicing a character in an animated movie. They certainly don't pay the stars 1000x the going rate because they are a 1000x better actor.
In the case of deepfakes, a female actress showing some skin is a big draw for a movie. Of course there is also the fact that involuntary pornography is legally dubious at best, but I imagine money is the primary motivation.
I dunno, cats are neither tasty nor particularly useful (unless you have a vermin problem), but have effectively enslaved millions of humans and risen to the top of the evolutionary pile.
I'm hesitant to say that is an evolutionary adaptation, because it seems more like luck that they evolved to be highly efficient genocidal sociopaths and extremely compelling "pets" for a significant number of humans. So less adaptation and more blind luck, or a flaw in the human brain that makes it susceptible to abuse by fluffy balls of fur.
You should start by reading chrome privacy whitepaper and controlling privacy policy.
FUD. I have read them and they are fine. By default the only stuff Chrome sends to Google is:
- Unique installation ID when installing and updating - Malware/phising protection telemetry, including URLs of potentially malicious sites
You can disable the malware/phishing protection and Chrome will then not send any information about it. If you believe otherwise post some evidence, like packet captures.
FFS even data about autocomplete fields are sent to Google.
Lies. You can opt in to having your Chrome profile data synchronized via your Google account. Google claim this information is encrypted and unavailable to them, and so far there is no evidence to the contrary (e.g. evidence of the data being used by Google, source code suggesting it might be unencrypted, subpoenas for unencrypted form data or browser history). Even if you do opt in, you can choose if you want to include autocomplete data in what you sync.
If you have evidence to the contrary then please post it, and I personally will start an EU Data Protection claim against them. I'm sure major media outlets will be interested in it too, you could probably sell interviews for some decent cash.
They have advanced face recognition software, they have OCR software that can detect words embedded in images, and they have databases of blocked images that can recognize transformations like scaling or trivial editing. They use all those things for their own benefit, scanning user uploaded content.
All they have to do is turn that on for ads as well, but instead they expect every individual to police the use of their likeness and reputation on Facebook... Which is impossible unless you have a Facebook account.
The "diagnostic data viewing tool" appears to be a direct result of pressure from EU countries to make the telemetry visible to the user. Now we just need to push for a proper off button.
The GDPR could be helpful here. When it comes in next month Microsoft will need your explicit permission to keep collecting any personal data. If you decline to give it, the have to stop.
So what happens if Windows asks and you decline? Seems like bricking your computer would put them in some deep legal shit.
We can apply some pressure by submitting GDPR data requests to see what they have on us, as a first move. It will be free from next month.
This is an industrial system-on-chip. They can't just update the software whenever they feel like pushing out a new version. Their customers require it to be stable and unchanging because they have to certify each version and want to buy exactly the same part for the lifetime of the product, which for things like cars and industrial machinery can be 10+ years.
A change will require a new part number, and they will either have to convince big customers to adopt the new version and certify all their software on both new and old, or they will have to keep supplying them with the old one and come up with some mitigations such as removing test points to make the hack harder.
Nintendo is probably one of the more flexible customers in that they probably can adopt a new version, but for people like car manufacturers using Tegra parts for safety critical systems like driver aids / self driving it's a huge pain. They may opt to ignore the problem because modifying your car is less of an issue for them than modifying your console is for Nintendo.
They are not doing facial recognition though, they are training AI to rank job candidates.
The data set would be something like a set of CVs and responses to questions, plus those people's relative performance in job interviews and in the job itself. That tends to train the AI to be biased against people with different educational backgrounds (e.g. attended an overseas's university) or who speak different dialects of English and the like.
Reading the FAQ she points out that it's not just the Switch that is vulnerable here, it's other devices that use the same SoC and potentially all Tegra X1 parts. They are used in things like in-car nav/entertainment systems, self-driving AI systems, smart TVs and set top boxes, all kinds of stuff.
The potential for malicious use exists. Reminds me of those smart fridges in Silicon Valley.
