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@voradtras

harley || they/any || nb poc || queer + trans

being a woman is fucking exhausting. everything is created to disgrace our lives. this is horrifying.

The website promises to make “men’s dreams come true.” Users upload a photo of a fully clothed woman of their choice, and in seconds, the site undresses them for free. With that one feature, it has exploded into one of the most popular “deepfake” tools ever created.

Far more advanced than the now-defunct “DeepNude” app that went viral in 2019, this new site has amassed more than 38 million hits since the start of this year, and has become an open secret in misogynist corners of the web. (HuffPost is not naming the site in order to avoid directing further traffic to it.) It went offline briefly Monday after HuffPost reached out to its original web host provider, IP Volume Inc., which quickly terminated its hosting services. But the site was back up less than a day later with a new host — as is often the case with abusive websites.

"Hany Farid, a computer scientist at UC-Berkeley who specializes in digital-image forensics and was not involved in the original pix2pix research, said the fake-nude system also highlights how the male homogeneity of AI research has often left women to deal with its darker side.

AI researchers, he said, have long embraced a naive techno-utopian worldview that is hard to justify anymore, by openly publishing unregulated tools without considering how they could be misused in the real world.

“It’s just another way people have found to weaponize technology against women. Once this stuff gets online, that’s it. Every potential boyfriend or girlfriend, your employer, your family, may end up seeing it,” Farid said. “It’s awful, and women are getting the brunt of it.

“Would a lab not dominated by men have been so cavalier and so careless about the risks?” he added. “Would [AI researchers] be so cavalier if that bad [stuff] was happening to them, as opposed to some woman down the street?”"

There is so much wrong with AI art generators, this is just the beginning. Until the database is shut down, the generators are forced to purge their unlicensed and stolen art, and they set up an opt-in database like the one that AI music generators use, this will get worse and worse.

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I think the funniest part of this post is everyone who knows just enough about languages to correct OP but not enough to understand the whole thing so there are comments like “What the fuck do you mean American is a romance language when it’s Germanic, please talk to a linguist” while not touching on, say, “sanscript”

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Potential Design Assets by Joshua Jenkins for Disco Elysium

Not a lot of people have seen these I think and the ones about the pale are the most interesting in my opinion so maybe others will find them interesting as well!

I am so fucking normal about entroponetics.

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also these from here

Artificial intelligence is already revolutionizing law enforcement, which has implemented advanced technology in their investigations, but “society has a moral obligation to mitigate the detrimental consequences,” a recent study says.
AI is in its teenage years, as some experts have said, but law enforcement agencies are already integrating predictive policing, facial recognition and technologies designed to detect gunshots into their investigations, according to a North Carolina State University report published in February.
The report was based on 20 semi-structured interviews of law enforcement professionals in North Carolina, and how AI impacts the relationships between communities and police jurisdictions.
Part of the issue is police officers’ general lack of knowledge about AI’s capabilities and how they work, said Ronald Dempsey, the first author of the study and a former graduate student at NC State.
That “makes it difficult or impossible for them to appreciate the limitations and ethical risks,” Dempsey said. “That can pose significant problems for both law enforcement and the public.”

Police do understand how these technologies work. These technologies allow them to harass, threaten, detain, assault, torture, rape, and murder with impunity. Like all junk science from “burn pattern analysis” to “hair fiber analysis” that the cops use, AI is just another way for cops to enforce the status quo.

I know it’s fox news but this framing is all too common across the political spectrum. These aren’t silly naive dogooders who just need the proper “education”. These are warriors in a class war and they are winning.

wierd little girls who grow up to be weird trans men, and weird little boys who grow up to be weird trans women, and weird little kids who grow up to be weird nonbinary adults