Olives @olives@qoto.org

OpenAI appears to have used all these mentions of "safety" and "sentience" to distract from how truly mundane their model really is, and how it isn't some great radical innovation over previous models.

https://thealgorithmicbridge.substack.com/p/gpt-4s-secret-has-been-revealed OpenAI's gambit to make GPT-4 look more impressive than it actually is (it is also not going to become sentient...)

https://thisanimedoesnotexist.ai/ Remember the days before SD when all we had was this? Lol.

https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2023W/WMF/html/Corvi_Intriguing_Properties_of_Synthetic_Images_From_Generative_Adversarial_Networks_to_CVPRW_2023_paper.html
Interesting characteristics which distinguish DM (diffusion model) / GAN (generative adversarial network) generated images from real ones.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/06/tech-firms-should-oppose-protest-song-ban Hmm.

https://edri.org/our-work/open-letter-council-of-european-union-journalists-spyware-and-surveillance-european-media-freedom-act/ Spyware a threat to journalistic freedom.

I should write a custom client to help curate my feed on this site...

Same for any content creator who wants to cater to such a Frozen audience.

It's part of popular culture, there are people who like it, and undoubtedly, they watch it.

The silliest anti porn take I've seen tried to repurpose Elsagate to try to attack porn.

Normal people probably look at sexy fan art of Frozen and come to the correct conclusion that Frozen is a big part of popular culture and that there are fans out there who enjoy creating (and consuming) content related to it.

When you're an anti-porn priest with firm morals looking for excuses as to why porn is bad though, you're set speculating and coming up with fanciful scenarios of why it might be bad.

One dug into a popular porn site, found a few videos, and hypothesized it must be there as part of some nefarious scheme.

Elsagate wasn't really about porn per say, if I remember correctly, and even it was a bit of a panic.

It had a lot to do with YouTube marketing a dedicated site for kids which only has "wholesome content", then it turned out it was just a raw feed onto YouTube.

https://reclaimthenet.org/amazon-shut-down-associates-account-of-louis-rossmann
Apparently, Amazon retaliated against a large YouTuber for criticizing them over them locking someone out of their smart devices over false allegations of racism.

https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/1096596.html I'm not surprised.

South Korea seems to check all the boxes.

Puritanical.

Strong Christian Lobby of the kind you can imagine.

Controlling.

Now Pridephobic.

I see a conservative is taking a few kids pretending to be animals or whatever in one school as evidence of "pupils identifying as animals" being a serious problem.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/23/victims-lose-35m-scam-viewing-child-abuse-images-france-belgium
Criminals who ran scam with fake court documents accusing people of viewing child porn have been arrested.

I can only imagine more of this happening under chat control.

I don't see why they shouldn't be allowed to learn programming.

It seems like a good potential avenue for someone to reintegrate into and contribute to society.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/06/20/ohio-odrc-prison-book-ban-java-hitler Apparently, prisoners are not allowed to read books on how to learn programming o.O

As for Hitler's book, I think that while Hitler's views are abhorrent, I can't really argue for censorship in this instance.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/22/no-proof-teacher-violated-oklahoma-book-law-prosecutor/70347891007/ Eh, I don't see the trouble in her protesting the book ban like that.

"OceanGate"
Gate to the afterlife, you mean?

I see Twitter suspended the account of... A small shitposter...? Ugh.

The U.S. Supreme Court whittling down avenues to be released, when someone is wrongfully imprisoned is kind of concerning.

They should be making it easier for innocent people to go free, not harder.

Apparently, the Hamilton County chapter of Moms for Liberty featured a quote from Adolf Hitler (o.O) on it's front cover.