There’s a difference between using a tool as a knowledgeable professional, and using a tool as a novice or a member of the general public: the professional can likely tell when the answer an AI gives is wrong.
AI is a tool that can be useful sometimes.
Controversial opinion: If there is no real child whose likeness is used to produce the image, then there is no real victim. The art that is created is of the same quality as a drawing from imagination.
The other problem with illegalizing content on the basis of whether it’s CSAM is the eternal question of whether an unreal likeness can be said to even have an age. How would you be able to prove with certainty that an AI-generated likeness was below the age of consent? You would think it would be obvious, but there is a huge gray area here. If the protection weren’t fairly strong, I 100% guarantee that conservative Bible-thumpers would take advantage of the opportunity to ban all ai pornographic content, and then move on to real porn after that.
In addition, Banning AI material we might be able to interpret as CSAM does nothing to protect real children. There is no empirical proof that any kind of porn has a real, independent effect on people’s sexual behavior.
Edit with addendum: In addition, civil rights are a matter of principle. It doesn’t matter whether the presence of AI generated material makes the job of policing more difficult. The Bill of Rights was created to try to make sure that we don’t become slaves. Just because something is highly offensive to my own tastes doesn’t mean that the civil rights of the person who offends me disappear.
Fuck no.
So apparently tops aren’t gay?
It’s already the case that banks don’t allow their apps to be used on rooted phones. I can imagine a similar possibility for desktop computers. A dreadful possibility, but a possibility nonetheless.
Practically speaking, people already have cell phones that are impossible to own, because in many cases, users are not allowed to unlock the bootloaders of their phones.
They’d have to. It would be the only way to make the changes uniform across distros. And of course, we could always use the unmodified version.
Me, using 8 bit adders to make my own CPU because everything else is now locked down to all hell
What about distros that don’t use automated account creation (or have optional automation), like Arch for example or Gentoo? The law isn’t made to accommodate those people:
“Provide an accessible interface at account setup that requires an account holder to indicate the birth date, age, or both, of the user of that device for the purpose of providing a signal regarding the user’s age bracket to applications available in a covered application store.”
The odd thing is the wording that it “requires” an account holder to indicate age or DOB. As with anything *nix, there is always a workaround. There is no way to require anything of the user. There’s also no definition for “accessible interface.”
That’s my guess. These people have no clue what they’re doing.
Technically, Linux is not an operating system, just a kernel, so I’m not sure how this would be implemented.
Well you don’t “scan” a book that’s already digital.
The fact that they destroyed the books is the most reprehensible thing to me. They could have resold or donated those books to libraries. Instead, they chose the ugliest and most wasteful thing they could possibly do. Despicable.
Or you could … Delete Windows too. Or only run it in a VM.
I don’t use Windows, except in a VM as absolutely necessary. Problem solved.
Yep. Back to dumb terminals. I’m not having any of it.
So you can spend more time working shit jobs for shit pay. Aren’t you happy? 😊
That would make too much sense.
So, the German police are the Stasi?
I can stand AI as long as the code is reviewed line-by-line by a human. The only problem I have aside from that is that I wonder if code generated by an AI can validly be placed under an open source licence instead of being public domain. Didn’t a court rule that you couldn’t copyright generated code?