Hacker News: mostcallmeyt

MMW: There will be a violent backlash against the weird push for digital ID laws

mostcallmeyt — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:49:50 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/MarkMyWords/comments/1scjmjs/mmw_there_will_be_a_violent_backlash_against_the/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47649434

Points: 3

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New comment by mostcallmeyt in "Bellingcat: The Osint Gatekeepers Who Can't Secure Their Own Site"

mostcallmeyt — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:28:04 +0000

Generally, "heavy handed moderation" in social media platforms isn't really sustainable either as some pushbacks had lead to the EU passing a law requiring them those platforms have adequate redress mechanisms.

Wikipedia is a paragon of virtue for that but from personal observations, they will become a fine case against "heavy handed moderation" one day if the Jennsaurus Files ends up in the media.

What we need is "due diligent moderation" instead of going into either extremes.

There could be a system which can address dead internet theory while avoiding "heavy handed moderation", by letting some users to verify themselves as humans by using Needemand's hand gesture verification solution. Presumably as others had put it, all accounts on any given platforms will then be divided into the categories of human-verified, unverified/ambiguous and bots.

Bellingcat: The Osint Gatekeepers Who Can't Secure Their Own Site

mostcallmeyt — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:24:48 +0000

Article URL: https://ringmast4r.substack.com/p/the-osint-gatekeepers-who-cant-secure

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47380794

Points: 6

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New comment by mostcallmeyt in "Big YouTube channels are being banned. YouTubers are blaming AI"

mostcallmeyt — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:30:35 +0000

Google needs to be treated like public utilities or so once the Dems come back to power in 2026 and 2028.

Big YouTube channels are being banned. YouTubers are blaming AI

mostcallmeyt — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:27:05 +0000

Article URL: https://mashable.com/article/big-youtube-channels-terminated-creators-blame-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45848703

Points: 4

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Wikipedia co-founder joins editing conflict over the Gaza genocide page

mostcallmeyt — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:26:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/813245/wikipedia-co-founder-jimmy-wales-gaza-genocide

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45848695

Points: 6

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Another Wikipedia Admin Caught Making PR Edits

mostcallmeyt — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 23:17:22 +0000

Article URL: https://wikipediocracy.com/another-indian-faker-teaches-wiki-pr/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43676577

Points: 10

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FAI Definition of Human Spaceflight

mostcallmeyt — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 15:23:16 +0000

Article URL: https://justapedia.org/wiki/FAI_definition_of_human_spaceflight

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43665174

Points: 2

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January Windows 10 preview update force installs new Outlook

mostcallmeyt — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 20:17:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/january-windows-10-preview-update-force-installs-new-outlook/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42870583

Points: 3

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Japanese freezing company website hacked, list of Wikipedia scandals posted

mostcallmeyt — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 20:15:51 +0000

Article URL: http://www.ntu1986.co.jp/topics/?p=1630

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42870556

Points: 1

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Does Wikipedia protect your privacy?

mostcallmeyt — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:04:59 +0000

Article URL: https://genderdesk.wordpress.com/2024/12/21/does-wikipedia-protect-your-privacy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42510848

Points: 6

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New comment by mostcallmeyt in "Elon Musk Takes Aim at Wikipedia"

mostcallmeyt — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 13:25:40 +0000

The facts that Wikipedia has content and community problems (such as biases in Israel-Palestine topic area and systemic powertripping by admins) and that Elon Musk is a far-right kook are not mutually exclusive, just in case everyone here is confused.

X may launch an email service in the format of " X.com" in the future

mostcallmeyt — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 13:01:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.chaincatcher.com/en/article/2157226

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42470746

Points: 2

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She was careful online, but this Toronto teen was targeted with deepfake porn

mostcallmeyt — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 00:16:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/deepfake-minors-porn-explicit-images-1.7385099

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42353942

Points: 3

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Deepfakes weaponised to target Pakistan's women leaders

mostcallmeyt — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 00:15:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241203-deepfakes-weaponised-to-target-pakistan-s-women-leaders

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42353936

Points: 74

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Who edits history? Politics and business in the pages of Wikipedia

mostcallmeyt — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 22:01:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.eureporter.co/news/2024/11/22/who-edits-history-politics-and-business-in-the-pages-of-wikipedia/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42353190

Points: 2

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New comment by mostcallmeyt in "How Do We Stop Deepfakes from Tricking Juries?"

mostcallmeyt — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 23:39:20 +0000

Comparing the utter scale of the problem this time around to things such as photoshop shows just how little you understand the sheer magnitude of this problem. That's even worse than simply comparing apples to oranges.

Photoshop and similar applications did allow misinformation to be made. But not even 0.01% as much as AI-powered deepfakes as we see today. Photoshop took time, skill and had limitations. The worst someone could really do before was photoshop your head onto the body of someone else.

Now videos that look 100% real can be generated at lightning speed with no effort. Think of a celebrity, or a politician. Half a decade ago if you saw a photo of them you could be pretty certain it actually was them. Now you can’t. Half a decade if you heard an audio clip of a particular person confessing to something you could be almost certain it was them. Now you can’t. Videos and audio used to be pretty reliable before. Now they’re useless. AI deepfakes makes misinformation 1000X worse then Photoshop ever did.

It's sensible to think that it is possibly one of the reasons of the Great Filter.

New comment by mostcallmeyt in "How Do We Stop Deepfakes from Tricking Juries?"

mostcallmeyt — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 23:30:00 +0000

The p(doom) by deepfakes against epistemic reality is a nightmare fuel. This is one of the very few things that should be uninvented and chucked into either the abyss of an ocean or into a volcano.

How Do We Stop Deepfakes from Tricking Juries?

mostcallmeyt — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 23:30:00 +0000

Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/how-to-we-stop-deepfakes-from-tricking-juries-2000521201

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42334050

Points: 5

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OpenAI is funding research into 'AI morality'

mostcallmeyt — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:51:00 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/22/openai-is-funding-research-into-ai-morality/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42218010

Points: 2

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