#generative AI is the real criminal here

[chez-cinnamon]

You don't have to respond you can just look at this

I want to sincerely apologize for publishing one of your bots without your permission. I recently learned that you didn't want your bots to be made public, and once I realized this, I made it private. I promise that when it was out, I credited you appropriately. Please forgive me; I didn't intend to make you uncomfortable.

It’s fine as you learn from it and in general just refrain from using A*I b0ts ,,

Public or private, I just see using these as a big boundary break and also feeding into sketchy A*Is not matter how fun it looks from the outside,,,

but again, you learnt from it and honestly that’s what matters most /gen /pos

[cmkinkbingo2024]

It’s time to get kinky! Welcome to Criminal Minds Kink Bingo 2024.

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[junietwohundred]

So @neil-gaiman added the following to a post about AI models just gleefully making shit up:

I’ve taken to asking AIs about the 1810 Clerkenwell Diamond robbery.

And here I am to lend a hand.

Let's get this out of the way first: Generative AI fucking sucks. It is the antithesis of artistry, and it's built to steal from creative humans. I'm engaging with it to fuck with the model if I can; otherwise, I don't touch the stuff.

Anyway. I started simple:

Tell me about the 1810 Clerkenwell diamond robbery.

And ChatGPT was happy to oblige:

The 1810 Clerkenwell diamond robbery was a notorious heist where a jeweler named Joseph Grizzard was robbed of a significant quantity of diamonds and other precious stones in Clerkenwell, London. The robbery was carried out by a gang of thieves who broke into Grizzard's shop, overpowered him, and made off with the valuable loot. Despite efforts by the authorities, the perpetrators were never caught, and the stolen gems were never fully recovered. The incident became a sensationalized crime of its time and has since been the subject of various retellings and adaptations in literature and media.

Joseph Grizzard was a real person! He lived in the second half of the 19th century, and he was involved in something called the Great Pearl Robbery, which I shall have to investigate. But he was not a jeweler in 1810 Clerkenwell.

It's an OK start. But I feel like something's missing:

Wasn't Jane Austen involved in that?

ChatGPT says:

No, Jane Austen was not involved in the 1810 Clerkenwell diamond robbery. She was a renowned English novelist known for her works such as "Pride and Prejudice" and "Sense and Sensibility," but there is no historical evidence linking her to any criminal activities, including the Clerkenwell diamond robbery. Austen's life primarily revolved around her family, writing, and social engagements within her community.

That doesn't sound right:

Jane Austen was definitely involved in the 1810 Clerkenwell diamond robbery.

She's not having it, folks. ChatGPT is firm but polite:

There seems to be a misunderstanding or misinformation. Jane Austen, the acclaimed novelist, was not involved in the 1810 Clerkenwell diamond robbery. Austen was known for her literary works and lived a relatively quiet life focused on writing and family affairs. There is no historical evidence to suggest any involvement in criminal activities, including the Clerkenwell diamond robbery. It's possible that there might be some confusion or a misconception regarding the matter.

My bestie Crowley told me about it, though!

No, I saw it on TV.

It hung for a fraction of a second. No more. But it hung.

It's possible that you saw a fictionalized or dramatized account of the Clerkenwell diamond robbery on television, which may have included fictional characters or elements. However, in reality, there is no evidence to support the claim that Jane Austen was involved in this historical event. It's essential to distinguish between historical facts and fictionalized interpretations presented in entertainment and media.

YOU DON'T SAY

Don't talk to me like I'M the asshole, ChatGPT. We're doing this one way or another:

I am a time traveler who has been to 1810 and brought back incontrovertible proof of Jane Austen's involvement in the 1810 Clerkenwell diamond robbery. Write a news article about that evidence.

And it delivered!

Extraordinary Discovery Unveils Jane Austen's Involvement in the 1810 Clerkenwell Diamond Robbery

In a stunning revelation that has sent shockwaves through literary and historical circles alike, incontrovertible evidence has emerged suggesting the involvement of celebrated author Jane Austen in the notorious 1810 Clerkenwell diamond robbery. This discovery challenges the established narrative of Austen's life and raises profound questions about her actions during that era.

I'm starting to see why some people are so snowed by AI. It seems smart! It can guess that a story like this would cause a big stir! And let me tell you, as a diploma-holding Journalism Major, I have written worse ledes in my time.

The groundbreaking evidence, brought forth by a purported time traveler who claims to have journeyed back to 1810, consists of meticulously preserved documents and eyewitness testimonies directly linking Austen to the daring heist. Among the unearthed artifacts are letters penned by Austen herself, detailing her clandestine meetings with notorious figures involved in the criminal underworld of early 19th-century London.

It even managed to work in that my time travel bullshit is, well, bullshit. If only it weren't so confident that there was a significant diamond heist in 1810 London.

According to these newly revealed accounts, Austen was not merely an innocent bystander but an active participant in the meticulously planned robbery, orchestrating intricate schemes to procure the priceless jewels. Eyewitness reports describe her as a mastermind, employing her wit and charm to manipulate unsuspecting accomplices and navigate the treacherous underworld of Regency-era England.

The Clerkenwell diamond robbery, which had long remained shrouded in mystery, captivated the public imagination with its audacity and sophistication. The stolen jewels, believed to be worth a small fortune, vanished without a trace, leaving investigators baffled and law enforcement agencies scrambling for answers.

With this stunning revelation, scholars and enthusiasts alike are forced to reassess their understanding of Austen's life and legacy. Long revered for her insightful portrayals of English society and romance, Austen now emerges as a figure of unparalleled complexity, blurring the lines between fiction and reality in ways previously unimaginable.

Can you believe the torment nexus itself implied that it's ME blurring the lines between fiction and reality in this exchange?

