Currently flagged discussion about the same story:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39918245">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39918245</a>
The previous story was suppressed: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39918245">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39918245</a>
Click on the tag "Israel" on that website and you'll see 333 pages (corresponding to roughly 3330 articles), from Feb 2023 to today with AI generated images. That's a huge amount of AI trash.
This is a great topic. I think the source code should be opened up for us all, maybe it should be a warcrime in itself if we can’t see how the decision making is being done. Then it can not be an excuse, such as the AI “directed us to block all food to the population”.<p>Should this be open source? Could it work?
Must admit I was intrigued by the mystery American flag in the margin. Language selector…<p>Not English flag to signify English?<p>Do other countries do that too? Do French speaking ex colonies use their own flags to signify French language?
"AI" is science fiction, it literally doesn't exist, and when I see this word in a headline without context I immediately flag it in my head as likely low quality and/or clickbait. Are the actors in this story even using machine learning to do this, or are they just using the well-worn playbook of pretending something is "algorithms" as a convenient cover up for human decision making? If the "gun detectors" in the New York subway are "AI", does that mean the TSA scanners at the airport are AI too?<p>The addition of "AGI" to clear up some confusion was welcome but I really think it's time to repo the word AI, because it's clearly being misused. Let's talk about machine learning if that's actually what they're doing here (I doubt it), otherwise we're just creating a framework where everything is fair game for HN because almost everything in the world today is "AI" and/or involves computers in some capacity.<p>I totally get that explaining "AI" vs "Machine Learning" to the rest of society is going to be like explaining the difference between free beer and free software and I've already given up, but I'd love for HN to be better than the Drudge Report and UK tabloids of the world on this one.