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angstpril day seven: friendly fire

CW: war, bombs, explosions, death, pain (of literally every kind)

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“Newbie, can you check our coordinates? Kuvira’s starting fire soon,” I heard my squadron’s sergeant say in my direction.

“Yes, sir,” I replied, walking the short distance to where our map has been laid out.

“We’re in block F32, sir,” I looked up at him and he nodded, pushing up his sleeve and tapping his watch twice.

“Good, good. We charge forwards the moment we hear the explosives launch, and if all goes to plan, the barrage should provide enough cover for us to get in and sabotage their defences,” I watched as he checked the time again and nodded to another officer behind me.

“But sir,” I asked cautiously, folding the map in front of me.

“What happens if all doesn’t go to plan?” I stood up, folded map in hand.

He looked at me sadly and gave me a quick smile, patting my shoulder with a rough hand.

“We won’t get caught in the fire, kid, don’t worry. After all, they don’t call it friendly for nothing,” He let out a boisterous laugh and walked around me, helping to pack up the last of our supplies from the overnight.

I put the map I held into one of the cases we kept for smaller supplies and we hid all our sacks in a small cave behind some bushes. The plan was to come back to this site after the attack to retrieve it all, so we didn’t have unnecessary clutter on the move. Once everything was set and ready to go, we got into our formation.

The minute the first explosive flew overhead, I knew something was wrong.

“She’s firing too close!” I yelled, turning in horror to our sergeant.

“Does she not know we’re here?” I continued, panic growing in my chest as another bomb launched over us.

Our sergeant gave me a grave smile and nodded.

“She knows we’re here, kid,” He said above the now near constant sound of explosions.

“But you said- you said we’d make it out alright,” I flinched as several shells exploded a little too close for comfort.

“You said the barrage was to provide cover!” I had to fight off tears as the panic climbed up my throat.

How was everyone else so calm about this? Did they not realise she was firing right at us? She swore she would protect us, train us and then keep us safe. And yet here I stood, surrounded by living corpses, all because she lied.

She lied.

And I’d trusted her. But of course I had, my village had been one of the first she’d helped. I’d left with her on the train that same day, pledging my allegiance and going to her first training camp. Most of the officers that I was with now had been in the army before Kuvira had taken over, but I had been top of my unit in training. I’d been sent here early.

If only I hadn’t.

Another shell screeched overhead, exploding mere metres in front of us. I let out a yelp and ducked down, covering my head against the debris that came flying towards us. Several of the others squatted as well, our sergeant not among them. I saw a piece of shrapnel come into contact with his cheek, leaving a mark that would undoubtedly scar.

“We have to get out of here,” I screamed, no longer fighting the tears.

“It’s too late,” The private next to me said in a low and scratchy voice.

I stared at her, tears rushing down my face. I saw that her eyes were watering too, though from emotion or from the dust in the air, I couldn't tell. She pulled her lips into a tight smile and held her hand out to me. I took it gratefully, a sob escaping my lips as she laced our fingers together. I tried not to think about the fact that I was about to die, holding the hand of someone I barely knew, and at the hands of the person who swore to protect me. To protect all of us.

There were several loud booms as more shells were fired. Something felt different this time, though. There was a negative energy suddenly enveloping us, hanging over us like a heavy rain cloud. Time slowed as the bomb gave a high whistle and fell right in the middle of our group. I watched, frozen in place, as its fuse burned down to nothing. The air seemed to pull towards it in the long seconds it took for the reaction within to occur, and there was something in me that longed to reach out and touch it.

I never got the chance.

Those long seconds were over all too quickly, despite how slow time seemed. I felt the energy coming off of it in waves, each one larger and more intense until the casing of the bomb split open. It’s contents flew everywhere, the force of the release sending us all flying backwards. My hand slipped from the kind private’s at some point, her warmth replaced by that of my own blood as shrapnel was thrust into my skin.

I landed hard on my back, a jolt of pain going through my body at the harsh contact. I tried to sit up but gasped and doubled over, clutching my stomach tightly. My head was spinning, a loud ringing in my ears, and I was in the worst pain I’d ever felt. My legs screamed at me as I shifted again and I gritted my teeth, trying not to throw up. My stomach was churning, just about every muscle and organ around it throbbing with pain. I closed my eyes against the spinning of the world, hoping to ease the nausea, but it hardly helped.

My eyes snapped open again, my head lifting quickly, when I heard someone shouting something. I cringed at the webs of pain that renewed throughout my body, but looked around anyway, searching for the source of the voice.

I saw the private who’d held my hand lying not too far from me. She was fighting to keep her eyes open, the leg closest to me blown clean off. Behind her were several other recruits who’d been closer to the bomb when it had exploded. I no longer recognized any of them. I tried to turn my body to look in the other direction, still wondering where the voice had come from, but something above me caught my eye.

It shone in the sun as it flew through the air, it's cold metal almost like a mirror. I didn’t hear the whistle this time, the ringing too loud for any other sounds to break through. The world seemed to still as it landed, bouncing once before rolling to a stop just in front of me. Somehow, at that moment, I felt calm. I reached forwards, ignoring the agony I was in, and picked it up. I ran my thumb over its smooth metal, mesmerized by how it sparkled in the sun. The fuse was burned down to almost nothing now, the burnt end of the rope sticking out the top of the perfect sphere.

This was the end.

There was a sadness about it, perhaps the fact that I had barely lived to twenty, or maybe the tragedy of destroying one’s own people. You might say it was both. That sadness was what brought the idea into my mind, fueling what could only be described as hope. Hope that I might spare the people around me, people who didn’t deserve to die. The logical part of my brain told me that they’d die anyway, whether from injuries from the first bomb or from wounds to come later. The desperate part insisted that that might not be true.

I gave in to the desperate part of me and pulled the bomb into a hug. I curled myself around it, pressing it harshly into my stomach.

It’ll be over before you know it, I thought to myself.

A tear slipped from my eye, carving a path down my dirty cheek.

Soon, I thought.

Soon.

I was right.

It was an odd sensation. At first there was the shock, the build up of energy coursing through my body. Then there was the sickening ripping of limb from limb as the bomb fought to expand. I expected it to hurt more, but was pleasantly surprised when I mostly felt detached, in every sense of the word. There wasn’t much after that point, the world quickly fading around me. I knew I should’ve felt sadder, more scared, but there was a peace to it all that almost made me smile.

I heard the voice again and closed my eyes, listening with everything I had left.

“Come,” It says to me, making me open my eyes again.

Everything around me is gone. I push myself off the ground, staring down at my unwounded body as the voice speaks again.

“Come home to me, child,” I then recognize it as my grandfather’s voice.

I look up to see him standing a few feet in front of me, both of us surrounded by the vast space that is both nothing and everything at the same time. He reaches his hand towards me, taking a slow step forward.

“Come,” He repeats as I place my hand in his.

I suddenly become light-headed at the touch. I close my eyes and let out a breath, trying to steady myself. When I do, the breath doesn’t stop. It pulls the air from my lungs until there’s nothing left. Then, it takes my soul. My eyes stay closed and I feel myself falling, back, back, until there’s nothing. And when at last there is nothing, I know, I feel, I am gone.

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‘Frankenstein’s Monster:’ Images of Sexual Abuse Are Fueling Algorithmic Porn

Content warning: This article includes firsthand accounts of sexual abuse.

A collection of thousands of photographs of naked women that is being used to create machine learning-generated porn includes images from porn production companies that have been accused of lying to and coercing women to have sex on camera.

The dataset, which is circulating in deepfake porn creation communities online, includes images scraped from Czech Casting, a porn production company in the Czech Republic that police have accused of human trafficking and rape, as well as still images from videos produced by Girls Do Porn, which was ordered to pay almost $13 million to 22 women who appeared in its videos, and whose founder is currently a fugitive on the FBI's most wanted list.

Much like thispersondoesnotexist.com, which uses a machine learning algorithm and thousands of pictures of human faces to produce photorealistic images of people who don't exist, the dataset is being used to generate photorealistic images of nude women who aren’t real and don't look exactly like any one person. One person using the dataset is creating what he describes as "a Harem of millions of actresses" that can be inserted into deepfake porn, while another is using the dataset to create what he describes as "porn generated entirely by AI."

Motherboard has downloaded and viewed the dataset containing images from Czech Casting and Girls Do Porn, as well as several others being used to create machine learning-generated porn.

The people who anonymously use these datasets say that since the final algorithmically-generated images they create technically aren't of real people, they don't harm anyone. In fact, they argue that their creations are a step towards a future where porn will not require human porn performers at all. But legal experts, technologists, and women who are included in the datasets described these creations as uniquely dehumanizing.

Motherboard has written extensively about how deepfakes and internet platforms' inability to sufficently curtail the spread of nonconsensual pornography upends the lives of and continually traumatizes women. This new form of machine learning-generated porn and the datasets it relies on introduces a new form of abuse, where the worst moments of some women's lives, captured on camera, are preserved, decontextualized, and spread online in service of creating porn whose makers claim to feature people who don't actually exist.

Honza Červenka, a lawyer at McAllister Olivarius law firm who specializes in revenge porn and technology, is originally from the Czech Republic and has been following the case of Czech Casting, which is owned by Netlook, the country’s largest porn company. He told Motherboard that the idea that images are less harmful because they're run through an algorithm and "anonymized" is a red herring.

