Olives @olives@qoto.org

I think it is important for courts to overrule laws though, when they're incompatible with the constitution.

That is kind of what the whole overturning Roe v Wade debacle is about which The Juice Media didn't approve of.

https://reason.com/2023/06/27/excited-delirium-is-no-excuse-for-police-abuse/ More news from the criminal injustice system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LhBc0_Hsjs
https://reason.com/2023/06/27/in-election-law-dispute-chief-justice-john-roberts-delivered-a-win-for-the-constitution/
Thankfully, The Juice Media was wrong about this one.

I noticed "think of the children" (always a red flag) webinars and such where she kept making an appearance.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/13/european-parliament-removes-eva-kaili-as-vice-president-after-qatar-corruption-allegations.html
See here for E.U. corruption but even Article 17 has a stench of corruption to it.

Hollywood Actor Ashton, top dog of Thorn (caught with it's pants down with a bunch of evangelical groups as "partners" in 2019), who has no expertise in child protection, free expression, innovation, or human rights, should not be commenting on "AI".

He has a history of supporting things with "unintended consequences", and failing to achieve whatever it is he is trying to achieve.

Such as supporting an "anti sex trafficking" law which made sex trafficking in the U.S. worse, simply because it was marketed as "tough on sex trafficking".

Congress, the mess that it is, is incapable of passing a bill to fund *research* on whether it had the intended effect of reducing sex trafficking, despite part of the government seemingly admitting it increased it.

Or lobbying a bunch of probably corrupt bureaucrats in the E.U. to spy on everyone with the Chat Stasi.

I tire of this guy.

Theoretically, a tiny number of bad people in a remote hive of scum and villainy might abuse it. Chances are they're already doing other garbage which you can bust them for and it doesn't make a practical difference.

Rationally though, it is extremely unlikely that most people have little demon horns on their heads, and go out of their way to do evil.

Practically speaking, it's not even clear his efforts wouldn't lead to the world becoming less safe for just about everyone. It certainly wouldn't be the first time.

It's a prohibitionist / techno-solutionist approach without any thought as to how the real world works. He has not thought of any of this. It shows.

Some places prohibition has taken us to.

Do you want to use the term "young" to generate something in a SFW context? Well, sucks to be you. We need to limit that, on the off-chance someone might abuse it in a strangely specific scenario.

Are you an artist who happened to use an AI to create a work (i.e. semi-realistic cartoons)? Time to be censored and punished.

https://edri.org/our-work/online-safety-bill-insecure-international-organisations-academics-and-cyber-experts-urge-uk-government-to-protect-encrypted-messaging/ Everything about this bill is bad. Everything. It should be torn down.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/26/californias-journalism-protection-act-is-an-unconstitutional-clusterfuck-of-terrible-lawmaking/ Ugh, another link "tax" bill.

It'd be nice if more DM (diffusion model) generated images had the prompts used to generate the images along with the images?

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-skirts-dress-code-charter-school-73c402c660a126e3f8e86ab676b2b018
U.S. Supreme Court hands down ruling forcing North Carolina charter school to allow girls to wear pants rather than skirts.

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.