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lvxferre , to Reddit in Reddit’s Goon Cave Community Has Been Banned
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I had to websearch the term to know what they were talking about. Pfft, internet oddities.

Case in point. At least some side is lying here; either the people from r/gooncaves or the Reddit administration. And given their modus operandi I'm placing my bets on the admins lying.

Frankly, at this rate someone might end suing Reddit for libel in those ban messages. I think that it deserves it.

idiomaddict ,

I just love that you found out what gooners were today and they seem more trustworthy than reddit admins

PRUSSIA_x86 ,

Look man, gooners just wanna jack it in peace.

Obonga , to Reddit in Reddit’s Goon Cave Community Has Been Banned

It is sooo Reddit to ban without any explanation. Not like i care about any community over there. Reddit can fuck itself.

tourist ,
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Reddit can fuck itself.

I thought that's what they banned

diggit , to Technology in ID Verification Service for TikTok, Uber, X Exposed Driver Licenses

I’m shocked, shocked! (Well, not that shocked.)

Greg , to Technology in FBI Arrests Man For Generating AI Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
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This is tough, the goal should be to reduce child abuse. It's unknown if AI generated CP will increase or reduce child abuse. It will likely encourage some individuals to abuse actual children while for others it may satisfy their urges so they don't abuse children. Like everything else AI, we won't know the real impact for many years.

LadyAutumn , (edited )
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How do you think they train models to generate CSAM?

Some of yall need to lookup what an LoRA is

Dkarma ,

Lol you don't need to train it ON CSAM to generate CSAM. Get a clue.

LadyAutumn ,
@LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

It should be illegal either way, to be clear. But you think theyre not training models on CSAM? Youre trusting in the morality/ethics of people creating AI generated child pornography?

Greg ,
@Greg@lemmy.ca avatar

The use of CSAM in training generative AI models is an issue no matter how these models are being used.

L_Acacia ,

The training doesn't use csam, 0% chance big tech would use that in their dataset. The models are somewhat able to link concept like red and car, even if it had never seen a red car before.

AdrianTheFrog ,
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Well, with models like SD at least, the datasets are large enough and the employees are few enough that it is impossible to have a human filter every image. They scrape them from the web and try to filter with AI, but there is still a chance of bad images getting through. This is why most companies install filters after the model as well as in the training process.

DarkThoughts ,

You make it sound like it is so easy to even find such content on the www. The point is, they do not need to be trained on such material. They are trained on regular kids, so they know their sizes, faces, etc. They're trained on nude bodies, so they also know how hairless genitals or flat chests look like. You don't need to specifically train a model on nude children to generate nude children.

barsquid ,

https://purl.stanford.edu/kh752sm9123

I don't know if we can say for certain it needs to be in the dataset, but I do wonder how many of the other models used to create CSAM are also trained on CSAM.

DarkThoughts ,

I suggest you actually download stable diffusion and try for yourself because it's clear that you don't have any clue what you're talking about. You can already make tiny people, shaved, genitals, flat chests, child like faces, etc. etc. It's all already there. Literally no need for any LoRAs or very specifically trained models.

NateNate60 , to Reddit in Reddit’s Goon Cave Community Has Been Banned

For those who don't know, a "goon cave" is "an area or room dedicated to long masturbation sessions", or "gooning"

MxM111 ,
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Why would you ban that???

BrokenGlepnir ,

Stock prices?

Beaver ,
@Beaver@lemmy.ca avatar

Republican investors have staying away until this key moment

formergijoe ,

Probably affects the ability for AI to recommend glue in pizza cheese.

ekky ,

Makes sense, I thought it was about goons (crime) or gooning (evil goon voice "what up, boss?", "Yes boss").

NateNate60 ,

There are multiple meanings. "Hired thug" is also one of them.

pro_grammer ,

fuckin hell. Why are so many weirdos on reddit?

