I am glad that atleast some journalists writes about this in the US+West. In India, there is little to no resistance, contemporary culture is flooded, institutions are tamed, media houses are strong armed or bought entirely and there is no one on the streets fighting the tyranny.
I am using Linux in different flavours for the past 10 years. It has become more reliable for the the time. The last 5 years had noticeable few issues across the distros.
There is no point in trusting anything with anyone. In a world, where everything is quantitatively measured in economic scale (no negative sense intended), all we can hope is that the economic forces is sufficiently strong enough to work towards the betterment of civilization. We have to have scientific temperament to tackle these issues with humanistic approach.
Very true. But--Economic scales and incentives are artificial and must be tuned. For example, the USA has a badly regulated medical system that refuses to train doctors efficiently, so medical care is overpriced. 18 year-olds who want to become doctors go to college for like 36 weeks a year with maybe four or five hours of instruction a day. Massive waste of human potential. The legal system is very bad as well. Two graduates from different schools with the same score on the bar receive compensation varying by a factor of 3x dependent on where their degree was obtained. Going to Harvard law is indicative of having connections and the cognitive potential to engage in lucrative schemes well into the future, not actual skill. This does not happen in a country with an efficient legal system, like Germany.
The attestation need not be done by Google or web browser owner themselves. This can be done by operating systems or any third party attestation just like a simple version of certification attestation. I think even though the intention behind the idea is good, the integrity of the company that suggested this is so doomed that we are all afraid. I think such proposals will come and need to come so that gradually these proposals will mutate into something useful
Practically speaking yes, the OS (and further down the TPM/enclave) will be the root of attestation. Google here is starting with Google Play Integrity (previously known as SafetyNet), which is an OS-level attestation authority. On Windows, this attestation would probably be done via TPM/Secureboot and Windows integrity APIs.
That's what's scary about it, because it has the potential to make large parts of the web inaccessible unless you have a signed and sealed OS layer and browser to browse it with.
Reddit or any other business that thrives on user data will eventually, at some point, will have to use their data for profit. Especially during the period of LLM training with huge dataset, I understand the API rate changes. But I don't understand why they can't have reasonable exceptions for third party apps like what they have done for accessibility apps except the opaque 30 day exception withdrawal clause. While reading everything together - blocking NSFW data, increasing API prices hastily etc seems like Reddit wanting to disallow users third party apps and limit the users to use only their first party app.
I am more interested when the AI/ML start generating texts, code and move into creative positions and then AI generated texts would become the training data for model training. Then humans might get highly paid job to generate creative texts along with machine generated data to train these models. Or by that time, models get better at self-training and healing, that it generates the data for itself to train. Ah heck, it will be interesting to see the evolution of human-centric ethics to address the future world.
