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  • I understand, albeit in layman's terms, more or less what LLMs and image generators are doing, and used the ship of Theseus as shorthand referring to the processes by which real photos are laundered into data sets.

    I am aware of the literal difference between an individual model and the data it trains on, and understand that Grok and it's like are divorced from their output. I have even played with running a local model. This level of concern would be unwarranted if humans were decent and only trained Grok on and requested of Grok to generate puppies playing in open fields.

    That doesn't mean any image created by it henceforth is in any meaningful way a picture of you.

    Of course not, it is a picture of hundreds of thousands or maybe millions of people who offered up varying degrees of consent* for the use of their bodies to make any kind of porn.

    *Usually 0%, as data illegally scraped is not subject to a hostile TOS agreement if it is uploaded as training data by the scraper without even the knowledge or consent of the original company hosting the data

    Like anyone who has ever seen a child or depiction of a child producing any sexually explicit illustration of any sort everafter, then? Because even human artists do not create ex nihilo, they start from a foundation of their cumulative experiences, which means anyone who has ever laid eyes on your child or a photo of your child is at some level incorporating some aspect of that experience however small into any artwork they create henceforth and should they ever draw anything explicit...

    I think this largely speaks for itself as some of the worst words ever put together in any order generally. Comparing human creativity and how we draw inspiration from our forebears to the present subject is abhorrent. Imagining human minds turning every single speck of human flesh they see into jackoff material because you assume that is how the mind works because you learned it from a robot is beyond everything.

    Die on some other hill unless you're being paid well. This is a neo Nazi's CSAM and propaganda machine. If they want to fix it, they'll scrub their training data and figure out the weights and do a massive ban wave on the abusers. It is not on this world to suffer excuses for this hideous fucking bullshit.

  • A computer program trained off millions of pictures of people that the program's parent company acquired by hook or by crook and now any photo you posted of your kids is fair game to be recycled into the most heinous shit imaginable at the press of a button by the kind of slug still using Twitter. There is abuse happening there, when they decided to build a machine that could take family photos put online by wellmeaning people and statistically morph them ship-of-Theseus style into pornography with no safeguards.

    If I were a parent and even theoretically one pixel of hair on my child's head were used as aggregate data for this mathematic new form of abuse by proxy, I'd be old testament mad. I would liken it to a kind of theft or even rape that we have no clear word for or legal concept of yet.

    I would suggest just not defending this stuff in any way because you're simply going to lose, or from your perspective, be dogpiled by people having what you perceive to be an extreme moral panic over this issue.

  • I do understand, and it does make sense to me.

  • Been reading this thread interested as someone whose loved one works for municipal IT. On that basis I sympathize with your perspective, but I have to take issue with this statement:

    And now, Americans, stuck in a system that has been stolen by a skinwalker.

    I wouldn't say so. This is the system that we have. The executive office has been erasing checks and balances since WWII. The Heritage Foundation and other SIGs have been pushing white supremacy for 200 years. ICE was created by Bush Jr. after after a mob riot in Florida disrupted a recount that could have given the presidency to Al Gore. Generously this is when we can say our democracy first proved flawed, but the rationalizations and mechanisms go back to our founding. We haven't been hijacked, we are the monster and have been for some time.

  • Could you try explaining what the user said that was incorrect instead of calling them racist four times and citing some book?

  • My mind's eye flashes to something like The Master and I'm bummed that's considered "gamey" by great actors. Not that I expect actors to go fucking play Fallout 1 with a Small Gun Crit/Speech build and go collect the Brotherhood's data and confront the Master in a battle of words... but if someone would like to show Goggins on their phone that kind of thing is in the games, that the games themselves strived very hard to make living, colorful worlds, I think it certainly wouldn't hurt the show. Hell if someone wants to show that scene to anyone currently at Bethesda I think it could positively impact the next game.

  • I miss all previous presidents I have experienced prior to now and even Bush would be an improvement versus what we have literally now. They're all directly at fault for the present situation in some way.

  • Regular, non-expert internet users find it interesting, or even amusing, to generate images or videos using AI and to send that media to their friends. While sophisticated media aesthetics find those creations gauche or even offensive, a lot of other cultures find them perfectly acceptable. And it’s an inarguable reality that millions of people find AI-generated media images emotionally moving.

    You're describing the internet equivelant of ignorance and figurative poverty, where people don't have the knowledge or the resources to make better choices (fast food deserts, faith healers, the PowerBall) because they are institutionally deprived. This is the same class of users/consumers that big companies look for those exact same qualities in to shill the exact same AI garbage to because they don't know anybetter. This article is suggesting Mozilla flood the streets of a poor neighborhood with their own crank because their crank is cut less. I see the argument as bad, I see the premise as evil, and I see the rhetoric as manipulative. Respectfully, no.

  • If Halo wasn't dead before it is now. Microsoft whored the Chief out. Considering the state the franchise was already in remaking its first game for a third time to milk nostalgia, I just don't think there'll ever be another Halo title that doesn't reek of tonsil stones and human ashes.

