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As the fear and anxiety around these grew last year, it had prompted governments to intercede. While the international agreements rely on voluntary participation, Europe has moved forward with legislation. Love or hate the democratic process, the direction is clear and it will just take us longer. They will end up filtering and restricting the foundation models AI draws from. Much like how social platforms restrict content. Leading up to an election year, timing and how much influence end products will have is unfortunate. As much as I loathe censorship and its usual effect on free speech, this is one of the items that may be appropriate to reach out to representatives to express concerns if you want to see something happen in the US sooner than later. I work in an industry that has seen high adoption. Businesses feel compelled to use AI when their competitors are using it in an effort to stay competitive with productivity / potential cost savings. Employees read that as job loss. The fear was palpable for some. Its limitations are noticeable and it gets things wrong quite a bit. In part due to use of stand alone internal deployments and use. Business will not use the platforms in the public sphere for privacy and security. This should limit bad actors from injecting wanted content into local instance's foundations. Big should. As end users, and realistically we will all be using it whether you know you are or not, being aware of the abuses now may be a good thing. I expect images and end products will eventually all be tagged with metadata or some form of ID such that it will be transparent that what you are looking at is the product of generative AI. Some socials do it already. Kind of surprised they arent all doing it for marketing purposes since this is really all about subscription $$$ now.

That’s totally fair. I appreciate it and apologize for pointed statements, and the very poor word choice in the first comments that caused this. It’s really too bad that thread devolved. Several pages in the beginning were very imaginative and interesting. I don’t understand the fascination with that one person.

It absolutely does not. Your quote substitutes words to fit your false narrative,or you read in what you wanted for your own purposes. the P word was never mentioned until Chuck brought it up and you are capitalizing on it. For background, the image generator in question is not suppose to be able to use famous people. Calling one out by name would not get that image. But as it was 'learning' and people were teaching it nicknames, others could then use them. I was specifically referring to, and I said, seeing how the controls will be circumvented. In no instance did I see a port image produced. They had her doing a number of various things. but not pornographic as that is not allowed. It would be fair to say some were sexualized in nature, but nothing you could not show in public. Based the its later development, I am curious what it can do with video. I was joking about the ARFCOM instances as it is somewhat known effort, I didn't know the comment would be modified / twisted. I know what I meant. If you dont want to believe it, fine. I'd say support it with other posts since there would be others if its is what you claim. The idea, if it was a porn person you'd pass doesn't follow. You are saying they dont deserve dignity and they are subhuman or TS is better than them. I dont agree with that. I will dignify your last. You are off base and misrepresenting a joking comment for your own reasons.

I'd agree with that last statement. The controls that are / will be added are meant to prevent it. Want to be clear I am not promoting "porn", rather I am curious what some will do and what they will do despite the best efforts of the developers. Its how it evolves going forward. This idea of what is porn is too easy to trip over and there is a great deal of subjectivity to it. There will be mis-steps, but in the end it will end in a better place. I think the problem many have is how realistic some of these may look. It does not matter its fake, its just to close. In my mind I know its fake so I don't weight it heavily. Not to the point of having an impact on mankind. But I can respect some will see that differently. Photoshop is an example of something that has been around that allows this kind of thing, worse with real images. It has no bounds except the skill of the user. I bring that up as an example of the limited damage it has done. There is a parallel here. Tool vs person Bad actors taking something and doing a bad thing to have it censored or banned. Sound a little familiar.

It really wasn’t the exercise in misogyny that you’re casting it as. The point of those posts in that thread was how the controls and censorship in AI platforms can be defeated. Exactly what I was alluding to. Think you are running with it a bit seriously and missed the point. I’d suggest take the comment in the spirit it was intended maybe. It was a joke. Not sure on the moral superiority play. I’d bet no one forced you to look at that stuff to end up offended and blowing it out of proportion. Your choosing censorship over free will is not a choice I’d make either.

When they finally release it to the public, I can’t wait to see what people are going to be making Taylor Swift do. If anyone followed the pic gen thread on arfcom, you know what I mean.

So his contention is they don’t send officers into direct combat? we don’t know, it could have been a really really mean acorn. Or this: https://www.instructables.com/Compressed-Air-Acorn-Launcher/

Y'all remember the donkey boys getting ATF to ban green tip as 'armor piercing' in 2015? Which of course is what the military uses. Guess who made them? If you guessed LC you win a prize. This is a rehash of that. Give it some time for folks not to connect the dots then repackage it. Military grade, weapons of war. Marketing at its finest.

If folks want to save on tax, BatteHawk has the same price. https://battlehawkarmory.com/product/tisas-1911-the-volunteer-.45-acp-5-71-engraved-pistol Kinda wonder if the folks at SDS were thinking, "hey, ya think its been long enough that no one will remember that Beretta did the Volunteer thing a couple years ago?"

Themed metal lunchboxes.

The long slow walk out to the tree to pick your own switch you were about be get beat with. And it being OK for your parents tell others about it because that was how everyone rolled back then.

Best Products - Catalog showings There was something fun about seeing your purchase come out on a conveyor belt Skymall meets Ikea with a small side of Walmart. And the funky building were great too.

That’s an interesting analogy. You could put your pictures up on the wall literally…limited distribution…but it works view masters are the only real slide format left. In context: Such a distinct sound. i was thinking movie protectors too, his they use to show films in classes better VHS, but they are in so many movies kids would know what they are. Slides less so?

Not out loud

Not sure how many will get this right off

I do love me some retro vibe, but that’s odd some commitment there! I have 2 of them, 4ft and 7ft. Had the big one up this year. Use to take the small one to work and put it on the table for the ‘kids’

Where’s the tassels??

Anyone who worked retail in the early 80’s or before. Remember the weekly bank published books of bad credit cards that you had to look up manually. No slide and go. I remember thinking oh great, when I saw someone in line with their card out. Cash was still a thing back then.

More challenging without the reels!