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- Comment on Amazon discovered a 'high volume' of CSAM in its AI training data but isn't saying where it came from 1 week ago:
This is why I use the word ‘proliferation,’ in the nuclear sense. Since the days of SD1, these illegal capabilities have become more and more prevalent in the local image model space. The advent of model merging, mixing, and retraining/finetunes, have caused a significant increase in the proportion of model releases that have been contaminated.
What you’re saying is ultimately true, but it was more true in the early days. Animated, drawn, and CGI content has always been a problem, but photorealistic capability was very limited and rare, often coming from homebrewed proprietary finetunes published on shady forums. Since then, they’ve become much more prolific. It’s estimated that roughly between a fourth and a third of photorealistic SDXL-based models released on civit.ai during 2025 have some degree of capability.
Just as LLM benchmark test answers have contaminated open source models, illegal capabilities gained from illegal datasets have also contaminated image models; to the point where there are plenty of well-intentioned authors unknowingly contributing to the problem. There are some who go out of their way to poison models (usually with false association training on specific keywords) but few bother, or even known, to do so.
- Comment on Amazon discovered a 'high volume' of CSAM in its AI training data but isn't saying where it came from 1 week ago:
Well another factor is providence: they don’t keep around exactly where they got their data from. Sometimes on a set level, but almost never on an individual sample. “We found csam somewhere on maybe reddit or imgur or pinterest” is practically worthless
- Comment on Amazon discovered a 'high volume' of CSAM in its AI training data but isn't saying where it came from 1 week ago:
Unlikely IMO. Maybe some… But if they scraped social media sites like blogs, Facebook, or Twitter, they would end up with dumptrucks full. Ask any one who has to deal with UGC: it pollutes every corner of the net and it’s damn near everywhere. The proliferation of local models capable of generating photorealistic materials has only made the situation worse. It was rare to uncover actionable cases before, but the signal to noise ratio is garbage now.
- Comment on Admins finally get the power to uninstall Microsoft Copilot on Windows 11 Pro, Enterprise, and EDU versions — devices must meet specific conditions to allow the removal of the AI app 3 weeks ago:
We’re living in the age of ‘minimum uninstall requirements’
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 2 months ago:
Perhaps an open set of standards at the least. Some form of super-oauth would be required but I should have clarified that the openness of a true federation-like model is aspirational: invisioned as a conscious and intentional rejection of the ever-increasing monetization, financialization, and enshittification of all mediums of social interaction.
People didn’t jump on the FB metaverse partly because it was shit, but partly because it was painfully obvious it was full of grift and a billionaire’s wet dream of further social monopolization. The friction and frustration has been increasing. The world falling apart makes the little nagging annoyances just that much more irritating, and people are starting to actively resist them rather than just rant and succumb.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 2 months ago:
Think gravatar meets roblox VR web.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 2 months ago:
The metaverse, in some form, is nearly inevitable IMO. But it’ll be a federated-like infrastructure and I’m very glad Facebook will have fuck all to do with it.
- Comment on Dell and HP disable hardware H.265 decoding on select PCs due to rising royalty costs — companies could save big on HEVC royalties, but at the expense of users 2 months ago:
Great; AV1 can take over faster.
- Comment on New data shows companies are rehiring former employees as AI falls short of expectations 2 months ago:
I hate to say “I told you so” but…
Wait, no, I don’t.
- Comment on The Falconeer gets a huge Revolution Remaster upgrade but drops Native Linux for Proton 2 months ago:
Full-time Linux user here. I’ll say it. Good proton support is better than a bad native edition.
It’s an annoyingly frequent occurrence: I often need to run a windows version of a game to fix issues or get better performance over a neglected native release. They’re often started with good intentions or for good PR, but quickly realize the miniscule install base can’t justify continued investment. Supporting proton is often a much lower bar to pass.
- Comment on Valve casually gut Counter-Strike's billion dollar skins market with a "small update" 3 months ago:
One Covert skin collector says that their 609 hitherto “worthless red skins” are now worth £3,329,612 on the marketplace. One respondent comments that “my knife just dropped $1,400 in value in the span of 30 minutes”.
Aaaahahahaha
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 3 months ago:
Dumbest fucking timeline
- Comment on Co-op adventure, town-building and survival game Necesse hits the big 1.0 3 months ago:
Necesse is great. Me and a friend were blown away by its polish and quality of life features during early access. Strong recommend.
- Comment on YouTube will restore channels banned for COVID and election misinformation 4 months ago:
To hasten The Fall of course
- Comment on Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man 4 months ago:
Must be trying to get the POTUS demographic
- Comment on AT&T tracked employee attendance to find 'freeloaders.' Now, it admits the system is driving workers to the 'brink of frustration.' 4 months ago:
Humans aren’t machines; they need freedom. Let people do their jobs without micromanaging their existence on the clock. Set and track performance, sure; but this is like tracking mouse movement as a metric for productivity: you’re gauging the wrong thing and it’s actively harming your efficiency.
- Comment on Massive Leak Shows How a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall to the World 4 months ago:
Tankies gonna wankies. Block and move on.
- Comment on Anti-cheat looks like a no-go on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck for Arena Breakout: Infinite 4 months ago:
Aw, you can’t install a spyware rootkit on my computer? Darn… I guess I’ll just have to get used to playing games that aren’t shit.