I remember reading that this may be already happening to some extent, eg people sharing tips on creating it on the deep web, maybe through prompt engineer, fine tuning or pretraining.

I don’t know how those models are made, but I do wonder the ones that need retraining/finetuning by using real csam can be classified as breaking the law.

Love it, tho somehow I initially thought it was lighting from a phone screen, which has its own interpretation.

You have 5 duplicates of the same post in WorldNews

I’m out of the loop here. I thought Cantonese is popularly spoken in China (and other parts of the world with Chinese immigrants/descendants). So even in China (like Guangdong), is Cantonese used very limitedly?

To add on to the detection issues, international students, students on the spectrum, students with learning disability, … can all be subject to being flagged as “AI generated” by AI detectors. Teachers/professors who have gut feelings should (1) re-consider what biases they have in expected writing styles, and (2), like u/mind says, check in with the students.

I was aware of this study when they presented it virtually (can’t remember where), and while I don’t have an issue with their approach and results, I’m more concerned about the implications of these numbers. The few percent that were exposed to extremist content may seen small. But scaling that up to population level, personally that is worrisome to me … The impact of the few very very bad apples can still catastrophic.

dead internet, here we go!

one case is when one is learning, experimenting and innovating.

To follow through with the analogy a bit, trying to craft the wheel can have give insights and more robust understanding of how the commercial wheels work, especially in tandem with the complex systems that the wheels operate in, e.g. engines, motors, different types of environments and their effects on the wheels, etc. This may better prepare us for when things break or need to be adapted to different environments that the commercial ones are not specifically designed for in the first place.

However, this does not mean the wheels one re-invents can easily replace the ones that have been stress-tested by many, especially the wheels in more critical situations.

An example is encryption implementation. Playing around with it is fun, educational, insightful. If you do research in crypto, by all means, play with the wheels, pull it apart, physically and mathematically.

But, unless you really really know what you’re doing, trying to cook one’s own implementation in an actual product to be offered for customers is, almost always, a promise for future data breaches. And this has happened in real world many times already, I believe.

while I agree it has become more of a common knowledge that they’re unreliable, this can add on to the myriad of examples for corporations, big organizations and government to abstain from using them, or at least be informed about these various cases with their nuances to know how to integrate them.

Why? I think partly because many of these organizations are racing to adopt them, for cost-cutting purposes, to chase the hype, or too slow to regulate them, … and there are/could still be very good uses that justify it in the first place.

I don’t think it’s good enough to have a blanket conception to not trust them completely. I think we need multiple examples of the good, the bad and the questionable in different domains to inform the people in charge, the people using them, and the people who might be affected by their use.

Kinda like the recent event at DefCon trying to exploit LLMs, it’s not enough we have some intuition about their harms, the people at the event aim to demonstrate the extremes of such harms AFAIK. These efforts can help inform developers/researchers to mitigate them, as well as showing concretely to anyone trying to adopt them how harmful they could be.

Regulators also need these examples in specific domains so they may be informed on how to create policies on them, sometimes building or modifying already existing policies of such domains.

seriously, how bad must it be to change name to clean up their image? We all expect this industry is controversial.

The only recent thing I remember about Pornhub is the current blocking in certain states as protest to the age verification requirement. That seems like a plus in my book that they stand up for privacy and internet use. Changing the name seems like it might dilute their stance.

Could they just build an artificial island when it is?

Except for signal, matrix is also decentralized. I understand what you meant tho. I think matrix still stores user data on servers, but they could be encrypted. Others who know please correct me.

darn, this is kinda sad. This is like research on existing works, rather than generating new ones and potentially exploiting them without attribution. It’s like another way of consuming and interpreting the content, much like how we read/watch books/movies and interpret them. We really are moving too quickly and it’s hard to have these conversations in a meaningful way.

here are a few options that I see but never actually use.

• contact https://wiki.archiveteam.org/; they have some reddit related archival activities going on
• more academic type and will be very helpful for researchers:
  • https://zenodo.org/
  • https://figshare.com/ (this I’ve used and very easy)
  • https://datadryad.org/
  • https://academictorrents.com/ (pushshift archives are also on here)
  • https://socialmediaarchive.org/

Your data don’t seem to be massive compared to the types of data people store on there. So I don’t think it’s gonna be an issue. Plus, if you deposit your data in 1 archivist place + 1 research place, the data may be used by more people. Don’t forget about licenses btw.

EDIT: added https://socialmediaarchive.org/ to the list, just found out about that.

Yeah, when I discoverer her, I was in complete awe in so many ways, especially regarding the ethics of technology and the implications on society. I believe she has a show about cars some time this fall in California (I think) if you’re interested.

By the way, if you don’t mind, can you share a few words of how her works resonate with you? I’d love to know. No pressure.

This reminds me of an artistic experiment that I heard of from Lauren McCarthy about how she went on a date and was streaming the entire date for people to watch, as well as giving her things to say/do. I believe they ended up marrying. I might have butchered the description as I couldn’t remember the exact details. I wonder what folks think of the comparison with this.

did not know “kidinfluencer” is a thing. the exploitative, child labor nature of such concept, the detrimental mental health effects of such practice, on kids no less. definitely something we can live without.

lol there really is an xkcd for everything!

On memmy I can see it. On the browser, I don’t see the downvotes for the comments either, only the net votes for them.

off topic, who the hell downvotes this post, and the comments about people with their/their cat’s sleeping habit? I wanna understand how that offends you …