> The president of the United States tweeted an AI generated image of himself as Jesus Christ descending from the sky and saving a sick person. I feel like that is a good example.
I feel like this is the worst example, actually, because here it’s 100% clear to anyone that it’s AI-generated content. The danger is more about AI-generated fake images/videos disguised as real content.
> doesn't it blow your mind that there exists a 1 Gigabyte file/program that can generate any image you can think of just from a rough description of it?
I can make this into a 5-lines Python program. I’m not saying the images will match the description, but that isn’t part of your spec ;)
You’re just splitting your dotfiles into a public and a private part. That’s useful if you want to publish the public part on GitHub, but not everyone wants to do this, and the issue of storing secrets in plain text files remain.
> the issue of storing secrets in plain text files remain.
Ummm... kinda? The problem was that reading an rc file was considered dangerous. Not putting keys in your rc files is an improvement. Encrypting them is even better than that. But I also said more words in the original post and you don't really even need to read between the lines to figure out I said "you can generalize this", especially when there's comments next to it saying "here's how you load an encrypted file"
The authorities are saying they don't want to see any trash at all, regardless of volume. Imagine 100 sheets of paper vs 100 AA batteries. The batteries have much more volume, but the sheets of paper cover a much larger area so there's much more visible trash.
The problem is not the passwordless sudo but running untrusted programs on your computer under your user. They don’t need sudo to steal your SSH keys or inject malicious code in your .bashrc.
But that's just "learning", doesn't matter if what you learn is totally wrong or totally right. Some things we learn are right when we learn them, but wrong at a later point. And then it's more learning once you learn that it's right or wrong, or maybe it's a bit wrong in that case, but mostly wrong in another, or it oscillates between wrong/right depending on year, location or even mood. There are no universal truths anyways, might as well just roll with it :)
It does matter, because it can affect your whole life. If tomorrow I learn that apples cause cancer and eating plastic is good for my stomach I’ll change my habits and quickly have some issues ;)
But just because someone told you that, doesn't mean you need to operate by that? You can still have your own understanding, follow your own way :) The context here was that it's somehow "dangerous" as in information can "pollute" your brain, just because you read it.
I feel like this is the worst example, actually, because here it’s 100% clear to anyone that it’s AI-generated content. The danger is more about AI-generated fake images/videos disguised as real content.
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