I think she was referring to Nintendo and other users of the Nvidia chip that has this flaw. The only way they can fix it in future devices is to move to a different system-on-chip.
Nintendo will probably have to hope that Nvidia creates a new version of this part, because moving to a different SoC isn't really a good option because it would create fragmentation.
they appeared to be better and more professional candidates
See, you do actually know what the issue is. They appeared better, when empirical evidence suggests they were not.
That's the basic issue with job interviews. Limited time and opportunity to accurately measure ability and performance in the job, combined with subconscious biases leads to sub-optimal decision making. Even if you don't care about equality, from a business perspective it's a failure to not always select the best candidates.
It's actually a flaw in the way the system works when someone dies. You can get a funeral and intern their ashes at your family grave site without the national government necessarily getting wind of it. It's an "easy" crime because it only requires the child to do nothing, to make no effort to inform the government of their parent's death.
I forget what changes they made to stop it happening now, but checks were put in place.
Correct. In the same way that there is no day zero or month zero, there is no year zero. The first year was 1, and exactly 2000 years later was 1/1/2001.
Thus 1900 was the last year of the 19th century, with 1/1/1901 being exactly 1900 years after the start of the calendar.
I find that a 5:2 split works well on a 16:9 screen. I might have a terminal window and a PDF viewer side-by-side, with the terminal being the narrower one.
The ideal size is 27", because then you really can get two good size documents side-by-side on a 16:9 monitor. It helps if you have 5k resolution, but the standard 2560x1440 is okay.
The benefits of high DPI shouldn't be underestimated. While everything may appear the same size, you can more easily read small fonts and thus zoom out slightly more. It might only be 20% but it makes a huge difference to the amount of stuff you can fit on screen.
To date I don't think they have sold any replacement packs. They have done some under warranty but I don't know of any actual sales to someone who just wanted to replace their out-of-warranty one.
The new scheme is quite interesting. Maybe they have reached the point where they think there is demand, although you have to wonder if anyone will take them up... $6200 isn't much less than you can buy a good condition 24kWh Leaf for anyway.
Maybe if you could upgrade to the 30 or 40kWh pack or something it might be more attractive, and I think that at least for the 30 it's pretty much a straight swap. The Leaf BMS seems to cope just fine with people adding extra cells to their packs.
The 30 does seem to have higher degradation, but it's probably too early to tell how much of an issue it is. The 40 #RapidGate stuff is terrible, a complete disaster. As summer comes around and temperatures go up people are finding they can't even do the first rapid of the day at full speed.
I really hope they can fix it for the 60. It needs 100kW charging as well. It's such a shame about the 40, it's a nice looking car and ProPilot at that price-point is pretty incredible, but the battery problems and the crappy instrument cluster (analogue speedo, really?) and the rather old head unit software is disappointing.
Phones just expanded the screen to cover the bezels because that looks good, they didn't really think about the aspect ratio.
Laptops are often used for watching video, so 16:9 makes sense for consumer ones. The real issue with documents is that the screens are too small to have two pages side-by-side like you can have on desktop. The text is too small to read if you do that.
Many apps are badly designed and fail to take advantage of wider screens. Web sites are the obvious example, but things like office apps could learn a lot from image editors where the toolbars are traditionally on the sides.
"Jewish" is one of the least meaningful identifiers there is. It can mean an adherent of the religion, someone who is part of the culture but not necessarily religious, or it can be a race.
Which just goes to show how silly Jewish conspiracy theories are.
If there is anything we have learned over the past few years it's that no account is trivial or unimportant. Too many services allow someone with control of an email address to reset passwords, log in to related sites and glean little bits of other information about you that can be used for further p0wnage.
Even if it's just personal correspondence with friends and family, getting into that account reveals all their email addresses, information about their schedules, their writing styles and habits (great for spear phising attacks), all kinds of stuff.
Aside from the embarrassment of having an @aol.com email address, they don't support a lot of basic security tech like 2 factor auth and apparently don't give their support staff any security training, so should not be used for any purpose.