"It's mad science really, and completely and utterly re-victimizing to the victims of the Czech Casting perpetrators," he said.

"It feels unfair, it feels like my freedom is being taken away," Jane, a woman who said she was coerced into shooting a scene for Czech Casting, told Motherboard.

The casting couch trap

Jane, who asked to remain pseudonymous to speak about a traumatizing incident, remembers her hands shaking as she read over a contract for Czech Casting. She was there to support her friend, who needed money for rent. They'd answered an advertisement for a modeling gig, and decided to go together. They'd both just turned 18. They didn't know what kind of modeling it was; the ad was vague about details. Someone picked them up at a metro stop and took them to a house on the outskirts of Prague.

(In an interview with Czech bodybuilder Antonin Hodan posted to YouTube, a male performer in Czech Casting videos named Alekos Begaltsis admitted that the women who show up for shoots sometimes don't know what they're in for because of deceptive advertising.

"The girls get here through agencies as well with the help of private agents or through friends, anyone can recommend," Begaltsis said. "We can't control every piece of information in the advertising. It can happen that a girl gets here thinking she'll do an underwear photoshoot. Which sucks because we are powerless in these situations. We are trying to push them to write the truth [in the ads]. Unfortunately it's not always the case. But once she gets here, we inform her about everything.")

Once at the studio, a woman at the reception desk took Jane's ID.

"We sat in a waiting room and got up to leave two or three times, but someone would always come up and tell us to stay, to not be afraid," she said. "We were scared to leave so we stayed."

A woman called them one by one into a room with a white sofa where the filming would take place, and handed them a contract saying the videos wouldn't be accessible to anyone in the Czech Republic. This part of the arrangement is similar to the lie Girls Do Porn told women about how their videos were only going to be distributed to "collectors" in New Zealand. In reality, Girls Do Porn videos were published and sold in the U.S. and promoted on Pornhub.

Czech Casting does indeed block users trying to access it from the Czech Republic, Motherboard confirmed by trying to access the site using a virtual private network. But people within the country can also easily circumvent the block using a VPN, which is free and easy to set up. Additionally, as women who accused Czech Casting of wrongdoing have said, their families and friends quickly discovered their videos, which were reposted to popular free tube sites, where sometimes their real names were doxed.

"Weeks later I started getting messages…These were mostly from men saying how beautiful I was and if they could have sex with me," Jane said. "I got so many of these messages and keep getting them. I even changed my Facebook name because of this."

After she signed the contract, a man came in and asked her if she was a virgin. She said that she felt like she had no way out, and that she couldn't leave without her ID.

"After I said yes, he took the camera and told me to get naked," Jane said. "I was told they were going to film something soft. . .I was scared to speak out."

Jane said they put the money into her hands as she was leaving. She wasn't given a copy of the contract she signed, or any proof that she'd been there at all.

"My friend found the room we were in on a porn site," Jane said. "I realised this was a massive fuck-up. I kept thinking we should have left even if it means not having our IDs on us."

In another Czech Casting video, a woman, who Motherboard was able to confirm is included in the dataset, starts crying while having sex and asks the man to stop. The man stops, and the camera zooms in to show that she is bleeding. He hands her a towel and tells her to clean up the blood.

Jane's story about Czech Casting isn't unique. Multiple women have accused Czech Casting of coercing them into having sex on camera. Czech police have charged nine people involved with Netlook, the company behind Czech Casting, of human trafficking and rape. Daisy Lee, a woman who went on to a career in porn after her Czech Casting scene and who is now friendly with Begaltsis, said the site has ruined lives.

"I was 18 and didn't know what I was getting myself into. Most girls do not. The majority of them stay, but some leave. It ruins many lives," Lee told Motherboard.

In a statement published in July by the adult entertainment news site Xbiz, Netlook denied the accusations and said it is cooperating with the police. Netlook did not respond to Motherboard's request for comment.

GeneratedPorn

In September, four years after Jane shot her scene for Czech Casting, a PhD student opened a new forum to show off his latest personal AI project: algorithmically-generated porn.

The person making these videos goes by the username "GeneratedPorn," and named the r/GeneratedPorn subreddit to post about the technology (we'll refer to this user as "GP" in this story). He said he started the project because he wanted to improve his machine learning skills. Like some of the earliest deepfakes that were posted online in 2017, what he shared were glitchy, spasming facsimiles of the images they're trained on: thousands of porn videos and images. Unlike much deepfake porn, the images GP is producing wouldn't fool anyone into thinking they are real porn. The final result barely looks human, let alone like a specific person.

Do you have experience with “casting couch” producers, or knowledge of how non-consensual porn spreads online? We’d love to hear from you. Contact Samantha Cole securely on the messaging app Signal at +6469261726, direct message on Twitter, or by email: [email protected]

But much like early deepfakes, they're rapidly improving in realism. GP has posted several experiments in the past few weeks featuring increasingly accurate naked human bodies, and even some slightly animated images, showing that convincing "porn generated entirely by AI" is not impossible.

"This all started as a quest for me to learn how all of this cool tech worked but then I ended up pivoting into the porn generation stuff as I thought it was a cool concept, especially after watching the movie Her," GP said in an email to Motherboard.

GP explained his process to Motherboard over email, as well as in detail on Reddit, posted in the popular r/MachineLearning community. He used a Stylegan2 model that's available on Github as open-source code, but loaded it with datasets of porn. It's similar to how any other face-swapping deepfake is made, but instead of using a dataset consisting of many expressions of one person's face, he pulled from multiple datasets found online.

To create the videos, GP trained the algorithms using datasets from around the web, including one that primarily consists of images ripped from Czech Casting. The datasets, which are hosted and are free to download from popular file sharing sites, are compiled by users experimenting in deepfakes and other forms of algorithmically generated images. GP found the Czech Casting dataset on one of these file sharing websites, but said that if he didn't he would have written a web scraper to collect the images from Czech Casting.

This is because of the scope and uniformity of the porn that Czech Casting has created.

A censored sample of the Czech Casting dataset.

Creating algorithmically generated videos of a full, naked body requires many images and videos of real, nude people, and it's hard to imagine a more suitable resource for the task than Czech Casting.

Czech Casting, much like Girls Do Porn, specialized in casting couch-style porn, and has posted thousands of videos of women over the years. Its production style was almost algorithmic to begin with: Each video of a woman also comes with a uniform set of photographs. Each set includes a photograph of the woman holding a yellow sign with a number indicating her episode number, like a mugshot board. Each set also includes photographs of the women posing in a series of dressed and undressed shots on a white background: right side, left side, front, back, as well as extreme close ups of the face, individual nipples, and genitalia. In recent years, Czech Casting also started including 360-degrees photographs of the women, where they pose for interactive VR-style content.

"The main reason people opt for a data source like this, is that the generative adversarial models (GAN) people use, are trying to learn a general structure of an image for the class of objects you're trying to generate," GP said. "If your images are structurally similar, the model can learn more about the finer/granular details of the item class, like dimples or freckles on a face. Which leads to a higher quality result."

GP sent Motherboard a sample of the dataset he's using, which also included images from Girls Do Porn videos. Other datasets that GP is using, which Motherboard has viewed, include images that appear to be scraped from across the internet, including other porn sites, social media, and subreddits where users post selfies, like r/roastme, a subreddit where people post images of themselves for other people to judge.

Gigabytes of questionably-sourced images

In a post to the r/MachineLearning subreddit explaining how his algorithmically generated porn works, GP pauses halfway through the explanation to address "a potential ethical issue."

"I wasn't sure what to do with it, other than it being this cool thing I'd created… I'd contemplated making an OnlyFans and offering personalised AI generated nudes that talk to people," he wrote. "But someone I knew frowned upon this idea and said it was exploitative of Males who might need companionship. So I decided not to go down that route in order to avoid the ethical can of worms."

He also noted in that post that training dataset ethics is something he's concerned about. "Are the images we are training on ethical or have the people in the images been exploited in some way[?]" he wrote. "I again can't verify the back story behind hundreds of thousands of images, but I can assume some of the images in the dataset might have an exploitative power dynamic behind them," noting that some of the images are from Girls Do Porn. "I'm not sure if it's even possible to blacklist exploitative data if it's been scraped from the web. I need to consider this a bit more."

These questions didn’t stop GP from building the project in public, on social media platforms, which means he’s perpetrating harm regardless of whatever ethical quandaries he says he may have. Much of the most harmful nonconsensual content is spread on the internet through surface-level platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, OnlyFans, and tube sites like XVideos and Pornhub.

"So many mainstream porn websites host child pornography and nonconsensual pornography, and does depict rape, and profit from those through ad sales," Červenka said.

When Motherboard contacted Reddit for comment, a spokesperson said Reddit's site-wide policies "prohibit involuntary pornography, which applies to all content, including deepfakes." Reddit banned deepfakes in 2017. Both r/GeneratedPorn and r/AIGeneratedPorn were shut down after Motherboard's request for comment.

Generated Porn's user profile on Pornhub was also taken down after Motherboard contacted Pornhub. A spokesperson for Pornhub declined to comment.

