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- Comment on Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge 1 day ago:
To me, it’s more like the Netherlands giving out free syringes and needles so that drug consumers at least wouldn’t contract something from the used ones.
To be clear: granting any and all pedophiles access to therapy would be of tremendous help. I think it must be done. But there are two issues remaining:
- Barely any government will scrape enough money to fund such programs now that therapy is astronomically expensive
- Even then, plenty of pedophiles will keep consuming CSAM, legally or not. There must be some incentives for them to choose the AI-generated option that is at least less harmful than the alternative.
- Comment on Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge 1 day ago:
I think such matters should be kept strictly out of corporate hands
- Comment on Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge 1 day ago:
Why though? If it does reduce consumption of real CSAM (which is an “if”, as the stigma around the topic greatly hinders research), it’s a net win.
Or is it simply a matter of spite?
- Comment on Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge 1 day ago:
That would be true if children were abused specifically to obtain the training data. But what I’m talking about is using the data that already exists, taken from police investigations and other sources. Of course, it also requires victim’s consent (as they grow old enough), as not everyone will agree to have materials of their abuse proliferate in any way.
Police has already used CSAM with victim’s consent to better impersonate CSAM platform admins in investigative operations, leading to arrests of more child abusers and those sharing the materials around.
The case with AI is milder, as it requires minimum human interaction, so no one will need to re-watch the materials as long as victims are already identified. It’s enough for the police to contact victims, get the agreement, and feed the data into AI without releasing the source. With enough data, AI could improve image and video generation, driving more watches away from real CSAM and reducing rates of abuse.
That is, if it works this way. There’s a glaring research hole in this area, and I believe it is paramount to figure out if it helps. Then, we could decide whether to include already produced CSAM into the data, or if adult data is sufficient to make it good enough for the intended audience to make a switch.
- Comment on Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge 2 days ago:
Honestly, I’d love to see more research on how AI CSAM consumption affects consumption of real CSAM and rates of sexual abuse.
Because if it does reduce them, it might make sense to intentionally use datasets already involved in previous police investigations as training data. But only if there’s a clear reduction.
(Police has already used some materials, with victims’ consent, to crack down on CSAM sharing platforms in the past).
- Comment on Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge 2 days ago:
I feel like our relationship to it is also quite messed.
AI doesn’t actually undress people, it just draws a naked body. It’s an artistic representation, not an X-ray. You’re not getting actual nudes in this process.
Now, such images can be used to blackmail people, because again, our culture didn’t quite catch up with the fact that every nude image can absolutely be AI-generated fake. When it does, however, I fully expect creators of such things to be seen as odd creeps spreading their fantasies around and any nude imagery to be seen as fake by default.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Oil
Also an easy win to boost reputation among MAGA folks
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 6 days ago:
One of the core policies of Wikipedia, remaining from its inception, is neutrality.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_vie…
This fully applies to describing international conflicts and wars. If you find Wikipedia biased, there are two things you can do:
- Collect credible evidence, and suggest edits
- Check if you are biased yourself
- Comment on Being afraid of vaccines is literally childish behavior. 1 week ago:
That would be good, yes. A more relaxed approach to vaccination has caused plethora of public health problems.
Side effects tend to get less likely when we get more experience working with vaccines of a certain type. Modern coronavirus vaccines are better and safer than the first ones already, and flu ones have been around for so long that making a new vaccine very safe is no issue.
Meanwhile, side effects caused by repeated exposure to the disease may compound very badly.
- Comment on Being afraid of vaccines is literally childish behavior. 1 week ago:
Vaccines have side effects.
No one argues with that. But you know what also has side effects that are orders of magnitude more likely? Diseases.
Forcing people to is where I have the issue
I understand that mandatory policies are to be reviewed with caution, and forcing people to do something that has inherent risks should be avoided. But by not taking a vaccine, you simply multiply and outsource the risk elsewhere, putting others in danger. If your decisions around vaccination would only hurt you, government would have no business dictating you what to do.
Sometimes we desperately need collective action, so much so that it may be mandated. This is one of such cases. Yes, it would be cool to have more time and do even more testing, to refine the preparations, etc. But when people die by millions, you’re on a short timer.
COVID-19 has demonstrated a level of deadly disorganization in the face of a global crisis. People “mind their own business” so much that it kills others, with governments struggling to keep everyone looking in the same productive direction.
- Comment on Being afraid of vaccines is literally childish behavior. 1 week ago:
Depending on the country, it might be banned, and that’s one obvious example I came with.
And, in my opinion, it must be, no matter what you smoke, tobacco or weed or something else. Why the hell should others inhale terrible chemicals just because you chose to?
Same, why should they be exposed to dangerous microbes just because you are reckless?
- Comment on Being afraid of vaccines is literally childish behavior. 1 week ago:
It quickly gets more complicated when it affects others.
Is it your bodily choice to smoke on the street? No, because others have to inhale it. Same idea - no one wants to breathe in your disease-causing microbes.
- Comment on Being afraid of vaccines is literally childish behavior. 1 week ago:
On the death rate: in some countries, mortality rate went as high as 5%. To be fair, though, this only takes confirmed cases into account, leaving behind those who never reported a case.
ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid
I did get COVID-19 once. It went easy though, and I rapidly recovered after a mild fatigue and headache without long-term consequences. Some of the people I know had long-term effects, like warped smell, chronic fatigie, etc. They were not vaccinated.
Vaccine is not a protection from infection. It’s a pre-training program for an immune system to quickly beat the hell out of the disease before it gets nasty (and spreads violently).
Sad you got side effects, and I understand how it changes your perception on the matter. Personally, my only bad experience is having weakness in the arm for the first two days after the very first vaccine dose. In any case, I hope it will pass rather soon!
- Comment on Being afraid of vaccines is literally childish behavior. 1 week ago:
Every pre-COVID representation of global pandemic: scientists discover a vaccine, everyone vaccinates and lives happily ever after
Real pandemic: people chicken out, start obsessing over 1 in 10000 side effects (vs, you know, a 1 in 50 chance to die of COVID-19 at the time) and then forever tell the story of “it’s not tested enough yet”.
You know what also constantly changes and cannot be tested for decades? Every. Single. Virus. Your flu vaccine is also not tested for side effects forever, because the virus changes all the time.
Before rolling COVID vaccines out, we were very damn sure they work and won’t wreak havoc on you. But as people suddenly decided to go anti-vax, government had to get more assertive, for any vaccine works best when most people are vaccinated. You could normally self-isolate and not take vaccines, though, so it’s up to you, the government’s concern is that you don’t spread this thing further, straining medical system that was already under a heavy load.
- Comment on Are we truely prisoners of our upbringing? 1 week ago:
We are certainly shaped by our upbringing in a big way, but we can learn throughout life and change whatever concerns us
- Comment on xkcd #3186: Truly Universal Outlet 1 week ago:
There’s always an XKCD for discussing other XKCD’s, isn’t there?
- Comment on Are we deprogramming empathy in the US? 1 week ago:
It doesn’t have to be one or the other. Communal action and solidarity are essential for providing benefits to individuals.
You may ask your boss to raise your pay, likely to be rejected, or you can join a union and demand a much higher pay and better working conditions.
You may do your best to add small niceties to shared spaces, or you can unite with your neighbors and make the community thrive.
You may stand alone against injustice, only to be moved when convenient. Or you can walk the streets together, making your shared concerns heard.
Neither of it is actually much ideologically tied, and it can go in any direction. But the point is, collective action is best when addressing issues many people face individually.
Building a culture of self-made individualism is a deliberate attempt to remove the levers of power granted by collective action, and to make it easier to crush dissent on the way to build an authoritarian dystopia.
That’s not to say collective action cannot be abused to make a very ugly society - fascism is one example - but that the best results are achieved when the individuals retain their own views, but are willing to cooperate over the shared issues.
- Comment on No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog 3 weeks ago:
I see
- Comment on No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog 3 weeks ago:
Interesting, though Goanna is still a Gecko fork.
- Comment on No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog 3 weeks ago:
It’s…complicated.
On one end, a clear sign of “f*** you” with such decisions is important. On the other, Mozilla is already in a rough place, and with so many genuinely good projects, including Waterfox, depending on Firefox or at least Gecko, this is akin to biting the hand that feeds you.
All these teams cannot maintain their own browser engine, and without it, they may as well turn to dust. Thereby, maintaining their upstream is in their best interest.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war? 3 weeks ago:
The classic ones are “шиншилла” and “лишишься”, although the latter could be extended to “лишившийся”. 11 u’s for the latter, if my calcultations are correct.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war? 3 weeks ago:
You were telling about cultures worth preserving - and by your definition, most of the cultures you list were not worth preserving and should have become extinct. Good thing that they were preserved even through the worst of times.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war? 3 weeks ago:
About half of these countries were militaristic authoritarianist shitholes, some even not that long ago by historical measures.
Yet, all these cultures have proliferated, and you consider them worthy of studying. Same idea here. Give it time.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war? 3 weeks ago:
True lol
But figuring out just how much “u” you need to write, or how many are there, is a bit tedious without the language experience.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war? 3 weeks ago:
Name me one major culture that was not poisoned by dictatorship, misinformation, and hate
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war? 3 weeks ago:
You need to Polish your joke a little
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war? 3 weeks ago:
A casual reminder is that Slavs are a diverse group of people not united by the same ideas and political agenda.
If your worry is association with Russia specifically, several Slavic countries are actively anti-Russia and are parts of NATO.
Ukraine is Slavic, too.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war? 3 weeks ago:
I mean, actual Russians are native Russian speakers and majority sees through Chekist bullshit, so this checks out!
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war? 3 weeks ago:
Shout out to Interslavic! This is a language that is comprised of common words and roots from all Slavic languages, all united under consistent rules.
Learning it will enable you to understand all Slavs to a good degree, and they will in turn understand you very well.
Knowing 2 Slavic languages (3 if we count basic Czech), I can confirm it works.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war? 3 weeks ago:
Russian culture spans way beyond whatever Putin’s currently doing, and has given the world an immense cultural, scientific, historic heritage.
Trying to cancel and destroy Russian culture is akin to destroying German culture and heritage just because one German dude with a weird moustache decided to start Holocaust.
Would be a tragedy to lose either.