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We literally have a global rise in violent fascism and multiple ongoing genocides, and TikTok is the worst thing you can think of?

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Disposable vapes put more lithium into landfills than EVs. Everyone throws their vape in the trash, nobody throws their EV battery module in the trash

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Because people use Twitch on Linux with a VPN? This seems kinda obvious...

Paedophiles create nude AI images of children to extort from them, says charity | Internet safety | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

Internet Watch Foundation has found a manual on dark web encouraging criminals to use software tools that remove clothing. The manipulated image could then be used against the child to blackmail them into sending more graphic content, the IWF said.

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I mean, it would be nice if demand for sex was just pushing us towards AI VR waifus or something. Let the neckbeards put on a haptic suit and bang all the Evangelian characters or something. Kinda fucked that we're going straight to fully-automated sexual exploitation of kids...

I wish we lived in a cool cyberpunk dystopia instead of the horror show that is present day reality.

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We could deal with this easily by banning the distribution of porn entirely.

Easily? This would cause riots.

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I want to be happy that the IWF exists and is collecting data about this kind of thing. This is extremely difficult and important work.

But they are also lobbying to ban encryption, arguing that privacy only helps criminals.

Sorry, but if Facebook is too dangerous for kids, instead of banning encryption so the authorities can more easily catch child abusers, let's just ban children from using Facebook before they fall victim to abuse.

Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps (www.404media.co)

Instagram is profiting from several ads that invite people to create nonconsensual nude images with AI image generation apps, once again showing that some of the most harmful applications of AI tools are not hidden on the dark corners of the internet, but are actively promoted to users by social media companies unable or...

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The draw to these apps is that the user can exploit anyone they want. It's not really about sex, it's about power.

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This is such a dumb argument. Nobody is claiming that the AI can show you what's actually beneath a person's clothes. The nudes being fake doesn't resolve the ethical issue of creating porn of people who never agreed to it.

The people doing mental gymnastics about this stuff are just telling on themselves. Don't make fake porn of real people, and if you do, be prepared to be rightfully treated as a sexual predator if anyone finds out.

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You seem to have reading comprehension issues. They said that this could be done to their body, which is 100% true.

Any picture of anyone can be processed with an AI, and "nudified". Yes, the AI generated portions of the image are fake, and likely won't resemble the person's actual body under their clothing. Results are probably more accurate for photos of people in swimsuits vs more conservative outfits but...

...that doesn't matter. If you're modifying a picture of a real person to make them nude, even without AI, it amounts to sexually violating the person in the original image. Even if you're just photoshopping their face into porn, that's fucking vile and I see no reason there shouldn't be real consequences for it - especially if these images are shared with others.

Nobody defends this shit like you are unless they are doing it themselves. With that said, reevaluate yourself and stop sexually violating women.

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It sounded like they thought the AI would literally reveal their body tho, which simply isn’t true.

They didn't say anything like that. You can go back and re-read the thread yourself. If you were wrong, own up to it, but absolutely fuck off with this "well, ackshually" troll response.

If you view sexual assault as a form of free speech, expect to be treated for the kind of person you're telling everyone that you are.

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You didn't have to come out and tell everyone that you're one of those guys who doesn't understand the concept of sexual exploitation and consent.

It literally doesn't matter what you call this. Colloquially the technology is known as "Generative AI", and it is fully automating the task of making fake nudes to the point that shady websites only require a single input image, and with a few layers of machine learning, are able to spit out a convincing nude.

It was just as fucked up when perverts sexually exploited people with Photoshop, so I don't understand what your point here is. "AI" has made sexual exploitation fully automated, and there's absolutely no excuse for defending this.

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Sharing this screenshot again, to drive the point home.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/8ffa78b2-7400-4948-9093-a8d20319eaef.jpeg

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This was from a test I did with a throwaway account on IG where I followed a handful of weirdo parents who run "model" accounts for their kids to see if Instagram would start pushing problematic content as a result (spoiler: yes they will).