The problem is that the scrubbers cost a lot of money and are not 100% effective. So if you have a finite amount of money to invest in power generation you have to choose between cleaning up coal, gambling on nuclear or putting it into rapidly growing renewables.
Even if you don't care about the environment it's clear that renewables and energy storage are the better investment and the general direction in which everything is moving.
They used to have an 80% charge option on older laptops, which was mysteriously removed from newer ones.
Fortunately there are still plenty of good laptops that don't have the battery glued in so you can replace it easily. Good ones don't need the battery to even be installed just to get maximum performance (like Macbooks do), so you can take it out and extend its life greatly by avoiding the heating/cooling cycles it experiences when installed but not used.
There are 8 year old Nissan Leafs out there that suggest these numbers are looking quite reasonable. There were some early issues with the Leaf packs in certain climates that Nissan resolved, but beyond those they have proven to be remarkably reliable robust.
To this day Nissan has never sold a replacement battery pack (there is a part number and a price, about $4k). They removed the 80% charge long-life mode from newer models too, which is actually kinda annoying as it was more energy efficient too.
The battery is actually a big asset. When the car is recycled or the battery does reach end of its useful life for propulsion, it can be sold off for use in less demanding applications like home battery packs, UPS systems, utility level smoothing etc. Or even just passed on to someone who can live with 150 mile range, which it turns out is an awful lot of people.
Slashdot Mirror
The main limiting factor seems to be the original video onto which the new face is being mapped. Odd angles, things obscuring parts of the face, poor lighting and the like all make it struggle and look less realistic. Of course, it also helps if the actor the face is being applied to looks somewhat like the target.
As such, I expect there will soon be a market for porn stars who look a bit like a famous actress and who produce videos specifically designed to make the algorithm work better. If they could get away with things like dots on their faces they would, but for plausible deniability they might have to rely on the deepfake algorithm alone.
The Screen Actor's Guild cares about this for the same reason they care about impressionists and rubber masks - they want to protect their member's likenesses. A big star is an attraction by themselves, even if they are only voicing a character in an animated movie. They certainly don't pay the stars 1000x the going rate because they are a 1000x better actor.
In the case of deepfakes, a female actress showing some skin is a big draw for a movie. Of course there is also the fact that involuntary pornography is legally dubious at best, but I imagine money is the primary motivation.
I dunno, cats are neither tasty nor particularly useful (unless you have a vermin problem), but have effectively enslaved millions of humans and risen to the top of the evolutionary pile.
I'm hesitant to say that is an evolutionary adaptation, because it seems more like luck that they evolved to be highly efficient genocidal sociopaths and extremely compelling "pets" for a significant number of humans. So less adaptation and more blind luck, or a flaw in the human brain that makes it susceptible to abuse by fluffy balls of fur.
You should start by reading chrome privacy whitepaper and controlling privacy policy.
FUD. I have read them and they are fine. By default the only stuff Chrome sends to Google is:
- Unique installation ID when installing and updating
- Malware/phising protection telemetry, including URLs of potentially malicious sites
You can disable the malware/phishing protection and Chrome will then not send any information about it. If you believe otherwise post some evidence, like packet captures.
FFS even data about autocomplete fields are sent to Google.
Lies. You can opt in to having your Chrome profile data synchronized via your Google account. Google claim this information is encrypted and unavailable to them, and so far there is no evidence to the contrary (e.g. evidence of the data being used by Google, source code suggesting it might be unencrypted, subpoenas for unencrypted form data or browser history). Even if you do opt in, you can choose if you want to include autocomplete data in what you sync.
If you have evidence to the contrary then please post it, and I personally will start an EU Data Protection claim against them. I'm sure major media outlets will be interested in it too, you could probably sell interviews for some decent cash.
They have advanced face recognition software, they have OCR software that can detect words embedded in images, and they have databases of blocked images that can recognize transformations like scaling or trivial editing. They use all those things for their own benefit, scanning user uploaded content.
All they have to do is turn that on for ads as well, but instead they expect every individual to police the use of their likeness and reputation on Facebook... Which is impossible unless you have a Facebook account.
