@0xabad1dea Maybe their new LLM forgot to remove the code before shipping a new production version.

@petergleick Gasoline prices will not go down once they go up. Oil companies are finding out how much they can get away with once everyone's standards have been lowered, just like every other time the price has gone up.

@MuhammadFreeSoftware @GossiTheDog Why not just use the built in emote search available on literally every operating system? It's even faster & it costs much less.

@ShnoofleBear @catsalad I really hope those employers provide health insurance that covers hemorrhoids.

@wafflesies @Paradox @linear I haven't heard of it.

@wafflesies @Paradox @linear It can absolutely move backwards. I don't think Greek fire has been figured out again yet, & no one has synthesized sylphium either. Also random image generators are easily defeated by turning the screen off, so I don't think I have to worry about distinguishing reality from noise. It's not like I'm stuck in The Matrix.

@wafflesies @Paradox @linear It's depressing, but naturally occurring neural network architectures are capable of self improvement & can also train much more efficiently than artificial architectures. I will always be more adaptable than a LLM or image generator. I now have a sample size of five for this "generation" of random image generators & I'm already ahead of them. I probably will not fall for this more than two or three more times, assuming each time after this only has one image.

This has been a cat & mouse game for a few years now, but unlike what techbros think, I am the cat & they are the mouse. They are the ones who must keep finding new ways to trick me, it's not me that has to keep finding out how to evade their tricks.

@Paradox @linear @wafflesies I explain the artificial image aging in the linked post. Basically they apply lossy compression & lossy data transfers until the image looks like it has been circulating on the Internet for a long time, with people downloading & reposting or screenshotting & reposting several times.

@Paradox @linear @wafflesies It's depressing. They add more nodes to the neural network & continue training far beyond when diminishing returns manifest. It's beyond massively inefficient. There's also "AI Powered PhotoShop" from Adobe now, & I assume that kind of thing is a big part of this. I can imagine a malicious actor making a normal collage, erasing the seams, then saying "ok shitgpt fill in the gaps with mud for me", or "ok shitgpt make this but less obviously fake".

@Paradox @linear @wafflesies It's definitely AI generated. After generating the fake photographs, they put together a fake Facebook Marketplace listing & artificially aged the image to make it look too old to be AI generated.
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@Blender Slop money! I had better expectations of Blender.

@signalapp I wonder what the motivation behind this attack is. There's no money to be made from stealing Signal accounts, except maybe by extortion.

@MFennVT @signalapp The one you see on the bottom of the home screen as a dialogue in the app itself is genuine & it's all processed locally. It's just to help you remember your PIN by repetition so you're less at risk of losing your account by forgetting your PIN. If you received a message asking that (not a dialogue on the app's home screen), it's fake.