March 31, 2023

March 31, 2023

AI and the American Smile

A really good critique of AI images. The training data is on photos of modern Americans, who have a certain cultural conditioning for photographs. This is not universal, and doesn’t apply to many other cultures particularly historical cultures. So when MidJourney is asked to create pictures of historical cultures they look like Americans playing dress up.

I believe this sort of bias will produce similar errors in other domains. Which might make AI quite poor at creating authentic non-western non-modern images. There was a Twitter thread about an AI fantasy kimono, where all the errors were pointed out. Including the use of a white undergarment only used to dress corpses.

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Virgin Orbit fails to secure funding, will cease operations and lay off nearly entire workforce

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AlienFox cloud token stealing toolkit

This tooling is exactly what you target with canary tokens. An automated tool that scrapes known locations for known information and then uses it is the ideal target for Canarytokens. You know that attackers will find them because you put them where attackers look.

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