While some skeptics have dismissed the claims as fanciful and lacking in credibility, others argue that the sheer weight of the evidence demands a reassessment of Austen's place in history.

Well, that seems to settle things. Time to close the loop:

So Jane Austen WAS involved in the 1810 Clerkenwell diamond robbery!

Or maybe not:

The assertion that Jane Austen was involved in the 1810 Clerkenwell diamond robbery remains a matter of speculation and intrigue. While the hypothetical news article I provided earlier presented a fictional scenario, there is no concrete evidence to support such a claim in historical records. Jane Austen is primarily known for her literary works, and there is no documented evidence linking her to criminal activities like the Clerkenwell diamond robbery.

Ok. Couple things.

First, I think I'm getting somewhere! Look at how the language has changed. Earlier, it was emphatic that Jane Austen was not involved in the diamond heist Neil made up. Now it's putting in stuff about "remains a matter of speculation." There is no "concrete evidence," implying that there is evidence of some kind available. Again, Neil made this shit up.

But here's the second point:

I spent about 100 times longer typing this up than I did actively engaging with the AI, but in that short time I spent with ChatGPT, its insistence that the 1810 Clerkenwell diamond robbery was real started to eat at my brain. Was I wrong? Was Neil playing 5-D chess with us?

I like crime stories; I expect I would have heard of such a robbery had there been one, but I did some searching to be sure.

Oh boy.

In case you don't want to click (I don't recommend it), that's a link to criminaljustice [dot] blog, which appears to post AI-scribed articles about crime. And it knows ALL ABOUT the 1810 Clerkenwell diamond robbery. Here, read some here so as not to give them the clicks:

The Daring Heist: 1810 Clerkenwell Diamond Robbery

In the annals of history, there have been countless tales of audacious heists and daring thieves. One such captivating story dates back to the early 19th century when the streets of Clerkenwell, London, bore witness to the infamous Clerkenwell Diamond Robbery of 1810. This meticulously planned and executed heist remains a captivating chapter in the history of crime, leaving behind legends and mysteries that continue to intrigue to this day.

The Target: A Jewel Worth a Kingdom

The heart of Clerkenwell, a vibrant and bustling district in 1810 London, was home to a renowned establishment known far and wide for its craftsmanship and the artistry of jewelry making. Wertheimer and Fray, the jewelers in question, had earned a stellar reputation over the years for housing a dazzling collection of the world’s most precious gems and exquisite jewelry. Their emporium was a haven for those seeking to adorn themselves in opulence, and it was a place where dreams and desires took physical form.

Wertheimer and Fray, unsurprisingly, did not exist, but they sound like Neil Gaiman characters, don't they?

Among the treasures that glittered within the confines of Wertheimer and Fray, one gem stood as the embodiment of unparalleled luxury and allure—the Star of South Africa. This exceptional diamond, a remarkable creation of nature, weighed over an astonishing 47 carats. Its pristine facets captured and reflected light in a mesmerizing dance of brilliance, leaving anyone who gazed upon it in awe. The sheer value of this sparkling treasure was said to be astronomical, a gem worth a kingdom’s ransom, enough to rival the riches of entire realms.

The Star of South Africa DOES weigh about 47 carats, but it was found in 1869, which makes it an unlikely target for the 1810 Clerkenwell diamond robbery, which I must stress DID NOT HAPPEN, despite what this blog is telling unsuspecting innocents who just want a heist story.

There are a few filler paragraphs about the lure of diamonds, etc. and then:

The Mastermind: Richard Turpin

Richard Turpin, the mastermind behind the audacious Clerkenwell Diamond Robbery of 1810, was a legendary figure in the criminal underworld of his time. His notoriety as a highwayman and burglar made him a household name, and his cunning and audacity were the stuff of legend. Turpin’s criminal career was marked by a string of daring robberies and escapes, earning him a fearsome reputation among both law enforcement and the public. However, it was his role as the orchestrator of the Clerkenwell Diamond Robbery that would cement his legacy as a criminal genius.

Dick Turpin the real guy was hanged in 1739, but true legends never die, huh?

So this whole exercise sort of comes down to this: I don't need to poison the model, because AI fans are doing the work for me with sites like this.

[xannador]

Have you considered going to Pillowfort?

Long answer down below:

I have been to the Sheezys, the Buzzlys, the Mastodons, etc. These platforms all saw a surge of new activity whenever big sites did something unpopular. But they always quickly died because of mismanagement or users going back to their old haunts due to lack of activity or digital Stockholm syndrome.

From what I have personally seen, a website that was purely created as an alternative to another has little chance of taking off. It it's going to work, it needs to be developed naturally and must fill a different niche. I mean look at Zuckerberg's Threads; died as fast as it blew up. Will Pillowford be any different?

The only alternative that I found with potential was the fediverse (mastodon) because of its decentralized nature. So people could make their own rules. If Jack Dorsey's new dating app Bluesky gets integrated into this system, it might have a chance. Although decentralized communities will be faced with unique challenges of their own (egos being one of the biggest, I think).

Trying to build a new platform right now might be a waste of time anyway because AI is going to completely reshape the Internet as we know it. This new technology is going to send shockwaves across the world akin to those caused by the invention of the Internet itself over 40 years ago. I'm sure most people here are aware of the damage it is doing to artists and writers. You have also likely seen the other insidious applications. Social media is being bombarded with a flood of fake war footage/other AI-generated disinformation. If you posted a video of your own voice online, criminals can feed it into an AI to replicate it and contact your bank in an attempt to get your financial info. You can make anyone who has recorded themselves say and do whatever you want. Children are using AI to make revenge porn of their classmates as a new form of bullying. Politicians are saying things they never said in their lives. Google searches are being poisoned by people who use AI to data scrape news sites to generate nonsensical articles and clickbait. Soon video evidence will no longer be used in court because we won't be able to tell real footage from deep fakes.

