Fake News

redrumloa said:
Lawyers for Catholic Student Nick Sandmann Prepare to Sue Media, Celebrities for Libel
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Attorney For Nick Sandmann Confirms Tom-Tom Beating Liar And Stolen Valor Cretin Nathan Phillips Will Be Sued

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Jussie Smollet FINALLY Turns Over Phone Records From MAGA Attack And Police Aren’t Impressed

Initially, Smollett refused to, saying he needed his phone. After some time, he finally relented and gave police the device.

As expected, police aren’t really impressed with what Smollett handed over, which are “limited and redacted,” causing police to ask for the full records according to ABC 7 Chicago’s Rob Elgas.

“UPDATE: After Jussie Smollett turned over “limited & redacted” phone records, Chicago police spokesman @AJGuglielmi tells @ABC7Chicago “We are very appreciative of the victim’s cooperation however the records provided do not meet the burden for a criminal investigation…,” tweeted Eglas.
 
redrumloa said:
Jussie Smollett Being Warned Of Consequences By Police As His MAGA Attack Claim Falls Apart
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Jussie Smollett’s neighbors cast doubt on his attack story

“I don’t believe it happened the way he said it did,” said Agin Muhammad, who lives in the same swank high-rise near the Navy Pier as Smollett.

“I’ve been in this neighborhood five years. I don’t believe it, not around here … Half the people are gay and the other half are black.”

A patron at Lizzie McNeill’s Irish Pub, about a block from the scene of the alleged Jan. 29 incident, said Smollett’s story “doesn’t really make sense.”

“It’s a lie, because Chicago is the most liberal city around,” said the man, who wouldn’t give his name.
 
It gets even worse. Not only did he lie to the police, but the whole thing was staged.

‘Empire’ Extras Detained for Alleged Staged Attack on Jussie Smollett to Be Charged

CBS 2 investigative journalist Brad Edwards, citing a source with intimate knowledge of the Chicago Police Department’s investigation into the matter, reports the alleged attack on Smollett was “potentially orchestrated” by the actor and the two men, who are persons of interest in the case. A spokesperson for the Chicago police told Edwards that CBS 2’s report and others are “unconfirmed” at this time.
 
Researchers, scared by their own work, hold back “deepfakes for text” AI
OpenAI's GPT-2 algorithm shows machine learning could ruin online content for everyone.

OpenAI, a non-profit research company investigating "the path to safe artificial intelligence," has developed a machine learning system called Generative Pre-trained Transformer-2 (GPT-2 ), capable of generating text based on brief writing prompts. The result comes so close to mimicking human writing that it could potentially be used for "deepfake" content. Built based on 40 gigabytes of text retrieved from sources on the Internet (including "all outbound links from Reddit, a social media platform, which received at least 3 karma"), GPT-2 generates plausible "news" stories and other text that match the style and content of a brief text prompt.

The performance of the system was so disconcerting, now the researchers are only releasing a reduced version of GPT-2 based on a much smaller text corpus.

A sample:
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FluffyMcDeath said:
Sounds like the ramblings of a retarded borderline schizophrenic - but then again, I've read crap like this from various new-agey sources - this is more artificial fever dream than artificial intelligence so far.
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Yes, that one is pretty funny.

The stolen nuclear materials one is a little more on the realistic side. It's as well written as a lot of the stuff that appears on mainstream news outlets:
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Robert said:
Yes, that one is pretty funny.

The stolen nuclear materials one is a little more on the realistic side. It's as well written as a lot of the stuff that appears on mainstream news outlets:
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Thereby confirming what many of us already suspect: the news isn't written by real people at all.

What's kind of interesting about this exercise is how far you can get without any real knowledge at all. If you read a news article about something with which you are very familiar it's often the case that you will see how wrong the news article is - which should tell you something about how wrong it is likely to be about things you aren't familiar with. Most reporters these days are as knowledgeable about the subject matter as machines are. They are functionaries that string words together to fill the required column inches based on the barest hint of information. Now machines can do it: the end of the news. Who shall read the news? More machines, probably - and if any human dares to read the news in a couple of decades all we will see is the mad dreams of machines re-consuming their own verbiage in a wailing feedback of banal hype and hysteria.

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Actually this may already be happening. It would explain a lot.
 
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FluffyMcDeath said:
Most reporters these days are as knowledgeable about the subject matter as machines are. They are functionaries that string words together to fill the required column inches based on the barest hint of information. Now machines can do it...
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Yes, that was the main point of my post, along with the potential implications for "fake news".
 
Robert said:
Yes, that one is pretty funny.

The stolen nuclear materials one is a little more on the realistic side. It's as well written as a lot of the stuff that appears on mainstream news outlets:
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OMG!!!!
my sister lives in Covington!
calling her right now to find out if my nieces and nephews are glowing in the dark yet
 
NSA Ready To End Massive Data Collection Operation Exposed By Edward Snowden

The Trump administration is planning to bring an end to a National Security Agency bulk metadata collection program first exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden, an aide to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told media.

The New York Times reports that Luke Murray, an adivsor to McCarthy, told the Lawfare Podcast last week that the NSA hasn't used the metadata collection program for more than six months, essentially proving that the program is and was unnecessary to tracking terrorist activity within the United States. The NSA and the Trump White House believe they program will wrap completely by year's end.

The program, authorized by President George W. Bush as part of the PATRIOT ACT passed in the days following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, "permits the government to collect troves of data from phone companies with a simple court order. No actual warrant required," according to the Washington Examiner.

Then-NSA analyst Edward Snowden leaked details about the government's massive metadata collection operation in 2013.

Congress reauthorized the program in 2015 with some subtle changes, but in the last year of the Obama administration, the NSA was revealed to have collected more than 151 million phone records, using 42 secret orders. In the first year of the Trump administration, the Examiner says, use of the progarm exploded, and the government collected around 543 million independent phone records, entirely without warrants.

I believe Trump may want to end it, but i have a hard time believing it will actually end, thus FAKE NEWS.
 
Pro-Life Student Nicholas Sandmann Will Sue CNN for $250 Million for Destroying His Reputation

In a pre-recorded interview with radio host Mark Levin for Fox News that will air during Sunday’s Life, Liberty & Levin, lawyer Lin Wood, who represents smeared Covington Catholic student Nicholas Sandmann, revealed that they planned to sue CNN for more than $250 million in a defamation suit in the coming days.

Throughout the video clip Fox News released on Saturday, Wood laid out the case against CNN and suggested their “vicious” attack against his client was worse than that of The Washington Post.

“CNN goes into millions of individuals homes. It’s broadcast into their homes. They really went after Nicholas with the idea he was part of a mob that was attacking the Black Hebrew Israelites,” Wood recalled. “Totally false. Saying things like Nicholas was part of a group that was threatening the Black Hebrew Israelites that they thought it was going to be a lynching.”

Wood told Levin to expect their lawsuit against CNN to be filed on Monday, Tuesday at the latest, and suggested they were looking at damages exceeding that of the Post:
 
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