Halls Cough Drops

Made of toxic slime

[horror-n-m3tal]

Behind The Scenes: Hellraiser 1987.

[cyberglittter]

being a woman is fucking exhausting. everything is created to disgrace our lives. this is horrifying.

[vague-humanoid]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/20/deep-fake-nudes/

A Powerful New Deepfake Tool Has Digitally Undressed Thousands Of Women

The AI-generated nudes, which look horrifyingly realistic, are sweeping the web.

The website promises to make “men’s dreams come true.” Users upload a photo of a fully clothed woman of their choice, and in seconds, the site undresses them for free. With that one feature, it has exploded into one of the most popular “deepfake” tools ever created.

Far more advanced than the now-defunct “DeepNude” app that went viral in 2019, this new site has amassed more than 38 million hits since the start of this year, and has become an open secret in misogynist corners of the web. (HuffPost is not naming the site in order to avoid directing further traffic to it.) It went offline briefly Monday after HuffPost reached out to its original web host provider, IP Volume Inc., which quickly terminated its hosting services. But the site was back up less than a day later with a new host — as is often the case with abusive websites.

[el-shab-hussein]

"Hany Farid, a computer scientist at UC-Berkeley who specializes in digital-image forensics and was not involved in the original pix2pix research, said the fake-nude system also highlights how the male homogeneity of AI research has often left women to deal with its darker side.

AI researchers, he said, have long embraced a naive techno-utopian worldview that is hard to justify anymore, by openly publishing unregulated tools without considering how they could be misused in the real world.

“It’s just another way people have found to weaponize technology against women. Once this stuff gets online, that’s it. Every potential boyfriend or girlfriend, your employer, your family, may end up seeing it,” Farid said. “It’s awful, and women are getting the brunt of it.

“Would a lab not dominated by men have been so cavalier and so careless about the risks?” he added. “Would [AI researchers] be so cavalier if that bad [stuff] was happening to them, as opposed to some woman down the street?”"

[flagellant]

"AI researchers, he said, have long embraced a naive techno-utopian worldview that is hard to justify anymore, by openly publishing unregulated tools without considering how they could be misused in the real world."

[astralikacastle]

I don't wanna tell you this is Not deeply wrong. It's deeply wrong.

I just, people have been photoshopping celebrities manually onto nudes and writing porn about random real life people for a good long while now. This isn't new, it's just making it near-effortless on the part of any bad actor individual.

[flagellant]

That's an important part of the anti-AI movement, actually, so genuinely thanks for bringing it up!

Because you're right! I've seen a lot of people defend AI against criticism of stuff like the use of deepfakes because "We've been creating misinformation since the days of film!". They say that yes, misinfo is bad, but it's important to remember that we've been doing the stuff that AI is currently able to do for decades and longer. It's a new tool in the toolbox, as it were, but the base situation isn't changed: You need to fact check, cite sources, and remember that people and governments lie on the internet.

The problem with this argument being something which negates anti-AI criticism is that it doesn't take into account a very important factor:

Ease of use.

Sure, we've been doctoring photos since film and darkrooms were still a thing. We've been photoshopping celebrity faces onto naked bodies since we've had photoshop. Revenge porn exists, and revenge fake porn does too! There's altered photos of women hugging cops that never needed DALL-E's existence to happen. All of this is true.

But before AI as it is now, you had to actually be really good at doctoring images to be able to spread convincing misinformation. Bad and mediocre Photoshop jobs are extremely easy to notice, and many of the common ways you hide bad Photoshop jobs are also known and when they're used, the image is treated with suspicion. Artifacting, artificial blur, and low pixel count/low quality images have been God's gift to cryptids since we first saw Bigfoot walking that way. In recent years we've even gotten to be creative and combine that with 3d animation to create videos of that sort of thing! Neat!

Now all I need to do to create and spread extremely convincing misinformation is type into Stable Diffusion "Vladimir Putin and Bernie Sanders shaking hands". Now all I need to do to make porn of literally any woman to every exist on the Internet is to use the new model talked about in the journal report. I don't need to spend hours working on a single image (nor the months and years to learn to do so well and efficiently). I can generate dozens and dozens in a couple hours, all just by clicking a button or two, writing an alt-text for a image that never existed, or uploading a photo or two.

The problem right now with AI-ethics isn't that people are able to plagiarize and steal from artists nor that people are able to design misinformation via doctored images.

The problem right now is "Now everyone can do it extremely quickly with zero effort and nearly no oversight legal or otherwise to stop them if they want".

[prolifeproliberty]

To add on to this - the extremely low barrier to entry created by these AI programs means more people will be tempted to “just try it out once”

Before, doing something like this meant spending hours finding just the right photos and doing detailed work in photoshop. There was a time commitment and a level of skill required, which meant only the truly obsessed would do it.