The "diagnostic data viewing tool" appears to be a direct result of pressure from EU countries to make the telemetry visible to the user. Now we just need to push for a proper off button.
The GDPR could be helpful here. When it comes in next month Microsoft will need your explicit permission to keep collecting any personal data. If you decline to give it, the have to stop.
So what happens if Windows asks and you decline? Seems like bricking your computer would put them in some deep legal shit.
We can apply some pressure by submitting GDPR data requests to see what they have on us, as a first move. It will be free from next month.
All they have to do is fix the boot ROM.
That's easier said than done.
This is an industrial system-on-chip. They can't just update the software whenever they feel like pushing out a new version. Their customers require it to be stable and unchanging because they have to certify each version and want to buy exactly the same part for the lifetime of the product, which for things like cars and industrial machinery can be 10+ years.
A change will require a new part number, and they will either have to convince big customers to adopt the new version and certify all their software on both new and old, or they will have to keep supplying them with the old one and come up with some mitigations such as removing test points to make the hack harder.
Nintendo is probably one of the more flexible customers in that they probably can adopt a new version, but for people like car manufacturers using Tegra parts for safety critical systems like driver aids / self driving it's a huge pain. They may opt to ignore the problem because modifying your car is less of an issue for them than modifying your console is for Nintendo.
They are not doing facial recognition though, they are training AI to rank job candidates.
The data set would be something like a set of CVs and responses to questions, plus those people's relative performance in job interviews and in the job itself. That tends to train the AI to be biased against people with different educational backgrounds (e.g. attended an overseas's university) or who speak different dialects of English and the like.
Reading the FAQ she points out that it's not just the Switch that is vulnerable here, it's other devices that use the same SoC and potentially all Tegra X1 parts. They are used in things like in-car nav/entertainment systems, self-driving AI systems, smart TVs and set top boxes, all kinds of stuff.
The potential for malicious use exists. Reminds me of those smart fridges in Silicon Valley.
I think she was referring to Nintendo and other users of the Nvidia chip that has this flaw. The only way they can fix it in future devices is to move to a different system-on-chip.
Nintendo will probably have to hope that Nvidia creates a new version of this part, because moving to a different SoC isn't really a good option because it would create fragmentation.
they appeared to be better and more professional candidates
See, you do actually know what the issue is. They appeared better, when empirical evidence suggests they were not.
That's the basic issue with job interviews. Limited time and opportunity to accurately measure ability and performance in the job, combined with subconscious biases leads to sub-optimal decision making. Even if you don't care about equality, from a business perspective it's a failure to not always select the best candidates.
I have a 16:10 at home too. It's nicer than the 16:9 monitors at work, but I'd take a 16:9 5k 27" display over any of them.
It's actually a flaw in the way the system works when someone dies. You can get a funeral and intern their ashes at your family grave site without the national government necessarily getting wind of it. It's an "easy" crime because it only requires the child to do nothing, to make no effort to inform the government of their parent's death.
I forget what changes they made to stop it happening now, but checks were put in place.
Correct. In the same way that there is no day zero or month zero, there is no year zero. The first year was 1, and exactly 2000 years later was 1/1/2001.
Thus 1900 was the last year of the 19th century, with 1/1/1901 being exactly 1900 years after the start of the calendar.
I find that a 5:2 split works well on a 16:9 screen. I might have a terminal window and a PDF viewer side-by-side, with the terminal being the narrower one.
The ideal size is 27", because then you really can get two good size documents side-by-side on a 16:9 monitor. It helps if you have 5k resolution, but the standard 2560x1440 is okay.
The benefits of high DPI shouldn't be underestimated. While everything may appear the same size, you can more easily read small fonts and thus zoom out slightly more. It might only be 20% but it makes a huge difference to the amount of stuff you can fit on screen.
To date I don't think they have sold any replacement packs. They have done some under warranty but I don't know of any actual sales to someone who just wanted to replace their out-of-warranty one.