Porn tube site xHamster took down GP's user profile pending further review: "These new types of content are indeed grey areas and we will need to review with our own machine learning team and TOS team to determine how to evaluate and where necessary prevent," a spokesperson for xHamster said.

XVideos, another free tube site, directed Motherboard to a content removal form.

OnlyFans did not respond to a request for comment. Patreon, where GP was asking for people to fund his project with little success, told Motherboard that while funding nonconsensual sexual content isn't permitted on the platform, if an account does contain nonconsensual porn, the platform works with the creator to bring the account within its terms of use. The project was taken down from Patreon as of Monday.

Twitter directed Motherboard to its nonconsensual nudity policy and rules for sensitive media.

"Now somebody walks up and uses those images to create a baseline for computers to use, potentially for decades to come, to use for computer generated images?”

In an email to Motherboard, GP expressed another ethical concern: that the algorithm might produce something that is recognizable as a real human—a result that would negate the whole point of his project: anonymity.

"It's quite possible for the algorithm to reproduce fake people who resemble real people, but it wouldn't be a 1-to-1 replication of the data it has trained on," he said. "This presents an ethical problem I'm trying to navigate around, which is identifying the rare situations where it does replicate a person from the ~7,500 images it's learning from. It's something that plagues generative networks… It's possible and I'm not quite sure how to 100% avoid the possibility of this happening. But I really do want to avoid this. I'm not interested in deep-faking anyone, even by accident, it's a bit scummy imho!"

GP is far from alone in this type of project. The creator of the first deepfakes told Motherboard almost the same thing in 2017: that he wasn't a professional researcher, just a programmer with an interest in machine learning who “just found a clever way to do face-swap,” he said.

These Nudes Do Not Exist and a subsequent project from the same creator called "Harem" most likely draws its data from Czech Casting—the images come out looking unmistakably similar, but the creator of that project hasn't responded to requests for comment on where the images in their dataset come from. Another abandoned project at r/AIGeneratedPorn did the same.

The real ethical issue plaguing this project is not the risk of parting lonely men from their money. It would take one search online of Czech Casting, and some basic awareness of the concept of pirated content being harmful to creators, to recognize the datasets these non-existent women are built from are comprised of gigabytes of questionably-sourced porn, some of it potentially depicting sexual assault.

On Monday, the night before this story was published and after his Patreon account was suspended, GP told Motherboard that he “decided to shut down the project.”

"It certainly should be illegal"

Jane told Motherboard that she was hoping her video would get lost among so many others online, and no one would find it. "But there is always someone who manages to fish it out from the depths of the internet," she said.

Červenka, the lawyer at McAllister Olivarius law firm who specializes in revenge porn and technology, told Motherboard that because some of the Czech Casting videos were allegedly edited to look consensual from the start, they have always been deceptive and harmful—and churning them through the meat grinder of machine learning algorithms doesn't make them less so.

"Now somebody walks up and uses those images to create a baseline for computers to use, potentially for decades to come, to use for computer generated images? It's awful, on a personal level, and it certainly should be illegal," Červenka said.

Even for professional porn performers, stolen content is an issue that plagues the industry. Adult performer Leah Gotti, whose images are part of the datasets GP is using without her consent, told me that the problem of stolen content isn't just disrespectful—it's dangerous. She's currently working to stop a stalker-fan from creating fake Instagram accounts of her and targeting her family by stealing her content and reposting it.

"It just goes back to, no one truly respects sex workers," Gotti told me. "All those things are pirated, and that's supposed to be against all the rules, but because we're having sex on camera they're like, well, she asked for it."

Earlier this year, a rumored OnlyFans leak of a database of stolen porn threatened to put sex workers on that platform in danger of being harassed or doxed.

Daisy Lee, the performer who started with Czech Casting when she was 18 but continued working in the adult industry after, told Motherboard that she blames herself for thinking that the videos wouldn't go viral worldwide.

"They don't put it on Czech servers but people download it and re-upload it everywhere," Lee said. "Every girl that goes in thinks it won't be visible to their friends and family… 14 days later [my] video was everywhere. It destroyed my reputation and spread around my home town within hours. But nobody forced me to do anything, no drugs, nothing like that."

Many of the women who were targeted by Girls Do Porn also blame themselves for believing the company’s lies claiming that the videos would stay in a certain region—in that case, in private New Zealand collections, on DVD. But the entire system of porn online, and all content online for that matter, is set up to spread videos and photos the harder one tries to remove it. Algorithms are driven by what people feed them. One Czech Casting model lost her teaching job after students found her episode online, and when she spoke out about feeling victimized by the company, people sought her video out more.

Collage by Seth Laupus

"The researcher in me feels like 'if it's been published online it's open source and fair game' however the budding capitalist in me feels like that violates IP in some sense," GP said. "I'm a bit conflicted. I've personally accepted that any data I ever create as an individual will be used by others for profit or research."

GP also said that he thinks the type of abuse Czech Casting has been accused of is "horrible," but that it's difficult to screen for this kind of abuse when creating or using datasets.

"There is no such thing as ethical use of an AI that uses database images without consent”

"Now that the abuse is present I can opt to not use that data and source data from elsewhere," GP said. "Others in the area may not care and may decide to use it anyway. It's quite difficult to screen for this data completely. Doing a google image search for 'female standing nude' gives you a bunch of Czech Casting images. Throwing on the flag '-"czech"' catches a lot of them, but some still get through the cracks."

While GP said that he could choose not to use images produced by Girls Do Porn and Czech Casting, he didn't say that he would, nor is it clear if his project and others similar to it could function without those images. GP also suggested that his project could also somehow help these women.

"I feel bad for the victims of this abuse and I can't say anything that may make them feel better," he said. "My only hope is that technology such as the tech I'm working on, now and in the future, leads to a reduction in harm to others. By making it an economical and technologically inferior choice to commit abuse."

Červenka said that even after three years of deepfakes panic and decades more of nonconsensual porn online, the laws to stop them haven't caught up. Victims could make a legal claim that they've been portrayed in a false light or defamed, especially when content is edited deceptively to make it look consensual. But that's often not enough.

"These laws have been around for a long time, and we are just trying to use them in the current context, because we don't have anything else," Červenka said "The legislature is unable to truly grapple with what people do online, and how to regulate harmful effects of what people do online."

It also becomes harder to go after anyone hosting the content if they're hosting it anonymously, all over the world, where every legal system is different. Even in the U.S., where some states have enacted deepfakes-specific laws, it differs from state to state.

When the content is buried inside a dataset, the problem is that much more difficult.

Is ethical AI porn possible?

The abuses the women in Czech Casting and Girls Do Porn endured happened in the real world, but the videos spread online made it worse. Some Girls Do Porn victims were forced to change their names, move states, drop out of school, and lost their careers or relationships with family and friends. Czech Casting victims have similar stories.

Revenge porn victims—as well as professional and amateur adult performers—spend hours sending takedown requests to websites that host their images. Often, those requests are ignored. And when it comes to datasets used to create more porn, it's hard to know where your images live on, unless you can locate where it's hosted and download a huge set of files, then sort through them to find yourself. Their worst moments are enshrined forever among gigabytes of others.

There have been efforts in recent years to create machine learning datasets that are fully consensual. After the privacy failures of MS-Celeb-1M, a dataset of 10 million photos from 100,000 individuals collected from the internet, ranging from journalists to musicians and activists, there's more awareness than ever toward ethical uses of people's faces. In 2019, for its "Deepfakes Detection Challenge," Facebook launched a dataset consisting of 100,000 videos of paid actors, for researchers to use. One of the sponsors of that challenge was data science community site Kaggle. One of the datasets Generated Porn used is hosted on Kaggle, and appears to be largely stolen, scraped porn content.

If machine learning engineers interested in creating AI porn wanted to start a fully-ethical project, they would do something similar to what Facebook did with its challenge dataset.

"They would get consent from people who want to be nude models, and say this is what we're going to build it for, and everything's on the up and up," Rumman Chowdhury, data scientist and founder of ethical AI firm Parity, told Motherboard. "And maybe even [models] would get royalties, [engineers] would go build their AI, sell it as a porn, and they would actually do pretty well." But doing things the right way costs money, and when you're tinkering with porn as a side project, it's usually money you don't have. r/AIGeneratedPorn's project died because renting server time and running the training was too expensive, according to a post in that subreddit before it went down.

"There is no such thing as ethical use of an AI that uses database images without consent," Chowdhury said.

"How can a tech that at its core has rape videos be anything but a perpetuation of rape culture?" Červenka said. "I don’t think I would sleep well at night if I were [GP], because he's relying on images of abuse to create a Frankenstein's monster."

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How to Do Email Marketing Effectively for Real-time ROI Experience

As an Internet marketing professional, you've probably seen the reports that show that email marketing has the highest return on investment (with an average ROI of approximately 3,800% - that’s a return of $38 for each $1 spent) of any available marketing channel and you're probably eager to start using it to drive sales and revenue for your business.