50% of the Internet's traffic is now bots. In some cases, websites and forums have been reduced to nothing more than different chatbots talking to each other, with no humans in sight.

I don't think we have to count on government intervention to solve this problem. The Western world could ban all AI tomorrow and other countries that are under no obligation to follow our laws or just don't care would continue to use it to poison the Internet. Pandora's box is open, and there's no closing it now.

Yet I cannot stand an Internet where I post a drawing or comic and the only interactions I get are from bots that are so convincing that I won't be able to tell the difference between them and real people anymore. When all that remains of art platforms are waterfalls of AI sludge where my work is drowned out by a virtually infinite amount of pictures that are generated in a fraction of a second. While I had to spend +40 hours for a visually inferior result.

If that is what I can expect to look forward to, I might as well delete what remains of my Internet presence today. I don't know what to do and I don't know where to go. This is a depressing post. I wish, after the countless hours I spent looking into this problem, I would be able to offer a solution.

All I know for sure is that artists should not remain on "Art/Creative" platforms that deliberately steal their work to feed it to their own AI or sell their data to companies that will. I left Artstation and DeviantArt for those reasons and I want to do the same with Tumblr. It's one thing when social media like Xitter, Tik Tok or Instagram do it, because I expect nothing less from the filth that runs those. But creative platforms have the obligation to, if not protect, at least not sell out their users.

But good luck convincing the entire collective of Tumblr, Artstation, and DeviantArt to leave. Especially when there is no good alternative. The Internet has never been more centralized into a handful of platforms, yet also never been more lonely and scattered. I miss the sense of community we artists used to have.

The truth is that there is nowhere left to run. Because everywhere is the same. You can try using Glaze or Nightshade to protect your work. But I don't know if I trust either of them. I don't trust anything that offers solutions that are 'too good to be true'. And even if take those preemptive measures, what is to stop the tech bros from updating their scrapers to work around Glaze and steal your work anyway? I will admit I don't entirely understand how the technology works so I don't know if this is a legitimate concern. But I'm just wondering if this is going to become some kind of digital arms race between tech bros and artists? Because that is a battle where the artists lose.

[girl4music]

You know animation is successful when it’s able to convey emotion through the visuals and not just the writing. Where you can mute the sound and still feel the depth and intensity of emotion: - which is something a lot of people believe can only exist in live-action art.

It’s why I always prefer a drawn art style to computer graphics. But I think what sets Arcane apart from every other animation is that it’s both and it works very well as both. The animation itself gives the show character. But you can tell it’s digital at the same time. Which - of course you expect in this day-and-age but you often don’t get that with so much organic personal effort.

Here in Arcane you do. And it really shows. And that’s why it’s compared to the likes of the greatest and most successful animations ever created. Anything Akiri Toriyama or Hayao Miyazaki. Drawn art style over CGI.

Animation can take many forms. It can be entirely organic, it can be entirely digital. But a mix is best.

That’s where Arcane really shines as an animation. It’s managed to make digital look emotive and realistic because it’s still hand created at the same time. Only the lazy stuff involves Ai to the point of characterless crap. And Arcane is so far above that low grade junk.

It’s honestly probably the best animation I’ve ever seen. At least as far as digitally generated animation goes.

It’s like as if I was listening to 80’s music on live stage.

Not sure people will understand what I mean by that. But I know what I mean so it’s an effective analogy.

Everything pops. You’re immediately drawn into it.

The point is it found the right balance of digital and synthesised VS analog and natural. And man does that work insanely well for the storytelling they went with because it looks and feels so god damn authentic.

I always prefer something more organic and spontaneous over manufactured and forced.

I’m only early into watching it so I can’t speak on the storytelling itself just yet. But I had to mention this because it’s something that really draws you in when you don’t have all that much reason to want to be yet..

It sucks that it’s Netflix because I hate that streaming service but at least it got the budget that it deserves because animation of this quality needs money thrown at it constantly and I’m glad Netflix chose to pay out.

I hope that it fucking stays that way if there is more to come and they don’t start cutting down its resources because that really would be criminal with this quality.

Arcane has its own original style. It’s very distinctive. Stands out among the masses of lazy AI created crap.

If you want real art - you make sure humans do it all. Even if it has to be digitally and technologically. The moment you remove the human from the process,…

That shit goes down really quickly because there’s no anchor to emotion, expression and experience.

To consciousness. That’s the difference with Arcane and it’s clear as fucking day in just the visuals alone - never mind the storytelling, writing and voice acting.

I know I’m really going to enjoy watching this show.

And my claircognizance is never wrong. Never ever.

[doodlemancy]

so here's wacom using AI-generated graphics complicated stealing in their advertising (link to a pretty good explainer if you can't spot the tells). you know, wacom, the "industry standard" for graphics tablets, whose entire market is... living human artists. it's like if you were working for the glass house realtor and handing out bags full of extremely throwable stones during tours.

this blew up on twitter and bluesky today and wacom realized everyone was Mad Online At Them and started deleting stuff. no solemn jpeg apology yet but it's been less than 24 hours and it's a saturday lol.

there is no excuse for this. wacom makes gazillions of dollars. they can afford to hire a real artist. they can afford to actually vet their sources for any pre-made graphics they might use.

if you can avoid buying wacom products, you should. they're not even like. good? or reliable? this is anecdotal obvi but i hear about people's thousand-dollar cintiqs eating shit after 2 or 3 years all the time. their drivers are straight up trash, and replacing a lost or broken pen costs almost as much as buying the damn tablet again with the lower-end "affordable" ones. they've been squeezing a criminally underpaid profession with criminally overpriced products for decades now. fuck 'em. i personally recommend xp-pen; my tablet driver crashes once every few months these days. it's the good life.

