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My late wife is in it. She died recently. I didn't know that video was still up there until I read your post. And now my heart breaks.
Good job on putting this #1 HN.
In about 2007 or so my brother and I used to find super obscure blogs with no comments, read them and then write detailed responses to the author and share it with our friends. We always kept it positive, and said encouraging things. Most of the time the posts had been written in the 90s or early 2000s. We just did it knowing that probably one or two people would get notified of a new comment and maybe feel happy tha…
Ever get a good response back?
I have been surprised a time or two ending up in a conversation with someone who took the time same as I did. Just because we could.
This reminds me the trick to make recent text-to-image model generate highly realistic (but amateur) photos by adding "IMG_XXXX" into the prompt. Although these videos have nearly zero views on YouTube, they may be part of the training data behind these models.
DSC, IMG, etc etc.
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Yeah, the ubiquity of smartphones and the rise of Facebook and Instagram (post-acquisition) as an open platform for advertisers versus mostly for early adopters/enthusiasts really killed the "fun" of the internet. Also, I remember how many different frameworks and "rich internet application" technologies existed back then (Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, Apple QuickTime, etc.). In many ways, the internet was a mu…
> really killed the "fun" of the internet. The original eternal September[1] predates my entry to the internet by a couple of years, but the cycle repeats eternally. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Ah, this is where this comes from. There has been rumours flying around in Stable Diffusion / Flux circles that you would get much more realistic pictures when you include a photo id like IMG_0416.
Its like a ghost in the machine prompt.
In about 2007 or so my brother and I used to find super obscure blogs with no comments, read them and then write detailed responses to the author and share it with our friends. We always kept it positive, and said encouraging things. Most of the time the posts had been written in the 90s or early 2000s. We just did it knowing that probably one or two people would get notified of a new comment and maybe feel happy tha…
But still, plenty of blog posts from early 2000s to comment on in 2007, especially on the likes of LiveJournal or Blogger.
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I'm surprised yours is the only comment from this perspective. I get the draw and innocence of such videos, but I agree spreading them knowing they were most likely uploaded accidentally seems a violation of these people's privacy.
Why on earth would you assume that most of these are an accident?
> In fact, many were likely uploaded by accident or with a misunderstanding that complete strangers could see it.
Throughout the article, there are reasons why one would think that (like most having zero views, no descriptions, no engagement etc).
I understand that these videos were made public, but still this kinda feels like violating people’s privacy. They most likely never intended for us all to watch their personal videos a decade later.
It's the usual, the fact that we can does not mean that we should.