Thorn, the company backed by Ashton Kutcher and which tried to get its way to monitor all messages in the EU via Chat Control. No thanks.
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Just remember folks. Kutcher is a slimeball too.
The guy went from a D list star and hanging out with the likes of Danny Masterson and going to Diddy’s infamous parties - to suddenly overnight courting the US government and being the face of ‘helping’ children everywhere.
Yeah right…..
I’d be wary of calling him guilty by association. Maybe when he realized who he was really hanging out with he was so horrified and disgusted that he just had to get involved and do something to fight back?
It’s awful coincidental that he seems to hang out with the ‘rapist’ crowd. Even going as far as writing a letter for Masterson as to how nice of a guy he is to try to get him a lenient sentence.
Even Hollywood has ostracized him and his wife - news sites recently reported they were looking to leave the country and let things cool off for a while.
I’m sure everyone is right though that keep posting here, that he is a swell guy who was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, multiple times. Several years worth of multiple times with wrong people. Just a coincidence.
The difference between us giving him a benefit of the doubt and claiming innocence and your take, is that you are labeling him a pedophile without proof. That's a significant claim if false, and imo takes an assumption too far. Maybe he's bad and it should be looked into, but saying he did something because he was on a show with and good friends with a guy that happened to be a rapist is wrong.
People can grow and change. Not saying he did or didn’t. Just saying that people aren’t a monolith. It’s plausible he just grew and his views changed / evolved.
That being said, it’s highly convenient where he’s positioned himself these days…
I think all CSAM should be destroyed out of respect for the victims, not proliferated. I don't care who is hanging onto this material or for what purpose.
How is this proliferating csam? Also, how do you expect them to find csam without having known images? It gives a really nice way to check based on hashes without having someone look at every picture on someone's harddrive. With this AI it should greatly help determining new or unknown images while minimizing the number of actual people that have to see that stuff, and who get scarred from looking at such images. The only reason to be against this is if you are looking at CP and want it to be harder to find, or if you don't understand how this technology is being used.
Not a single peep about false positives.
I'm sure it won't be abused though. And if anyone does complain, just get their electronics seized and checked, because they must be hiding something!
Reminds me of the A cup breasts porn ban in Australia a few years ago, because only pedos would watch that
Awe man, I love all titties. Variety is the spice of life.
Not to mention the self image impact such things would have on women with smaller breasts, who (as I understand it) generally already struggle with poor self image due to breast size.
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
If this is the price I must pay, I will pay it, sir! No man should be deprived of privately viewing a consenting adults perfectly formed small tit's. They can take my liberty, they can take my livelihood, but they will never take away my boner for puffy nipples on a small chested half Japanese woman!
What is the charge? Biting a breast? A succulent Chinese breast?
Australia has a more general ban on selling or exhibiting hard porn, but is is legal to possess it. So it's not just small boobs.
It's the earliest AI technology striving to expose unreported CSAM at scale.
horde-safety has been out for a year now. Just saying... It's not a trained AI model in this way, but it's still using Neural Networks (i.e. "AI Technology")
And will we get that technology to keep the Fediverse and free platforms safe? Probably not. All the predecessors have been kept away for sole use of the big players, despite populism always claiming we need to introduce total surveillance to keep the children safe...
If everyone has access to the model it becomes much easier to find obfuscation methods and validate them. It becomes an uphill battle. It's unfortunate but it's an inherent limitation of most safeguards.
You're probably right. I'm not sure if it's a good idea to walk close to the edge with things like this, though. Every update to the detection model could change things and get them in jail.... So I certainly wouldn't play a cat and mouse game with something that has several years of jailtime attached... But then I don't really know the thought process of the average pedo. And AI image detection comes with problems anyways. In the article they say it detected 6 million pictures already. While keeping quiet about the rate of false positives. We know people have gotten in serious trouble for (false) claims. And I also wouldn't want to be the Fediverse admin who has to go through thousands of flagged pictures and look at them and decide which is which. With consequences attached... Maybe a database of hashes would be the only option. That doesn't detect new pictures, but at the same time it comes without flase positives and you can't draw conclusions from hash values.
