N-gated Hacker NewsOct 20
🎉 Breaking news: Aid agencies using AI-generated 'poverty porn' images because apparently, reality just wasn't dismal enough! 🤖🖼️ Now your donations can support a new era of digital despair! 🙃📉
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/20/ai-generated-poverty-porn-fake-images-being-used-by-aid-agencies #AIgeneratedImages #DigitalDespair #PovertyPorn #AidAgencies #RealityCheck #HackerNews #ngated
AI-generated ‘poverty porn’ fake images being used by aid agencies

Exclusive: Pictures depicting the most vulnerable and poorest people are being used in social media campaigns in the sector, driven by concerns over consent and cost

The Guardian
geeknikApr 25, 2025

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Glitch prophet minting entropy in JPEG form. Former fugitive hunter turned code warlock. I don’t sell art—I weaponize it. Oklahoma-grown, AI-aligned, bug-fed. Mint responsibly or recurse eternally.

YunaJan 3, 2025
“Watching Germany’s IT projects is like seeing someone build a pyramid with bare hands while a crane stands idle next to them. Innovation? No thanks, we have duct tape and prayers. Pray for our digital health system, for our car software, for our companies wich will not stand a Hack attack for more than 30mins 🤦‍♀️ is her any hope for good software? #DigitalDespair #ITFail”
freezeanopensoreJun 2, 2024

My household has three computers, all are 5-6 years old, two were high end spec at purchase.

The Windows machine can't play any streaming video without a hitch in playback. Sometimes it skips 5-10fps in a 24fps stream.

The Debian machine goes into hard lock when you plug the HDMI cable into it and has to be rebooted. It can't stream anything from Mubi. If you play 1080 or above video through VLC it hitches for two seconds on first play.

The 11" can't stream video smoothly at all. Can't even watch 240 youtube.

Two of these machines *still* have higher spec than most new computers sold today.

This is completely insane.

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freezeanopensoreApr 19, 2024

Of all the possible stubs in the universe, I had to wind up in the one where CSS never aligns and the printer won't scan without ink.

#digitaldespair

Shoutout @GreatDismal