But how exactly do you get started? What are the steps you should take to get going with email marketing and make sure your campaigns are a success? In this guide, we will explain the process to begin email marketing effectively to help you ensure that your first campaign is a success. Before we proceed, we need to discuss some of the most common terms you’ll come across in this guide, as we help you set up your marketing campaign. 1. Email Marketing Email marketing is the practice of sending commercial contents, typically to a list of subscribers via email. This content can be used to generate traffic on the website, leads, or even product signups for the business. Email marketing is one of the most powerful online tools to market and grow your business. 2. Email Marketing Campaign. Email marketing campaigns are organized sets of emails used by businesses to communicate with current and potential customers. They are used to persuade customers to engage with the company, either to download a white paper, to register for a webinar, or to purchase a product with a coupon, etc. 3. Conversion Rate. The percentage of people who complete your desired task through email is called the conversion rate. For example, when you email your subscribers for getting them to sign up for your app, download, or to purchase a product and they do, it is a conversion. 4. Email list. This is a compilation of information of individuals usually containing their names, email addresses, workplace, and location. In marketing, an email list is usually developed or collated for use in widespread distribution of emails or newsletters. 5. Welcome Email. A welcome email is the first impression a company makes with a new customer, a blog subscriber or a newsletter subscriber by email. Welcome emails can deliver videos, special offers, and a signup form or just a friendly greeting to establish a relationship with a new contact. 6. Opt-Out. When a person mistakenly subscribe to your email newsletter and they receive an update, they decide to leave this list as it is not relevant to them. This option of not being on the email list is called opt-out. It is important you give an opt-out / unsubscribe button at the end of your email. 7. Newsletter. Newsletters are informational and product-focused content sent by companies and businesses via an emailed letter to a subscriber list that comprises potential and existing customers. 8. Landing Page. A landing page, sometimes known as a lead capture page, or a destination page is a single web page that appears in response to clicking on a particular link that you have attached with the email sent to your subscribers. A landing page has one purpose, which is to make a sale or capture a lead. 9. Email Filter. Email filters are these smart filters that make inferences on whether your emails are important, promotional, social updates or spam and classify it accordingly. These filters save a lot of your time. 10. Email Deliverability. The ability of an email to land in the inbox of the recipient is called Email Deliverability. Higher the deliverability, the better are your odds of getting the work done. 11. Call to Action (CTA). A Call to Action, or CTA, is a marketing term referring to a piece of content or such as an image intended to prompt users to perform a specific task, usually, at the end of an email to encourage the subscriber to do something. E.g. “Click Here to Download”. 12. Bounce Rate. The percentage of email addresses in your subscriber list that didn't receive your message because it was returned by a recipient mail server. When your emails bounce, it means that some of your prospects and customers will never be able to receive emails that you have carefully designed for them and want to see. In addition, high bounce rates can affect the deliverability of your email. That's why you need to closely monitor and proactively manage email bounces. 13. Hard Bounce. When the email cannot be delivered due to reasons like an invalid email address, an invalid domain name or if a recipient’s email server has completely blocked delivery. 14. Soft Bounce. When the email cannot be delivered due to a full mailbox, the recipient’s server being down/offline or email message is too large for their inbox. 15. Autoresponder. Autoresponders are often used as e-mail marketing tools to immediately provide automated messages to prospective customers and then follow up with them at preset time intervals. 16. Auto Follow-up. When an email is sent in continuation of the previous email in order to remind the recipient about the subject, that email is called a follow-up email. 17. Email Service Provider (ESP). As the name suggests any company that provides you with the service of emails is an Email Service Provider. This is distinct from an email client (like Gmail or Outlook) because it enables marketers to send out much larger quantities of email. 18. Email Templates. An email template is a preformatted, or prewritten email that you can use to replace with your own content so that you can quickly and easily write and create emails. There are email templates specifically designed for particular actions. 19. Click-Through Rate (CTR). Click-through rate, or CTR is a metric that measures the number of people who click on a specific link to the number of total users who view a page, email, or advertisement. 20. Personalized Email. When you send an email with characters that can only be attached with one recipient like their name is called personalized email. It creates a sense of belongingness among you and your client. 21. Responsive Design Responsive email designs provide contents that are customized for the user's chosen device. With responsive design, you can send email templates which can change depending on what screen size they are viewed.

1. How to Do Email Marketing: Establishing Your Goals.

It can be persuasive to simply sign up for an email marketing tool like GetResponse and start sending your first campaign. But before jumping into your head, it's worth taking a minute to think about your goals and what you really want to achieve with email, as that will determine the type of campaigns you send, to whom you are targeting, the content you include and how you measure success. The key to setting the right goals for your email marketing initiative is to align them with your company's marketing objectives and key performance indicators (KPIs). Is the goal to generate new listings for your product? New leads for your sales team? More participants for your event? More donations for your cause? Email should be an important component of every digital marketing plan because of its effectiveness in driving conversions and building brand loyalty. Email marketing is the most powerful channel to reach your audience. It can be used to achieve different goals. It is therefore useful to think about what you want to achieve before you start. To help you identify what your goals should be, here is how small business owners just like you have used email marketing to transform their marketing campaigns and grow their businesses. 1. BuzzFeed: The popular news and entertainment website earns revenue by selling ads on their site, so the key objective of their marketing team is to generate more traffic. With that in mind, BuzzFeed sends regular newsletters via email with links to stories on its website in order to increase the number of visits they receive each month and increase the amount of revenue they generate. 2. Rip Curl: The global brand generates revenue by selling suits, shirts, shorts, and other surfing goods. The goal of their marketing team is to increase sales, so they use email to promote new products they’re launching to try to drive people to their online or physical stores to purchase those products. 3. UNICEF: The World Humanitarian Organization provides humanitarian aid and assistance to mothers and children in developing countries around the world. The success of their digital marketing team is a donation, so they use email marketing to reach their donor base, educating them on UNICEF support projects, and seek donations. 4. SXSW, Inc.: This skinny organization organizes some of the most famous events in the world, including SXSW movies, music and interactive festivals held every year in Austin, Texas. The goal of their marketing team is to increase ticket sales and participants in these events so they use email marketing to update subscribers as new artists and speakers join posters. 5. Soho House: This prestigious member only club is a regular gathering of celebrities and media tycoons around the world. The goal of their marketing team is to keep their club members engaged and regularly using the facilities, so the use email marketing to keep members updated on the events and functions they can attend. As you can see from these examples, planning what you want to do with email before you start sending makes it easy to identify what to send and who to send it to, and helps you create targeted and successful email campaigns that will help you achieve your marketing goals.

2. How to Do Email Marketing: Building Your Email List.

Now that you have set your goals and what you want to achieve with email marketing, it's time to build your email list so you can start sending campaigns that meet those goals. There are a couple of different ways in which you can build your email list, but the correct method for each campaign really depends on the goals you set in step 1. Email list building is the core of email marketing. It’s the process of accumulating a database of contacts, prospects, clients, fans, and influencers, who have solely agreed to receive your emails. When you convince prospects and customers to give you their email address, you open the door to ongoing communication, which can improve relationships, sales, and brand loyalty. With GetResponse you can create or import an email address database of any size. It can store additional information about each contact, such as their name, so you can identify individual customers. You may also decide to collect phone numbers and physical addresses. How to Build an Email List. Building an email list is essential regardless of the size and type of business you’re in. Whether you’re launching your first product or have been on the market for some time, it’s equally important to keep in touch with your audience, and the most effective way to do this is through emails. To get started, imagine all the times and places where prospects may come across your brand. Those are your best opportunities to convince them to become not just random visitors, but loyal and engaged email subscribers. Web Forms There are many places to build an email list online, including your website and social media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and discussion boards. The most popular method is to create a signup form (web form) and place it on your own website. It’s where most of your audience will interact with your brand, so it’s the first place you should start with. There are different types of signup forms. These include: Inline (embedded form)Popup or lightboxExit popupFixed barScroll form The last three types are more advanced, so here, we’ll focus only on the first two. However, the idea behind all of them is the same: to provide an input field where the subscriber can enter an email address and, optionally, additional data. How to Create a Signup Form GetResponse includes an advanced signup form builder that allows you to create all the form types for your website, social media profile, or blog. Even without coding experience, you can create yours in minutes. RECOMMENDED: How to Start a Blog in 9 Simple Steps (Beginners Guide) Just log in to your GetResponse account, choose Forms »Create Form. If you're new to building the list, you'll probably want to use one of their ready-to-use sign up form templates or create one from scratch by going directly to the List Builder Wizard. Just click and choose the models that suit you best. You'll quickly discover how easy it is to create a form similar to the ones below.

