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An AI faceswapper/nudifier's database got leaked thanks to its nonexistent security - unsurprisingly, its loaded with explicit images, including massive amounts child porn and almost certainly some revenge porn.
WIRED tried reaching out to the company behind the "imagery", but they nuked everything and closed their doors in response.
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we're at the "the washing machine without a dateclock is marked millenium-bug safe in its marketing brochures" level of stupid
(that might seem like a stupid comparison but it's one of the things I most viscerally remember seeing from that time (when I was still a youngin who was still largely years away from computertouching))
My favorite meme message board on the internet keeps putting out bangers, but this one is extra good and relevant http://www.b3ta.com/board/11416629
NaNoWriMo? Na, No Mo'. Does this have anything to do with their bungled AI policy? Maybe, maybe not, but hey, the news article that I saw this announcement in thought that it was pertinent to mention.
Why does NaNoWriMo need a nonprofit anyway? What's next, No Nut November LLC?
As funny as that is, I am sure that there are nonprofits that are aiming to stop fapping.
There's a fucking for profit that does this and it's used by the god damn USA Speaker of the House so that his son can monitor his fondling
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I am fairly certain that their stupid AI stance at least played a role. I’m part of a largish writing community, where at least several hundred people did NaNo each year, a good part of them donated too. Last year, no one partook, instead we did our own internal thing.
If this happened across other communities too, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it did, they must have felt it financially.
I'll believe it! I didn't want to make that claim since I had no evidence.
Not dating your press releases on your own site is a choice. (Lot more places do this and it is driving me slowly mad) So, did they drop this yday? Some weird schrodingers april fools joke deflection attempt?
Their dumb contraction should have doomed the project from the start...
It is a CIA psyop to prevent revolutionary thought from arising in written media, in that it's a self-inflicted PIP that makes you feel inadequate in your creative writing ability. CIA funding (obviously funneled through NGOs via CIA front USAID) is how it's survived so long with such a stupid name. Of course, now that government spending on the CIA is going down, so is NaNoWriMo. All that's left is for it to be supplanted by some benevolent Chinese competitor that people will say steals your data, or something.
/s /s /s
[This is what tankies actually believe!!2!one!!!]
I demand you prove your assertion! preferably using wallspaghetti and alphabet soup, of course. so's I know it's totes legit and original!
(/s ofc, and link too (incase anyone didn't see that))
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tip from a discord:
I've been doing some micro tasking to train LLM's the last few months to earn some extra cash, the last month it's all dried up, no tasks available. I can't help thinking that is a sign of a bubble deflating.
Please please please
SMBC using the ratsphere as comics fodder, part the manyeth:
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Retrofuturistic Looking Ghost: SCROOOOOGE! I am the ghost of christmas extreme future! Why! Why did you not find a way to indicate to humans 400 generation from now where toxic waste was storrrrrrrred! Look how Tiny Tim's cyborg descendant has to make costrly RNA repaaaaaaairs!
Byline: The Longtermist version of A Christmas Carol is way better.
bonus
spoiler transcription Scrooge: I tried, but no, no, I just don't give a shit. :::
Your mistake, distant future ghost, was in developing RNA repair nanites without creating universal healthcare.
Gamers Nexus put out their April Fool's joke for this year, and became the first journalistic outlet to break Betteridge's law of headlines in the process.
they should’ve had an overlay tracking counter in that opening montage, goddamn
(just got to 4min:) “oh! it’s not just opening montage” ahahaha
Ed Zitron breaking out the anime references for April Fool's:
OpenAI: Nah, I'd become profitable
every so often I think of how Rat-brain is just bleach-dyed "the power of positive thinking" for nerds who don't get out in the world enough
Finally Tim Pool will get what is wrong with AI
Jesus, fine, I'll watch it already, God.
Prize for least funny, laziest AFJ goes to, no surprise, LW:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2NGKYt3xdQHwyfGbc/lesswrong-has-been-acquired-by-ea
Additional "points" for the commenting system using local times in the user's browser, thereby timestamping further unfunny AFJ at 2 Apr in my timezone.
Hey wait a minute we already made that (obvious) joke here on Awful Systems!
On the bright side, Derek Lowe has also escaped containment, which is nice
has he? where?
Lots of politics outlets have been linking his recent work. He's done a great job documenting the consequences (and gravity) of the ongoing grant apocalypse for the AAAS journal Science. I've loved him for years for being the FOOF guy.
I knew the HN reaction to Marine Le Pen being banned from being elected to public office would be unhinged, but weirdly I did not have "good, she's a woman and weak so now a strong man can lead RN to glorious victory" on my bingo card. More fool me, misogyny is always on the card.
Misogyny is the free square, easy to forget
There's a comment in there about how well it reflects on the British system that Bobby Sands was allowed to stand as an MP for Sinn Féin despite being an IRA member and a prisoner. This ignores that a) Sinn Féin policy was and is not to take seats in the British parliament, so he wouldn't have been voting or sitting on any committees, and b) Bobby Sands died in prison on hunger strike.
Why yes, I'm sure 29 year old Jordan "El italiano 93" Bardella, who 10 years ago was uploading Call of Duty videos to youtube, is a much stronger candidate.
A recent chapter of one of the official Touhou Project manga had a jab at crypto schemes. This isn't one of the works of art I expected to so explicitly dunk on these unscrupulous scams, but I welcome it all the more for that.
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Anyone who uses gen AI is my opp, status report:
- so far every restaurant that I've been to where I noticed AI slop as part of the decor has sucked. One of the ones local to me closed, hooray!
- IDF: haha look we are Ghibli please send us more machine guns
- a third thing
jesus fucking christ I think that IDF tweet is the worst thing that has ever existed
Taking the "insult to life itself" to a whole another level.
I've been browsing bluesky a fair amount recently and it's chock full of artists making non-AI Ghibli inspired art in response to the AI trend. Which is neat.
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Ran across an animation mocking AI art on Newgrounds recently - found it a pretty good watch.
wow, surprisingly 00s in its feeling, nice
Update on The Shadiversity Drama^tm^: he's still malding about being an utterly soulless waste of oxygen:
Now, some of you may be wondering "Monday, how is that AI-generated? That piece actually has a soul!" Well, as it turns out, it wasn't AI - Shad quite literally stole someone's artwork and passed it off as AI.
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