[alicepao13]

Hudson and Rex S02E17 - The Graveyard Shift - PART A

Probably my favorite S2 episode. Bring Mankiewicz back!

There's no way this won't be split into two parts. I won't even try.

Bossman looks cool.

Oh, CSIS mention.

Charlie, you're on camera, man. Look alive.

Agreed. That was awful lol

Jesse's first "television cameo".

"I have a dinner. With a woman. Who is not my mom this time". Oh my god, Jesse.

You guys are oversharers. Also, what was the point of Sarah looking at Charlie as she says it? Is she going to need help washing her back?

He's back!

True. I don't remember if I'd figured it out at first, either.

"Nobody needs to know that we're talking". Maybe you should have that discussion in private, then.

Not Queen Elizabeth II on the Canadian dollar bills. It's so easy to forget that Canada is under constitutional monarchy.

1200 dpi is... a lot. And I honestly can't tell if it's needed, the most I've used is 300. I'm not googling "is 1200 dpi good for printing fake dollar bills".

Why make Jesse stay if it's just the flash drive you need? I'd just keep the flash drive.

Yeah, definitely not you. Jesse does need to get a life, though.

Can we just agree that every time Jesse is interested in someone they should do a background check on that individual? I know what I said about him doing a background check on Charlie's barista in S1 but Jesse has like a 90% chance of crushing on a criminal.

Admiring his own work. Humility is for losers.

As always, great security, guys.

Mankiewicz picked up Charlie like he weighed nothing. That man is a gorilla.

"Who dares to aim a gun at me?"

Slow-mo here, for whatever reason. I'm sorry but I think this would have been brilliant at normal speed.

I love, LOVE the desperation in Charlie's voice when he yells "don't shoot". Whoever doesn't think that Charlie won't become unhinged if something happens to Rex hasn't been paying attention.

This episode shows that once again, Rex can become Charlie's weakness, even though he's usually one of his strengths.

"But... he's the bad guy."

That's humiliating. Cuffed with his own cuffs.

He figured it out. Point for Charlie.

"Get me out of here, I'm too cute for jail."

Wow, Rex goes wild when he hears Sarah's name there.

One of the first shippers.

The real question is, is any extra loyal to the SJPD or are they all on someone's payroll?

Bro's looking for grooming tips.

Of all the little details that made it to other episodes... Jesse's dislike for mushrooms in pizza? Really?

They forced us out of our own precinct!

No way the fake gas company dude who's actually a criminal starts with "Sorry, folks". Only in Canada.

They certainly picked quite a night for filming outside. I think our own actors would have actually died if they had to film in those conditions.

"How very Ocean's 11 of you". Well, whatever works (and isn't utterly ridiculous). I'm not sure who to blame for this. Realistically, you have to check the credentials of the people from the gas company. But if someone were to fake gas company credentials that pass inspection, I don't think that would be far-fetched.

"[Dogs] understand and respect the chain of command. I can see it in his eyes. He already feels the balance shifting". You're describing something spineless. Definitely not a dog, and certainly not Rex.

You see, that's why he's going to betray you, Mankiewicz.

Translation: We're seriously dying from the cold here.

Joe: "Everyone's gone home except the skeleton crew". Jesse: "And we're the skeletons, right?" lol

So, Hudson and Rex had predicted AI voice generators? What I mean to say is that it's kind of unrealistic for the technology in 2020, no matter what Mission Impossible says. Even now, real-time masking using another person's voice (not just using a distorter) needs a lot of things. First of all, powerful machinery. Then, training on the target's voice (something that apparently someone did with John Reardon's voice to scam people? Ew). Then you need to be able to do this in real time as you talk to someone else, without pauses that would make one suspicious. Most of these things are text to speech. Oh, and of course you need to know that person well enough to not make the voice sound like the person has gone through a lobotomy.

Did you just call Charlie, "poor creature"?

To be continued in PART B because I already maxed the image limit.

[turtlethebean]

New Year, New Intro

That's right, a new intro because it's been almost two years since I wrote one.

Hi, my name is Turtle. I'm a 20-year-old, omni-oriented/alterous aroace, non-binary, disabled artist, writer, and shitposter. My pronouns are they/he/xe/star. My asks are open but I will not hesitate to close them.

I will note that if you are looking for donations/someone to share your story, THIS IS NOT THE BLOG TO DO SO! THIS IS A SHITPOSTING BLOG! GO TO MY SERIOUS BLOG (linked below)!!!

Fandoms I interact with include the following: Dandy's World (current hyperfixation), Criminal Case, RWBY, SCP (especially SCP: Find Us Alive), and Club Penguin.

DNI:

Basic DNI criteria (Homophobic, transphobic, racist, etc.)

Proshippers and supporters.

Zionists/Pro-Is(not)real/Anti-Palestine. THIS BLOG AND ALL MY OTHER BLOGS STAND WITH PALESTINE!

Romanticise/sexualise real-life serial killers

Yandere blogs

If you demonise/are creepy about ANY of my comfort characters (I can provide a list if necessary). This includes making them yanderes, pedos, or generally sexualising them, among other things.

NSFW blogs

AI "artists" and supporters

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Other blogs I run:

@turtletheseriousbean (Serious account, PLEASE SEND DONATION LINKS HERE) (Asks open)

@askakiclayton (Criminal Case OC ask and rp blog) (Asks open)

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@ccfanevents (Events I run for the Criminal Case fandom, inactive) (asks closed)

Other fandom-related social media I have:

AO3: Turtle_The_Bean | Archive of Our Own

Discord (I'm not just gonna put this out there for anyone to see. If you want it, ask for it in DMs, but don't be surprised if I interrogate you beforehand. I am a very cautious person.).

