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What is Alexandra bitching about now (a grifter of a minor journo).

So, if I get this straight, she is mad about so-called "photorealistic" "AI" imagery of "children" (not porn though) because she finds the fantasies of the viewers to be upsetting...? (Even the most "scandalous" ones she can produce appear to be pretty clear fantasies, frankly.) Ugh. She even cites someone from a "save the children" outfit who is best buds with an odious far right figure with a bizarre fascination with sex abuse rituals in schools. Then, there is another from another "save the children" outfit offering up his hot takes (working hard to "join the dots", it's what he's paid to do).

There are also strong QAnon type vibes where she "joins the dots" and makes things up about it, even trying to conflate it with people who post borderline child porn, or are otherwise up to no good without any real line of argumentation. One of the dots is that one viewer happens to post actual photographs (not porn).

What is really striking is the actual absence of an actual argument past "them and us".

Alexandra would be best served actually looking at the ethics in question of where it comes from, perhaps a critique of the actual technology itself (if anything), rather than trying really hard to push this whole thought police angle / Q shit. That would require a shred of intellectual honesty though.

At the end of the day, it winds up feeling like a lot of nothing. It's hard to believe Alexandra is making the world one iota better. It's a grift which is squeezed hard to produce clicks and views. That is what she is all about.

I am told that there are people who do the same thing but with a higher level of personal "AI" ethics, yes, although it seems strange to go full QAnon in any case.

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