What to include in A Signup Form A typical signup form consists of 2-3 fields, where the new subscriber enters their email address and additional information, such as name or hometown. The number of fields depends on you. But numerous studies have shown that the more fields people have to complete, the less likely they are to complete the form. Therefore, check if all the fields are necessary for you to run your email campaigns. You may be able to request the information in a survey after they have registered. The form should include a title that indicates the benefits of joining the email list and a strong call to action (CTA) on the action button. To improve your chances of capturing new contacts, offer a signup bonus, a lead magnet, such as a free e-book, a report or a discount. You can also include a checkbox to confirm your willingness to join the list, information about the terms and conditions and the security of data protection, as in the example below. How to Add a Web Form to Your Site Once you've created a signup form within the GetResponse service and customized the settings (such as linking the list and redirect to the thank you page), you can now choose the publishing method. There are three options: Install it manually - you will receive a JavaScript code that you set up on your site. Just copy the code and add it to the appropriate place on your site.Send it to your web designer - enter your email address and forward the appropriate JavaScript code.GetResponse will be hosting the web form - your web form will be located on the GetResponse domain. If you've created a website using WordPress, you can use the GetResponse WordPress plugin to quickly add the form to your site. If your site is not based on WordPress, see the GetResponse integration page to find the one that suits your needs. If the service is not yet supported, copy the source code of the sign-up form and place it in the (body) of your site wherever you want. It may take several tries, so be sure to review the results before it starts. Adding a web form to your Facebook page After designing your web form, you can now place it on your Facebook page. Thanks to this, you’ll be able to turn your fans into loyal email subscribers. To get started, just log in to Facebook and go to the GetResponse web forms application page. You’ll then be taken through a few steps such as authorizing the app, syncing it with your GetResponse account, and adding the form to your tabs. And that’s it! Building an email list is by far the most important and fundamental part of any email marketing program. Email marketing works well with other promotional techniques and generates strong returns. If you want to extend your reach and expand your business, consider email marketing campaigns. There are many methods to create a mailing list to keep in touch with your audience. We have covered the most popular and effective ones to help you launch your marketing program.

3. How to Do Email Marketing: Selecting your Email Campaigns.

There are a number of different types of email campaigns marketers like you, can send to subscribers, and the type you choose really depends on the goals you established Let’s take a look at the different types of campaigns and how they can help you achieve your email marketing goals. Newsletter An email newsletter is a regularly distributed email campaign that is generally about one main topic of interest. A good example of a newsletter is this email from AirBnB who regularly sends great newsletters to their network of freelance photographers.

As you can see, the campaign is sent monthly and contains content around a particular theme: photography tips & stories. If your goal is to keep in touch with a list of people you already know (i.e. existing customers), then a newsletter is the perfect type of campaign to send. It will keep your business and your products top of mind and drive people back to your website. Marketing Offer A marketing offer email is essentially any campaign you send with the goal of driving a direct response. This can take a number of different forms, including: A campaign showcasing some of the latest stock and encouraging people to purchaseA campaign offering a discount or special promotion on your products or services. RECOMMENDED: How to Start an Online Store in 8 Simple Steps (Beginners Guide) A great example of a marketing offer campaign is this email from Pizza Hut:

The campaign presents one of their products at a special, promotional price and includes a direct call to action to purchase the green “Order Now” button. The marketing offer email is effective if your goal with email is to directly drive sales. It presents a product or discount offer and includes a direct call to action for people to click-through to your website and make a purchase. Announcement An announcement campaign is an email sent to your subscribers announcing a new product, feature, or service. A perfect example of an announcement campaign is this email from Showtime announcing the launch of their new show Penny Dreadful.

The announcement email is perfect if you want to keep an engaged audience (i.e. existing customers) updated on your latest products or features. While the sharing of information is the primary goal, the email may have the added benefit of driving people back to your store or website where they can make a purchase. Event Invitation An event invitation email is a campaign designed to increase awareness of your event and encourage people to attend. Here is a great example from Lincoln Motors.

As you can see, the campaign invites subscribers to the launch of the 2016 MKX and contains details on the date, time, and location of the event, as well as information on how to RSVP. As mentioned before, the type of email campaign you send depends entirely on your goals with email. If you’re looking to drive direct sales then sending marketing offer and announcement campaigns are going to return the best results, however if you are simply looking to keep your existing customers updated on the latest projects, products or developments at your company, then sending a regular newsletter is going to be the best way to achieve that.

4. How to Do Email Marketing: Creating Your First Campaign

Now that you've opted for your goals, build a few audiences, and choose the type of campaign you're sending, it's time to start building your email. Email tools like GetResponse make it incredibly easy to create wonderful email campaigns, but there are some basics you should know to make sure you get the best results from each campaign. Set Smart Campaign Goals. I bet you’ve heard that goals are SMART when they are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. For best results, set smart goals in your email marketing strategy, e.g.: Get an average open rate of 23% by the end of the yearIncrease click-through rates by 15% in 3 monthsImprove conversion by 10% in 6 monthsRetrieve 20% of abandoned cartsSell $200 worth of products through this campaign Determine the Call-To-Actions (CTAS) Start with answering the most important question: what do you want your subscribers to do as a result of this campaign? The answer to this question will clarify the business objective and set directions for the campaign. It will certainly help you create the best calls-to-action for your emails, e.g.: - View offer - Read more - Find a store - Shop now - Shop (product) Make your call to action copy as clear as possible and use contrasting colors to make sure it stands out against the email. Prepare your email templates You already know your calls-to-action. Now, you need to choose the right email template, customize it to reflect your brand identity, and craft the copy to convey the message. Come up with a compelling subject line and a pre-header that will encourage your contacts to open the email. Your subscribers see the sender, subject line, and pre-header before they open the email. Plan them out carefully, because they can massively impact your open rates. Structure your Campaign for Easy Reading. Research shows that an adult’s attention span is, on average, eight seconds. With such a short attention span, you can assume people aren’t closely reading your campaigns word for word and are instead scanning through them looking for something of interest. Therefore, writing long, text-heavy email campaigns isn’t the best approach. You need to structure your emails to help draw people into reading your content while guiding them toward the email’s call to action. Use Images and Visuals to Boost Engagement Ideally, you want to avoid walls or blocks of text. This is because visuals, both video and images are more eye-catching. They’re also more memorable and help content stand out. In fact, studies have shown that people can recall as much as 65% of visual content up to three days later compared to just 10% of text-based content. People also follow visual instructions 32% better than written instructions, so it’s a good idea to use visuals when directing your readers to take the desired action. Personalize Your Email Campaigns Marketing automation, segmented lists, and third-party integrations make email personalization easier and more effective. Your readers are most likely to respond to content that is most relevant to their interests. Start by adding their name in the subject line, then customize campaign content based on list segments to maximize engagement (more on that next). Make it easy to convert To drive your subscribers to click through from your email campaigns, you must make it as easy as possible for them to do so Research shows that 41% of email opens are happening on mobile devices, so if your campaigns aren’t optimized across all devices, then there’s a good chance you’re making it unnecessarily difficult for your subscribers to convert. Send More Valuable Email Campaigns. If you’re coming up short on topics and what to include in your emails beyond general promotions, fear not. Every business, in every industry, has plenty of information to share. Whether or not that information is relevant or interesting in the eyes of your subscribers is what you need to determine. Look for every opportunity to share valuable content over promotional content to keep interest and engagement high. By applying these fundamentals of high-converting campaigns to your first email, you’ll be able to create and send a campaign that captures the subscriber’s attention, presents the relevant information and makes it easy for them to convert. Test and optimize With your first email out the door and starting to get opened and clicked by your subscribers, you’ll be able to start tracking the success of your campaign. You can track the success of your email marketing campaigns in two places: your email marketing tool (such as GetResponse) and your website analytics tool (such as Google Analytics). The reporting section of your email marketing tool is the perfect place to understand how people have interacted with your campaigns by email. Track critical data to see if you reach your goals. Track conversion and revenue to measure your email marketing ROI. Each successful campaign or a money-making workflow is a business case for more budget. Your list size and click-through rates are the right metrics to start with. The bigger your contact list and the higher the click-through rate, the higher the revenue. As you can see, email marketing is based on very simple principles. Good luck with planning your first email marketing campaign! Your metrics can tell you a lot about campaign performance and how to improve your email campaigns. However, there are always three things to do after each campaign, regardless of their performance. 1. Resend the campaign Regardless of the effectiveness of the subject line, you will still have subscribers who will not open it for various reasons. Resend your email by specifically targeting a list segment of those who did not open the first time. This is not only a second chance in case they just miss the first message, but it's another opportunity to further split test the subject lines as well as send times. 2. Clean your list If split testing, segmentation, and cross-referencing always result in low engagement scores for some of your subscribers, do not be afraid to clean up your list. Review subscriber data regularly to monitor activity and engagement ratings. Remove or further segment those who do not sign up to improve the overall open rates of your major subscriber segments. 3. Build awareness for your brand Once your campaign and final steps are complete, make your brand aware of all available marketing channels. This includes more common methods (such as social media marketing and events), as well as more unusual brand awareness campaigns (such as giveaways and contests). By building brand awareness, you can earn more followers and subscribers. This will play in your future campaigns by giving you a wider, and more engaged audience. By having a larger and more diverse subscriber group, you're more likely to attract more leads and get more conversions. In the end, it means more interest and income for your business.

Wrapping up!

Email marketing is a great option for any business looking to generate sales and revenue. It has a higher reach and ROI than any other channel available today for marketers. Email marketing helps build brand awareness, increase brand awareness, drive interest in your offerings, generate actions and conversions, foster relationships, and convert existing customers into loyal advocates of the brand. So, it's worth the time and effort. With this guide, I am sure you’ll find it simple to create and send an email campaign, and it’ll drive unparalleled results for your business. Do you have any more questions to ask or would you like to make a reasonable contribution that will be useful to our readers? Please talk to us in the comment box below and we would be delighted to welcome your sincere contribution. Read the full article

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Plagiarism Checker Tools: Top 20 Free Online Plagiarism Detector Tools in 2019

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Google has zero tolerance for plagiarised content and website owners will face setbacks of ranking loss if they do not care to curate copied content on their sites. Many top Google plagiarism checker tools are available for the purpose. Google penalizes junk content. It is urgent to feed unique content provided by ethical writers and verifying all submitted content with top online plagiarism checker tools. Plagiarism Checker Tool is a free online plagiarism checker tool that scans content sentence by sentence to deliver 100% accurate results. It will show a red flag if any sentence or sentences have been copied from other web sources.