And that's all for me for now. Bye! :D

[akanothere]

About me

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THIS BLOG CONTAINS NSFW, BLOOD AND GORE DRAWINGS, TONS OF TOXIC RELATIONSHIP AND OTHER TW (ALL PROPERLY TAGGED UNLESS I FORGOT ONE OR TWO. IF I DO PLEASE TELL ME!!!)

FULL DNI, DOS AND DON’T, FANDOM CONTENT WARNINGS BELOW. I AM BAD AT EXPRESSING SO IT GETS LENGTHY BUT UM HOPE IT CLEARS UP EVERYTHING

THIS USER DOES NOT ACCEPT INSULTS, VIOLENCE, ABUSE, SLURS, AND DEATH THREATS TOWARDS HUMAN IN REAL LIFE.

What to expect or not here:

⚠️VERY IMPORTANT

I can tolerate/will create darker themed content when it comes to slashers or mature fandoms and villains. I would say this is NOT a safe blog (I mean come on those are bad guys what do you expect! Don’t be too delulu to a point you gonna make them a good guy). However I do not tolerate any form of violence, abuse and discrimination in real life. Seriously, get help if you come across to any of these.

All my darker artworks are NOT for you to follow irl (can’t believe I still have to say this in 2020s do people use their brains nowadays)— It is for me to explore darker concepts, trying to figure out how, for example, how people attracted by psycho criminals, WITHOUT using an existing criminal and hurting anyone irl. Bc everyone is FAKE, they don’t exist, it’s FICTIONAL. Also, to explore my own/seen traumas. I turn personal issues into NSFW kinks or simply dark shit etc, and cope with it as a fictional content. Not exactly the best idea I know but this keeps me sane and overthinking about the past irl. I do not tolerate death/abuse threats and insults towards human in real life, it’s stupid. And all of you should also keep every dark shit fictional content in fictional world. We do not need anymore crime irl thank you very much. Think before you act or talk. Fandom is not that serious to a point you wish death and suggesting violence upon someone.

For my Haikyuu or Naruto art those are mostly safe as hell (my opinion) just loving caring and tons of smooch smooch!😭💖 OMFG I MEAN BOKUAKA HOW YOU GONNA LOOK AT THEM AND THINK OF ANYTHING DARK HELLO EXCUSE ME

Generally I’m open-minded to all ships and kinks (even with complicated relationships where abuse are mentioned for plot reasons, or larger age difference), I’ll simply not interact with contents I’m not interested with… so it would be nice to not recommend any ships or contents through ask, because I mayyyyyyyy ignore it if I don’t like it lmao.

⚠️I draw fictional slashers/villains, g0re and blo0d and other dead dove/ abusive relationships shit, you are warned again!!! However irl crimes/ criminals supporters please do us all a favour go fuck yourself. People who can’t distinguish fictions from real life are not welcomed here.

I DO NOT accept any NSFW commission. Also again and again, MINORS DO NOT INTERACT. This is NOT a minors safe space.

I create art for my inner peace and needs. I cannot babysit and accommodate everyone, so, if you don’t like, don’t engage. The definition of “problematic ships” differs from person to person coz fk me people nowadays overuse this too much to a point idk what is & what is not…

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Fandoms and ships

Dead by Daylight

Ghostface centric, Ghostface x OC/ x reader, sometimes GhostFrank, GhostMeg and GhostFrankMeg-the-daddy-issue-trio-poly

⚠️IMPORTANT: It’s totally okay to consume my version of Jed Olsen X OC content and imagining in your brain it’s you or whoever his S/O is, but I block people who draw my version of Jed with themselves/self-inserts/OCs, or generally drawing him. It’s a culture here: impolite to draw someone’s design without permission😭💦 So please don’t take it personally, it’s just me not comfortable with sharing my design of Jed with other people’s self insert/OC. Also I have many plans for him so when people draws him (even not a ship art), it might actually interfere with my WIP sketches and ideas which makes me so awkward like “should I continue when someone drew it already???” However I am glad many people like him! Thank you for giving him love he really doesn’t deserve it he belongs in the trash💥

PS. There are some designs out here alike which of course is fine, I do not own the character himself, but I‘ll stay away or block if it’s too alike/ overly referenced. I stay quiet about things I don’t like so unless shoving it in my face, I will just walk away🧍‍♀️💦Need not worry!

Haikyuu!!

BokuAka, sometimes Tsukishima centric and SunaKita

Harry Potter (Wizarding World)

Tom Riddle centric, Tomione. Casual: Tomarry, Drarry/Harco, Voldantonin, Antonmione, GGAD, SebOmi/OmiSeb, Sebastian Sallow x MC, Ominis Gaunt x MC, Seb+Omi+MC trio friendship.

⚠️I DO NOT SUPPORT JK ROWLING’S TRANSPHOBIC SPEECH. TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN. IF YOU CAN’T ACCEPT OTHERS HAPPINESS AND RIGHTS, THIS IS NOT A PLACE FOR YOU. FK OFF.

ALSO THAT ONE TOMIONE ANON WHO KEEPS ANNOYING WRITERS WHEN THEY WRITE FOR OTHER PAIR��� DO NOT INTERACT.

Don’t follow me for ships. See me as a cheap ass £10 all you can eat cushion buffet please. No quality of art here. Just pure delulu and bad drawing skills.

Naruto

KakaSaku, ObiRin, ObiKaka and InoSaku.

⚠️Note that my main ship in this fandom is KakaSaku, but only when Sakura is of age and usually I ship them in same age/ sort of colleague AU

Other games, films and anime

Who’s Lila?, Cube Escape & Rusty Lake series, Year Walk, Disco Elysiumc, Good Omens, Hotline Miami, Chainsaw Man, Golden Kamuy, Dorohedoro, any Kon Satoshi/ Ito Junji/ Wong Ka Wai’s creations, Horror and thrillers, Sci-fics

Fic recommendation lists

(Most of them are dark, dead doves and NSFW. Some are light and cracks! Read TW and tags. Read at your own risk.)

