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Submission + - X will suspend creators from revenue-sharing program for unlabeled AI war videos (techcrunch.com)

Submitted by Muck on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @12:51PM

Muck writes: From the Too Little, Too Late Dept at TechCrunch:
X says it’s going to take action against creators who post AI videos of armed conflict without disclosure that the content is AI-generated. On Tuesday, X’s head of product, Nikita Bier, announced that people who use AI technology to mislead others in this way will be booted from the company’s Creator Revenue Sharing Program for a three-month period (90 days).

If they continue to post misleading AI content after the suspension lifts, they’ll be permanently suspended from the program.

“During times of war, it is critical that people have access to authentic information on the ground. With today’s AI technologies, it is trivial to create content that can mislead people,” Bier wrote on X. “Starting now, users who post AI-generated videos of an armed conflict — without adding a disclosure that it was made with AI — will be suspended from Creator Revenue Sharing for 90 days.”

Comment Testing backups... (Score 1) 83

by Muck on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @05:37PM (#62544354) Attached to: Angry IT Admin Wipes Employer's Databases, Gets 7 Years In Prison

This is why you should integrate your production backups into your QA environment by baking in, and automating the obfuscation/munging operation, so you're constantly testing your production backups... even beyond the once a year when the auditors force you to do it and show them a screenshot...

Comment I abandoned KeePass for LastPass (Score 1) 415

by Muck on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @10:00PM (#54004117) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Should You Use Password Managers?

I used KeePass for a long time on linux, but having to use mono sucked, and I felt like there was minimal work going on with the plugin, and the software in general for that matter.

I feel like the weakest link to all password managers is the browser plugin. With that conclusion, I decided to go with LastPass, because I always see their name listed as paying well for bug bounties. I figure that significantly reduces the chances of there being a major 0 day vulnerability in their plugin over the other guys who in general have pretty lackluster dev cycles, and don't seem to have much of a bug bounty presence.

I also do things like: require multi factor, don't auto load passwords on any sites, etc to mitigate my risk using lastpass.

It's a risk - lastpass is a big target, but it seems like they do a good job of taking security seriously, so I decided I was better off with my passwords stored in a world that is actively attacked, but also actively defended instead of a world that is mostly ignored.

Comment Yes, you need rockstars (Score 2) 356

by Muck on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @05:21PM (#44824365) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Are 'Rock Star' Developers a Necessity?

Whether or not those rockstars are also assholes is irrelevant. Mediocre skills will get you mediocre results. You need visionaries, and people who think outside the range of 3-7. Their ideas often fall outside the range of acceptability, and as a result aren't always implemented, but thats where part of the arrogance you're talking about comes from. They may come up with 15 ideas to solve a problem -- none of which get implemented. If they didn't have any self confidence they'd be discouraged (much like you are). It takes self confidence to be on the edge of something, and have the confidence to walk it.

I'm a consultant, and I've worked with a lot of startups. The ones with rockstars do great things. The ones without, trod along, and sometimes don't die.. but rarely do great things. That being said, the world needs 7's too. In fact we need more 7's than we do rock stars. But great things don't happen on their own. We need rockstars to push them forward.

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