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Can the $24000/year Bloomberg terminal, the golden standard for professionals to access real-time financial market data, be disrupted? Marc Rubinstein argues probably not anytime soon.

Why the Taboola-Outbrain deal fell apart and what it means for publishers - Digiday

Digiday - September 9, 2020 - 7 min

You know those "recommended articles" with clickbait headlines that plague the web? They are paid advertisement, and most are served by just two companies, Taboola and Outbrain.

The merger, announced back in October, has fallen apart, as advertisement spend has declined amid the pandemic, and regulator's concerns about competitiveness in the content recommendation space.

Silicon Valley’s new stock exchange opens for business

Protocol - September 9, 2020 - 5 min

Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, has launched a new stock exchange aimed at companies with a long term vision. They have yet to convince a company to list, and it's unclear how they will stand out from other exchanges.

Bay Area sky turns bright orange, some areas see 'snowing' ash

San Francisco Chronicle - September 9, 2020 - 2 min

The wildfires ravaging California left apocalyptic scenes in San Francisco, where the atmosphere turned intense orange on Wednesday.

Christopher Michel has published some stunning photos and people are making jokes about Blade Runner 2049.

Massive deal in Madrid: EQT buys online real estate classifieds platform idealista for €1.3 billion - Tech.eu

Tech.eu - September 10, 2020 - 1 min

This is the biggest sale by a Spanish tech company ever.

A private equity fund, Apax Partners, had acquired 80% of Idealista in 2015 for €226M. Founders still controlled 6% of the company.

Facebook reinvents Facebook with the launch of Campus for college students

The Verge - September 10, 2020 - 2 min

Facebook is launching "Facebook 2005 Edition" 🤪

EBay Executive Linked to Alleged Cyberstalk Named Kids Club CEO

Bloomberg - September 10, 2020 - 2 min

A former eBay executive who left the company after being linked to an alleged cyberstalking scheme has a new job: CEO of the Silicon Valley Boys and Girls Club.

The 'brushing' scam that's behind mystery parcels

BBC News - September 7, 2020 - 2 min

The seeds many Americans have been receiving in the mail from China in the past months are probably part of a scam campaign to fake reviews in e-commerce sites. Despite alerts from authorities, many have planted them.

Epic says ‘Sign In with Apple’ will keep working for Fortnite after all

The Verge - September 10, 2020 - 2 min

In true Apple fashion, they backed down in the decision after Epic had already communicated users they will need to migrate to email and password login.

Elizabeth Holmes May Pursue ‘Mental Disease’ in Her Defense

Bloomberg - September 10, 2020 - 1 min

First they think you're crazy, then... you say you're crazy?

Nikola Motor labeled "an intricate fraud" by Hindenburg Research

TESLARATI - September 10, 2020 - 3 min

The analyst firm has published a report accusing the electric automaker of fraud.

Nikola Shares fell 9% because of the news and its $20 billion public valuation fell to $14.24 billion in a matter of hours.

Apple’s new App Store guidelines carve out loopholes for xCloud, Stadia, and other apps that Apple had blocked

The Verge - September 11, 2020 - 4 min

Three main updates:

Game streaming services are allowed on the store as long as each game is submitted as a separate app to be reviewed by Apple. Then, a single "game catalog" app that links to the individual apps can be submitted.

This is the same response Apple gave to Microsoft's xCloud service a few weeks ago, now baked into the official guidelines. Sounds like a recipe for bad user experience.

Regarding digital fitness or tutoring classes: “one-to-one experiences” do not have to be billed through the App Store, but “one-to-few or one-to-many services” do require the usual in-app purchase.

The margin in one-to-one experiences is typically lower, so it makes sense to not take a cut from those, otherwise they'd become impossible to offer via app.

“free apps acting as a stand-alone companion to a paid web based tool”, like VOIP, cloud storage, email services, and web hosting applications, are now exempt from having to use Apple’s in-app purchase for subscriptions, but they cannot offer purchases inside the app itself or include a call to action to purchase elsewhere.

This is a broadening of the "reader app" rule that was originally created for the Kindle app and later taken up by Netflix.

How TikTok knows you'll love the next video it shows

Axios - September 10, 2020 - 4 min

TikTok has revealed some more details of its algorithm to reporters in a virtual tour of its new "transparency center" in Los Angeles. No technical details have been shared, only that it's a typical filter-bubble producing algorithm. This is all an obvious PR move to gain USA regulators trust.

The Woman Taking Over TikTok at the Toughest Time

The New York Times - September 11, 2020 - 8 min

Profile of TikTok's interim CEO. The previous CEO resigned last month after only four months at the company. I personally don't envy her position and don't blame him for leaving...

Exclusive: China would rather see TikTok U.S. close than a forced sale

Reuters - September 11, 2020 - 3 min

We're approaching the mid-September deadline and negotiations are turning nuclear.

Apple Design Teams Develop Special Face Masks for Employees

Bloomberg - September 9, 2020 - 2 min

It comes packaged like you'd expect from any other Apple product.

Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors

The Verge - September 9, 2020 - 2 min

Last week Amazon said the job posting to hire an Intelligence Analyst to track "Labor Organizing Threats" was a mistake.

Today, they add the former head of the NSA, involved in the widespread surveillance systems revealed by the Snowden leaks, to the board of directors.

Amazon's Alexa for Landlords Is a Privacy Nightmare Waiting to Happen

Gizmodo - September 3, 2020 - 6 min

"My landlord would be able to hear or, in if the device is an Echo Show, see into my home — my home that I am paying them to rent, which should afford me privacy from remote viewing."

Weird Seattle retailer Archie McPhee hit with even weirder PayPal security glitch

GeekWire - September 11, 2020 - 4 min

PayPal is blocking all transactions that include the word "tardigrade" because "Tardigrade Ltd" is a sanctioned company linked to an arms dealer from east Europe.

It just so happens this company sells tardigrade-related merchandise (apart from being the original creators of the famous horse mask and other ridiculous items).

Fraud Prevention Startup NS8 Lays Off Hundreds, CEO Departs Amid SEC Fraud Investigation

Forbes - September 11, 2020 - 3 min

Just months after raising over $100 million, fraud prevention startup NS8 laid off hundreds of employees after informing them it was under investigation for fraud.

Inside Pinterest, more tales of workplace discrimination

The Verge - September 11, 2020 - 9 min

More allegations of discriminations and pay disparity two months after Françoise Brougher, former Pinterest COO, sued the company for alleged sexual discrimination.

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Subscription Fatigue

Subscription Management

I have active subscriptions with about a half-dozen different news & finance sites along with about a half dozen software tools, but sometimes using a VPN or web proxy across different web browsers makes logging in to all of them & clearing cookies for some paywall sites a real pain.

If you don't subscribe to any outlets then subscribing to an aggregator like Apple News+ can make a lot of sense, but it is very easy to end up with dozens of forgotten subscriptions.

Subscription fatigue is turning into subscription stress. Something alarming, guilt inducing about having 40+ reoccurring charges each month. Financial death by a thousand cuts.— Tom Goodwin (@tomfgoodwin) January 28, 2020

Winner-take-most Market Stratification

The news business is coming to resemble other tech-enabled businesses where a winner takes most. The New York Times stock, for instance, is trading at 15 year highs & they recently announced they are raising subscription prices:

The New York Times is raising the price of its digital subscription for the first time, from $15 every four weeks to $17 — from about $195 to $221 a year.

With a Trump re-election all but assured after the Russsia, Russia, Russia garbage, the party-line impeachment (less private equity plunderer Mitt Romney) & the ridiculous Iowa primary, many NYT readers will pledge their #NeverTrumpTwice dollars with the New York Times.

If you think politics looks ridiculous today, wait until you see some of the China-related ads in a half-year as the novel coronavirus spreads around the world.

Outside of a few core winners, the news business online has been so brutal that even Warren Buffett is now a seller. As the economics get uglier news sites get more extreme with ad placements, user data sales, and pushing subscriptions. Some of these aggressive monetization efforts make otherwise respectable news outlets look like part of a very downmarket subset of the web.

Users Fight Back

Users have thus adopted to blocking ads & are also starting to ramp up blocking paywall notifications.

Some of the most popular browser extensions are ad blockers & tracking blockers like Adblock Plus, Ghostery & Privacy Badger.

Apple has made tracking their users across sites harder with their Intelligent Tracking Prevention, causing iPhone ad rates to plummet: "The allure of a Safari user in an auction has plummeted," Rubicon Project CEO Michael Barrett told the publication. "There's no easy ability to ID a user."

The Opera web browser comes with an ad blocker baked in.

Mozilla is also pushing to protect user privacy in Firefox.

Google recently announced they will stop supporting third party cookies in Chrome in the next couple years. Those who invested into adopting AMP will have to invest into making yet more technical changes to manage paywalls on AMP pages.

