tag > Bots
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Was the GameStop Swarm Squeeze of 2021 just a tiny preview of things to come?
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"Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent and to replace it with itself." - Jean Baudrillard
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QAnon Radicalization Pathways (*Method applicable to any other current online social engineering effort)
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Sealioning is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity ("I'm just trying to have a debate"), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter.
Comic by Wondermark: "Pardon me, I couldn't help but overhear..."
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"Botnets will be the quintessential art-form of the 2020s." - Samim, 2018
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What is Dreambooth & how to use it?
#Comment: Those "generative selfies" startups being built on-top of this now distract from the obvious killer biz-case. Generative Porn: Upload 5 pics of any person, get back HQ nudes. Easy to build, Big $, 0 Ethics. Live in 1 month? It will be interesting to see how organized crime quickly becomes a giant player in generative A.I media & how naive A.I tech bros react to it. Black-hat generative botnets can be useful for the Mafia (+ intel agencies) in so many ways, it's bound to explode.
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A New Robot Dealer Service Makes Buying Drugs Easier Than Ever
"Televend is an automated digital retail system used to sell illegal drugs on the encrypted messaging app Telegram. The online stores it facilitates are staffed and operated, 24 hours a day, by a clever string of ones and zeros. Or, if you like, robots."
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Hackers Could Use IoT Botnets to Manipulate Energy Markets
With access to just 50,000 high-wattage smart devices, attackers could make a bundle off of causing minor fluctuations.
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Google says its new chatbot Meena is the best in the world (MIT Tech Review)
Google.AI: In “Towards a Human-like Open-Domain Chatbot”, we present Meena, a 2.6 billion parameter end-to-end trained neural conversational model that learns to respond sensibly to a given conversational context. We show that Meena can conduct conversations that are more sensible and specific than existing state-of-the-art chatbots.
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Top Facebook exec: Yes, we got Trump elected and it may happen again (CNN)
From a memo by Facebook VP Andrew Bosworth: "So was Facebook responsible for Donald Trump getting elected? I think the answer is yes, but not for the reasons anyone thinks. He didn't get elected because of Russia or misinformation or Cambridge Analytica. He got elected because he ran the single best digital ad campaign I've ever seen from any advertiser. Period." Bosworth said Trump and Brad Parscale, the digital director for Trump's 2016 campaign and now the campaign manager for the 2020 campaign, did "unbelievable work." "They weren't running misinformation or hoaxes. They weren't microtargeting or saying different things to different people. They just used the tools we had to show the right creative to each person."
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Sentient World Simulation - Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulations (SEAS) - "a synthetic mirror of the real world with automated continuous calibration with respect to current real-world information".
The DoD is developing a parallel to Planet Earth, with billions of individual “nodes” to reflect every man, woman, and child this side of the dividing line between reality and AR. Called the Sentient World Simulation (SWS), it will be a “synthetic mirror of the real world with automated continuous calibration with respect to current real-world information”, according to a concept paper for the project.
“SWS provides an environment for testing Psychological Operations (PSYOP),” the paper reads, so that military leaders can “develop and test multiple courses of action to anticipate and shape behaviors of adversaries, neutrals, and partners.” SWS also replicates financial institutions, utilities, media outlets, and street corner shops. By applying theories of economics and human psychology, its developers believe they can predict how individuals and mobs will respond to various stressors.
Links:
- Sentient world: war games on the grandest scale. Sim Strife - By Mark Baard (2007, theregister)
- Sentient World Simulation (SWS): A Continuously Running Model of the Real World. A Concept Paper for Comments - Government POC - by Tony Cerri (JFCOM J9)
- Lessons from a Large-Scale Deployment of SEAS in Afghanistan - by Rashmi Chaturvedi, President Simulex Inc
- Alok R. Chaturvedi - Professor of Information Systems and the founder and the Director of SEAS Laboratory
- Executing the modeling and simulation strategy making simulation systems of systems a reality (2007) - by James W. Hollenbach (The Defense Modeling and Simulation Office) and William L. Alexander (SAIC)
- It is Alive – Sentient World Simulation: A Continuously Running Model of the Real World
- Synthetic psychological environment (wikipedia)
- Cyber Node Report - by Frank Catanzaro, Chair Cyber Futures at WFUNA Millennium Project (2007)
- Predictive policing (wikipedia)
- Considering All the Strategic Options - Whilst ignoring alternatives and disclaiming cognitive protectionism - Produced on the occasion of the NATO Summit (Strasbourg, April 2009)
- "Path Leading To Failure" - video interview with William Binney & Dr. Robert Duncan (formerly NSA)
- Former Defense Secratary Donald Rumself (83) Marches Into New Territory: Videogames (2016)
- Comprehensive Analysis of Synthetic Monitoring Market 2019 | Industry Overview
- Google's "Selfish ledger"
A clip from "Eagle Eye" (2008)
A clip from "Colossus - The Forbin Project" (1970)
#Military #VR #Bots #BCI #InfoSec #Economics #Politics #Cryptocracy
- Sentient world: war games on the grandest scale. Sim Strife - By Mark Baard (2007, theregister)
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From Fake news to Junk News. The data politics of online virality - by Tommaso Venturini.
Part of the book "Data Politics: Worlds, Subjects, Rights" - by Didier Bigo (site) et.al (2019)
Didier Bigo on Security, Surveillance and Democracy
Fog of Information - by tekgnostics
“In this day and age... we are faced with a Fog of Information that is as distracting and detrimental as the fog of war.” - from “Bread & Circuses”
"Information overload occurs when the amount of input to a system exceeds its processing capacity. Decision-makers have fairly limited cognitive processing capacity. Consequently, when information overload occurs, it is likely that a reduction in decision quality will occur."
"It's not a matter what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true" - Henry Kissinger
#Politics #SE #InfoSec #Bots #Culture #KM #Internet #Military #RTM
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Deutsche Bank To Replace 18,000 Workers With Robots (via)
"The bank's head of operations said that using AI 'massively increased productivity in certain sectors'. Deutsche is pushing to 'automate large parts of its back-office' via a new strategy called 'Operations 4.0', as part of its $6.6 billion savings initiative."
#Comment: This is a shameless, peak bullshit way of announcing corporate collapse and bankruptcy. Long term mismanagement, corruption and criminal activities at a massive scale brought them here - and no fictitious "AI" will fix that.
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The USPTO wants to know if artificial intelligence can own the content it creates: https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/13/20961788/us-government-ai-copyright-patent-trademark-office-notice-artificial-intelligence #Generative #ML #Creativity #Bots
#Comment: A far more interesting question is if angels and disembodied spirits can own the content they create. Generative copyright is peak late capitalist madness at its finest - the works of greedy petty lost souls. I spoke previously about related topics here & here.
