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Cake day: September 2nd, 2023

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  • If you approve someone, you don’t need to explain yourself, you would just say “I agree with this guy”. There’s no substance to it.

    However, if you downvote, you are saying “this is wrong”. Which is much different. When you accuse someone of being wrong, you should explain yourself, otherwise you’re being a dick.

    It’s fine if someone already answered with what you were going to answer. You can just upvote that guy and move on.

    EDIT: I’m absolutely in awe that this comment specifically gathered so many downvotes. And this is a good example of what I was referring to. Lots of people downvoted, and 0 ppl said why.


  • Nah. Trump alone cannot drag down the reputation of the whole country. The reason we hate america more now is because trump is so openly corrupt, that we can see how corrupt his buddies are too. And his buddies are the ones that run america.

    The entire GOP is doing everything it can to protect trump from any legal consequences. All the big tech companies openly bribe him to get away with the shit they do. His voters are no longer ashamed of the racist and fascist shit that come out their mouths. Pete hegseth and Co. brag about how much they hate their “freeloading” allies.

    Bringing down the reputation of America is a team effort. You cannot just throw trump under the bus.



  • Well yes, the LLMs are not the ones that actually generate the images. They basically act as a translator between the image generator and the human text input. Well, just the tokenizer probably. But that’s beside the point. Both LLMs and image generators are generative AI. And have similar mechanisms. They both can create never-before seen content by mixing things it has “seen”.

    I’m not claiming that they didn’t use CSAM to train their models. I’m just saying that’s this is not definitive proof of it.

    It’s like claiming that you’re a good mathematician because you can calculate 2+2. Good mathematicians can do that, but so can bad mathematicians.





  • Yes, privacy should be the default. However, there is a limit for what is practical.

    A VPN adds latency to your connection. It adds an additional failure point. If you don’t need it, why use it? Most people don’t need privacy at that level.

    Additionally VPNs are not free.

    For the ones that claim to be free, you have to remember that if you’re not paying, you are the product.

    What privacy do VPNs provide to the average user when not doing anything illegal? Absolutely zero. You might claim “but VPNs hide my traffic from my ISP!” And it is true, but in doing so you expose it to the VPN provider. In the end, unless you operate your own network, you will have to tell someone where you are going. Using a VPN is just kicking the can.

    Of course if your ISP is known for doing shady stuff and there is a VPN that you fully trust, it may be worth it.

    But I swear the VPN industry has wiped people’s minds with millions of ads so they’re not thinking anymore.


  • The wine thing could prove me wrong if someone could answer my question.

    But I don’t think my theory is that wild. LLMs can interpolate, and that is a fact. You can ask it to make a bear with duck hands and it will do it. I’ve seen images on the internet of things similar to that generated by LLMs.

    Who is to say interpolating nude children from regular children+nude adults is too wild?

    Furthermore, you don’t need CSAM for photos of nude children.

    Children are nude at beaches all the time, there probably are many photos on the internet where there are nude children in the background of beach photos. That would probably help the LLM.