Imagine technology becoming so inexpensive and easy to use that high school kids can create videos of the principal declaring a day off. This fake suggests that they (whoever they are) haven’t figured out the best social engineering approach yet.
A faked version of Kyiv leader Klitschko fooled mayors across Europe—but it’s not clear this was really a ‘deepfake’
A few months ago, a “deepfake” video featured a bogus Volodymyr Zelenskyy appearing to urge the surrender of his fellow Ukrainians. No-one was fooled, due to the ersatz Zelenskyy’s poor quality, but experts warned future deepfakes—“A.I.”-generated figures purporting to be real people—might not be so obvious.
… Vienna Mayor Michael Ludwig and “Klitschko” spoke on Wednesday, with Ludwig ending the call none the wiser—indeed, he was so convinced that he had really spoken with his Kyiv counterpart that he tweeted and issued a press release about it, including photos of the call taking place.
Berlin’s Franziska Giffey and Madrid’s José Luis MartÃnez-Almeida had their rounds with the bogus heavyweight champ on Friday.
For his Berlin call, “Klitschko” asked to speak in Russian with a German translator—odd, given that he lived in Hamburg for years during his boxing career, and speaks German fluently. Giffey’s spidey-sense was further triggered when he referred to Ukrainian refugees cheating the German benefits system and asked for help in getting male Ukrainian refugees sent back to serve in Ukraine, and in organizing a Christopher Street Day parade in Kyiv.
Technology we know works. But with serious problems staying on target. (Like a bio-weapon)
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3664930/5-years-after-notpetya-lessons-learned.html#tk.rss_all
5 years after NotPetya: Lessons learned
On June 27, 2017, the eve of Ukraine’s Constitution Day holiday, a major global cyberattack was launched, infecting more than 80 companies in that country using a brand-new cyber pathogen that became known as NotPetya. NotPetya didn't stay within Ukraine's borders but spilled out to infect and cause havoc for thousands of organizations across Europe and worldwide.
Implications for many ‘document based’ conclusions. Was it a human record or an AI construct? Does it matter? (If it’s not quite coherent, is it more likely human?)
Google’s powerful AI spotlights a human cognitive glitch: Mistaking fluent speech for fluent thought
When you read a sentence like this one, your past experience tells you that it’s written by a thinking, feeling human. And, in this case, there is indeed a human typing these words: [Hi, there!] But these days, some sentences that appear remarkably humanlike are actually generated by artificial intelligence systems trained on massive amounts of human text.
People are so accustomed to assuming that fluent language comes from a thinking, feeling human that evidence to the contrary can be difficult to wrap your head around. How are people likely to navigate this relatively uncharted territory? Because of a persistent tendency to associate fluent expression with fluent thought, it is natural – but potentially misleading – to think that if an AI model can express itself fluently, that means it thinks and feels just like humans do.
While the cat is away… Notice that he is not going far and not for long. Is his government stable enough to provide insurance against a coup?
Vladimir Putin to make first foreign trip since Ukraine invasion
… Pavel Zarubin, the Kremlin correspondent of the Rossiya 1 state television station, said Putin would visit Tajikistan and Turkmenistan and then meet Indonesian President Joko Widodo for talks in Moscow.
A lot to think about. What will the office look like if employees need to attend a meeting/seminar/training? Can I get multiple jobs and let my AI handle the work?
https://www.bespacific.com/just-4-of-employers-are-making-everyone-return-to-the-office-full-time/
Just 4% Of Employers Are Making Everyone Return To The Office Full-Time
Forbes: “…A new survey of human resources leaders from the Conference Board, a nonprofit business research group, finds that just 4% said they are requiring all employees to return to the workplace full-time. And less than half (45%) said they were requiring some workers to return to the office five days a week. “We were all pretty shocked,” says Robin Erickson, vice president of human capital at the Conference Board. “We were surprised given what we’re hearing about how many employers are requiring workers to come back full time.” In other words: Hybrid work arrangements really do seem to be taking hold. The research found that 90% of the surveyed employers are allowing hybrid work schedules, whether that means the occasional office visit that workers decide on their own or a more prescribed schedule of one to four days in the workplace. Erickson believes the percentage may not stay that low, particularly if the labor market cools, but for now there is too much pressure on companies to be flexible from workers who have the upper hand…”
Just in time for the elections!
https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-06-27
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