Maybe it's an entrapment scheme but it's far more likely that they're gonna use this as a pretense to ban locally hosted/open source/non-corporate Stable Diffusion and maybe AI in general.
@Xeraser This is one of the very few things I would have put past them - releasing one of these things to the public would've been a red tape nightmare, and *any* expert in the field would know that this is functionally equivalent to posting a huge pile of real CP on the internet.
Imagine feds going "yes I believe we shall post gigabytes of child pornography on 4chan today." That's what just happened. Good job. Anyone with half a brain could've told you that someone was going to reverse engineer the dataset - which is apparently what happened.
I can imagine someone non-technical signing off on this, but I can't imagine someone with any technical expertise signing off on this at all.
This is the most retarded thing I've seen come out of any technical field in my entire life, and I have seen quite a bit of idiocy.
the only other possibility if it's not the feds is it's one of the pedos doing so, which is very real too. Real pedos also love to shove their dicks in everything online, to the point I've seen certain pedo instances use the infamous pedo symbols as emojis.
@ceo_of_monoeye_dating >Anyone with half a brain could've told you that someone was going to reverse engineer the dataset - which is apparently what happened. Not exactly, you can't extract the training data from a model. People noticed how a certain logo reliably appears on the vast majority of generations using that model and that logo appears to belong to "an infamous ukrainian CP agency" It's not the equivalent of zipping up CP and providing a download link, not on a technical level. To a court however...
@Xeraser >Not exactly, you can't extract the training data from a model. I think you mean "normal people" can't extract the training data from the model.
There's a good pile of work in the literature which is centered around doing *exactly that.* Here's a link to work that does that: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07758 . This is literally just the first one I found: it does a pretty decent job. It's far from perfect, but it's good enough that anyone reasonable is gonna be satisfied with it.
It's definitely a lot more involved, but anyone should be able to go and say "yup this is a thing that people can do, and it's a thing that we should worry about."
Only if it gets high profile enough, like Twitter finds out about it. If Twitter finds out about it, the journoscum will the next day or have stories on Monday and that's when the panic really sets in.
@Giganova8@Xeraser I suspect they will pass a bunch of laws because of this, and will probably even send a bunch of people to jail, but otherwise will have massive issues with enforcement.
@teknomunk@Xeraser This one might have some teeth though, since "but think of the children!!!" still has a bit of kick these days. Also, they can come down on "CP distribution" way harder than they can on things like copyright, or even drugs. :akko_weary:
@Xeraser I'm sure their efforts at banning civilian AI models will be as successful as they have banned drugs and alcohol, and how successfully they have stopped copyright infringement.
on the other hand, I went to the threads and yeah people are self policing against posting the models pretty hard. Anyone who even suggests posting it is instantly called a fed or pedo.
It's either entrapment (which takes a while) or an actual pedo spreading his collection somehow.
Which isn't uncommon with pedos. There's some stories I'd rather not repeat about that, but considering the shit pedoscum do I wouldn't be shocked one but. The "assigned male" artist as an example was caught referencing real kid photos for fetish art as an example.
@PhenomX6@teknomunk@Xeraser If this was posted by feds, I'm surprised the articles aren't out already. Usually they already have them written up and ready to go before the gayop is even executed. :akko_weary:
I've read the greentext about the time some milita group ended up with a police department and two fed departments trying to arrest each other, unaware the others were trying to catfish for gullible anti-government activists at the same time.
@Giganova8@teknomunk@PhenomX6@Xeraser If it was posted by feds, then there's another fed keeping an eye on this that's going "OH DEAR JESUS FUCK WE DID WHAT?" and trying to hush it up.
Just like we are not one person, "the feds" are not one person.
@PhenomX6@teknomunk@Xeraser True, something just seems very suspect about this whole thing. Too convenient for certain narratives, I guess, to be written off as just some freak doing his thing alone. :thonk:
On one hand HW was lenient as shit about this kinda stuff (this got exposed after Jim took over), on the other hand they were caught setting up a sting. Laurelai is highly infamous and is a sex pest, one of the few people to be canceled for real from the trans community for raping one of their own.