TORFdot0 ,

There are a lot of people on Reddit and Reddit makes it easy to organize by whatever degenerate interests someone may have, such as sharing their goon cave

TheObviousSolution , to Technology in FBI Arrests Man For Generating AI Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

He then allegedly communicated with a 15-year-old boy, describing his process for creating the images, and sent him several of the AI generated images of minors through Instagram direct messages. In some of the messages, Anderegg told Instagram users that he uses Telegram to distribute AI-generated CSAM. “He actively cultivated an online community of like-minded offenders—through Instagram and Telegram—in which he could show off his obscene depictions of minors and discuss with these other offenders their shared sexual interest in children,” the court records allege. “Put differently, he used these GenAI images to attract other offenders who could normalize and validate his sexual interest in children while simultaneously fueling these offenders’ interest—and his own—in seeing minors being sexually abused.”

I think the fact that he was promoting child sexual abuse and was communicating with children and creating communities with them to distribute the content is the most damning thing, regardless of people's take on the matter.

Umm ... That AI generated hentai on the page of the same article, though ... Do the editors have any self-awareness? Reminds me of the time an admin decided the best course of action to call out CSAM was to directly link to the source.

Maggoty ,

Wait do you think all Hentai is CSAM?

And sending the images to a 15 year old crosses the line no matter how he got the images.

BangCrash ,

Hentai is obviously not CSAM. But having a hentai image on an article about CSAM and child grooming is pretty poorly thought out

Maggoty ,

You know, looking at it again, I think it's an ad.

BangCrash ,

It's an ad for another article on that site.

Saledovil ,

Umm … That AI generated hentai on the page of the same article, though … Do the editors have any self-awareness? Reminds me of the time an admin decided the best course of action to call out CSAM was to directly link to the source.

The image depicts mature women, not children.

BangCrash ,

Correct. And OP's not saying it is.

But to place that sort of image on an article about CSAM is very poorly thought out

AltheaHunter , to Technology in Here Is What Axon’s Bodycam Report Writing AI Looks Like

Let me guess, they used existing footage and reports as training data, and it produced an incredibly racist ai model that routinely ignores police misconduct. They'll spend a couple years working on bandaids for the problem while police departments across the country use the original model to create reports and use the "unbiased ai reports" as an excuse to hide the raw footage.

SnotFlickerman ,
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Also: "That was just an AI hallucination, it's not admissible in court" when it was absolutely not an AI hallucination when the cop shot someone for mouthing off.

ssm , to Technology in Google Says AI Could Break Reality
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Hello, I have downvoted your post!

Reasons include:

  • stupid fucking clickbait title
  • sharing information that was otherwise already obvious to everyone for the past 2 years
  • quoting elon musk
TehPers ,

Not sure if you're aware so I'll mention it anyway, but as far as I know, downvotes in Beehaw communities don't federate to Beehaw (as in aren't applied here - you might see them on your instance though, not really sure). That being said, your comment does, so you've made a "pseudo-downvote" anyway.

Ilandar OP ,

The title is not mine and the paper the article is responding to was published last month, not two years ago as you claim. The only mention of Musk in the entire article is in this one sentence:

Unlike self-serving warnings from Open AI CEO Sam Altman or Elon Musk about the “existential risk” artificial general intelligence poses to humanity, Google’s research focuses on real harm that generative AI is currently causing and could get worse in the future.

antlion , to Espresso in Scientists Use Ultrasound to Make Cold Brew Coffee in 3 Minutes Instead of 24 Hours
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The authors used a 38 kHz transducer with 100W of power. For $60 you can get a 2L ultrasonic cold brewer - it’s 40 kHz and 60W: https://m.vevor.com/ultrasonic-cleaner-c_11064/vevor-316-stainless-steel-2l-ultrasonic-cleaner-industry-digital-heated-w-timer-p_010173559579

Evil_Shrubbery , (edited )

Exactly.

Everything about this 'news' sounds sus.

But they are wearing lab coats.

Ultrasonic tech is so cheap & sold everywhere.

And like all agitation, it transfers heat (not like a microwave, as most heat is transferred to surrounding air, but heats up the liquid, and it mostly does so by heating/getting absorbed by the dense objects, ie grains, mostly surface).

Also, in case this somehow didn't exist for decades, all of it is just a bit better way of stirring - you can make cold brew by just mixing/shaking stuff. The coarser the grind the longer it would take to extract efficiently tho (but efficiency isn't rally the point, just taste?).

BeigeAgenda ,
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Lab coats and pointing at a screen, give them the Nobel price already!

Evil_Shrubbery ,

Not to mention the proper use of safety glasses whilst brewing coffee with 100W hi-tech.