Each additional layer of technological complexity is another cost center publishers have to fund, often through making the user experience of their sites worse, which in turn makes their own sites less differentiated & inferior to the copies they have left across the web (via AMP, via Facebook Instant Articles, syndication in Apple News or on various portal sites like MSN or Yahoo!).

A Web Browser For Every Season

Google Chrome is spyware, so I won't recommend installing that.

Not good enough for you? Not a direct enough corollary? How about this?Also out today: https://t.co/6dUWCCEyii Google has a backdoor to track individual Chrome users by installation ID.Even GG's denial admits pieces of the same complaints y'all had about Jumpshot last week! pic.twitter.com/Km2mQfOgbJ— Rand Fishkin (@randfish) February 4, 2020

Here Google's official guide on how to remove the spyware.

The easiest & most basic solution which works across many sites using metered paywalls is to have multiple web browsers installed on your computer. Have a couple browsers which are used exclusively for reading news articles when they won't show up in your main browser & set those web browsers to delete cookies on close. Or open the browsers in private mode and search for the URL of the page from Google to see if that allows access.

If you like Firefox there are other iterations from other players like Pale Moon, Comodo IceDragon or Waterfox using their core.

If you like Google Chrome then Chromium is the parallel version of it without the spyware baked in. The Chromium project is also the underlying source used to build about a dozen other web browsers including: Opera, Vivaldi, Brave, Cilqz, Blisk, Comodo Dragon, SRWare Iron, Yandex Browser & many others. Even Microsoft recently switched their Edge browser to being powered by the Chromium project. The browsers based on the Chromium store allow you to install extensions from the Chrome web store.

Some web browsers monetize users by setting affiliate links on the home screen and/or by selling the default search engine recommendation. You can change those once and they'll typically stick with whatever settings you use.

For some browsers I use for regular day to day web use I set them up to continue session on restart, and I have a session manager plugin like this one for Firefox or this one for Chromium-based browsers. For browsers which are used exclusively for reading paywall blocked articles I set them up to clear cookies on restart.

Bypassing Paywalls

There are a couple solid web browser plugins built specifically for bypassing paywalls.

Academic Journals

Unpaywall is an open database of around 25,000,000 free scholarly articles. They provide extensions for Firefox and Chromium based web browsers on their website.

News Articles

There is also one for news publications called bypass paywalls.

Mozilla Firefox: To install the Firefox version go here.

Chrome-like web browsers: To install the Chrome version of the extension in Opera or Chromium or Microsoft Edge you can download the extension here, enter developer mode inside the extensions area of your web browser & install extension. To turn developer mode on, open up the drop down menu for the browser, click on extensions to go to the extension management area, and then slide the "Developer mode" button to the right so it is blue.

Regional Blocking

If you travel internationally some websites like YouTube or Twitter or news sites will have portions of their content restricted to only showing in some geographic regions. This can be especially true for new sports content and some music.

These can be bypassed by using a VPN service like NordVPN, ExpressVPN, Witopia or IPVanish. Some VPN providers also sell pre-configured routers. If you buy a pre-configured router you can use an ethernet switch or wifi to switch back and forth between the regular router and the VPN router.

You can also buy web proxies & enter them into the Foxy Proxy web browser extension (Firefox or Chromium-compatible) with different browsers set to default to different country locations, making it easier to see what the search results show in different countries & cities quickly.

If you use a variety of web proxies you can configure some of them to work automatically in an open source rank tracking tool like Serposcope.

The Future of Journalism

I think the future of news is going to be a lot more sites like Ben Thompson's Stratechery or Jessica Lessin's TheInformation & far fewer broad/horizontal news organizations. Things are moving toward the 1,000 true fans or perhaps 100 true fans model:

This represents a move away from the traditional donation model—in which users pay to benefit the creator—to a value model, in which users are willing to pay more for something that benefits themselves. What was traditionally dubbed “self-help” now exists under the umbrella of “wellness.” People are willing to pay more for exclusive, ROI-positive services that are constructive in their lives, whether it’s related to health, finances, education, or work. In the offline world, people are accustomed to hiring experts across verticals

A friend of mine named Terry Godier launched a conversion-oriented email newsletter named Conversion Gold which has done quite well right out of the gate, leading him to launch IndieMailer, a community for paid newsletter creators.

The model which seems to be working well for those sorts of news sites is...

stick to a tight topic range

publish regularly at a somewhat decent frequency like daily or weekly, though have a strong preference to quality & originality over quantity

have a single author or a small core team which does most the writing and expand editorial hiring slowly

offer original insights & much more depth of coverage than you would typically find in the mainstream news

Rely on Wordpress or a low-cost CMS & billing technology partner like Substack, Memberful, sell on a marketplace like Udemy, Podia or Teachable, or if they have a bit more technical chops they can install aMember on their own server. One of the biggest mistakes I made when I opened up a membership site about a decade back was hand rolling custom code for memberhsip management. At one point we shut down the membership site for a while in order to allow us to rip out all that custom code & replace it with aMember.

Accept user comments on pieces or integrate a user forum using something like Discord on a subdomain or a custom Slack channel. Highlight or feature the best comments. Update readers to new features via email.

Invest much more into obtaining unique data & sources to deliver new insights without spending aggressively to syndicate onto other platforms using graphical content layouts which would require significant design, maintenance & updating expenses

Heavily differentiate your perspective from other sources

maintain a low technological maintenance overhead

low cost monthly subscription with a solid discount for annual pre-payment

instead of using a metered paywall, set some content to require payment to read & periodically publish full-feature free content (perhaps weekly) to keep up awareness of the offering in the broader public to help offset churn.

Some also work across multiple formats with complimentary offerings. The Ringer has done well with podcasts & Stratechery also has the Exponent podcast.

There are a number of other successful online-only news subscription sites like TheAthletic & Bill Bishop's Sinocism newsletter about China, but I haven't subscribed to them yet. Many people support a wide range of projects on platforms like Patreon & sites like MasterClass with an all-you-can-eat subscription will also make paying for online content far more common..

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RIP “Do Not Track,” the Privacy Standard Everyone Ignored

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“Do Not Track” had a lofty goal: A simple checkbox in every web browser that would tell websites not to track you. It achieved that goal, but here’s the problem: Websites didn’t care.

As we pointed out back in 2012, the “Do Not Track” option doesn’t stop you from being tracked. It just sends a special piece of information whenever you connect to a website, asking that website not to track you. The vast, vast majority of websites ignored this. That never really changed. There was no penalty for ignoring the request and little reason to actually honor it.

Still, “Do Not Track” has been shuffling along for years. This option is part of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Microsoft Edge, and Internet Explorer. You can go check the box and that might make you feel a bit better if you’re upset about being tracked online. But it doesn’t really do anything. It’s misleading.

In fact, Do Not Track has been used to track people. If you’ve enabled Do Not Track, it’s an extra piece of information about you that can be tracked. Advertisers could direct privacy-related advertisements your way, for example.

Everyone was content to ignore that useless checkbox for a while, but now it looks like DNT is finally collapsing. As DuckDuckGo noticed, Apple is removing the “Do Not Track” preference from Safari. As Gizmodo spotted, work on the standard quietly ended on January 17, 2019. With the standard abandoned and the first browser dropping it, we expect other browser makers to follow Apple’s lead.

Is this bad? No. “Do Not Track” never went anywhere and was widely ignored. At this point, the Do Not Track option acts a placebo and misleads people just by existing. It’s long past time to get rid of DNT.

Do Not Track’s history is messy. Microsoft only made the problem worse by enabling it by default in Internet Explorer 10, causing more websites to ignore it. That’s particularly funny because Microsoft itself never obeyed the DNT setting, saying that “Because there is not yet a common understanding of how to interpret the DNT signal, Microsoft services do not currently respond to browser DNT signals.”

Modern browsers that include tracking protection don’t wait for a “common understanding” to develop in the industry. Instead, they proactively block trackers. Apple’s own Safari browser includes “Intelligent Tracking Protection” that prevents sites you don’t visit directly from tracking you. Mozilla Firefox includes a content-blocking feature you can enable to block a list of known trackers.

That’s not to say tracking or targeted advertising is necessarily bad. There are arguments for and against it. But, as a society, let’s have that discussion without the distraction of a misleading checkbox that doesn’t actually do anything.

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Gaming Cruise To Set Sail With Justin Wong, PR Balrog and other eSports Stars on Board

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Themed cruises have grown to be extraordinarily popular in latest years and now there is an entire voyage to the Bahamas devoted solely to the affection of video games. On October 20, the Gamer Gauntlet will set sail from Port Canaveral with an extensive style of unique guests from the gaming enterprise on board. The cruise may be months away but it’s been garnering quite a piece of interest across the web way to the today’s string of unique guest bulletins. Organizers showed that Surprise Vs. Capcom execs Yipes and Persia might be hosting their own tournament at the cruise while different combating recreation stars like PR Balrog, Snake Eyez, Master and Vanessa Arteaga might additionally be at the ship. Possibly the biggest assertion of the week, however, came when Echo Fox’s Justin Wong confirmed that he might additionally be setting sail on what has now been deemed #CruiseCon. For 4 days a whole Royal Caribbean cruise ship might be packed with gaming tournaments, complete immersion gaming rooms, cosplay contests and other assets of leisure which can be catered in particular to the gaming network. even as there have been gaming businesses and conventions hosted on cruise ships inside the past, this can be the first time a whole chartered U.S. Cruise will be setting sail on a journey devoted totally to growing a video game lovers paradise out at sea.

