When you can get ticketed for speeding while your car is on the back of a tow truck:
https://www.the-sun.com/motors/11008328/photo-towing-van-speeding-ticket-evidence/

Or a red light traffic ticket when your car was stolen:
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-red-light-ticket-camera-illinois-car-stolen-theft/11677595/

And the police/courts won’t help you because it’s a problem from the private company running the cameras… I think we can see where some sort of AI backed camera network is headed.

A bandaid to fix this might be to setup an easy way for someone to dispute the charge. For every day that it takes the company to review the dispute, they would need to pay back the accused the same amount that they are charging them (with a minimum of paying them back twice the amount of the fine).

Even then, I’d rather cameras not be used in this way at all.

Isn’t the whole point of something like End-to-End Encryption so that not even the company themselves can read your messages?

In that case it wouldn’t matter even if they did turn the info over.

Edit: I read more into the page you linked. Looks like those NSLs can’t even be used to request the contents either way:

Can the FBI obtain content—like e-mails or the content of phone calls—with an NSL?

Not legally. While each type of NSL allows the FBI to obtain a different type of information, that information is limited to records—such as “subscriber information and toll billing records information” from telephone companies.

Depends on the bank and what kind of notifications you want.
Some banks only allow certain types of notifications to occur through the app.

Notifications and Mobile Deposit are the 2 features from banking apps that I find compelling.

What @delirious_owl@discuss.online seemed to be implying is that direct messages on Mastodon should be considered “public” rather than “private”.

I’m assuming that’s along the same lines of how Lemmy users generally think that their upvotes/downvotes are private when in reality, if you know how to look for them, you can see them.

Ah, I see. So it’s the same mistake that Lemmy users make when thinking that Upvotes/Downvotes aren’t public.

It sounds like DMs on Mastodon are public, but are commonly mistaken to be private then?

They’re called DMs not PMs

? Did you mean that the other way around? And if you did… forgive me, I don’t really use Mastodon. I was never much of a twitter fan. I don’t really like how all of my likes are public (although I guess I have had to get used to that with Lemmy).

Hmmm it was even able to pull in private DMs.

Maybe private DMs on Mastadon aren’t as private as everyone thinks… that, or the open nature of Activity Pub is leaking them somehow?

Edit - From the article:

Even more shocking is the revelation that somehow, even private DMs from Mastodon were mirrored on their public site and searchable. How this is even possible is beyond me, as DM’s are ostensibly only between two parties, and the message itself was sent from two hackers.town users.

From what @delirious_owl@discuss.online mentioned below, it sounds like this shouldn’t be very shocking at all.

MS Teams. Works for chat, but not for receiving audio/video calls/meetings.

In the future, are we going to run into this same issue with USB-C in Europe?

It’s a pain to switch between accounts. It eats up a ton of CPU if I use it through my browser (unless I use it in Firefox). If I use it in Firefox I can’t get video/voice calls or join up on meetings.

On a mobile device (iOS): It randomly logs me out (more like it will timeout if I haven’t opened the app recently). Notifications aren’t reliable. If I join a meeting with some other group as a “guest”, I can go back to view my active chat, but then I can only hear audio from the meeting and can’t get back to see what’s happening in the meeting unless I leave the room and come back.

There’s more, but this is just off the top of my head.

GrayJay has been great for Android, I haven’t had any issues watching YouTube.

Using the built-in Ad blocking on Brave browser (both Android and Desktop) I haven’t had any slowness or issues with YouTube at all.

It doesn’t break the law at all. The courts have already ruled that copyrighted material can be fed into AI/ML models for training:

https://towardsdatascience.com/the-most-important-supreme-court-decision-for-data-science-and-machine-learning-44cfc1c1bcaf

It’s on the person using any AI tools to verify that they aren’t infringing on anything if they try to market/sell something generated by these tools.

That goes for using ChatGPT just as much as it goes for Midjourney/Dall-E 3, tools that create music, etc.

And you’re absolutely right, this is going to be a problem more and more for anyone using AI Tools and I’m curious to see how that will factor in to future lawsuits.

I could see some new factor for fair use being raised in court, or else taking this into account under one of the pre-existing factors.

is it different from observing a video tape?

I would think that it’s different, only because you have the potential to alter what could happen.

Does traveling back in time guarantee that someone would react the same way in the same situation even?

Maybe, maybe not, we’re entering the realm of Schrödinger’s cat as well as how time travel would actually work. Do we create some new branched timeline in travelling back? Do we enter an alternate universe entirely? Do we have a time machine where paradoxes are a problem? And the list can go on.

To add onto this, here’s a story about how someone who had their car stolen (and they could prove it) lost their initial objection to the charges from a red light camera.

The charges only dissappeared once the news got involved. https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-red-light-ticket-camera-illinois-car-stolen-theft/11677595/

Fun thought experiment:

Let’s say we have a time machine and we can go back in time to a specific moment to observe how someone reacts to something.

If that person reacts the same way every time, does that mean that by knowing what they would do, you have removed their free will?

I tried it once… almost got locked out, but luckily still had a session logged in somewhere. Lemmy dID not handle 2FA well a few months ago… hopefully it has changed since then. I like to enable it where I can.

What I’ve heard, and what makes sense, is that Millenials had to learn technology and troubleshoot all the issues for their parents.

Now that they’re grown up, they continue to troubleshoot issues for their kids and fix any issues.

So their kids don’t get that same experience.

This is more of a generalization of course, there are absolutely genZ-ers who are tech savvy.

I don’t agree that it’s a fake vs fake issue here.

Even if the “real” photos were touched up in Lightroom or Photoshop, those are tools that actual photographers use.

It goes to show that there are cases where photos of real people look more AI generated than not.

The problem here is that we start second guessing whether a photo was AI generated or not and we run into cases where real artists are being told that they need to find a “different style” to avoid it looking too much like AI generated photos.

If that wasn’t a perfect example for you then maybe this one is better: https://www.pcgamer.com/artist-banned-from-art-subreddit-because-their-work-looked-ai-generated/

Now think of what can happen to an artist if they publish something in California that has a style that makes it look somewhat AI generated.

The problem with this law is that it will be weaponized against certain individuals or smaller companies.

It doesn’t matter if they can eventually prove that the photo wasn’t AI generated or not. The damage will be done after they are put through the court system. Having a law where you can put someone through that system just because something “looks” AI generated is a bad idea.

Edit: And the intent of that law is also to include AI text generation. Just think of all the students being accused of using AI for their homework and how reliable other tools have been for determining whether their work is AI generated or not.

We’re going to unleash that on authors as well?