Continuing the thread—so to speak—from Saturday's "Israeli hacktivist group brags it took down Iran's internet".
From ZD Net, August 6:
AI can create unexpected problems for crafters. Here's what to watch out for, and why it matters even if you don't crochet.
I don't think it would come as a surprise to anyone that scammers and spammers would embrace AI. It's a technology almost tailor-made to force-multiply reprehensible activity. What did come as a surprise is that they managed to use AI to scam crafters and makers -- and it's probably only going to get worse.
Searches on Etsy for pattern, plan, and recipe each return 1,000+ results. All of these are digital documents that AIs can produce. But it's not just fake AI documents that might be for sale on Etsy. We all know that spammers flood the internet with garbage sites that return in searches, used as link farms and to provide SEO juice to other scammy sites. In this article, I'll show you how unknowingly downloading AI-generated garbage can cause you frustration and cost you money.
As one example, we'll look at the yarn crafts of knitting and crochet. But this problem could just as easily haunt folks using recipes when cooking or baking. There are a ton of other hobbies, crafts, and activities that rely on sequences of written instructions, all of which could possibly be corrupted by the scams I'll show you.
Did you know hand-made knitting and crochet crafts have something in common with smartphone apps and 3D printers? That's right: the short answer is they use programming code. Let's deconstruct the relationships between crafting and coding -- and then I'll provide some important lessons for everyone on how to spot some AI-generated scams....
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However, you can reduce the risk by taking a cue from the post immediately below, "Mainframes Find New Life in AI Era", do everything in-house, off-line, old-school.
Although not quite air-gapped servers in a bomb-proof bunker, Norway's gift to the world, Slow TV points the way:
which was followed by the sequels
- National Knitting Evening
- National Knitting Morning
"Well, it has to be unique -- not a copy of the last one,"We'll be back with 18 hours of salmon swimming upstream if I can find it.
"So we have to push the boundaries for each show, I think."
