Posted by giuliomagnifico 3 hours ago
There’s something hilariously poetic about a ~2,500 year old fable being relevant today, because of AI.
"South Korean police have arrested a man for sharing an AI-generated image that misled authorities who were searching for a wolf that had broken out of a zoo in Daejeon city.
The 40-year-old unnamed man is accused of disrupting the search by creating and distributing a fake photo purporting to show Neukgu, the wolf, trotting down a road intersection"
To cry wolf is to say there’s a wolf here when it’s actually located elsewhere. The AI photo said there was a wolf at a certain intersection when it was actually located elsewhere.
In fact crying wolf is doubly appropriate because it means disturbing an operation looking for a wolf.
This is misdirection while there is a wolf
Similar but different
That's not pedantic, that's the meaning of the idiom.
¹ Following pronoun variant used in the fine article here.
Did they? The article says it's unclear as to their intent.
> Authorities did not specify if the man had intentionally sent the photo to authorities during their search or simply shared it online.
And you'll be shocked what the kids have been doing with databases and API calls
Willfully diverting limited public service resources, that might potentially be assigned to saving someone's life or health?
Practically a social DoS
I don't care enough to bother finding out, but seems like the BBC could have done some more journalism, if they were so inclined.
The only reason you are seeing this right now is because it has AI in the title.
Hypothetically, if a hacking tool was released that let non-technical people hack into sensitive databases, and then a journalist wrote the headline "local man hacks IRS", without any mention of the tool, wouldn't that be a bit irresponsible, to purposely leave that information out?
Photoshop? I don't think you need much skill.
Have you used Photoshop before? You come across as commenting on something you don't understand.
It’s a crime of opportunity¹, one where you have the idea and act on it on a whim. No opportunity, no crime, and the technology provided the opportunity.
So yes, the technology used matters.
If Tesla (insert any car manufacturer you hate) ran over a kid I'd like to see the title say it, instead of "Tesla fined for violating traffic laws."
[1] waiting for some example where fool policemen where outsmarted with simple tricks /s
Sure a little bit more involved than the two second AI prompt, but 3 min job for the lulz photoshoppers.
There are significantly more people able to type a few words into a prompt than people who can use an image editor fast and convincingly and would be inclined to waste their time on this kind of fake.
Did Orwell teach anything? What will they do with the next Visitors' spaceship photo?
I don't understand, shouldn't they have let him go if the idea is that they still roam in the wild? Why forcing it back to a zoo?
The zoo provides a controlled environment needed to restore the species.
EDIT: typo/word ordering
You could adjust the firmware of a wildlife tag to start transmitting location every 10 minutes when the animal leaves a geo-fence.
They are also not implanted in the birds, but are a relatively large "backpack" or leg tag.
AI is plagiarism—full stop—nothing more, nothing less.
Of course, this point could have been made without sarcasm (and AI tells for parody)—I’m aware—but that would remove a certain… texture from the argument. And where, exactly, is the fun in that?
If it helps, imagine the text more as a work of art than an instruction manual. Art matters.