  • "Finally"

  • I am perpetually haunted by a news story I saw circa 2018 showing footage of children being led around New York at about 1AM by a prim kindergarten teacher-type woman. News sources at the time said they came from the border. So what in the name of God were they doing in New York across the continent? I have had a rising sense of panic about this for ever and I fear you are dead on. Want a never ending goodie bag of slaves with no paper trail? Militarize a border.

  • All true, but the evangelical right don't care about that, that's all neocon power games and European stuff. The power driving how the admin behaves has nothing to do with longterm geopolitical thinking and everything to do with racialized religious intolerance, property deals, and people literally praying for the end of the world.

  • https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/gaza-war-evangelical-leaders-cheer-end-world-1234884151/

    I was begging people to listen. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are fucking failures but Harris, while still a milquetoast cop, would have at some point stopped supporting Israel because of optics. Probably after too many were already dead of course. But the actual theology of mainline Christianity involves prophecies where both Israel and everyone on all sides of her suffer inconceivably. Christians have reversed the causation so that by causing, hopefully, a nuclear hot war in the Middle East they literally think Jesus will come back. There is and was NO ROOM for Palestinians in this plan. Not a one. There is, in fact, no room for anybody but the sanctified corpses of Jews the Christians only used as pawns and their own selves just waiting on the smoking ruins for Jesus. This is WHY Americans support Israel and even the Democrats still sell them guns: They virtue signal being Christian for campaigning optics, and that means selling guns to God's chosen fall guys. I tell you with 100% certainty Netanyahu knows this very basic fact about the American Christian right and exploited it to stay in power and out of jail. Trump needed to win an election to stay out of jail. October 7th was perfect timing for them. The idiot "faithful" democrats had to virtue signal their adherence to iron age thought systems or the so-called moderate vote they believed in would completely evaporate. Well, they were never going to win that game if they were playing with conservative Christians in practically their home town of Israel Apocalypse stuff.

    Yeah this is why I argued what I argued. This is why I dealt with getting called an idiot, centrist, and a shill. The plan by our administration and the rich Israelis is to let Israel stir up a general war, maybe even a nuclear exchange, let all those pesky people in the holy land erradicate eachother. The more they do and the more violently and brutally they do it, the harder the ripcord of Christofascism is yanked. I'm not really looking forward to seeing what these people are like when they think they're literally all bit players in the Book of Revelarions.

  • https:// allaboutlawyer . com /macdonalds-coffee-lawsuit-burn-pictures/#the-publics-misunderstanding-and-media-sensationalism

    I invite you to take a look at what the coffee actually did to her before you keep running your mouth. NSFL. If you would not like to look, I offer my services as a transcriber to describe it in depth for you. Whatever I can to make this awful lie McDonalds perpetuated to finally go away.

  • The terrible title makes it seem like autistic people do not experience empathy. I would say there is a ten to one disparity in the capacity for empathy autistic people hold versus the capacity for empathy people are willing to demonstrate readily toward autistic people. Somebody brings up Republicans and that bothers you, here's a thought: are you sure your country has a conservative element that isn't following behind where American conservatives are leading with their increasingly openly eliminationist actions?

    Its like the fact that A LARGE SUPERPOWER run by IRRATIONAL NAZIS might come up in your day to day life as regards the rights and dignities of minorities as you use this PLANETARY INFORMATION NETWORK.

    Ohhh feddit.uk. My friend your LABOR party is practically synonymous with our conservatives at this point.

  • If it was considered really bad to call hopped up white people crackers I have a feeling the term is about be seen in a new light because of this shit. This IS by definition cracker shit.

  • The people of New Orleans and humanity et al are not parasites. I hope you realize we're more like addicts being abused by the elite who purposefully stifle any attempt to wean off fossil fuels or reform society. The parasites in that state were in Baton Rouge decades prior and to this day letting the wetlands be eroded and building pipelines over them, practically letting the storm water in through the front door on a nice welcome mat.

  • I think they might have mumblemouthed it but you bastards have decided among yourselves that their mispoken statement cannot merely represent an ignorant and misinformed read of history but an intentionally violently racist viewpoint. The screenshotted user was I warrant correct in their historical analysis and absolutely fucking wrong to put words in the thread-OPs mouth, as if earnestly trying to alienate instead of persuade or fact check a damn thing.

    Like yeah, abolition wouldn't have happened without black people, from freedmen writers to rebelling chattel slaves, advocated for themselves. All the well meaning white people (on average rarer then anyway) wouldn't have meant much without black people wanting to be free and making it known.

    Why would you go out of your way to read a person's response in the worst possible way? Maybe I'm just a fukken airhead but I didn't see any dogwhistle that justified how you lot are speaking to them. You simply decided to tar and feather the fucker for being kind of wrong about labor history. Then you springboarded into a merciless bed of assumptions.

  • One can present a state of derangement independent of their normal mental health but which does endanger those around them while the state is ongoing. I hope you are not falling for garden variety concern trolling but even as a non-local user I wanna say I do appreciate your commenting (and that of the individual who filed the report) to prevent casual ableism.