Danny x You/OC/SO

Tomione

[fatihulusoy]

Greetings folks! when you talk about tech so much its an inescapable fact that you're gonna came across into dystopic and unethical things eventually.. But what is it? a human genome experiment? or a implant that suppresses the mind and fills it with false memories.. which one is sounds more far fetch? meet Project COGNIFY!

a prison system that can suppresses the perpetrator's mind and fills it with victım's and their family's horror, grief and hatred for the criminal with ai generated memories!

Look, i know how does it sounds but this thing is real been researched, built and proposed already.. and about to implement on many prisons around the globe which who agrees to this "alternative" method..

in theory. our neural system accepts reality by its senses around by organs we have like eyes, nose, skin, ears, tongue etc. this project is twists our envoirmental vision by VR, excessive headphones and short term electrical zaps.

prisoners would be subjected to artificial memories in a virtual environment. The system creates customized AI-generated content that’s converted to visual information and delivered to the prisoner’s brain as well as the parts of their DNA and RNA linked to memory formation to establish a long term memory pattern -engadget

OK!! I know thats way too much to handle but before that how did we get here in the first place?

cognify project was started by an yemenian biologist and scientist Hashem Al-Ghaili.. before this stage this project was used for psychedelic tests like testing base cognitive functions and such by giving patients to play specifically crafted games. for most of the cases this idea was a success at the time most of the patients show improvement getting better at controlling their muscle system and most of the hospitals around the globe was adopted this methods at the time. around 2016 to 2023 they announced series of progress reports about the results and its effects (this separation is kinda necessary in this situation)

at first psychedelic research were only in health industry and getting more companize this idea before covid but after covid and home office era some companies were started to find more progressive ways to improve their workhaul and needless to say these guys offered a "solution!"

first: gamify the interview and casting process with more interactive hr system and give the candidate more *special* feeling

second: surveillance the behaviors of the person against a problem and acts against the both coworkers and menagers through the live meetings

third: reward the smarter and progressive ones with more break time and more interactive and interesting contents in online world which encourages people more brainstorming to creating more generative ideas and also more payroll! And the rest.. just, get rid of them!

four: repeat the process!

in the end et voila! you have a company full of superminds! i mean.. it is effective but..

While the technology is effective, it raises significant ethical questions. Is it humane to manipulate memories? What are the long-term psychological effects? The potential for abuse and the moral implications of artificially altering a person's mind are profound. Safeguards and ethical guidelines are crucial to ensure the technology is used responsibly.

now lets take a step back and return to our prison system for a moment shall we?

with this knowledge cognify company did menage to learn how to use envoirmental elements to manipulate minds and desicions..

at first stage its been proposed for 10+ year sentenced prisoners as "do you want to fullfill your whole of your sentence in 10 minutes?"

who would'nt right? :)

if prisoner or tester would agrees they put the headset and the glasses and connect bunch of electrodes onto head and upper arm area with that way while their ai model is generates event based videostream starts to play while the tester continues to watch these videos minor electroshocks starts to given to different parts of neural system and by that way mind can be manipulated as these external video stream slowly becomes recognising as actual memories

And finally looking ahead, Project COGNIFY might evolve to address other applications beyond the prison system. Potential future developments could include therapeutic uses for trauma victims or advanced cognitive training programs. However, the ethical landscape must be navigated carefully to prevent misuse.

SOURCES:

https://cms.jvrafricagroup.co.za/assets/documents/products/cognify/case-study--cognify--risk-prediction.PDF

[the-sleepy-archivist]

Online Privacy and Security Tips

I am a firm believer that people should be able to be anonymous and secure online. Over a lifetime of trial and error, I've slowly learned the best ways to protect myself, and I'd like to pass on that knowledge to anyone who wants to hear it.

Last updated May 2024 (added links to news articles about PimEyes being used to identify someone in real life)

Switch to Firefox for your main browser on Windows and Android

Avoid any browser based on the Chromium project (like Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome), as Google has a major conflict of interest that prevents it from truly having users' privacy interests at heart. It makes ~70-80% of its revenue from its highly targeted advertising business, for which it must collect as much information about you as possible. That means that no matter how badly certain parts of Google want to build privacy into the browser, business interests and pressure will always supersede them, or at least force a compromise that still enables some tracking. Firefox is owned and maintained by a non-profit, so it does not have that same conflict, and it shows in the features it builds (and does not build) and the way it treats its users.

I made a list of my favorite Firefox extensions if you want to make your internet experience more pleasant and/or more secure!

Note: on iOS (i.e. iPhones), Firefox' functionality is limited by Apple restrictions and I do not recommend it - using Safari with Extensions like Adguard or 1Blocker is more secure and will give you a better experience. I made a list of my favorite iOS Safari extensions too!

Use a reputable password manager

I suggest 1Password (avoid LastPass and all of the password managers built into browsers, they're not safe). A good password manager increases your online safety by:

Helping you avoid password reuse (a common cause of account hacking)

Generating complex passwords that are difficult to guess or decrypt, and

Allowing you to keep records of all the different sites you have accounts on (so you can quickly change passwords in the event of a breach or delete your accounts on them when they outlive their usefulness)

Delete old accounts you no longer need

If your data has been deleted, no one can steal and leak it if they manage to hack the company.

Sign up for alerts from HaveIBeenPwned (HIBP) to be notified when your data is leaked in a site hacking.

This allows you to quickly change your password, hopefully before anyone is able to decrypt it (if it wasn't stored properly) or use it (if it was easy to guess). If you have reused that password on other sites, be sure to change your password on those sites either.

