Are we all fucked?

[The Butcher]

https://x.com/thedorbrothers/status/1828813560878637165

Still obviously fake but what I'm surprised at is the rate of improvement of these AI videos. Photoshop was released in 1990 but took I reckon 20 years before you started having a hard time trying to pick out photos that were real or not.

[astfgyl]

Saw that earlier and thought the same. We are probably already in the era of not knowing what's real or not and then I wondered if we have ever really known the difference and now I'm getting stoned to escape from the reality of not knowing what's real or not

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

https://x.com/latestinspace/status/1830353775212777931

Libera te tutemet ex inferis..?

[ochoill]

https://x.com/latestinspace/status/1830353775212777931

Libera te tutemet ex inferis..?

The fear.  I love stuff like this, often go back and watch videos on the old number stations and the likes, ominous shit.

[The Butcher]

Do you reckon they were hearing this kind of thing on the Titan submersible last year before their impending doom? That OceanGate CEO "Don't worry about that sound - It's just a weather balloon."

[astfgyl]

It's a creepy one to be sure. I'd say being stuck in space is fairly paranoid as it is. At least Sam Neill isn't there I suppose

[astfgyl]

The AI making pictures of you from WiFi signals without a camera is not great.

[The Butcher]

Thought I'd throw this in here as I've always thought this is a creeping issue for the future.

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/antibiotic-resistance-infections-war-ukraine/?utm_campaign=dfn-ebb&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sailthru

So Ukraine is facing antibiotic-resistant infections due to overuse of antibiotics, including in agriculture, leading to an increase in untreated wounds and severe complications like sepsis/amputations.

Procedures become far riskier, tuberculosis, pneumonia, and urinary tract infections, some things you could once call minor infections, could become much harder to manage and more lethal/life-threatening across ALL age groups. Think estimates for deaths for this is about 1 million a year so would be interesting to see how those numbers fare in 10/20 years time. Hopefully this can be countered by new discoveries etc etc and that we never have to see the worse case scenario play out.

[The Butcher]

The AI making pictures of you from WiFi signals without a camera is not great.

For reference ->

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFZKAPb33Dw

But he doesn't mention that you need a 3 antenna router to gather the level of detail. 2 could still give a decent amount of data. But he should have mentioned that the routers used were customised ->
http://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.00250

I'd be more concerned about the PC/laptop/webcam/smart cameras being hacked or Alexa listening in, phone etc

[The Butcher]

But in saying that...the future is not set   
https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/3271/can-5g-be-used-as-surveillance-radar-u.s-military-funds-binghamton-research

Edit: Makes me think of future wars that has every target already located with real time tracking, all is needed is to send in the automated drones

[Anvil]

Thought I'd throw this in here as I've always thought this is a creeping issue for the future.

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/antibiotic-resistance-infections-war-ukraine/?utm_campaign=dfn-ebb&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sailthru

So Ukraine is facing antibiotic-resistant infections due to overuse of antibiotics, including in agriculture, leading to an increase in untreated wounds and severe complications like sepsis/amputations.

Procedures become far riskier, tuberculosis, pneumonia, and urinary tract infections, some things you could once call minor infections, could become much harder to manage and more lethal/life-threatening across ALL age groups. Think estimates for deaths for this is about 1 million a year so would be interesting to see how those numbers fare in 10/20 years time. Hopefully this can be countered by new discoveries etc etc and that we never have to see the worse case scenario play out.

I remember this being a big worry back in the late 90s (how I remember is that there was an argument in our flat as someone bought anti-bacterial washing up liquid, which nearly lead to a fist fight - long story) and it used to be a regular feature on the news whenever new superbugs emerged in hospitals, but not seen it mentioned for a long time.  Hopefully the AI they are using to create new drugs doesn't decide to keep them secret and wipe us out... 

[astfgyl]

Anyone see the hezbollah story about the pagers? I honestly didn't think pagers were even a thing but I won't get one now just in case

[Ollkiller]

Anyone see the hezbollah story about the pagers? I honestly didn't think pagers were even a thing but I won't get one now just in case

Aye. Mental. They must have got some way to get the pagers to overheat rapidly causing the battery to explode. Over 2000 casualties apparently

[Mower Liberation Front]

Anyone see the hezbollah story about the pagers? I honestly didn't think pagers were even a thing but I won't get one now just in case

Have to admit it was genius. Mossad cause a Hezbollah's guy mobile phone to blow up, Hezbollah switch to pagers, Mossad cause them to blow up, Hezbollah will look for another way to communicate. How long before we start seeing homing pigeons explode en masse over the skies of Lebanon?

[The Butcher]

To me it doesn't seem like an overheated battery exploding - usually you get the spark and you'd feel the heat of the battery akin to your phone after hours of gaming - I reckon they intercepted the manufacturing process and added in what they needed ->

the company's founder Hsu Ching-Kuang, denied it had made the pagers, saying they were manufactured by a company in Europe that had the right to use its brand. "The product was not ours. It was only that it had our brand on it,' he said. "We are a responsible company. This is very embarrassing,"

But you could imagine the horror of malware overheating the battery in everyones iphone/Samsung etc etc