It took about 5 minutes from creating the account to end up with nothing but dressed down kids on my recommendations page paired with inappropriate ads. I guess the people who follow kids on IG also like these recommended photos, and the algorithm also figures they must be perverts, but doesn't care about the sickening juxtaposition of children in swimsuits next to AI nudifying apps.

Don't use Meta products. They don't care about ethics, just profits.

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Send 'em to Zuck.

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This 100%. I can't even bring myself to buy new content for my Quest now that I'm aware of the issues (no matter how much I want the latest Beat Saber and Synth Riders DLC), especially since Meta's Horizon, in my experience, puts adults into direct contact with children. At first I just dismissed metaverse games like VRChat or Horizon as being too popular with kids for me to enjoy it, but now I realize that it put me, an adult, straight into voice chats with tweens, which people should fucking know better than to do. My first thought was to log off because I wasn't having fun in a kid-dominated space, but I have no doubt that these apps are crawling with creeps who see that as a feature rather than a problem.

We need education for parents that sharing pictures of their kids online comes with real risks, as does giving kids free reign to use the Internet. The laissez faire attitude many people have towards social media needs to be corrected, because real harm is already being done.

Most of the parents that post untoward pics of their kids online are chasing down opportunities for their kids to model, and they're ignoring the fact that a significant volume of engagement these photos receive comes from people objectifying children. There seems to be a pattern that the most revealing outfits get the most engagement, and so future pictures are equally if not more revealing to chase more engagement...

Parents might not understand how disturbing these patterns are until they've already dumped thousands of pictures online, and at that point they're likely to be in denial about what they're exposing their kids to, and/or too invested to want to reverse course.

We also need to have a larger conversation, as a society, about using kids as models at all. Pretty much every major manufacturer of children's clothing is hiring real kids to model the clothes. I don't think it's necessary to be publishing that many pictures of kids online, nor is it acceptable to be doing so for profit. There's no reason not to limit modeling to adults who can consent to putting their bodies on public display, and using mannequins for kids' clothing. The sheer volume of kids' swimsuit and underwear pictures hosted on e-commerce sites is likely a contributor to the capability Generative AI models have to create inappropriate images of children, not to mention the actual CSAM found in the LAION dataset most of these models are trained on.

Sorry for the long rant, this shit pisses me off. I need to consider sending 404 Media everything I know since they're doing investigations into this kind of thing. My small scale investigation has revealed a lot to me, but more people need to be getting as upset as I am about it if we want to make the Internet less of a hellscape.

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I logged into my throwaway account today just to check in on it since people are talking about this shit more. I was immediately greeted with an ad featuring hardcore pornography, among the pics of kids that still populate my feed.

I'll spare you the screenshot, but IG is fucked.

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Generative AI is being used quite prominently for the purposes of making nonconsensual pornography. Just look at the state of CivitAI, the largest marketplace of Stable Diffusion models online. It pretends to be a community for Machine Learning professionals, but behind the scenes it's laying the groundwork for all of the problems we're seeing right now. There's not an actress or female celebrity that doesn't have a TI or LoRA trained on their likeness - and the galleries don't hold back on showing you what these models can do.

At least Photoshop never gained the specific reputation of being a tool for making fake porn, but the GenAI community is leaving no doubt that this is a major use case for image models.

Even HuggingFace turns a blind eye to pornifying models and lolicon datasets, and they're basically the GitHub of AI models...

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Yeah, let's just sexually violate everyone. /s

Who the hell is upvoting this awful take? Please understand that it would never be equitable. If this became reality, it would be women and girls that were exploited the most viciously.

I guess if you don't give a shit about people, especially women and girls, feeling safe in public at all, you would say something like this...

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Do you want to make it punishable by jail time?

Yes, sex crimes deserve harsh punishments.

How do you prove some anon on 4chan that posts nudes of someone else actually deepfaked it?

It's either deepfaked, or revenge porn. Whichever charge sticks. If 4chan refuses to unmask anons posting illegal content, throw the book at 4chan. Way overdue anyway.

I don't see how this can otherwise be contained.