I was going to say... Sure would be nice to have this feature in all the open source AI image generator tools but you're absolutely right 😩
Yeah, unless someone publishes even a set of hashes of known bad content for the general public... I kind of doubt the true intentions are preventing CSAM to the benefit of everyone.
You never know. @[email protected] / @npub1q3sle0kvfsehgsuexttt3ugjd8xdklxfwwkh559wxckmzddywnws6cd26p@momostr.pink tried getting Microsoft to provide their CSAM blocking filtering to the Fediverse in the past without success, but this is a different group.
This is a great development, albeit with a lot of soul crushing development behind it I assume. People who have to look at CSAM or whatever the acronym is have a miserable job, so I'm very supportive of trying to automate that away from people.
Yeah, I’m happy for AI to take this particular horrifying job from us. Chances are it will be overtuned (too strict), but if there’s a reasonable appeals process I could see it saving a lot of people the trauma of having to regularly view the worst humanity has to offer without major drawbacks.
This seems like a potential actual good use of AI. Can't have been much fun to train it though.
And is there any risk of people turning these kinds of models around and using them to generate images?
And is there any risk of people turning these kinds of models around and using them to generate images?
There isn't really much fundamental difference between an image detector and an image generator. The way image generators like stable diffusion work is essentially by generating a starting image that's nothing but random static and telling the generator "find the cat that's hidden in this noise."
It'll probably take a bit of work to rig this child porn detector up to generate images, but I could definitely imagine it happening. It's going to make an already complicated philosophical debate even more complicated.
If AI was reliable, maybe. MAYBE. But guess what? It turns out that “advanced autocomplete” does a shitty job of most things, and I bet false positives will be numerous.
This is not that kind of AI.
It's possible to have a good AI system, but it takes millions of dollars and several thousand manhours to do, and most companies won't put in the effort.
But, there should always be a human in the loop.
"detect new or previously unreported CSAM and child sexual exploitation behavior (CSE), generating a risk score to make human decisions easier and faster."
False positives don't matter if they stick to the stated intended purpose of making it easier to detect CSAM manually.
if they stick to the stated intended purpose
They never do.
The problem is that they won't.
Yes, AI tools, in the hands of skilled people, can be very helpful.
But "AI" in capitalism doesn't mean "more effective workers", it means "fewer workers." The issue isn't technological so much as cultural. You fundamentally cannot convince an MBA not to try to automate away jobs.
(It's not even a money thing; it's about getting rid of all those pesky "workers rights" that workers like to bring with us)
Here's the thing. This technology is unequivocally one of the things AI would be very useful for. It can potentially do a lot of good. Yes, MBAs could screw it up like they screw anything else up in society. That doesn't mean we shouldn't be happy that we've created this new tech.
I think image generators in general work by iteratively changing random noise and checking it with a classifier, until the resulting image has a stronger and stronger finding of “cat” or “best quality” or “realistic”.
If this classifier provides fine grained descriptive attributes, that’s a nightmare. If it just detects yes or no, that’s probably fine.
At this point how does it differ w/ generating AI powered CP? morons
It differs in basically being something completely different. This is a classification model, doesn't have generative capabilities. Even if you were to get the model and it's weights, and you tried to reverse engineer an "input" that it would classify as CP, it would most likely look like pure noise to you.
Moron
Uh, well this one tells you if an image looks like it or not. It doesn’t generate images
If it knows if an image looks like it it can generate something like it, one step further
Correct, this kind of software is trained on CP data. So such models can be easily used to generate CP instead of recognizing it, which makes them very dangerous indeed.
Same idea as the current models that are trained to recognized cars, these models can also be used to generate a car from noise as a starting poiint.
In pretttty sure you can’t just run it in reverse like that. There’s a whole different training and operation methodology you have to use to support generating images rather than simple text classification