Klordok ,

From the paper.

Ultrasounds accelerate extraction processes due to acoustic cavitation [8], [9]. When acoustic bubbles, also called inertial bubbles, collapse near solid materials, such as coffee grounds, they generate micro-jets with the force to fracture the cell walls of plant tissues, intensifying the extraction of the intracellular content [10].

Seems more involved than just aggressive stirring.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1350417724001330

Evil_Shrubbery ,

Yes, that is exactly how ultrasonic cleaners are used, it basically gets abrasive on the surface (like scrubbing with like a hammering motion, but on a tiny level).

The size of the bubbles is determined by the frequency (the higher it is the smaller the bubbles with lower energy each, the lower it is the bigger are bubbles and more powerful each).

So, if you are cleaning a large flat metal sheet, then you can go lower frequencies to speed up the process, whereas you would want higher frequencies for more intricate objects so the amplitude is smol enough to get into all the tight spaces for bubbles to form.

38kHz is a very common for ultra cheap household various purpose cleaner (jewellery, fruit & veggies, glasses, delicate clothes, etc), I have a 50kHz buttplug shaped one (so you put in a container and is not itself part of one).

antlion ,
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Cavitation is literally boiling, but the bubbles of steam are tiny, only last for an instant, and then collapse and cool back into the fluid.

A7thStone ,

That's not exactly what it's doing. Cavitation is when when the pressure of a liquid reduces below the vapour point. Heat isn't involved the liquid "boils" because the vapour point decreases with reduced pressure.

antlion ,
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🤷‍♂️ Tomato / Potato. Cavitation occurs (the bubble formation) at a temperature below 100C, yes. As the steam bubble shrinks, very high temperatures are reached (super-heated steam). All of that energy, plus the latent heat of condensation is released back into the fluid. At that instant, there is a very small yet-to-be-mixed portion of liquid that may be near the boiling point. That small portion of fluid may undergo a warm-brew process as it cools and mixes. I'm kind of conceptualizing this brewing process like: what if you could heat, mix, and cool the coffee all at once everywhere. But I've never observed cavitation and bubble collapse with an ultra high-speed microscope camera, so my concept may be off a bit. I have seen photos of what it does to hardened steel hydropower turbines.

My next question would be, what if you start with ice water? That may give you something like true cold-brew. Another factor to consider is that I believe most cold brew is very oxidized. It might be interesting to try ultrasonic degassing for some period of time before the grounds are added, to see how much of the cold brew flavor is just oxidized coffee.

antlion ,
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I agree this is the kind of thing I should find on YouTube, not in an academic journal. But the paper does go into a lot of detail about extraction efficiency, so I guess there might be some useful measurements.

I am curious about the taste. It should be somewhere in between cold brew and hot, but probably closer to cold. Cavitation is a violent process. On a micro scale it’s literally boiling. Then the steam bubble collapses and is instantly cooled because of an almost infinitely big heat sink. So when cavitation occurs near the coffee grounds, some of the extraction would be at much warmer temperatures, for a brief instant.

Evil_Shrubbery ,

Oh, yes, I was making fun of the headline, about inventing.

With that in mind basically any experiment/measurement/scientific theory is some sort of invention, it's just that we dont call it that.

Like, nobody invented the concept of tank, ppl "invented" materials, equipment, manufacturing & logistics/admin processes, etc that at one point allowed for a feasible "tank" to be compiled.

antlion ,
@antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Yeah, they didn't even invent it. One company basically tried to do the same brewing technique commercially, but I guess they didn't get the word out in time:
https://www.engadget.com/osma-pro-cold-brew-coffee-machine-review-131552500.html

Evil_Shrubbery ,

You can buy sub 50 moneys liion battery operated lil machines ... that don't use 'sound pressure' but 'air pressure' to brew (lul).

exocrinous , to Technology in Men Use Fake Livestream Apps With AI Audiences to Hit on Women

For those who don't want to read the article but do want to understand what it's about:

  1. You download an app on your phone that makes it look like you're streaming to thousands of people
  2. You go to a bar and show your phone to a woman "look, I'm famous"
  3. The woman fucks you because she thinks you're famous or something

The creator of this app is a misogynist scumbag who edits interviews with journalists to erase criticism and promote his app.