The new scheme is quite interesting. Maybe they have reached the point where they think there is demand, although you have to wonder if anyone will take them up... $6200 isn't much less than you can buy a good condition 24kWh Leaf for anyway.
Maybe if you could upgrade to the 30 or 40kWh pack or something it might be more attractive, and I think that at least for the 30 it's pretty much a straight swap. The Leaf BMS seems to cope just fine with people adding extra cells to their packs.
The 30 does seem to have higher degradation, but it's probably too early to tell how much of an issue it is. The 40 #RapidGate stuff is terrible, a complete disaster. As summer comes around and temperatures go up people are finding they can't even do the first rapid of the day at full speed.
I really hope they can fix it for the 60. It needs 100kW charging as well. It's such a shame about the 40, it's a nice looking car and ProPilot at that price-point is pretty incredible, but the battery problems and the crappy instrument cluster (analogue speedo, really?) and the rather old head unit software is disappointing.
Do they like it, or do they have no choice?
If you want a 3:2 laptop it has to be a Chromebook. You can run Linux, but they are not for everyone.
Everything else is 16:9, or 16:10 for Apple but then you have to put up with Apple hardware just to get that slightly taller screen.
16:9 is a compromise.
Phones just expanded the screen to cover the bezels because that looks good, they didn't really think about the aspect ratio.
Laptops are often used for watching video, so 16:9 makes sense for consumer ones. The real issue with documents is that the screens are too small to have two pages side-by-side like you can have on desktop. The text is too small to read if you do that.
Many apps are badly designed and fail to take advantage of wider screens. Web sites are the obvious example, but things like office apps could learn a lot from image editors where the toolbars are traditionally on the sides.
"Jewish" is one of the least meaningful identifiers there is. It can mean an adherent of the religion, someone who is part of the culture but not necessarily religious, or it can be a race.
Which just goes to show how silly Jewish conspiracy theories are.
If there is anything we have learned over the past few years it's that no account is trivial or unimportant. Too many services allow someone with control of an email address to reset passwords, log in to related sites and glean little bits of other information about you that can be used for further p0wnage.
Even if it's just personal correspondence with friends and family, getting into that account reveals all their email addresses, information about their schedules, their writing styles and habits (great for spear phising attacks), all kinds of stuff.
Aside from the embarrassment of having an @aol.com email address, they don't support a lot of basic security tech like 2 factor auth and apparently don't give their support staff any security training, so should not be used for any purpose.
The problem is that the scrubbers cost a lot of money and are not 100% effective. So if you have a finite amount of money to invest in power generation you have to choose between cleaning up coal, gambling on nuclear or putting it into rapidly growing renewables.
Even if you don't care about the environment it's clear that renewables and energy storage are the better investment and the general direction in which everything is moving.
Coal is something that Trump understands and can do something about by gutting the EPA, introducing tariffs and funnelling them federal money.
Republicans care much more about Obamacare, but are too dumb to do anything about it. Who knew healthcare was so complex?
They used to have an 80% charge option on older laptops, which was mysteriously removed from newer ones.
Fortunately there are still plenty of good laptops that don't have the battery glued in so you can replace it easily. Good ones don't need the battery to even be installed just to get maximum performance (like Macbooks do), so you can take it out and extend its life greatly by avoiding the heating/cooling cycles it experiences when installed but not used.
There are 8 year old Nissan Leafs out there that suggest these numbers are looking quite reasonable. There were some early issues with the Leaf packs in certain climates that Nissan resolved, but beyond those they have proven to be remarkably reliable robust.
To this day Nissan has never sold a replacement battery pack (there is a part number and a price, about $4k). They removed the 80% charge long-life mode from newer models too, which is actually kinda annoying as it was more energy efficient too.
The battery is actually a big asset. When the car is recycled or the battery does reach end of its useful life for propulsion, it can be sold off for use in less demanding applications like home battery packs, UPS systems, utility level smoothing etc. Or even just passed on to someone who can live with 150 mile range, which it turns out is an awful lot of people.