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Can you help feed my curiosity? How many words have you posted across all pseudos and fandoms on AO3? Reblog to paint a pretty picture!

*Bonus points if you include how long you’ve been posting on AO3 in the tags.

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Being into commentary YouTube as a proshipper is so funny because it’s like oh this person is cool and I agree with most of what they say! Oh wait, you viscerally hate me and others like me for no reason and are wildly misinformed on who we are and didn’t bother to do research other than take sources from antis? Okay nevermind lol

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Alright now this pissed me off

What do you MEAN you're going to remove one of the most important aspects of Sokka's character arc in the first season? What do you MEAN you're going to remove Sokka unlearning misogyny, accepting change and embracing his role as a fighter and protector of the Avatar in order to end the war? What do you MEAN???

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Do you support Palestine?

I support the American military industrial complex!!!!! 🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🍔🍔🍔🍔 I'm on the side of whoever we're selling missiles to!

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The amount of people willing to go online and admit that they don't know how the US government works is absolutely insane. 'President of the United States' doesn't mean dictator.

Also, it's social media during an election year where Biden is gonna go for a second term. Every politician is gonna be signalling their support of popular issues on social media, especially a president. He's literally talking to the people who are going to vote for him jfc.

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Please don’t pay for his music.

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Yaoi haters are something else ngl. "Um a masculine man having sex with a feminine man is heteronormative" what the fuck are you talking about???

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Alright, now time for some devil's advocacy.

The database doesn't actually contain images, it contains metadata that points to where the images can be found. There isn't literally CSAM in the database, there's metadata that points to links that may or may not contain CSAM. Sites like the Internet Archive or Common Crawl also have similar issues, because they're crawling/archiving the entire internet.

The researchers conducted the study in a country where its completely illegal to view CSAM even for research. Basically, they were legally not allowed to verify if there was actual CSAM at the links that the database pointed to. They only referenced the links contained in the LAION database against a database of known CSAM links. They got a few thousand matches in a database that contains about 5 billion image links - less than 1 percent of all images.

I know StableDiffusion was not trained on every single image in the database, and I assume Midjourney wasn't either. It's possible that no CSAM was included in the training data that the image generators actually used. I think this is something that Stability AI (the company that owns Stable Diffusion) would have to confirm for themselves.

The reporters who broke this story are explicitly anti-open source AI. There is a very big likelihood that privately owned databases meant for training AI by companies like Google or Microsoft also contain CSAM, but those databases are closed-source and cannot be investigated. Their bias doesn't mean that we should reject their findings, but it does mean that their recommendations for the future should be taken with a grain of salt.

Alright, devil advocacy over. We still need better mass data-tagging tools. The LAION database should have been cross-referenced for the known CSAM database a lot sooner. Manually getting people to review images is almost impossible when it comes to datasets this large, so its absolutely crucial that we create tools that don't further exploit vulnerable children.

The LAION database went down while they remove the suspected CSAM links, and AFAIK it's not back up yet.

The biggest dataset used for AI image generators had CSAM in it

Link the original tweet with more info

The LAION dataset has had ethical concerns raised over its contents before, but the public now has proof that there was CSAM used in it.

The dataset was essentially created by scraping the internet and using a mass tagger to label what was in the images. Many of the images were already known to contain identifying or personal information, and several people have been able to use EU privacy laws to get images removed from the dataset.

However, LAION itself has known about the CSAM issue since 2021.

LAION was a pretty bad data set to use anyway, and I hope researchers drop it for something more useful that was created more ethically. I hope that this will lead to a more ethical databases being created, and companies getting punished for using unethical databases. I hope the people responsible for this are punished, and the victims get healing and closure.

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I was reading some comments earlier

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The biggest dataset used for AI image generators had CSAM in it

Link the original tweet with more info

The LAION dataset has had ethical concerns raised over its contents before, but the public now has proof that there was CSAM used in it.

The dataset was essentially created by scraping the internet and using a mass tagger to label what was in the images. Many of the images were already known to contain identifying or personal information, and several people have been able to use EU privacy laws to get images removed from the dataset.

However, LAION itself has known about the CSAM issue since 2021.

LAION was a pretty bad data set to use anyway, and I hope researchers drop it for something more useful that was created more ethically. I hope that this will lead to a more ethical databases being created, and companies getting punished for using unethical databases. I hope the people responsible for this are punished, and the victims get healing and closure.

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People really like the funky lil robots that NASA spends an incredible amount of time, effort, and money to launch into space.

People really don't like the awesome new AI software that took an incredible amount of time, effort, and money to get working Solution: We gotta start anthropomorphizing the AI image generators.

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Seeing the Harvard personnel getting grilled by a House committee, and none of them being able to give a flat-out 'yes' to the question 'Is calling for the genocide of the Jews violating the Harvard Code of Conduct?' is uhhhh fucking insane.

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what the fuck is happening in DC rn

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And you feel SEEN.