Olives @olives@qoto.org

"AI CSAM getting more extreme"

See, the thing about "AI generated" images is that it doesn't really matter how "severe" the depicted abuse is... Unlike actual photographs where it might correspond to a different form of abuse to someone.

It's clearly someone trying to pull at someone's emotions.

It is also coming from a very unreliable "source" which is known to mislead people... Including by selectively reporting things. In fact, it is probably coming from something the same "source" said around about... 16 months ago but which gets repackaged as if it's new every single month.

It is also not "CSAM". Hell, the reason grifters like using that term here is that it collapses the context in discussions by framing it as an extension of some other amorphous phenomena. Perhaps, by framing it as being a matter of potentially shadowy people on the so-called "dark web" (a very rare phenomena, all signs would indicate).

There are *far better* terms which better reflect whatever it is that is going on. No need to lump everything in the "CSAM" box as if it is one amorphous thing (that is something I noticed happens *a lot*).

How about "deepfake"? The term has been around for seven years. It seems to be less prone to misuse, maybe someone still misuses it, I dunno. Or talk about consent? So, suppose someone disapproves of something that depicts them?

It feels like someone is deliberately trying to use ambiguous language, and they insist on doing so despite being repeatedly told that it is confusing and ambiguous. Oftentimes, they try to push some other agenda.

These are the same grifters who might argue that no one has ever been harmed by government censorship, including since the 1970s, even though many people have clearly been harmed by some sort of government censorship.

These are the same grifters who misrepresent statistics about presumably actual photography, even though the vast majority of these are duplicate.

In fact, these grifts might even be something which someone could ignore, if they didn't keep coming up with bad ideas.

These are also probably the same people who were against educating someone about respecting someone's boundaries and other such things not too long ago... At best, they seem to conveniently forget that is even a thing. If they do come up with something, they point to some fringe faith-based crap (which has no credible record of being effective). Not helping, folks.

Or they might be someone who sells a product, which uses dubious means, which purports to fight an "amorphous phenomena"?

I'm hearing that Bluesky is the sort of company which looks at a very SFW image and deems it "NSFW".

One of the good things about this instance is the generous character limit.

See something marked as NSFW.

Click.

Picture of a forest.

It surprised me though that studios decided to adapt light novel after light novel after light novel though.

I've read Japanese light novels before. I'm fairly fond of reading.

https://reason.com/2024/10/18/texas-lawmakers-temporarily-save-death-row-inmate-robert-roberson-from-the-execution-chamber/
"Last night, #Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson narrowly avoided becoming the first person in the country to be executed based on evidence of what was formerly called "shaken baby syndrome," due to an unprecedented intervention by a bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers.

Efforts by Roberson's supporters to halt his imminent execution spilled over into a battle between the branches of the Texas government Thursday night after a state House committee issued a subpoena to Roberson to testify before it next Monday—a highly unusual move that had the practical effect of putting him under the aegis of the legislature's subpoena authority."

"However, the scientific consensus surrounding AHT has shifted considerably in the decades since Roberson's conviction, and his attorneys argue that the forensic testimony at his original trial has now been discredited, both by advances in science and by previously undiscovered autopsy records that show Roberson's daughter died of advanced pneumonia. In addition, Roberson was subsequently diagnosed with autism, which his lawyers say led to doctors and police misinterpreting his behavior as callous."
#FifthAmendment #HumanRights #DueProcess

https://reason.com/2024/10/17/these-texas-inmates-wrote-a-book-then-the-prison-system-banned-it/
"The #Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has banned yet another book in its prisons. Except this time, it was written by inmates themselves."

"James describes the project on his website as a work that "explores the loss of sanity, humanness, and, oftentimes, hope through the personal writings" of inmates who have spent months, years, and sometimes even decades in solitary confinement. Much of the collection features portrayals of violence from correction officers and grueling accounts of the living conditions within solitary confinement cells."
#FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #HumanRights

And are they becoming less political? Or more political?

One of the things that the E.U. fails to understand with the DSA is that member states are actually really bad at legislating, and this isn't simply because any one person is incompetent, but because of politics.

Hmm... Okay, maybe I'll consider it but I'd have to avoid an emphasis on teens.

I saw a potentially good source which mainly went on about how censorship is harmful but then it went on about how teens viewing porn (queer porn) is a good thing.

To include or not to include. I'm concerned that if I do, someone is going to get fussy about that one point (it's a journalistic source).

Keep in mind that the RC site might not include the content that is chilled, regular content moderation, or takedown requests but it is still a useful tool for shining a light on Australian censorship.

There are people who write so-called "codes" which get pulled into law and they're arguing that they should be able to copyright that.

If something is part of the text of a law, then it makes sense that someone should be able to distribute it.

Twitter also probably ran into the inconvenient reality that a lot of people (of all kinds) curse on social media.

There have been moderation mess ups like this from Twitter *over a decade ago*, like when someone got banned for saying the word "tit" (when they meant the bird).

I guess they're going back to those sorts of things until they learn it's a bad idea.

Bluesky is more like Linkedin than Linkedin. Ultra professional.

While there might be money in selling an alternative to social media, there is more money in grifting about being an alternative to social media, while practically being the same thing (and banning even more accounts over petty things due to cutting corners on policy). Bluesky in a nutshell.

While you might not like Zuckerberg or Facebook, they're not fooling anyone about what they're about. Facebook is a company, and companies are about making money, running ads is how they make money. Maybe, he tries to avoid scandal and acts anti-competitively but he doesn't pretend it isn't that.

This company though is shrouded in layers of grifts.