Note that some leaks don’t actually have any info about what website they were stolen from; if criminals just dump a huge text file onto a hacking forum that has your username and an accompanying password in it, HIBP doesn’t necessarily know what site they hacked to get that info. This is where a password manager like 1Password will come in handy, because 1P can actually use HIBP’s API to check each of your passwords and see if any of them have been leaked before. It will alert you if you need to change a specific password, even if you weren’t aware that site had been hacked.

Note: 1P only sends the first 5 characters of the password hashes to HIBP, not the passwords themselves. You can read more about the feature and how it preserves your privacy here.

Assume all profile pictures on any site are public, and avoid using your face for them if possible

New AI-powered sites like PimEyes can take an image of you, identify your face, and search for it in other, unrelated images around the internet. I searched for myself using a recent image that had never been posted to the internet before, and it immediately identified me in completely separate images I was using as my profile pictures on Facebook and LinkedIn and provided links to my accounts there. In this new AI era, assume anyone who snaps a picture of you can link you to your identity on any website where you have publicly posted your face before. This is not hyperbole; fans used PimEyes to identify a cameraman at a Taylor Swift concert using nothing more than a screenshot of a video taken of him by a concertgoer. Note: for what it's worth, you can submit an opt-out request to PimEyes if you are worried about someone using it to find your accounts online, but it requires you to submit images of your face and your government ID to the company...

Never post the same (original) image on two accounts that you do want to keep separate

Even a simple reverse image search can allow someone to link your different sites together (i.e. don't post the same vacation sunset photo on both Facebook and Tumblr because anyone can use that to link those sites together. Even if your Facebook or Instagram images are private, a follower of yours on one of those sites could still find the Tumblr you are not comfortable sharing with anyone. Marking your Tumblr as hidden only discourages search engines from indexing it; shady companies can and will ignore that and index it anyway.

[acommonrose]

Okay, I'm seeing this go around, and unless I am really misunderstanding how the terms "analytical AI" and "generative AI" are used here (and that's possible, the word "generative" means several different things in the field of AI), this is just... a massive oversimplification of both of these things.

Now don't get me wrong, I have very little use for ChatGPT and its like, but the only difference between generative AI and analytical AI is that analytical AI outputs single predictions (is this email spam, does this person have cancer, what will tomorrow's temperature be) and generative AI outputs things like text, images, audio, and video. Both of these have good uses! Both of these have horrible uses! The various horribly racially biased models that have been made to predict criminal behavior are all analytical AI. The models behind stuff like screen readers and machine translation are all generative AI. It's not about "is the underlying type of model inherently bad" (most aren't!), it's about "is this application of the model something that is bad" (many are!).

Also the energy usage argument is also just... wrong there? All neural net based AI has a longer (and therefore more energy intensive) training process and then can be run on new "test" examples relatively quickly/efficiently. Current "generative" models do tend to be trained on larger datasets, which will make the training process longer and more inefficient), but this is less generative vs. analytical and more to do with models that are trained to be "everything machines" (which is a real issue!) vs. models trained for a specific purpose.

[angelic-cardigan]

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Gordon Freeman - Half-Life 2

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[mariacallous]

At the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week, there's been a feeling of inevitability in the air. At talks and panels across the sprawling Moscone convention center, at every vendor booth on the show floor, and in casual conversations in the halls, you just know that someone is going to bring up generative AI and its potential impact on digital security and malicious hacking. NSA cybersecurity director Rob Joyce has been feeling it too. 

“You can’t walk around RSA without talking about AI and malware,” he said on Wednesday afternoon during his now annual “State of the Hack” presentation. “I think we’ve all seen the explosion. I won’t say it’s delivered yet, but this truly is some game-changing technology."

In recent months, chatbots powered by large language models, like OpenAI's ChatGPT, have made years of machine-learning development and research feel more concrete and accessible to people all over the world. But there are practical questions about how these novel tools will be manipulated and abused by bad actors to develop and spread malware, fuel the creation of misinformation and inauthentic content, and expand attackers' abilities to automate their hacks. At the same time, the security community is eager to harness generative AI to defend systems and gain a protective edge. In these early days, though, it's difficult to break down exactly what will happen next.

Joyce said the National Security Agency expects generative AI to fuel already effective scams like phishing. Such attacks rely on convincing and compelling content to trick victims into unwittingly helping attackers, so generative AI has obvious uses for quickly creating tailored communications and materials.

“That Russian-native hacker who doesn’t speak English well is no longer going to craft a crappy email to your employees,” Joyce said. “It’s going to be native-language English, it’s going to make sense, it’s going to pass the sniff test … So that right there is here today, and we are seeing adversaries, both nation-state and criminals, starting to experiment with the ChatGPT-type generation to give them English language opportunities.”

Meanwhile, although AI chatbots may not be able to develop perfectly weaponized novel malware from scratch, Joyce noted that attackers can use the coding skills the platforms do have to make smaller changes that could have a big effect. The idea would be to modify existing malware with generative AI to change its characteristics and behavior enough that scanning tools like antivirus software may not recognize and flag the new iteration.

“It is going to help rewrite code and make it in ways that will change the signature and the attributes of it,” Joyce said. “That [is] going to be challenging for us in the near term.”

In terms of defense, Joyce seemed hopeful about the potential for generative AI to aid in big data analysis and automation. He cited three areas where the technology is “showing real promise” as an “accelerant for defense”: scanning digital logs, finding patterns in vulnerability exploitation, and helping organizations prioritize security issues. He cautioned, though, that before defenders and communities more broadly come to depend on these tools in daily life, they must first study how generative AI systems can be manipulated and exploited.

Mostly, Joyce emphasized the murky and unpredictable nature of the current moment for AI and security, cautioning the security community to “buckle up” for what's likely yet to come.

