They are able to change how Grok is prompted to deny certain inputs, or to say certain things. They decided to do so to praise Musk and Hitler. That was intentional.
They decided not to do so to prevent it from generating CSAM. X offering CSAM is intentional.
Grok will shit-talk Elon Musk, and it will also put him in a bikini for you. I've always found it a bit surprisingly how little control they seem to have there.
Is this common? Airport scanners are usually face scanners. Iris scanners are almost always for employees with access to critical areas, not for travelers. I know Doha and Singapore airports use iris scanners at the security check. It's probably a growing trend, haven't seen any in the EU, is it already common in the US?
Iris scanners are not hard to implement from a few meters in a controlled environment like immigration.
I would assume Iris scanners are normal - but I couldn't find anything to corroborate that for immigration control in NZ (legally they can, and I thought the equipment did, but I couldn't verify).
The normal TSA pre-check lines make you scan your face too. They used to read "images are deleted after use" but I didn't notice that message last time I went through security. So likely it's being used by ICE now.
The customs line have been doing much more rigorous face scanning for a while now.
> "Basically anyone who trusted the government at any point in the past."
Over one million Afghanis voluntarily gave America their iris biometrics; now the Taliban has that data. US military negligently failed to secure it. Lists of American collaborators' biometrics and everything.
I think this is defeatist talk where it’s not warranted. I remember IPX networks in the 90s were still a thing because people believed they could eke out a little more performance for their games. It’s taking a long time to move to IPv6 in some parts of the world. eg: anyone who doesn’t feel the pain of the IPv4 address crunch likely due to having a large chunk to begin with. Many influential organizations in North America definitely fall in that category.
IPv6 is a success IMHO because it is used in so many places. Google’s IPv6 traffic graph shows close to 50% adoption and still trending up. We can’t possibly expect the world to be near 100% overnight… the internet is a big place with the whole spectrum of humans influencing IT; There will always be someone who will cling to IPv4 for dear life.
There are applications where weight still makes battery storage impossible. By capturing carbon, we may give ourselves the ability to harvest fuel from the air instead of the ground. Given the sometimes negative cost of electricity, this could make it more cost effective to do so. If we replace fossil fuel drilling with sequestration then we are at net zero.
This may be part of the solution … or maybe we find a way to make a utopia where we can all agree to just stop polluting. Historically, the utopia has no precedent that I am aware of.
> It was clearly put together by somebody who thought first and foremost about privacy.
Except that they worked for a company that clearly wants all of your data. Privacy and Google are often at odds with each other… and for the folks that understood privacy at the time, it was a hard sell unless they worked at Google.
Privacy to me means that even Google doesn’t get to peek in whenever they feel like it.
I have to wonder what our planet would look like if the spectrum shifts over time. Would plants also shift their reflected light? Would eyes subtly change across species? Of course, there would probably be larger issues at play around having a survivable environment … but still, fun to ponder.
Most of the Bay Area HOV lanes are not limited access. They let you enter/exit wherever, creating congestion. They also slow down traffic at the points where people have to cross lots of lanes to enter/exit.
When before/after studies have been done, the HOV lanes around here generally make everything worse.
The other side of this is that it can't be used to slip into someone's purse as they leave the bar and then be tracked unknowingly.
Apple leaves the door open for manufacturers to implement an anti-theft device into their goods that address both concerns.
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