See previous two answers.

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That's kinda why I brought up specific key players and how I consider them complicit. If you don't want AI to be blamed as a whole, you should want those key players to behave ethically, or they'll poison public perception of AI as a whole.

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The pedos out there are using AI to nudity pictures of real kids. That's just going to drive up the demand for creep shots and child model photosets to exploit.

There may be a small percentage of offending pedophiles that switch to pure GenAI over pictures of real kids, but I don't see GenAI ever playing a role in harm reduction given the harm it ultimately enables.

One of the current sickening trends is for a predator to convince a kid to send underwear or swimsuit pics, and then blackmail them into more hardcore photos with nudified versions of the original pics. They're already seeing an influx of that kind of CSAM online, that involves abusing real kids on social media.

I just wish America was less puritanical and taught kids about sex and boundaries to protect them, and that we had a functioning mental healthcare system that directly helps people who experience inappropriate sexuality attractions like pedophilia before they go down these dark paths.

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Oh cool, a webpage full of low-effort AI generated garbage.

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A VPN eliminates the need for port forwarding.

Edit: Not talking about a "privacy VPN", but an actual VPN that lives up to the name "Virtual Private Network", where you are connecting to the private network you wish to access.

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going from a public device to a device in a protected network

You mean the literal function of a VPN?

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No shit the VPN requires an open port, I never said otherwise, but if your router is the one running the server, you aren't forwarding the port. The router itself is listening on its WAN interface.

The VPN prevents you from having to forward any ports, because the router allows you to tunnel in. The only open port will be whatever port the VPN server listens on, and it isn't a forwarded port.

Source: I literally work at a VPN company.

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What is specifically broken or missing from LibreOffice?

As for OneNote alternatives, this one does a pretty good job: https://xournalpp.github.io/

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3/92 on virus total is a great result. The only scanners reporting a problem are the ones that are always wrong.

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Look, I hate TERFs and distrust the US government, but this take is just conspiracy theory nonsense. Unless you have some evidence that the US government is forcing social media to promote anti-trans content, I have absolutely zero reason to believe your claim over the more believable explanation: that promoting controversial content drives engagement and increases ad revenue.

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That's not a great expectation of Meta...

https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/far-right-figures-including-nazi-supporters-anti-gay-extremists-and-white-supremacists-are

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The Quest is Android based, which is Linux based, so kinda if you're cool with two layers of megacorp between you and the kernel.

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Boards of Canada is a very popular IDM artist, and they're the third result down from the top.

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I hate Siri, but you can do a "Hey Siri, whose phone is this?" and it will force PIN unlock. Great if you aren't able to physically touch the phone.

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Good thing that all of the giant monolithic internet companies that the NSA will be using for surveillance are used exclusively by Americans. The NSA isn't interested in foreign intel anyway. /s

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The NSA violates the laws of the US. What makes you think they care about other countries' laws?

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Boeing isn't an airline...

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But without planes and their deadly propellers, where will we push Nazis?

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Anything can be an AI if the marketing department decides to call it AI.

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I submitted a few weird requests to mturk just to see how it works. I was able to read a bunch of magazines for cheap by paying people $0.01 for every two scanned pages of any magazine that was no older than 3 editions old.

I ended up with a ton of random digitized magazines, and ended up learning a lot about the kinds of people who do mturk tasks from the magazines they scanned. Seems to mostly be bored housewives, at least 10 years ago when I did this.

I paid for my experiments with the ~$50 I earned from doing mturk tasks myself, and let me tell you, it was miserable stuff. Sub-minimum wage drudgery... At least I suffered myself what I made others suffer with my stupid tasks, and all I got out of it was a bunch of articles I didn't actually want to read.

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I would guess that since it mentions teleconferencing and gaming, that they want to create low-latency fast-lanes.

But they also mention TikTok, so I am not completely sure that they are referring to latency.

This article isn't very good at explaining what they're talking about on a technical level.

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I have a hard time believing that since TikTok is such a popular mobile app, and 4G users are going to have a minimum of 200ms latency over-the-air.

