Hacker News with Generative AI: Trust

New Privacy Principles for a more trustworthy web (w3.org)
Protecting user privacy is fundamental to creating a web that works for everyone. Last week, W3C published its Statement on Privacy Principles, in support of furthering this goal. This document defines some foundational privacy concepts and provides a set of privacy principles to guide web development. We hope this guide will enhance the community’s understanding of privacy, illustrate ways of realizing it in practice, and inspire a vision of the trustworthy web that we can create and sustain together.
Can Sam Altman Be Trusted with the Future? (newyorker.com)
In 2017, soon after Google researchers invented a new kind of neural network called a transformer, a young OpenAI engineer named Alec Radford began experimenting with it.
How startups build trust (191 examples) (socialproofexamples.com)
Disover strategies to build trust, drive conversions, and grow your brand.
Could SSL.com's Latest Vulnerability Lead to Browser Distrust? (trackssl.com)
Earlier this month, we covered the initial report of a critical vulnerability at SSL.com, a widely trusted Certificate Authority (CA).
A server that wasn't meant to exist (dragas.net)
Yesterday I read a piece of news that brought back an important - and painful - episode from my career. A story about trust, technology... and the kind of problems that can't always be solved.
ChatGPT may be polite, but it's not cooperating with you (theguardian.com)
Big tech companies have exploited human language for AI gain. Now they want us to see their products as trustworthy collaborators
What I discovered after months of professional use of custom GPTs (ycombinator.com)
How can you trust when you've already been lied to—and they say it won't happen again?
Economists don't know what's going on (economist.com)
The British government has launched an investigation into the Office for National Statistics. Last month the ONS found errors in some numbers that underpin its GDP calculations, and investors no longer trust its monthly jobs report. The episode hints at a wider trend: global economic data have become alarmingly poor.
A new form of verification on Bluesky (bsky.social)
Trust is everything. Social media has connected us in powerful ways, but it hasn’t always given us the tools to know who we’re interacting with or why we should trust them.
Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry (forbes.com)
In the world of cybersecurity, where truth is paramount and trust is everything, silence can be louder than an alarm.
Political beliefs affect patients' trust in doctors, study finds (news.uoregon.edu)
Trustworthy AI Without Trusted Data (epfl.ch)
EPFL researchers developed a ground-breaking new tool to help build safer AI.
Most Americans don't trust AI – or the people in charge of it (theverge.com)
AI experts are feeling pretty good about the future of their field. Most Americans are not.
Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler (swtch.com)
Supply chain security is a hot topic today, but it is a very old problem.
Managing People You Can't Fire (staysaasy.com)
One of the worst situations in management is needing to fire someone and getting blocked. This happens somewhat regularly and is one of the most trust-breaking experiences between a manager and their boss. Let’s talk about why it happens and how to right-size the situation
Gen Z on why they stopped trusting experts in favor of influencers on TikTok (fortune.com)
Gen Z teens tell us why they stopped trusting experts in favor of influencers on TikTok
The misinformation crisis isn’t about truth, it’s about trust (eternallyradicalidea.com)
The misinformation crisis isn’t about truth, it’s about trust.
Exposing the LLM Code Trust Gap in AI IDEs (loom.com)
Loom is running a bit slower than usual.
Ask HN: I feel I can no longer trust my gut (ycombinator.com)
How to distrust a CA without any certificate errors (dadrian.io)
A “distrust” is when a certification authority (CA) that issues HTTPS certificates to websites is removed from a root store because it is no longer trusted to issue certificates.
The Press Falls to Another Record Low in Public Trust (jonathanturley.org)
We have previously discussed polling showing the media at record lows in public trust. Well, the latest survey from Gallup shows that the media hit another all-time low.
Ask HN: Crucial question about trust in open source apps (ycombinator.com)
Science needs reason to be trusted (2017) (nature.com)
That we now live in the grip of post-factualism would seem naturally repellent to most physicists. But in championing theory without demanding empirical evidence, we're guilty of ignoring the facts ourselves.
Federal workers say they increasingly distrust platforms like Facebook (theverge.com)
Federal workers say platforms they once used to communicate with their coworkers and friends increasingly feel insecure.
Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids (desunit.com)
Today, when my 1.9-year-old daughter tried to grab and eat an unwashed orange, I asked her to give it to me so I could wash and peel it if she could wait for a moment. She did. It got me thinking about the marshmallow experiment, where the idea was that patience equals success. But … it wasn’t the whole story.
Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech (techcrunch.com)
American teens have lost their faith in Big Tech, according to a new report from Common Sense Media, a nonprofit offering reviews and ratings for media and technology, which more recently includes AI products.
Can we get the benefits of transitive dependencies without undermining security? (tratt.net)
One of life’s great pleasures is trust: having confidence in another person to do the right thing warms the hearts of both parties.
Sigstore: Making sure your software is what it claims to be (sigstore.dev)
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Trusting clients is probably a security flaw (liberda.nl)
If your service needs to trust the clients, hold my Big Mac
Is GitHub a trustworthy keeper of our code? (thetechenabler.substack.com)
Before Github became the default, there were many competitors on equal-ish footing.