Please tell me why it’s not a war crime for Hamas (or whoever else) to hold hostages and hide amongst civilians?

Idk what the IDF is supposed to do. Were there any negotiations on the table for their release?

Can’t you see he’s wasting away and his paw is broken?! Poor little guy.

90% of my voice messages to my partner are literally that. The other 10% is about cats I happen to come across.

I feel so represented right now lol

Do you think written an article is the same as sourced? 😂🤣😘😂

A headline from an article I need to pay to read that was sourced by hamas themselves? I’m sold! 🤣

No wonder the whole world doesn’t take you far lefties seriously 😂

True. I say we give back the land to the people that were there first. Egypt and Jordan.

Palestine will reject any treaty. Like they always have. All they want is for Jews to be the minority or to leave entirely.

I’ll leave a few examples of what I mean but growing up in the 90’s, it was cool to be racist against blacks. My family was no exception and it was expected of us to not get along. This wasn’t an isolated incident as the whole world of “pick-me-minorites” (including other black people) was growing. The system made us enemies and with it came a culture of acceptable racism. So it’s no surprise that these older generations still harbored some misguided hatred when the BLM protests/riots happened. My family, as much as I love them, are completely stupid and immature when it comes to racial issues. My own sweet mother is afraid of black people and is oftentimes on the giving end of some wild racist quotes. But her uncle was killed by a black man over a pair of shoes so I guess it’s “justified?” Obviously not.

So it could be a case of underlying racism that pushed them over the edge. The BLM movement was viewed negatively and as “typical behavior and patterns of violence of their kind” even though the overwhelming majority was peaceful. So it pushed the center to the right the right even further.

Anyways, here’s some links to the turmoil - not necessarily a direct link to my original claim but I guess you have to make the connection. The left media won’t (I sound so far-right right now 🤣)

https://www.vox.com/22321234/black-asian-american-tensions-solidarity-history

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooftop_Koreans

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1992/10/blacks-vs-browns/306655/

As a second generation Latino I believe it has to do with assimilation. Most of my family works in construction in some way (including myself) and they’re usually uneducated and easily manipulated. It’s no surprise the right targets blue collar workers and bombards them with anti-social program rhetoric about “your tax dollars being used to fund the lazy” bullshit. Also, and I hate to say this, blacks and Latinos didn’t mix historically. The BLM stuff moved a lot of minorities (Asians and others) away from the left and I’m still embarrassed by it - another example being that Latinos and whites get along in California jails and don’t associate with blacks. Shits fucking retarded.

I can apply one of my favorite quotes to this situation: “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” - LBJ… but instead use brown instead of white 🤣

Alright guys, get your Lemmy Political Retard bingo card out! Let’s see how many we can hit! I already got the system is fucked and are we really reduced to these choices?. Oh! I just got democrats need to pull their head out of their ass!

As a gun enthusiast, get the fuck away from me.

Saw a post saying it’s probably the “hide name” setting being active on launch after the update. Any idea how to disable this without having to manually reconfigure my older settings?

Settings shortcut: Security > Hide username in account picker

Edit: apparently that same post has a work around within lol. Please excuse me, I’m a few drinks deep.

But it highlights the reality - while AI generated content may be considered fairly obvious for now, it won’t be forever. Real CSAM could be mixed in at some point, or, hell, the characters generating it could be feeding it real CSAM to have it recreate it in a manner that makes it harder to detect.

Very true and I would like to look into it further. Being able to disguise real content with an AI label could make things harder for people that detect and report these types of issues.

So what does this mean for hosting providers? We continuously receive reports for a client and each time we have to review it and what, use our best judgement to decide if it’s AI generated? We add the client to a list and ignore CSAM reports for them? We have to tell the government that it’s not “real CSAM” and expect it to end there?

I don’t understand the logic behind this. If it’s your job to analyze and deduce whether certain content is or is not acceptable, why shouldn’t you make assessments on a case by case basis? Even if you remove CSAM from the equation you still have to continuously sift through content and report any and all illegal activities - regardless of its frequency.

No legitimate hosting provider is going to knowingly host CSAM, AI generated or not. We aren’t going to invest legal resources into defending that, nor are we going to jeopardize the mental well-being of our staff by increasing the frequency of those reports.

And it’s the right of any website or hosting provider to not show any content they deem unsuitable for it’s viewers. But this is a non sequitur - illegal activities will never stop and it’s the duty of people like you to help and combat the distribution of such materials. I appreciate all the work people like you do and it’s a job I couldn’t handle. CP exists and will continue to exist. It’s just an ugly truth. I’m just asking a very uncomfortable question that will hopefully result in a very positive answer: can AI generated CP reduce the harm done to children?

Here’s a very interesting article of the potential positive effects of AI generated CP

Btw I appreciate your input in all of this. It means a lot coming from someone actually involved with this sort of thing.

Edit: and to your point, the article ends with a very real warning:

"Of course, using AI-generated images as a form of rehabilitation, alongside existing forms of therapy and treatment, is not the same as allowing its unbridled proliferation on the web.

“There’s a world of difference between the potential use of this content in controlled psychiatric settings versus what we’re describing here, which is just, anybody can access these tools to create anything that they want in any setting,” said Portnoff, from Thorn."

Can I ask why AI generated media is considered CSAM if there are no victims? I don’t like furry porn but it’s not beastiality. I don’t like loli shit but it’s not CP (well technically it is but it’s not real kids is my point). How is it any different?

Is it gross? Obviously, but I’m biased as I don’t like kiddie shit but no one is getting hurt and if it helps reduce sexual abuse cases against kids, why wouldn’t you be in favor of it?

I don’t understand how this is unreasonable. If AI generated CP increased the stats of kids being harmed then I’d be vehemently opposed. I know it’s a touchy subject but you can’t just write it off if it works for the greater good, no?

Funny how just bringing up a solution that, although uncomfortable, reduces the cases of sexual abuse against kids without any victims gets you branded as a pedo.

I just want kids to stop getting abused lol

Did you make that for me?

I’m actually flattered! 😂

No one is butthurt. I have no interest in CP (thank fucking god) but if it means people get their rocks off at home without *hurting any kids then I’m all for it.

What’s interesting is you have a strong disdain for fake porn but no real argument against it other than “heeeyuck kiddy porn bad aaahheeeyuuck”. 😂

Edit: no real arguments and just downvotes? Seems like a typical facts vs feelings argument ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Why’s that? There are no children being hurt.

Super hot and spicy take incoming: AI will be able to make very realistic child porn and we might actually see huge drop in sexual child abuse.

I hate to even type that sentence, btw.