DavidDoesLemmy ,
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Why do you even need AI for this?

exocrinous ,

The "thousands of people" watching your "stream" are bots. They can respond to what's going on in the video in real time because they're bots. Actually I technically think this would be more efficient and therefore is probably designed so that it's only one LLM pretending to be thousands of people, but I'll call it bots because that's easier to visualise. The bots know what's going on in the "stream" because they can understand what the "streamer" is saying, which means the pickup artist can put on a convincing performance to trick the mark. If it was just a recording, it wouldn't be able to respond to novel situations caused by the mark's behaviour.

I don't actually know if this technology even works, but that would be the intent used to sell it to pickup artist bros.

jarfil ,
@jarfil@beehaw.org avatar

pickup artist

More like "con artist".

This has little to do with picking up, it could as well be used to scam anyone out of anything.

crazyminner , to Technology in FBI Arrests Man For Generating AI Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

I had an idea when these first AI image generators started gaining traction. Flood the CSAM market with AI generated images( good enough that you can't tell them apart.) In theory this would put the actual creators of CSAM out of business, thus saving a lot of children from the trauma.

Most people down vote the idea on their gut reaction tho.

Looks like they might do it on their own.

jaschen ,

It's also a victimless crime. Just like flooding the market with fake rhino horns and dropping the market price to a point that it isn't worth it.

Itwasthegoat ,

My concern is why would it put them out of business? If we just look at legal porn there is already beyond huge amounts already created, and the market is still there for new content to be created constantly. AI porn hasn't noticeably decreased the amount produced.

Really flooding the market with CSAM makes it easier to consume and may end up INCREASING the amount of people trying to get CSAM. That could end up encouraging more to be produced.

crazyminner ,

The market is slightly different tho. Most CSAM is images, with Porn theres a lot of video and images.

DarkThoughts ,

It's such an emotional topic that people lose all rationale.
I remember the Reddit arguments in the comment sections about pedos, already equalizing the term with actual child rapists, while others would argue to differentiate because the former didn't do anything wrong and shouldn't be stigmatized for what's going on in their heads but rather offered help to cope with it. The replies are typically accusations of those people making excuses for actual sexual abusers.

I always had the standpoint that I do not really care about people's fictional content. Be it lolis, torture, gore, or whatever other weird shit. If people are busy & getting their kicks from fictional stuff then I see that as better than using actual real life material, or even getting some hands on experiences, which all would involve actual real victims.

And I think that should be generally the goal here, no? Be it pedos, sadists, sociopaths, whatever. In the end it should be not about them, but saving potential victims. But people rather throw around accusations and become all hysterical to paint themselves sitting on their moral high horse (ironically typically also calling for things like executions or castrations).

Cupcake1972 ,

Yeah, exact same feelings here. If there is no victim then who exactly is harmed?

Glass0448 ,
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It would be illegal in the United States. Artistic depictions of CSAM are illegal under the PROTECT act 2003.

TheGrandNagus , (edited )

And yet it's out there in droves on mainstream sites, completely without issue. Drawings and animations are pretty unpoliced.

JimmyBigSausage , to Espresso in Scientists Use Ultrasound to Make Cold Brew Coffee in 3 Minutes Instead of 24 Hours

That sounds so ultra

nailingjello ,

Definitely sound.

badbytes , to Technology in FBI Arrests Man For Generating AI Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

Breaking news: Paint made illegal, cause some moron painted something stupid.

catloaf ,

Some places do lock up spray paint due to its use in graffiti, so that's not without precedent.

Soggy ,

They lock it up because it's frequently stolen. (Because of its use in graffiti, but still.)

cley_faye ,

I'd usually agree with you, but it seems he sent them to an actual minor for "reasons".

Glass0448 ,
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Asked whether more funding will be provided for the anti-paint enforcement divisions: it's such a big backlog, we'll rather just wait for somebody to piss of a politician to focus our resources.

sugartits , to Technology in FBI Arrests Man For Generating AI Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

No no no guys.

It's perfectly okay to do this as this is art, not child porn as I was repeatedly told and down voted when I stated the fucking obvious

So if it's art, we have to allow it under the constitution, right? It's "free speech", right?

