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Re: Automatic1111's GitHub account suspended for "ToS violations" [restored]

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Post by pizza »

violini wrote: post #19
dijit wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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What do the double and triple parentheses mean in context of a Stable Diffusion prompt like the one you linked? e.g. might it apply some weighting to the phrase? Additionally, I wonder, looking at that prompt, maybe he was banned for beastiality.

If this is about racist shit I’ll be the first to admit that’s a shame. It’d be better if the judgment of that was handed down by the community- if it indeed is the case - rather than obscure tos maneuvering, but, well, we don’t exactly live in the most perfect of all worlds. That said I believe in the capacity for people to not be like how they used to be, and, furthermore, my opinion on why this is happening isn’t any more authoritative than anyone else’s speculation, I guess, so… who knows? Some other comments seem to suggest it’s just part of the dsl/grammar for the ui- it’s something I have not explored myself much

Re: Automatic1111's GitHub account suspended for "ToS violations" [restored]

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Post by Semaphor »

violini wrote: post #14

If this really is about racism, as some people are suggesting, it makes me wonder how equitably such TOS-rules would be applied in other cases. For example, if Linus Torvalds turned out to be a racist or sexist or homosexist or transexist, would his Linux repository ( https://github.com/torvalds/linux ) be hammered? Would he be removed from the Linux project somehow?

I just wanted to mention that the GH repo is just a mirror of the official one.

Re: Automatic1111's GitHub account suspended for "ToS violations" [restored]

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Post by londons_explore »

isoprophlex wrote: post #25
dijit wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Strange if true. Those triple parentheses are weight modifiers, increasing the importance of the tokens inside. This reddit link posted elsewhere gives a more damning view, aside from the triple parentheses: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/103upr6/co...

And none of the triple parentheses contain peoples names or anything that could be considered religious...

I'd guess this was enforced by someone reading a corporate policy that said "if you see triple parentheses, it's hate speech, ban the account".

Re: Automatic1111's GitHub account suspended for "ToS violations" [restored]

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Post by jstanley »

mellosouls wrote: post #21
violini wrote: post #14

If this really is about racism, as some people are suggesting, it makes me wonder how equitably such TOS-rules would be applied in other cases. For example, if Linus Torvalds turned out to be a racist or sexist or homosexist or transexist, would his Linux repository ( https://github.com/torvalds/linux ) be hammered? Would he be removed from the Linux project somehow?

Hopefully - in the very unlikely case Torvalds or anybody else was deliberately uploading content of that sort. This doesn't seem a remotely comparable case though (deliberate uploading of offensive content in the delisted repo vs - say - unwoke opinion/comments, or whatever the example of LT is supposed to evoke), if the reasons mooted in other comments are correct.

Do you not think a piece of software can be acceptable independently of whether or not its creator is racist?

Re: Automatic1111's GitHub account suspended for "ToS violations" [restored]

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Post by throwaway0x7E6 »

violini wrote: post #14

If this really is about racism, as some people are suggesting, it makes me wonder how equitably such TOS-rules would be applied in other cases. For example, if Linus Torvalds turned out to be a racist or sexist or homosexist or transexist, would his Linux repository ( https://github.com/torvalds/linux ) be hammered? Would he be removed from the Linux project somehow?

github linux repo is a mirror

Re: Automatic1111's GitHub account suspended for "ToS violations" [restored]

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Post by cypress66 »

ashirviskas wrote: post #6
scarygliders wrote: post #2

Reddit thread here : https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/103upr6/au... update: Gitgud repo created here : https://gitgud.io/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui (Gitgud seems to be really slow) Further update : Account was suspended due to "TOS violations" : https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/103uwx1/au...

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I checked one at random and he's not black

Mati Klarwein

Re: Automatic1111's GitHub account suspended for "ToS violations" [restored]

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Post by mellosouls »

jstanley wrote: post #34
mellosouls wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hopefully - in the very unlikely case Torvalds or anybody else was deliberately uploading content of that sort. This doesn't seem a remotely comparable case though (deliberate uploading of offensive content in the delisted repo vs - say - unwoke opinion/comments, or whatever the example of LT is supposed to evoke), if the reasons mooted in other comments are correct.

Do you not think a piece of software can be acceptable independently of whether or not its creator is racist?

Yes. But individual acceptance or use is very different from the ethical and legal obligations of major corporations.

And in this case, we aren't just talking about the creator, the allegations are about the actual content being hosted.

Re: Automatic1111's GitHub account suspended for "ToS violations" [restored]

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Post by violini »

mellosouls wrote: post #21
violini wrote: post #14

If this really is about racism, as some people are suggesting, it makes me wonder how equitably such TOS-rules would be applied in other cases. For example, if Linus Torvalds turned out to be a racist or sexist or homosexist or transexist, would his Linux repository ( https://github.com/torvalds/linux ) be hammered? Would he be removed from the Linux project somehow?

Hopefully - in the very unlikely case Torvalds or anybody else was deliberately uploading content of that sort. This doesn't seem a remotely comparable case though (deliberate uploading of offensive content in the delisted repo vs - say - unwoke opinion/comments, or whatever the example of LT is supposed to evoke), if the reasons mooted in other comments are correct.

Good point, I agree it's not comparable to what has been alleged in this case.

I used Linus just as an example of a very high-profile and widely beloved open source leader, to contrast this relatively unknown developer.

Though, now I think on it, some of the words he used in the past on the mailing list are considered "-ism" level offensive by some people today: "dumb", "retarded", etc.

Hopefully no cancellations incoming for these historical word-mishaps.

Re: Automatic1111's GitHub account suspended for "ToS violations" [restored]

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Post by input_sh »

ashirviskas wrote: post #6
scarygliders wrote: post #2

Reddit thread here : https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/103upr6/au... update: Gitgud repo created here : https://gitgud.io/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui (Gitgud seems to be really slow) Further update : Account was suspended due to "TOS violations" : https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/103uwx1/au...

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How would it be a coincidence?

Looking through that file, I can't think of a single charitable interpretation for that categorization.

Re: Automatic1111's GitHub account suspended for "ToS violations" [restored]

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Post by Ekaros »

smcl wrote: post #15
sammy2255 wrote: post #10

Having a Rimworld mod that removes black characters is not enough to warrant a platform ban, in my opinion.

I think if you’re doing racist stuff, you should expect that the owner of the platform you’re doing it on will probably not like that and find a way to kick you off. The user is probably not a card carrying neo-nazi, but I’m sorry this is 2023, how on Earth can people still expect not to get called for juvenile 4chan-level trolling like this?

Because no one should care. Just fully ignore them, do not engage with trolls or people whose politics you don't care about.

Maybe we should instead ban those who call out this stuff or describe it in malicious ways...

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