I've made less than 50 comments on Lemmy and none were very popular and yet I made the list? Maybe some kinda keyword thing. Strange.

That the fossil record is incomplete

https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/Web-Environment-Integrity

This was a proposal a few years ago for how to enforce "trusted web". Basically, a way for service providers to verify, at a per request basis, that the client is using an unmodified software stack, starting with an operating system signed by a trusted developer. Could absolutely be modified to enforce this shit.

I've seen a lot of people saying how this will be unenforceable and so isn't something we need to worry about.

Except this could be enforced. Google came out with a proposal a few years ago for a method of validating the a request came from a "trusted" (aka, signed and with secure boot enabled OS), ostensibly to combat bot traffic. They dropped it after push back, but it still provides a blueprint for how this could be enforced.

https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/Web-Environment-Integrity

If web platforms are mandated by law to enforce something like this then the web could be effectively restricted to only approved operating systems. There could still be a dark web, but with the weight of the law behind it, once anything gained momentum access to it could be shut down at the service provider layer.

This shouldn't be dismissed as a threat because it's "unenforceable", because it is.

As long as you're using up to date TLS protocols and algorithms, it's great for encryption in transit but isn't going to do anything (out of the box at least) for encryption of data at rest, but if you just disable chat logging on the server that's not really an issue. Clients can still store insecure copies of chats, but that's an issue with every secure messenger.

Wasn't that part of the plot of the Matrix?

This is pretty conclusively addressed by the Bell Inequalities and empirically tested. It's absolutely counter-intuitive and feels "wrong" but it is definitely how our universe operates.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9OM0jSTeeBg A relatively short but decent explainer for Bell's Theorem and the Nobel prize winning experiment to successfully test it.

The important distinction here (and I get it, analogies are always imperfect) is that the photograph analogy has "hidden variables". That is, each half is fixed at the moment of their separation and you just don't know what's in the envelopes until you open one. That's not how entangled particles work though, and which "half" is which is not determined until the instant of measurement, at which point the state of both are known and fixed.

Is the argument here that anti-AI folks are hypocrites because people can be bad too sometimes? That's a remarkably childish and simple take.

Different types of AI. What you say is true for LLMs and other generative AI but noise reduction and up scaling algorithms are of a different class and don't rely on stolen training data to function.

Well I know these people and they're great plus they're married now :)

You're right, I had it wrong. Misinformation deleted.