did you expect something so soon?
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It's been a long time coming but I'm thrilled to announce the official launch of Split Capital, a liquid digital assets fund.
Split Capital, as a concept, has been in my mind for years now and it's been a dream to finally see it come to fruition.
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Run an error level analysis (ELA), and the forgery will reveal itself.
ELAs show how an image has been compressed. Compression should be uniformly applied across an image, but with altered images, the ELA looks different because you've created different layers of lossiness.
Zooming out, you can almost see the brush strokes the hacker made with the brush tool over the original text and quotation marks.
It's also obvious no such alteration was made to the name and image of Gensler, as they were not needed.
It's incredible people crave engagement so much they'll write an entire screenplay to convince themselves of a uniquely wrong take.
The tweet sent out by the SEC wasn't a draft by the SEC. It was made by the hacker.
A thread on spotting digital fakes.
My guess is that the SEC account was both hacked AND that the tweet was real.
Hacker first tweeted and then deleted just a ticker.
Then likely found the tweet with the announcement graphic and Gensler quote in the draft folder.
SEC wouldn’t get date wrong, and tweet only ticker, and like meme responses to approval.
Hacker wouldn’t be someone to meticulously plan and prepare a graphic that is in the style of the SEC and also be dumb enough to just tweet a ticker like it’s a meme.
So both things are true, and the approval announcement is lined up.
The photo is the clue. It's not the current official portrait of Gensler. If you reverse search it, you'll find the SEC used the same template for a tweet in 2021.
So the original design-based refutation for draft theory is invalidated. Maybe it's real? xitter.cf/SECGov/status/14052424…
The design itself is not disqualifying:
1. The SEC has sometimes used Arial.
2. They've also used other shades of blue.
3. The seal isn't on everything they produce.
4. Gensler is inconsistently titled, see "SEC CHair".
So you look for other anchors.
At first blush the writing is fine.
The graphics are fishy, however:
1) ETF announcement font is Arial, different from the SEC's usual Gotham.
2) No SEC seal.
3) The color is rgb(1, 53, 104), differently from the SEC's usual rgb(0, 56, 99)
4) "Chair, Gary Gensler"?
I’m so glad this is over. Can we go back to remembering that OpenAI’s censorship was actually the most effective of the big LLM’s, that the criticism of Sam was for nerfing GPT-4 via RLHF, and that Anthropic’s Claude was the go-to model for people to engage in BDSM role play?
It struck me on dev day that GPTs, all the way down to the monetization aspect, were a clone of Poe’s core product. TIL that @adamdangelo is on OpenAI’s board. Not saying that’s why Sam was fired, but that’s how you lose the tipping vote.
In hindsight, none of this should have been surprising. xitter.cf/hitRECordJoe/status/16…
I wrote an OpEd in the @washingtonpost —
wapo.st/43EIchH
Generative AI cannot generate anything at all without massive troves of training data. Who produces that data? People do.
And those people deserve compensation.
This is disappointing.
On one hand, this is clearly a good move to shore up the stock price and lend credibility to their future product ambitions. If anything, they’re probably going to give Sam a blank check to pursue his chip ambitions as well.
On the other hand, if the totality of talent and magic of the folks at Open AI migrate to Microsoft.. this is a company that phones home every time you blink.
We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and have confidence in our product roadmap, our ability to continue to innovate with everything we announced at Microsoft Ignite, and in continuing to support our customers and partners. We look forward to getting to know Emmett Shear and OAI's new leadership team and working with them. And we’re extremely excited to share the news that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, together with colleagues, will be joining Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team. We look forward to moving quickly to provide them with the resources needed for their success.
