AnAmericanPotato
@AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev
- Comment on If AI spits out stuff it's been trained on 23 hours ago:
which would indicate that it’s somehow needed to generate AI-generated CSAM
This is not strictly true in general. Generative AI is able to produce output that is not in the training data, by learning a broad range of concepts and applying them in novel ways. I can generate an image of a rollerskating astronaut even if there are no rollerskating astronauts in the training data.
It is true that some training sets include CSAM, at least in the past. Back in 2023, researches found a few thousand such images in the LAION-5B dataset (roughly one per million images). 404 Media has an excellent article with details: www.404media.co/laion-datasets-removed-stanford-c…
On learning of this, LAION took down their database until it could properly cleaned. Source: laion.ai/notes/laion-maintenance/
Those images were collected from the public web. LAION took steps to avoid linking to illicit content (details in the link above), but clearly it’s an imperfect system. God only knows what closed companies (OpenAI, Google, etc.) are doing. With open data sets, at least any interested parties can review, verify, and report this stuff. With closed data sets, who knows?
- Comment on How do I realistically get out of the US? 2 days ago:
Sorry, it looks like the real estate option in Portugal is no longer available. :( Now it would take a €500K investment in a local business or €250K in a nonprofit. If you’re that stinkin’ rich, you probably have better options already.
According to globalcitizensolutions.com/real-estate-citizenshi… , Cyprus offers a citizenship path with real estate purchase of €300K. Greece and some other countries do, as well.
- Comment on How do I realistically get out of the US? 3 days ago:
Are you able to spend a lot of money on it? Last I checked, there were a few places in the EU that had a citizenship track if you purchased substantial property. So if you’re in position to buy a nice house, that’s an option. I think Portugal is the most approachable cost-wise. But it’s been a while since I looked at this so I’m sure things have changed.
Several countries will allow extended student visas, even if you only speak English. I think Sweden allows this.
Then of course there’s the easy way: marry a Canadian.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
30 years ago, maybe. Post-Napster, not relevant. Most online piracy is non-commercial now, and it’s still illegal across most of the world.
- Comment on Are jabronis a necessity for a social media platform to be successful? 5 months ago:
- Comment on Is cloudflare breaking the internet or fixing it? 7 months ago:
If you have your day ruined by Cloudflare, I’m going to either assume you run a bot network, you’re trying to do something incorrectly, or you are part of the dark web.
Or you are unfortunate enough to share a subnet with someone who got on Cloudflare’s bad side, in which case there is basically no recourse.
There are a million legitimate reasons to use a VPN, for example, but Cloudflare doesn’t care.
