TheOctonaut
@TheOctonaut@mander.xyz
- Comment on 'The Most Dejected I’ve Ever Felt:' Harassers Made Nude AI Images of Her, Then Started an OnlyFans 5 days ago:
The people - very, very many of them literal school children - doing this are not training image AI models or even LoRAs or whatever on their home servers by feeding them images of a person from multiple angles and different parts exlosed. They’re just taking a single image and uploading it to some dodgy Android store app or, y’know, Grok. Which then colours in the part it identifies as clothes with a perfectly average image from the Internet (read: heavily modified in the first place and skewed towards unrealistic perfection). The process is called in-painting. The same models use the same technique if you just want to change the clothes, and people find that a brief amusement. If you want to replace your bro’s soccer jersey with a jersey of a team he hates to wind him up, you are not carefully training the AI to understand what he’d look like in that jersey. You just ask the in-painter to do it and assuming it already has been fed what the statistical average combination of pixels for “nude girl” or “Rangers jersey” are, it applies a random seed and starts drawing, immediately and quickly.
That’s the problem. It has always been possible to make a convincing fake nude of someone. But there was a barrier to entry - Photoshop skills, or paying someone for photoshop skills, time, footprint (you’re not going to be doing this on dad’s PC).
Today that barrier to entry is reduced massively which has put this means of abuse in the hands of every preteen with a smartphone, and in a matter of seconds. And then shared with all your peer group, in a matter of seconds.
It’s the exact same logic which means that occasionally I find a use for image generation tools. Yes I can probably draw an Orc with a caltrop stuck up his nose, but I can’t do that mid-session of D&D and if it’s for a 10 second bit, why bother. Being able to create and share it within seconds is a large part of the selling point of these tools. Did I just steal from an artist? Maybe. Was I going to hire an artist to do it for me? No. Was I going to Google the words “orc” and “caltrop” and overlay the results for a cheap laugh? Maybe. Is that less stealing? Maybe. Am I getting way off the point that these people aren’t training image generation AIs with fragments of photos in order to make a convincing fake? Yes.
- Comment on 'The Most Dejected I’ve Ever Felt:' Harassers Made Nude AI Images of Her, Then Started an OnlyFans 5 days ago:
Why is fuck_ai so full of people who genuinely have no idea how AI works or what it does?
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - November 2025 3 months ago:
Lollipop Chainsow RePopped
It’s so silly
- Comment on Paradox date Stellaris 4.0, a "phoenix update" to attract new players and improve performance 10 months ago:
I’m pretty sure they mean The Company Formerly Known As Electronic Arts.
Because Paradox have a track record of buying studios and monetising their games in a similar way that EA monetised Maxis’s The Sims.
- Comment on Civilization 7's post-launch plans include free multiplayer and Age features and paid Ada Lovelace 1 year ago:
I’ve put hundreds or thousands of hours into every Civ game since Civ 2. I’m so fucking sad that I don’t care about this new release. I’m Irish and I can’t even enjoy Britain being relegated to DLC because somehow Ada Lovelace is a leader? Who is this game for?
- Comment on Nexus mods want feedback from Linux / Steam Deck users on their new cross-platform app 1 year ago:
The same reputation extends to Windows too so I don’t think it’s a Linux specific issue.
I like the UX as it’s pretty powerful but I’m mindful of being ancient and having spent nearly a decade working with arcane telco applications. I have the opposite of your complaint - I like that it does periodic checks and will notify you of detected problems and usually give you a button to press to solve it.
My biggest pain usually comes in load order management. Usually this is because this is mentioned nowhere but in a note at the bottom of the mod description that might say something like “near the top” or “after mod x”. I don’t know how Steam just handles this mostly but I have a feeling it might be strong categorisation of mods.
- Comment on Nexus mods want feedback from Linux / Steam Deck users on their new cross-platform app 1 year ago:
No-one has ever told me what’s actually wrong with Vortex.
- Comment on Sony Music warns AI companies against “unauthorized use” of its content 1 year ago:
Maybe musicians might end every song with some magic words that stop people using it.
- Comment on TikTok and Universal settle dispute over music royalties 1 year ago:
“I don’t understand it because I don’t believe in it”
— literally any hexbear user
- Comment on Tomb Raider Remastered devs apologises for releasing an unfinished version on Epic Games Store 1 year ago:
Yeah people need to educate themselves on the difference between a remaster and remake.
A remaster from the music term isn’t necessarily even just quality changes, but can sound or ‘feel’ different. But it’s still based on the original ‘master’ recordings.
- Comment on Netflix Poised to Raise Prices in 2024 as It Continues to Gain Share of TV Viewing 1 year ago:
G R O W T H
- Comment on 2 years ago:
Uh
Define popping up in conversation my dude
- Comment on [Game] New update for Vampire Survivors is out, adds co-op and new game engine with better performance 2 years ago:
Does Co-op work between the two? I own both, I’m not going to convince my wife to buy herself a Steam Deck but she might happily waste 15 mins beside me on the Switch.
- Comment on Help, is Anyone able to get the GoG version of Bauldurs Gate 3 running on the deck? 2 years ago:
cause DRM free yay!
BG3 doesn’t use Steam for DRM, only for distribution. You could zip up the game’s folder and burn it on a million floppies or whatever, and play the game wherever you like.
- Comment on Anyone else? 2 years ago:
Did you miss the memo not to allow it to just update the EA version?