I worry that we are in a brief interregnum during which web browsers can provide good online translation of news stories in other languages, from foreign media.
Sooner rather than later, the big tech folks backing Trump will realize they can corrupt the online translation LLMs to bias foreign news stories in favour of their own political agenda. (After all, isn't propaganda the ideal application for AI slop?)
I think this is one area where the uselessness of LLMs is a bonus, I'm not sure they are reliable enough to be able to consistently bias stories in the way that you'd want.
@adaliabooks @cstross When you already have a half-decent translation, you can put another algorithm on top of it that makes simple subsittutions, insertions and deletions, eg. turns "driver kills 3 in a car accident" into "Black driver kills 3".
(how do I know they're black? I don't, and they're probably not, I just blindly inserted "black" because I could)
@jzillw @adaliabooks That's exactly what I'm afraid of.
Canary-in-a-coalmine flashpoints where this is likely to happen first will be news items about Russia/Ukraine and Israel/Palestine, but also possibly China/Taiwan—these are the obvious ones with lots of AI expertise to implement it and/or money to bankroll it, as well as a political agenda to move it along.
@cstross @jzillw @adaliabooks "100,000 Palestinians tragically died after carelessly getting in the way of defensive weapons"
Of course, if the AI is trained on the English language and the Arabic versions of the same story, the bias will be built in by default, unless you can find an English source that consistently portrays Ukraine and Palestine as both defenders against an invading force?
@Zeugs @cstross As a Pole who works (remotely) in a "German" team, together with two Brits, an Austrian[1], a Bavarian, and an Italian (and that's not even my most international" employer to date), I can't help but notice how that would hurt the entertainment industries. But of course that's what fascists always do: they outlaw fun.
[1] The funny thing about Austria and Bavaria is they have a different German there, arguably a separate though related language.
@cstross @jzillw @Zeugs There's the only word the Doom Slayer says in the entire of the Doom 2016 -> Doom Eternal+DLC storyline (in which many people read him as All Rage, All The Time: the game leaves around plenty of evidence that it's All Anticapitalist Rage, All The Time)...
...upon defeating his creator, who looks *suspiciously* like him (the game covers why), he is asked:
"Tell me... have you nothing to say to your creator... before you strike him down?"
"No"
@Zeugs @cstross I would guess similarities stem from them having a similar agenda.
The thing about Russians not being allowed to call it a war is an idiosyncrasy of the Russian legal system (it's like setting a weight limit for cars to 20 tonnes, but making an exception for agricultural vehicles, and then insisting your new main battle tank is technically a tractor).
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It's probably not a transformer Model. Those will be deprecated, like civil rights rights. It's more like an RegEx. Maybe sequence to sequence or something new.
it could also be working in combination with human censors(connected to some input/output neurons) keeping it from hallucinating, like the Human Input in ChatGPT does.
It will not be perfekt, but sufficient for the masses.
That's probably because I've lost my mind. I should have said, "Three Days of the Condor." I should really have ChatGPT double check everything I write now that I've turned a certain age.
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@cstross Why limit yourself to foreign news? On-the-fly AI “moderation" of domestic websites makes perfect sense. To protect the children, you understand.
Now that more than 40% of the most popular websites use the Cloudflare CDN, you even have the perfect chokepoint at which to carry out the transformation.
(accessing the original website directly without passing through the CDN is, of course, a DMCA violation)
@cstross
Translation in Firefox is done on-device using models built by the European-based Bergamot project plus some we've trained ourselves.
https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/translations/resources/01_overview.html
@cstross I feel as if I might immediately dismiss this possibility as too weird and wild, but for the fact that I got memetically primed to apprehend the risk of this sort of information warfare a long time ago. You see I read this mind-bending book called Glasshouse... 😃
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