5G does offer much faster over-the-air latency of only 1ms, but if TikTok were to become unusable if the latency between tower and server exceeds 1ms, I would expect to hear widespread complaints about that, as the vast majority of users aren't going to have <2ms latency between them and the server. Pinging TikTok.com from my 5G handset (in a major metro area) shows a latency of 80ms. Admittedly, AWS and GCP, where TikTok hosts content primarily for US users, likely has better latency. My personal experience with those platforms doesn't suggest that it would be that good- pinging the cloudfront CDN endpoints associated with my account, I get latency between 40-60ms.

Besides, video streaming shouldn't be affected by latency, only throughput. TikTok videos are just MP4 files on a CDN, as long as you can download them faster than you can play them, high latency shouldn't even be noticeable to the user, outside of initial load times for latency exceeding a few hundred ms (up to a second or so delay if establishing a fresh TCP connection, depending on the latency).

Maybe TikTok Live could be an issue, but its a one-way channel so a delay shouldn't be noticeable like it would be with a 2-way teleconference. Maybe if there was high jitter or packet loss, the stream could have extremely low quality.

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Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu

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They would need your contact info for that...

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Then give it to them. Address books, physical and digital, are nothing new.

Some of us don't want just anyone with something to say showing up in our inboxes.

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It's doing quite well and you're the only person I've ever seen take offense to the name, so I guess you'll just have to cope with spooky newsletters 👻

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I have had a lot of success.

First I went through this list and filled out lots of opt-out forms: https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List

Then I emailed everyone on this (dated) list: https://github.com/privacybot-berkeley/privacybot/blob/master/app%2Fservices_list_06May2021.csv

I got a lot of follow up emails suggesting that my requests were honored, or having me do follow up steps to have my request honored. Only two pushback emails suggesting that they don't have legally respect my opt out, to which I provided them a strict do-not-contact request that hopefully encourages them to do nothing with any data they might have on me.

It was a huge amount of effort (~50 hours), but my private info was nearly ungooglable a couple of weeks after I finished.

After seeing a huge difference, I then signed up for DeleteMe, and compared to a few friends of mine who never did their own work before signing up, my quarterly reports are extremely sparse. Hopefully it's easier for them to play whack-a-mole with my data since I did lots of the initial work.

So far I can't find anything about myself I wouldn't want to see on any search engine. If I did, I would just find the opt out page and try to nip it in the bud.

As the Internet Gets Scarier, More Parents Keep Their Kids’ Photos Offline (getpocket.com)

Here's a non-paywalled link to an article published in the Washington Post a few days ago. It's great to see this kind of thing getting some mainstream attention. Young children have not made an informed decision about whether they want their photos posted online.

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I too am conflicted about having posted this info, but these accounts are already getting plenty of attention. Some have over 100k followers. I figure it's better that people know how this works so they can oppose it, even if it risks helping a few new unsavory people to seek these kinds of accounts out.

I've tried my options at informing Meta about this issue, and unsurprisingly it is completely impossible to establish any meaningful contact with a company like this.

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I highly recommend reading "I'm Glad My Mom Died" by Jennette McCurdy, and watching the "Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV" Docu-series. It really helped me understand the mentality of parents like this and what they personally want out of it. "Reliving their youth vicariously" is a pretty good summary, along with the belief that making their kids famous will guarantee them a bright future.

But it absolutely exposes children to exploitation and abuse, and sometimes the abuse can be quite extreme.

Banana Pi BPI-M7 - More Reasons to Avoid the Raspberry Pi (www.cnx-software.com)

The Banana Pi BPI-M7 single board computer is equipped with up to 32GB RAM and 128GB eMMC flash, and features an M.2 2280 socket for one NVMe SSD, three display interfaces (HDMI, USB-C, MIPI DSI), two camera connectors, dual 2.5GbE, WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2, a few USB ports, and a 40-pin GPIO header for expansion.

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There's an AliExpress link in the article that clearly prices it at $260...

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