So while you’ll nevertheless have the option to spend 4 days getting spa treatments or hitting the rock climbing wall, visitors will even have the choice to look at Video video games Live perform, attend a special occasion for women in tech and gaming, try out Microsoft’s HoloLens, experience new VR technologies, dance the night time away at a cosplay celebration and mingle with a number of the biggest eSports stars round. As if that’s not enough, occasion organizers promise that even extra bulletins can be coming quickly. With the real cruise date nonetheless being greater than 5 months away, there is no telling what Gamer Tech Activities nevertheless has up their sleeves.

Both way, the very concept of mixing a Bahama-sure excursion with a video game expo seems to be ripped instantly from the happiest components of a gaming fanatic’s dreams—and now it’s an actual factor.

Gaming is one among the largest interests and even careers inside the world. Humans play games for fun or learning at the same time as others file motion pictures approximately the games. In this text, I will consciousness extra on gaming itself and now not so much the aspect of how to make gaming movies. Game enthusiasts come in all unique a while, genders, religions, locations and shapes. The backgrounds of people who are Gamers make gaming that rather more fun.

Backgrounds of Game enthusiasts can play an element in the form of video games that People play. There are all types of mixtures for specific classes relating to the sort of video games and form of Game enthusiasts. You actually need to look at the sport’s website to get all the pertinent information previous to buying.

There are many on-line platforms in which you could buy video games from which include Steam or Humble Bundle. Those sites will provide you with the description, motion pictures by means of the corporation, images, person and non-person tags, evaluations, internet site, employer and their social account(s). Be aware the sport’s website may not show you the whole lot you want to know. At least, a gaming corporation will show a quick sales pitch description, small quantity of photos (five at best), one or two movies by using them and their social bills. The maximum they will offer is an informative description, their social debts, consumer critiques and videos by means of them.

Permit’s dive proper into what’s perceived as terrible approximate gaming. Most people of the bad things about video games come from the real lifestyles Human beings on The one’s video games, the sort of video games and the kinds of games for the wrong man or woman. A game may be poorly made but it is no longer usually the case in which the game itself is bad. It can be where it become the incorrect kind of sport for the incorrect person. This is in which the categories are available in. Perhaps a sport has a chunk of violence. That doesn’t make it terrible; it just makes it the wrong kind of sport for a seven yr vintage. Or Perhaps you purchased a puzzle sport for a person who loves movement kind games. So the action loving character won’t enjoy it, but That does not make the puzzle sport bad!

The varieties of games are infinite from nudity, tablets and alcohol, horror, gambling with money and greater. These differing types are incorrect for youth Game enthusiasts as well as incorrect for folks who do not like seeing such things.

Gaming has exact and horrific sides just like the entirety else. The secret is how true and bad are Those facets. As an example, some video games have an awful face with players that like to combat plenty. That is common in games. Understand for a whole lot of Gamers this is not a big deal; but, for youth who are new to the game or even gaming, in general, this could be irritating. There are instances whilst you need to keep away from the bad aspects all collectively. There are times while the good outweighs the terrible. If this happens and there are not any issues with the game itself; then the awful aspect is simply that one little fly to your room which is no huge deal. Caution: If the terrible outweighs the best, I might strongly recommend avoiding that sport.

Another element that Human beings will nag a game developer or author about is representation. Should I say, a loss of representation which isn’t always restrained to race, frame kind and message in the game? If you are able to customize your man or woman, then of the direction you will now not have a hassle with illustration. there may be a hassle in a few video games in which they don’t constitute strong and clever girls, minority ladies and men, large, small, tall, and quick ladies and men. Note how I did not put “adult males” after the girl for sturdy? It’s because men in video games are always represented as sturdy and clever.

In games that show a male robust and clever, he’ll on the whole probably be white, tall, thin, film megastar searching and buff. you may rarely see him be a minority, quick, chubby, now not buff, nerdy searching, while nevertheless being sturdy and clever. You notice this even Much less for ladies. some ladies in games also are white, tall, skinny and sturdy while showing pores and skin like no day after today. You only see Those girls in MMORPG video games (Hugely Multiplayer on-line Position Playing game) even though. RPG video games are supposed for myth worlds wherein you usually combat Humans and monsters. Of path, the women’ stats might be strong however they may not appearance sturdy.

We used a clever board to educate within the PC lab at college. Basically, a clever board turns your digital projector / Lcd Projector image into an interactive whiteboard that you can write on.

The smart Board itself is a hint-sensitive massive display this is linked to your laptop. You use your virtual projector to display your PC screen on the smart board and the software lets in you to touch and engage along with your laptop. As an increasing number of college forums and instructors are making an investment in statistics projectors, it begs the question whether clever forums are an excellent funding. In spite of everything, an intuitive contact interface plus the capability to jot down on digital documents (with virtual ink) could assist us to move beyond blackboards, turn chart paper, and overhead projectors.

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With the smartBoard, you may manage any application via the touch board. So instead of running from at the back of the laptop keyboard, you (or your college students) can be at the front of the classroom physically interacting with the display. you may use any of the four colors of markers or the eraser to write down in digital ink over packages, net pages, or shifting video. The smart board nevertheless works If you lose the pens. (There are 4 colored pen holders and one eraser. when you elevate the pen out of the slot, it selects the shade or the eraser. whilst you touch the display, it makes use of the selected shade or the eraser.) Like different digital ink software program applications, you may store your work right into a notebook record, and you may convert handwriting into textual content. Cons Tough to write down. the biggest disappointment with the digital ink comes from the truth that a clever Board is a front established projection display. Which means your facts projector is set up in the front of the display screen (like an overhead projector). This means that when you stand in between the projector and the display, you solid a shadow on the display… right wherein you are attempting to jot down. Sure, it turned into cool to engage with applications by way of touching the display, but, it becomes Tough to put in writing notes because you were continuously blocking off the photograph. Difficult to jot down neatly. To be flawlessly sincere, it was a touch disappointing how our handwriting grew to become out on the clever Board. Better than our reports with the opposite digital pens (i.E. The i-pen), however, the handwriting become nevertheless massive, blocky, and messy. One of the matters you have to educate yourself to do is to no longer lean up against the clever Board. when you write on a blackboard or whiteboard, you typically relaxation the edge of your palm at the board. In case you try this on a touch display screen, the cursor jumps to your palm and it doesn’t work out. you need to educate yourself to just write the usage of the end of the pen. The marker labored nicely if we wanted to underline or circle key ideas, but In case you wanted to edit or revise a 12 point, double-spaced Word File, you’d have a Hard time getting the control required. You continue to should move backward and forward from the keyboard to the display. We ought to begin up our net browser by means of touching the clever board, but while it came time to enter in the website cope with, we needed to pass back to the desk to kind in the URL. High priced. The full Value of Possession of a clever Board can be prohibitive for the study room teacher. Retail Fee of a seventy-seven? (195.6cm) the front-projection smart Board Interactive whiteboard is $1399 (USD) with a grant from the SMARTer Youngsters Basis of Canada. You need to supply your own records projector. A brand new, first rate projector will Value around $500 – $one thousand. The smart Board is only a giant contact pad. Your want to provide your personal projector to display the photo onto the clever board. (software, connection cables, and stand are covered.) You may need to upgrade to a wi-fi connection ($199 USD) to put off the cables and the tripping risks inside the school room. The display screen image and the smartBoard touch display may additionally get knocked out of alignment. Which means that whilst you try and click a button, the mouse pointer seems some inches to the fact. You’ll realign your hardware which would interrupt the lesson.

This fit is exciting because it may be a tough fight for each warring parties. In a nutshell, Akuma can run far away from Balrog at some stage in the suit due to the fact his teleport is so rapid, but if Balrog catches him, he is dead meat due to the fact he has the lowest vitality of any person in the game. it could grow to be a game of trap and mouse, however still equally excessive for both players.

What does Akuma need to do so one can win?

In my enjoy to this point, Akuma has to run far from Balrog and try and frustrate him into losing. He can play successful and run style and Balrog is basically pressured to chase him the entire healthy due to the fact Akuma’s teleport is so speedy that he’s capable of easily teleport out of hassle. Even if Balrog has him knocked down inside the corner, Akuma can just do a wake-up teleport and be out of there.

Akuma can Essentially simply throw Air Fireballs from throughout the display screen and teleport Both ahead or backward whilst Balrog gets too close for consolation. He can also jump in with a block string after which cancel right into a backward teleport and if he has an existence lead, force Balrog to come after him.

If Balrog chases him, this could suggest desirable news for Akuma because it’s very frustrating for Balrog due to the fact he has no Fireball and no really rapid manner to get throughout the display. Impatient Balrogs will be inclined to get hit with the aid of numerous Fireballs whilst chasing him and give up minor chunks of damage that start to add up to loads after a brief whilst.

In the end, if Akuma continues it up lengthy enough, Balrog will lose by timeout or will make sufficient mistakes for Akuma to catch him with a Raging Demon or different big starting. That is a very powerful approach because it takes benefit of maximum gamers’ impatience.

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