This isn't true. AI can generate tan people if you show them the color tan and a pale person -- or green people or purple people. That's all ai does, whether it's image or text generation -- it can create things it hasn't seen by smooshing together things it has seen.
And this is proven by reality: ai CAN generate csam, but it's trained on that huge image database, which is constantly scanned for illegal content.
I guess my question is, why would anyone continue to "consume" -- or create -- real csam? If fake and real are both illegal, but one involves minimal risk and 0 children, the only reason to create real csam is for the cruelty -- and while I'm sure there's a market for that, it's got to be a much smaller market. My guess is the vast majority of "consumers" of this content would opt for the fake stuff if it took some of the risk off the table.
I can't imagine a world where we didn't ban ai generated csam, like, imagine being a politician and explaining that policy to your constituents. It's just not happening. And i get the core point of that kind of legislation -- the whole concept of csam needs the aura of prosecution to keep it from being normalized -- and normalization would embolden worse crimes. But imagine if ai made real csam too much trouble to produce.
AI generated csam could put real csam out of business. If possession of fake csam had a lesser penalty than the real thing, the real stuff would be much harder to share, much less monetize. I don't think we have the data to confirm this but my guess is that most pedophiles aren't sociopaths and recognize their desires are wrong, and if you gave them a way to deal with it that didn't actually hurt chicken, that would be huge. And you could seriously throw the book at anyone still going after the real thing when ai content exists.
Obviously that was supposed to be children not chicken but my phone preferred chicken and I'm leaving it.
Me: Oh, I get it, this "Lemmy" website -- it's like The Onion but for nerds?
My fellow lemmings: No, they're serious. run0 is real.
Me: Hah. The Onion, but for nerds! I love it.
The 8gb ram MacBook works great for [...] writing resumes...
Um I'm not sure where you heard that but ChatGPT requires a shit ton of memory
(Sorry, I'll show myself out)
I still get block messages in Vivaldi, but not Firefox.
Trump took a LOT of money in gifts from China while in office so I would guess they like him
Edit to add source. There are lots more articles, this is far from the only one
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/us/politics/trump-hotels-foreign-business-report.html
So like uh I'm not trying to out myself as a boomer but how do they use Tiktok nefariously? I used it for about 5 minutes once, the whole experience was just not for me. Do they just take people's videos and put captions on them?
For sure. Look, I hate Stack Overflow as much as the next guy but you gotta admit, for the big picture, long term, best practice for the future of software development, that's the correct format: one question, focused discussion, end.
Discord's failure to make its history available is really going to put a big hole in the middle of our cultural wisdom.
Mumble does that one thing just fine, but it doesn't do all the things discord does.
And it's not just the fact that discord does all those things that's made it so dominant; it's the fact that it does all those things in one place.
Even just the core features of voice chat, text chat, and the ability to set up a new server where you have extensive moderation control in one click -- it's what people wanted.
They don't need a handful of different programs to glue together a shittier experience, they need a FOSS discord/slack.
??? I hope you don't actually think this
There's no reason to require everyone on earth to prioritize a better computer interfacing environment over their free time.
My time is worth way more to me than video game voice chat -- but it's not either/or. Thanks to other developers, I can have both.
Edit: tldr: I think I probably could've saved myself a lot of time by just saying that discord is like slack but for friends/fun.
I didn't think people use it like lemmy/Reddit. People use it like IRC. That's the analogous tech. IRC is better in almost every way, but not in the most important ways: ease of use, and voice chat.
I know only a handful of people who could set up a server for IRC, but in discord, it's a one-button process. Sure, you can use a public IRC server, but then your channels are harder to organize and you don't have as much moderation control. I dn't think
I would vastly prefer IRC, but even if it was easy to set up, I would still need something for voice chat, and, sure, there are plenty of voice chat tools, but not ones that integrate with text chat so well.
I think a lot of people like the API and the bots built from it, tho personally that's not something I use much.
I'm in probably ~50 servers: groups of friends, video game guilds, tech chat (eg HTMX, Lit, Svelte), random interests (eg mechanical keyboards), and community servers for video games (eg a couple of LFG servers, a couple servers where I can ask questions to tryhards, streamers' communities, etc).
I would vastly prefer to use something FOSS, but there just isn't something that does it so well and so easily -- and even then, I'd probably have to use discord for a bunch of these things.
I dated a girl named Password for a while. She was a lot older than me, she was born in the year 1234.
Anyway, @op the exact same thing happened to me. I gotta get smarter about opsec.