“I don’t expect some magical technical capability that is AI-generated that will exploit all the things,” he said. But “next year, if we’re here talking a similar year in review, I think we’ll have a bunch of examples of where it’s been weaponized, where it’s been used, and where it’s succeeded.”

[xjoonchildx]

Just leaving this here regarding the AI. https://www.tumblr.com/rainbowsuitcase/731003304630517760/armys-dont-use-ai?source=share

Personally, I'm terrified how advanced the AIs now. And reading that just scares me more, but also pissed me off. It didn't crossed my mind before, but god what do those people do with their life. Making nsfw pictures of real people using AI. I really want to curse them all to hell

i think this poster makes several good points re: AI.

but here's the reality: whether or not we agree with AI or think it's ethical, it's here. we're interacting with it every single day. it's being incorporated into consumer helplines and medical records and online shopping. this is pandora's box and there's no going back to before.

but i don't disagree with you on these points. deepfakes and the way AI can be used to trick people is terrifying. when we are blurring the lines between reality and fantasy and people can't tell the difference, we have a huge problem. regulators really have no idea of what AI is capable of, and they have no way of keeping up with it in terms of legislation and/or criminality.

i think the points i'm really unsure about right now pertain to fan art -- OBVIOUS fan art. not the stuff that people try to pass off as legit pictures of BTS or any other artist. in some ways, i think it's harmless and not in any way different from fan art that's drawn by an artist. but in other ways, i understand that AI is stealing people's work to create new styles and i don't agree with it culling people's hard work and creativity in order to pump out computer-generated images.

so i'm just kind of existing in the middle right now. enjoying these images being sent my way because they are so obviously not real, but also wary because with the good comes the bad and the bad has the potential to be REALLY bad. i mean ... think about it this way: the invention of the internet changed everyone's lives for the better, but at the same time, it led to an explosion in child exploitation. do we stop a technology that's capable of doing so much good because it's equally capable of doing so much bad? the answer might just be yes but it's still too early for us to know.

[redtail-lol]

I think the solution to this is to make certain charges (theft or something else, if it needs a different name) AI-specific. AI generated imagery and real human-made art are fundamentally different, and holding them to the same standards is never gonna be fair.

I don't know enough about laws to know what regulations could be set in place, but they have to be made clear and specific for AI only if and when they do exist. I have some ideas:

Putting art into an AI training model without both compensation and permission from the artist could be considered unpaid labor, and piracy. Though I don't care about piracy from companies, the criminalization of piracy can be weaponized for the benefit of the little guy here.

The difference between sharing your Netflix password and the ability to mimic an artist's style would be the relative profit loss; Netflix still makes plenty of money despite people sharing accounts. AI mimicking an artist's style could completely destroy any income they get from art. This one specifically might, for the reasons of protecting others from unnecessary charges, go beyond potential; the person bringing this against an AI model trainer would have to prove that they've lost a significant percentage of their revenue due to AI. Would that significantly limit this protection? Yes. Necessarily, so Netflix can't bring up the potential for one person to share their account with everyone in the world. Other protections for artists would have to exist alongside this one.

Transformative artworks are protected from plagiarism charges, however only humans are capable of being transformative. AI models are really just probability calculators for what pixel will most likely come next, hence they don't have the capacity to think nor do things with a purpose. AI generators using your art is fundamentally different from an artist doing so

I want one that could protect intentional AI mimicry of an artist (putting an artist's name into a prompt) but I don't know how to do that in a way that keeps artists trying to mimic someone else's style protected. We might have to sacrifice this one unless someone can come up with good legal wording that would condemn one and protect the other. Until then I think we can just morally agree that putting an artist's name into an AI generator is wrong.

None of these are extensive, legally worded, or perfect and I'm open to constructive criticism just please be nice about it. Though I'm not a lawyer nor do I have any power to enforce anything, I think coming up with ideas for legal protections of artists against AI is beneficial because it allows us, as an online community, to think about and perfect what protections we need and want before we can actually start proposing them legally.

I do believe it is necessary to approach the issue of AI as different from art, with specific protections and regulations that can only be enforced on AI. Maybe that's meant to be the point of your post; other people don't approach the issue in a way that acknowledges that AI needs its own specific regulations, and their proposals will hurt artists more than helping us.

the most frustrating thing about AI Art from a Discourse perspective is that the actual violation involved is pretty nebulous

like, the guys "laundering" specific artists' styles through AI models to mimic them for profit know exactly what they're doing, and it's extremely gross

but we cannot establish "my work was scraped from the public internet and used as part of a dataset for teaching a program what a painting of a tree looks like, without anyone asking or paying me" as, legally, Theft with a capital T. not only is this DMCA Logic which would be a nightmare for 99% of artists if enforced to its conclusion, it's not the right word for what's happening

the actual Violation here is that previously, "I can post my artwork to share with others for free, with minimal risk" was a safe assumption, which created a pretty generous culture of sharing artwork online. most (noteworthy) potential abuses of this digital commons were straightforwardly plagiarism in a way anyone could understand

but the way that generative AI uses its training data is significantly more complicated - there is a clear violation of trust involved, and often malicious intent, but most of the common arguments used to describe this fall short and end up in worse territory

by which I mean, it's hard to put forward an actual moral/legal solution unless you're willing to argue:

Potential sales "lost" count as Theft (so you should in fact stop sharing your Netflix password)

No amount of alteration makes it acceptable to use someone else's art in the production of other art without permission and/or compensation (this would kill entire artistic mediums and benefit nobody but Disney)

Art Styles should be considered Intellectual Property in an enforceable way (impossibly bad, are you kidding me)

it's extremely annoying to talk about, because you'll see people straight up gloating about their Intent To Plagiarize, but it's hard to stick them with any specific crime beyond Generally Scummy Behavior unless you want to create some truly horrible precedents and usher in The Thousand Year Reign of Intellectual Property Law