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This is a replay of eliminating the Ba’athist in Iraq. Turns out when you remove the only thing keeping a factionalized sectarian country together it destabilizes the country. We learned this lesson already. Now we’re repeating it because we have an administration that refuses to learn anything from history…
But we already knew what the party affiliation was. Because that’s how things work.
Get that vitamin D. But don’t pray to the sun. Pray to Joe Pesci.
Always has been
Can you state my position to me in terms I would agree with?
What is going on here? Something isn’t right about this conversation. We should not be this confused and talking past each other.
True or false: there has been no release by an AI company or anyone using AI to unmask the individuals obscured in the Epstein files.
66618055 I kept putting off getting on. I was online on the CompuServe days before Prodigy or AOL. I had three different places to access the internet back in 1992. My catchphrase is “I am from the internet. I’m here to help.” I deeply miss Usenet.
I set up two different, not necessarily exclusive, options. Either it can’t do what they say or it can. If it can’t then that’s one issue. If it can then the people with something to prove aren’t stepping up to show us its potential. There could be multiple motivations behind that. But as it stands right now we just know that it’s not being used to do what they claim.
Did you see the “or” in my first statement?
My statement was that AI can be used unmask the individuals that have been redacted. AKA they are anonymized. This paper is all about de-anonomyzing.
I’m unclear on if we’re having a good faith conversation because I thought that would have been very clear from the beginning.
My statement that I’m quoting predates this paper. My statement exists completely independent of this paper ever being produced. My statement is not about this paper. My statement is about the state of AI and the industry. This paper reinforces my statement.
Seriously, I’m not qualified. No amount of appendix prompts and Dunning Kruger is going to change that.
I’m not demanding anything. I’m suggesting that AI can’t do what is claimed or that people with something to prove are not interested in proving something.
I’m not qualified to design the prompts and home users can’t really pile in 3 million+ documents.
That would be fun.
In theory, using the information and the released files and the information the public sources, it should be possible to figure out who those redacted names are based on writing style and other factors. We should be able to deanonymize.
Right?
But that’s not the same, is it?
You can use the results of the AI analysis to identify people and then use that to do a proper investigation. Right now none of that is happening. No speculation. No tangibles. No investigation. No indictment.
Trying to unmask people is a step in the right direction.
From a Facebook post I made on February 17th:
There are giant AI data firms that promise they can go through massive troves of data and pull out general and specific information from them. Information that is actionable and accurate. Give it 6 million data points and it’ll find all the links and organize them for you and unmask hidden details that aren’t visible to the naked eye.
Not one of those companies is stepping up to go through the publicly released Epstein files.
When I started at one company I put together a text file with all the different sources of info I found in training. By the end of training I had turned it into an HTML file. Years later we got bought out. Support from corporate disappeared on legacy customs who hadn’t moved over to new stuff.
A coworker tapped me on the shoulder “If I were to make a local network web server on one of these computers could I upload your help system to it for everyone to use?”
Next thing you know I’m the default source for all information on every system that has ever existed. Prior to that everyone knew that I had it all in my brain but only a handful of people knew that I also had it all in HTML.
TL;DR I built a pirate help desk knowledge base.