Submitted 6 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/03/ukraine-ai-foreign-ministry-spokesperson
To avoid fakes, the statements will be accompanied by a QR code linking them to text versions on the ministry’s website.
Great idea, since everyone will check if the URL behind the code is the legit foreign ministry. Nobody would use a URL shortener and redirect everyone to real-ukrainian-website.russian-kgb.gov/agitprop/ukraine-fakes/legit-site.html
I guess it’s assuming people aren’t retarded and recognize the actual site
We decided to stop using that word, I think you can think of a better one.
I really don’t think LLMs are ready for this.
LLMS are not (currently) involved. The article states that video content, trained to imitate the likeness of a celebrity, is generated to recite human-written information. Or so they say
Oh, I swear this better not just be exploited Indian workers again.
This is creepy and seems wildly unnecessary.
Ukraine is a test bed for the craziest bullshit Silicon Valley has to offer.
Much like with Vietnam being the American testing ground for counterinsurgency and Palestine as demo space for modern policing techniques, we’re using Ukraine to run out all sorts of crazy political and military tech ideas.
AI politicians are Peter Thiel and Mark Andressen’s wet dream.
So the foreign ministry has a vtuber. Presumably to protect their identity? Fine. Are we going to entertain ragebait about it?
There’s no way this could go horribly wrong!!
So next they’ll use AI-generated infantry?
Robot dogs with flame throwers to burn people alive
So that’s what our tax dollars are funding…?
Fun little AI projects instead of bullets.
Fuck all this.
You realize we haven’t given them actual money, right?
And I doubt they are paying OpenAI with tanks.
No he doesn’t realize that, the Foxosphere hasn’t adopted that position yet.
You realize military equipment costs the United States actual money, right?
And I doubt the US government is paying military contractors out of their own pockets.
Right pocket left pocket.
If you need a tank, and you get one for free, you can spend your tank money on something else.
You realize we haven’t given them actual money, right?
US has provided money, not just equipment, to Ukraine
Between January 2022 and January 2023, the U.S. committed more than $26 billion to Ukraine in financial assistance, according to data compiled by the Ukraine Support Tracker at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a German think tank. That’s about a third of the roughly $77 billion in total aid noted by Kiel, including humanitarian and military assistance, pledged by the U.S. government. The numbers represent money promised, not entirely distributed.
Another tally from the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget places the total amount of aid approved by Congress in 2022 for supporting the Ukrainian government and allies at about $113 billion. That includes about $27 billion in economic support funds, $7.9 billion for international disaster assistance and $6.6 billion to support and relocate refugees.
Graham noted that the war has wrecked Ukraine’s economy and that U.S. assistance has helped keep the government functioning.
The U.S. Agency for International Development has in releases and a report to Congress outlined how budgetary support to the Ukrainian government has been used. Some of the funding has been spent, for example, on social assistance payments and salaries for health care workers, first responders and educators. It also helps cover pensions and support Ukrainians displaced by the war.
Enough with this AI bullshit
Deebster@programming.dev 6 months ago
It’s a weird time to be alive.