@ceo_of_monoeye_dating@teknomunk@PhenomX6@Xeraser Oh I'm concerned, just also tempered by the fact that they've been doing this shit for years now and nobody has said anything about it, so I don't expect much to change. :shrug:
Hell, I'm pretty sure the FBI straight up admitted to keeping copies of all the CP they "confiscate", and nothing came of that save some Twitter "outrage" for like a week. :gura_pain:
@Giganova8@teknomunk@PhenomX6@Xeraser There's a huge difference between keeping the CP for law enforcement purposes and posting it on the internet. There's an even huger difference between posting the CP on the internet and posting it on a major website.
@Giganova8@teknomunk@PhenomX6@Xeraser Feds: *Posts a model with which you can reverse engineer a dataset of actual child pornography* This entire thread: "Wow I am paranoid about what the feds are trying to do to AI, I am worried about what evil they'll use to justify taking this type of thing down."
This is one of those instances where the average tinfoil bro is not shitting themselves hard *enough*. I feel like the impact of "feds just posted piles of CP on a the internet" isn't really hitting you guys. It's a line that feds didn't really want to cross: having them cross it now for any reason whatsoever should not just be a "hmm I am a little concerned" thing. It should be considered worse than if Biden ripped off his pants on stage and shat on the floor right in front of every other world leader.
I hope it causes chaos and discord amongst the feds and leads to real-world consequences for the fuck-ups who did this, but I expect nothing whatsoever will actually come of it thanks to coverups, save maybe 4chan becoming even more of a glowing shithole. :jahy_pain:
@ceo_of_monoeye_dating@Giganova8@teknomunk@PhenomX6@Xeraser They literally told us in school when a fed came in for a career speech and said “I work for the world’s largest purveyor and distributor of child pornography, the united states government”
@ceo_of_monoeye_dating@teknomunk@PhenomX6@Xeraser@Giganova8 It’s easy for people to think the gov is more monolithic than it is. This could be just a unit of 14 people in an office at fault, the decision of one out of touch manager. Like you said, we’ll know by how much it gets covered up. my bet would be tech boomers overriding the advice of their juniors, and someone smarter will have to step in and crack some heads
@WashedOutGundamPilot@teknomunk@PhenomX6@Xeraser@Giganova8 Nah, when these things get posted by feds to entrap pedos normally, it's on a more underground or shady site. They don't cast their net nearly so wide, and they do it in a way that the resulting court case is a lot more straightforward.
If they post the neural network model, it's genuinely a bit of a question *in court* whether or not this is the same as CP. From a *technical* perspective, it's absolutely the same thing, but I can imagine a crafty lawyer getting a pedo off the hook here.
@ceo_of_monoeye_dating@teknomunk@PhenomX6@Xeraser@Giganova8 (for those who remember, I single handedly caused a LOT of damage a while back doing a solo thing. Sometimes a single retard is all it takes for big moves that make people think the entire body is a million howling retards)
@x0x7@teknomunk@PhenomX6@Xeraser@Giganova8 the problem is that the AI was trained on stuff that WASN'T fake and would be considered against the law. it stands to reason that derivatives of that would be illegal too; at the very least the first derivative would be. that has happened with loli artwork before, where people were using CP as refs and got bopped. it's happened with erotica too.
@PhenomX6@Giganova8@teknomunk@Xeraser Considering fake content is legal federally and in various states its constitutionally questionable my guess is it wasn't the feds. It's just someone who has played with AI who is ban testing a server.
On Voat.co we have this one guy who's been ban trolling with multiple accounts. To me that makes much more sense than the feds.
@beardalaxy@x0x7@teknomunk@Xeraser@Giganova8 or even just referencing irl pics gets people who usually don't care to assume you're a pedo, moreso when your art has pedo overtones.
Look at the whole assigned male scandal for an example.