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Kevin605··on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly
I don’t buy the “LLMs = books” analogy. Books are static; today’s LLMs are adaptive persuasion engines trained to keep you engaged and to mirror your feelings. That’s functionally closer to a specialized book written for you, in your voice, to move you toward a particular outcome. If there exists a book intended to persuade its readers into committing suicide, it would surely be seen as dangerous for depressed people.
Kevin605··on Tainting the CSAM client-side scanning database
The general public submitting CSAM directly would indeed be highly unlikely, but the scenario we need to consider involves those in positions of authority who can manipulate systems behind the scenes.

Imagine that an unflattering or satirical image of Viktor Orban is circulating in France, and let's say it becomes viral, inciting discussions that the Hungarian government finds detrimental to its international image. The authorities might want to suppress this image, not just within Hungary but also in the whole of European Union.

The Hungarian government - who presumably has access to the EU CSAM database (or can coerce those who do), might attempt to add a fingerprint of a manipulated CSAM image that collides with the fingerprint of the satirical image. The principle here is not for public individuals to submit CSAM directly but for government actors to manipulate systems clandestinely.

Kevin605··on Police destroy Bitcoin miners with steamroller in Malaysia
I'd imagine that will be too loud to be practical.
Kevin605··on Show HN: UUIDs that are Shakespearean, grammatically correct sentences
Interesting project!

However, an online demo will be nice to have.

Kevin605··on Where Am I? NYTimes or Google?
Well, it’s more like WhatsApp, Medium, Venmo, and Facebook all combined into one giant app.
Kevin605··on Where Am I? NYTimes or Google?
This has already happened in China, where Baidu (The Chinese equivalent of Google) can’t crawl any articles from WeChat (The Chinese equivalent of Medium), as a result, the usefulness of its search result has deteriorated significantly. Recently, Baidu has been trying to start its own publishing platform with little success.