4chan users manipulate AI tools to unleash torrent of racist images
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Re: 4chan users manipulate AI tools to unleash torrent of racist images
#2gijames1225 said:
I'm a little curious as to why this is even an article. It's inevitable and has no bearing on 99.99999% of people.
I get that it's low hanging fruit from a reporting / research perspective (sort of like the 'Twitter users blah blah blah' articles), but outside of the 'publish or die' mindset of churning out content this is pointless and continues to make 4-chan and these people seem much more relevant than they are.
Re: 4chan users manipulate AI tools to unleash torrent of racist images
#3> judging by the images’ default square format, the uniform 1024 x 1024 resolution
This is also the default for Stable Diffusion XL.
Re: 4chan users manipulate AI tools to unleash torrent of racist images
#4gijames1225 said: I'm a little curious as to why this is even an article. It's inevitable and has no bearing on 99.99999% of people. I get that it's low hanging fruit from a reporting / research perspective (sort of like the 'Twitter users blah blah blah' articles), but outside of the 'publish or die' mindset of churning out content this is pointless and continues to make 4-chan and these people seem much more releva…
> It's inevitable and has no bearing on 99.99999% of people.
I dunno about that. 4chan memes and attitudes have diffused out into wider US politics.
Not that I disagree with the jist of it. "Oh no, internet dwellers are posting something horrible... I am shocked!"
Re: 4chan users manipulate AI tools to unleash torrent of racist images
#5gijames1225 said: I'm a little curious as to why this is even an article. It's inevitable and has no bearing on 99.99999% of people. I get that it's low hanging fruit from a reporting / research perspective (sort of like the 'Twitter users blah blah blah' articles), but outside of the 'publish or die' mindset of churning out content this is pointless and continues to make 4-chan and these people seem much more releva…
I need a reminder from time to time that the internet has become a dumpster fire. These add fuel to the internal debate I am always having as to whether we ought to just toss the whole stinking thing away and go back to a world dominated by radio [1].
[1] (Not that I have of course any means to do that ... but I can drop out I suppose.)
Re: 4chan users manipulate AI tools to unleash torrent of racist images
#6The original article, constantly referenced by this limited piece, is probably a better submission? https://www.404media.co/4chan-uses-bing-to-flood-the-interne...
It was submitted 8 hours ago, although it didn't get much notice https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37779810
Re: 4chan users manipulate AI tools to unleash torrent of racist images
#7The original article is here and linked in the first paragraph of the ArsT one:
https://www.404media.co/4chan-uses-bing-to-flood-the-interne...
Re: 4chan users manipulate AI tools to unleash torrent of racist images
#8Kind of silly to ask Stability AI to block offensive use of Stable Diffusion. It's not like they have any control over what models people load into their own instances of it. The base model that they distribute is pretty clean, but even then how are you supposed to stop people from photoshopping hateful messages into them?
Re: 4chan users manipulate AI tools to unleash torrent of racist images
#9gijames1225 said: I'm a little curious as to why this is even an article. It's inevitable and has no bearing on 99.99999% of people. I get that it's low hanging fruit from a reporting / research perspective (sort of like the 'Twitter users blah blah blah' articles), but outside of the 'publish or die' mindset of churning out content this is pointless and continues to make 4-chan and these people seem much more releva…
Racist content has a bearing on the marginalized races. Ignoring the casual hate on 4chan brought us GamerGate and Trump.
Re: 4chan users manipulate AI tools to unleash torrent of racist images
#10gijames1225 said: I'm a little curious as to why this is even an article. It's inevitable and has no bearing on 99.99999% of people. I get that it's low hanging fruit from a reporting / research perspective (sort of like the 'Twitter users blah blah blah' articles), but outside of the 'publish or die' mindset of churning out content this is pointless and continues to make 4-chan and these people seem much more releva…
I need a reminder from time to time that the internet has become a dumpster fire. These add fuel to the internal debate I am always having as to whether we ought to just toss the whole stinking thing away and go back to a world dominated by radio [1]. [1] (Not that I have of course any means to do that ... but I can drop out I suppose.)
What we need to do is build a progressive political orientation into all layers of the network, from site content moderation to actual packet routing. To quote Drew Devault, "no Nazis" is a better policy than "no politics".