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

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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…

People in other threads are saying it’s because he helped make a mod for a game where you can make all the characters white. Which is apparently enraging.

But like, it’s racist if I want to modify a single player game to make the players white? And even if it is I wish people would just butt out. Seems like a bunch of busybodies policing behavior. It’s just gotten crazy and is really dumb at this point. Are we going to have to have a “free speech GitHub” run by Elon Musk too? How did the internet turn into such a snooze fest where every edgelord has to be sanded down to be safe and snuggly so nobody gets hurt?

I remember my wife got banned from the Sims mod community for asking if there was a mod that’d let her simulate Craster’s Keep from Game of Thrones. She likes telling bizarre stories through electronic media. If she wanted to tell that story in Rimworld (which like, I don’t play Rimworld so just guessing) she’d need a mod to make the skin tones match up. Uh oh is that racist now?

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

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That's a nice example of false accusations. Parenthesis are used for increasing the weights of some terms. See how he uses single, double or triple parenthesis on different words. It has nothing to do with the triple parenthesis jew thing.

I have no frigging idea even triple parentheses are unspeakable now. Just ran rg '\(\(\(.*\)\)\)' in my projects directory and found many instances authored by me. Guess I should prioritize fixing these, or next time I'm the target of some controversy, someone will use these as evidence of my antisemitism.

Context matters.

Do you engage in discussion with white supremacists or their victims/targets? Do you use triple parenthesis all the time while describing other people?

If none of the above, then what you are doing is the equivalent of making irrelevant noise.

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

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Regardless of what the author of the repo did or did not do, I think that deleting his account and everything in it is a failure on the part of github and warrants a policy change. There's lots of good knowledge contained in the issues and discussions hosted on the webui repo all of which are now lost or very hard to find. Even papers coming from big companies have directly used the repo as reference[1]. I was person…

Agreed. This is social media style moderation being applied to a website that is more similar to infrastructure or a library. If I were a member of a private, professional library* and a colleague was found to hold racist views or had submitted a racist paper, I would still find it unacceptable to see that all of their books and papers had been indiscriminately pulled off the shelves overnight. In fact, such a thing would be unthinkable.

* Do such things exist? I'm just trying to keep the example out of the public or academic spheres.

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

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I have no frigging idea even triple parentheses are unspeakable now. Just ran rg '\(\(\(.*\)\)\)' in my projects directory and found many instances authored by me. Guess I should prioritize fixing these, or next time I'm the target of some controversy, someone will use these as evidence of my antisemitism.

Using multiple parens around a name is derogatory code for "this person is Jewish". Context is important.

The context is literally that parenthesis are token weight multipliers, so he's multiplying the importance of "disfigured feet" to the negative prompt by 1.1 three times. There are even other tokens in there that he multiples with less than three layers of parenthesis

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

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I suggest getting annoyed at the people who are constantly trying to think of new anti-Semitic dogwhistles. They make everyone's life harder.

Or getting annoyed at people who are constantly trying to think of new woke dogwhistles, trying to find "hate speech" in anything (remember Pepe, the OK sign or donglegate?)

How about going from master to main?

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

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I can imagine that porn with animals (even cartoons) might be disgusting to some people. There is a reason why bestiality is quite high in the list of social taboos.

Does beast-on-beast qualify as beastiality? I always thought that was just, you know, a Tuesday on Animal Planet ?

Probably not, but animal planet isn't made explicitly for human sexual gratification, so the comparison is a bit disingenuous

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

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I have no frigging idea even triple parentheses are unspeakable now. Just ran rg '\(\(\(.*\)\)\)' in my projects directory and found many instances authored by me. Guess I should prioritize fixing these, or next time I'm the target of some controversy, someone will use these as evidence of my antisemitism.

Using multiple parens around a name is derogatory code for "this person is Jewish". Context is important.

I am highly amused and also saddened that the second sentence of my response, "Context is important", is being completely ignored.

QED.

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

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Yeah, someone should invent a version control system that does not rely on some central entity but is actually distributed.

It's strange isn't it how people keep inventing distributed systems such as the internet itself, and yet money/politics/laziness entices people to use a centralised resource with all the problems that go with that.

Tragedy of the Commons

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

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This has me thinking about a 1-seat GH enterprise license for my personal repos.

I can't risk all my issues disappearing into nothingness, and I can't imagine myself using a different platform. GH is muscle memory for me these days.

Would also be nice to know Microsoft can't arbitrarily scan my works for dangerous competitive elements.

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

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So (((disfigured feet))) in the linked prompt means the feet are Jewish, and it's not about increasing the term weight? Thanks, I learned something new today.

It is in the "Negative prompt", so they really don't want disfigured feet.

Yes, but that's not the point. Some people seem to think that the three parentheses are an antisemitic dog-whistle and cannot believe it could be used for something else like setting weights in a prompt.
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