SeattleRain ,

Well yeah. Just because something makes you really uncomfortable doesn't make it a crime. A crime has a victim.

Also, the vast majority of children are victimized because of the US' culture of authoritarianism and religious fundamentalism. That's why far and away children are victimized by either a relative or in a church. But y'all ain't ready to have that conversation.

sugartits ,

That thing over there being wrong doesn't mean we can't discuss this thing over here also being wrong.

So perhaps pipe down with your dumb whataboutism.

SeattleRain ,

It's not whataboutism, he's being persecuted because of the idea that he's hurting children all the while law enforcement refuses to truly persecute actual institutions victimizing children and are often colluding with traffickers. For instance LE throughout the country were well aware of the scale of the Catholic church's crimes for generations.

How is this whataboutism.

sugartits ,

Because it's two different things.

We should absolutely go after the Catholic church for the crimes committed.

But here we are talking about the creation of child porn.

If you cannot understand this very simple premise, then we have nothing else to discuss.

SeattleRain ,

They're not two different things. They're both supposedly acts of pedophilia except one would take actual courage to prosecute (churches) and the other which doesn't have any actual victims is easy and is a PR get because certain people find it really icky.

sugartits ,

I guess we're done here then.

todd_bonzalez ,

Yes, case closed. You were wrong. Sucks to suck.

sugartits ,

Very mature response. Well done.

DarkThoughts ,

Just to be clear here, he's not actually persecuted for generating such imagery like the headline implies.

catloaf ,

He might be persecuted, but he's not prosecuted for it.

DarkThoughts ,

Fair enough. lol

Glass0448 ,
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todd_bonzalez ,

First of all, it's absolutely crazy to link to a 6 month old thread just to complain that you go downvoted in it. You're pretty clearly letting this site get under your skin if you're still hanging onto these downvotes.

Second, none of your 6 responses in that thread are logical, rational responses. You basically just assert that things that you find offensive enough should be illegal, and then just type in all caps at everyone who explains to you that this isn't good logic.

The only way we can consider child porn prohibition constitutional is to interpret it as a protection of victims. Since both the production and distribution of child porn hurt the children forced into it, we ban it outright, not because it is obscene, but because it does real damage. This fits the logic of many other forms of non-protected speech, such as the classic "shouting 'fire' in a crowded theatre" example, where those hurt in the inevitable panic are victims.

Expanding the definition of child porn to include fully fictitious depictions, such as lolicon or AI porn, betrays this logic because there are no actual victims. This prohibition is rooted entirely in the perceived obscenity of the material, which is completely unconstitutional. We should never ban something because it is offensive, we should only ban it when it does real harm to actual victims.

I would argue that rape and snuff film should be illegal for the same reason.

The reason people disagree with you so strongly isn't because they think AI generated pedo content is "art" in the sense that we appreciate it and defend it. We just strongly oppose your insistence that we should enforce obscenity laws. This logic is the same logic used as a cudgel against many other issues, including LGBTQ rights, as it basically argues that sexually disagreeable ideas should be treated as a criminal issue.

I think we all agree that AI pedo content is gross, and the people who make it and consume it are sick. But nobody is with you on the idea that drawings and computer renderings should land anyone in prison.

sugartits , (edited )

First of all, it's absolutely crazy to link to a 6 month old thread just to complain that you go downvoted in it. You're pretty clearly letting this site get under your skin if you're still hanging onto these downvotes.

No, I just... Remembered the thread? Wasn't difficult to remember it. Took me a minute to find it.

This may surprise you but CP isn't something I discuss very often.

I don't lose sleep over people defending CP as "art", nor did it get under my skin. I just think these are fucking idiots and are for some baffling reason trying to defend the indefensible and go about my day. I'm not going to do anything about it, but I'm sure glad I don't have such dumb comments linked to a public account with my IP address logged somewhere...

I just raised it to make my point.

I didn't bother reading the rest of your essay. Its pretty clear from the first paragraph where you're going to land.

01189998819991197253 Mod , to Espresso in Scientists Use Ultrasound to Make Cold Brew Coffee in 3 Minutes Instead of 24 Hours
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DigitalNirvana ,

My Hero!

01189998819991197253 Mod ,
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I would say not all heroes wear capes, but capes are dope and everyone should wear them.

antlion ,
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