Tools like this mean that any 13-year-old boy who just started to have Feelings About Girls can take a picture of his classmate (or pull one from her Instagram) and upload it to the tool and create one of these images - then share it to his friends - in a matter of minutes.

(One more reason for parents to keep a very close eye on their children’s technology use)

This isn’t just about celebrities and influencers. This is going to impact adolescents, including those who have made every effort to be careful about what they post online.

Imagine a middle school girl who takes all the warnings about social media seriously. She has a private Instagram that only her friends can see, and she just posts pictures of herself and her friends doing normal fun teen things.

Then one of her classmates decides he has a crush on her and doesn’t have the adult guidance in his life to process those feelings in an appropriate way. He hears about this tool and decides to “just try it out.” Maybe he starts with a celebrity - what’s the harm, she’s practically naked in this red carpet photo anyway. He’s impressed, and he shares the image and the tool with his friends. One of them which knows about his crush encourages him to try it with a picture of the girl he likes. He does. Again, what’s the harm? What she doesn’t know won’t hurt her, right?

The tool works, and he now has an image that shouldn’t ever have existed. An image that girl never took, and certainly never posted. An image she and her parents would be horrified to find out about.

And he shares it with his friends. After all, he wants them to think he’s cool. They laugh, they share it with their friends, and suddenly it escapes containment and gets posted, shared, edited, and memed.

The girl will never escape that photo. The boy will realize too late what he’s done, and that he’s ruined any opportunity to build a real relationship with the girl he liked. Other girls will want nothing to do with him. He may face consequences, but the ones that will impact him the most are the social ones.

The worst part? There’s no way to put this genie back in the bottle. Pass all the government regulations you want - if AI exists, this does too.

So what do you do? The girl who thought she could have a private Instagram now knows she can’t post anything online at all, even with privacy measures in place. Her parents may contact the school and put her on the no-photo list. Even a photo of her playing volleyball in the yearbook could be misused.

My hope here is that we are reaching a point where more and more people will see just how dangerous all of this can be, and we’ll see more and more people choose to “unplug.” I especially hope to see more parents choose to keep their kids off the internet and social media longer, and to not allow their kids to have private access to personal devices (ie no phones in the bedroom).

It might be time to bring back Polaroids and physical photo albums.

[booksieblogs]

Gender euphoria: “what’s up T?”

GAHHHH AHHH GAHHH

Frothing at the mouth

[illyanarasputinfan]

Dietrich O. Smith

[the-watcher-in-the-sky]

[booksieblogs]

Literally my best friend

[deseos-de-la-via-lactea]

[clownsuu]

Frank just like me fr fr pt 2 electric boogaloo

I probably shouldn’t be celebrating absolutely torturing and inflicting psychological horror to my poor sweet worm man, but my golly advanced cuteness aggression is real-

also I really enjoy drawing disheveled frank, it’s gotta be one of my favorite genders out there fr fr

[booksieblogs]

With all the mommy issues angst weirdly especially on TikTok I’d like to submit a new trope “awesome amazing stepmom who is the coolest”

[booksieblogs]

Straight up. Next gen killing Tasha yar when/how they did, one of the worst things they did. (I know it had to do with the actor too it’s just frustrating)

Her hologram she created before death talking about how she hopes she meets death “with eyes wide open” and doing what she loves.

She was killed by a blob and had like no character arc resolutions.

GAHHHHHH

[booksieblogs]

I’ve felt my entire life I’m too much. And I can never tell if I am too much or if I’m just dealing with less then

[booksieblogs]

Watching next gen with my partner and we’ve finally seen enough episodes for them to like data as much as I do. Yes yes yes he DOES have the autrizzim!

[booksieblogs]

I don’t realize I’m hungry until I’m way too hungry to cook or do anything about it and then I’m nauseous and everything sounds gross and like it’ll make me ill

[booksieblogs]

Should I live react watching teen wolf for the first time ever (in the year of our lord 2023) on my tumblr??

[booksieblogs]

I’m so so glad I get to be an eldest sibling/ cousin.

Because when I notice pride flags or stuff, I know what it means and I can get them gifts like pins or subtle flag shirts and tapestries.

It’s important I think to show them that someone sees them and cares and loves them as they are.

[booksieblogs]

I was talking to someone and I was like oh it’s almost my cousins birthday I forgot his is close to so and so’.

I got a “you mean her” no. I don’t. Bro had on a he him pronoun pin literally today I guarantee you I mean he. 😵‍💫They were like “well maybe that’s not what it means” what else would it mean??

[nothorses]

Found this in the comments of Shaun's latest video on Andrew Tate, in which he talks pretty extensively about how important it is for men to find ways to be confident in their genders without trying to adhere to, or enforce, anyone else's ideas of manhood on anyone.

Highly recommend checking it out.

Anyway. I rarely see folks talk about the positive impact transmascs have on manhood as a whole, and I think it's important to acknowledge and celebrate that.