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Talon

This morning, someone called my dad in my name and started asking questions, using what we believe to be AI voice cloning. Be mindful and tell those close to you to be mindful as well. Figure out a way to ID yourself. This tech is quite dangerous and it is being used for evil. Who would've thought.

5 Dec 2023 at 11:13 | Open on dragonscave.space
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Talon

I wasn’t there to hear it of course, so I can’t be completely sure what happened exactly. Luckily he did pick up on the strangeness and asked me immediately through a different channel. You can’t trust people to be who they say they are especially now. It’s really unfortunate. Having a way to identify yourself is especially important nowadays. Doing this kind of thing is very easy, and even more so if your voice is easily found with a little bit of searching, which I’m sure mine is.

5 Dec 2023 at 11:31 | Open on dragonscave.space
JamminJerry

@talon who would have thought? I know I did. once I started seeing what it was really capable of, I started thinking of what things could be bad just like that. technology is truely a great thing, however it can be used for bad things as well. it is just one of those things you have to understand what it could be used for. sadly my voice is all over the place, so someone could really do that with my voice, but at least I know it can happen. there isn't really anything I could do about it, and I wouldn't even try if I could. the thing is if someone wants something bad enough they find a way to get it. your address, other information about you, if they want it bad enough they will find a way to get it.

@talon who would have thought? I know I did. once I started seeing what it was really capable of, I started thinking of what things could be bad just like that. technology is truely a great thing, however it can be used for bad things as well. it is just one of those things you have to understand what it could be used for. sadly my voice is all over the place, so someone could really do that with my voice, but at least I know it can happen. there isn't really anything I could do about it, and I wouldn't...

5 Dec 2023 at 12:07 | Open on dragonscave.space
Jayson Smith

@talon Yeah the best I can think of right now is to come up with a list of questions whose answers you absolutely know, but are not discoverable through any amount of online research. Forget the usual ones…childhood pet's name, name of your first grade teacher, etc. And nothing that is subject to change over time. How about things like, for example, In what year did you first accidentally delete an important file you were never able to recreate or replace? How many SD cards were in your bottom left dresser drawer at 03:14:57 UTC on October 14, 2016? Etc.

@talon Yeah the best I can think of right now is to come up with a list of questions whose answers you absolutely know, but are not discoverable through any amount of online research. Forget the usual ones…childhood pet's name, name of your first grade teacher, etc. And nothing that is subject to change over time. How about things like, for example, In what year did you first accidentally delete an important file you were never able to recreate or replace? How many SD cards were in your bottom left...

5 Dec 2023 at 12:22 | Open on dragonscave.space
Talon

So I just got access to the Be My AI service and it’s pretty much how I feared. I’m glad more people are getting access, but you absolutely have to keep its limitations in mind. It took me just one picture, my very first one, to get information that sounds correct, but is not in subtle ways. This is especially true if it is trying to read something to you from a small object, control or keypad, and so on. Please be very mindful of this while you use this. It honestly should have much more of a warning about this than it does. I haven’t seen any. This should be spelled out very clearly before you even get to take your first picture. Pressing the wrong button on a coffee maker is one thing, but taking wrong medication is another. This is very, very important.

So I just got access to the Be My AI service and it’s pretty much how I feared. I’m glad more people are getting access, but you absolutely have to keep its limitations in mind. It took me just one picture, my very first one, to get information that sounds correct, but is not in subtle ways. This is especially true if it is trying to read something to you from a small object, control or keypad, and so on. Please be very mindful of this while you use this. It honestly should have much more of a warning...

17 Aug 2023 at 9:24 | Open on dragonscave.space
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Seedy the dweeb

@talon I will always try to get my images human verified, I don't care how accurate/detailed the AI description is. I'll even do this when GPT16 is a thing.

17 Aug 2023 at 10:55 | Open on tweesecake.social
Mother Bones AKA Bae'd Runner
Jayson Smith

@talon Scenario: You need a cup of coffee. In front of you is a strange machine. There are two buttons. One says, "Dispense Coffee." The other says, "End World." Both buttons feel identical in every way, and will perform their respective action with no additional confirmation whatsoever. You have no idea which is which. All you have at your disposal is an AI-based visual assistant. What do you do? Sorry, couldn't resist.

17 Aug 2023 at 14:52 | Open on dragonscave.space
Talon

This is the ultimate toot.
A song. Made entirely out of an elephant trumpet sound.

14 Apr 2023 at 23:35 | Open on dragonscave.space
Talon

Everything is made out of one single elephant trumpet.
The main pad that plays the chords is just a few audiosamples from the middle of the elephant trumpet looped over and over in a sampler. Basically it's just a tiny tiny little portion of the trumpet sound. It's barely a few milliseconds long. There's some chorus and lots of reverb, and the attack and release are quite high.
The bass is the same thing, just filtered so that only the very lowest frequencies come through. Then some more filtering and distortion and compression to get it to actually sound bassy.
The high pad note is the middle bit of the same elephant sound stretched out a lot. I believe I stretched out the sound to be over a minute long.
The blips that come in half way through is literally just a second or so of the actual elephant. I just tuned it correctly, added some glitchy delay and reverb, and filtered it so it wasn't too bright.
And the elephant sounds are just... well... the elephant sound.
So overall it's pretty simple!

Everything is made out of one single elephant trumpet.
The main pad that plays the chords is just a few audiosamples from the middle of the elephant trumpet looped over and over in a sampler. Basically it's just a tiny tiny little portion of the trumpet sound. It's barely a few milliseconds long. There's some chorus and lots of reverb, and the attack and release are quite high.
The bass is the same thing, just filtered so that only the very lowest frequencies come through. Then some more filtering...

14 Apr 2023 at 23:46 | Open on dragonscave.space
Talon

Here's an #idea for a #client for #mastodon or similar, or maybe #mastodon and/or #hometown itself: Let me filter out all the posts that contain images that aren't described. I don't want them in my timeline. Thanks.

23 Nov 2022 at 19:26 | Open on dragonscave.space
Talon

Happy birthday @Mayana !! I hope a significant amount of your wishes find their way into reality! You're an incredible person, and I don't just say that because you help me run this instance! :dragon_heart: :dragon_happy:

5 Apr 2021 at 18:37 | Open on dragonscave.space
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