KokeshFeb 6

Guess who wasn't in the Epstein files...

https://lemmy.world/post/42750055

Show threadsp3ctr4l

… pedobear as a meme does actually significantly predate /pol/.

However…

A thing that a lot of people don’t seem to know is that 4chan exists because m00t / Chris Poole got banned from Something Awful for posting way way way too much hentai, including loli.

4chan exists primarily because m00t grabbed a number of his hentai/loli loving friends from SA, and made his own forum/board, with black jack and hookers.

Feb 6 at 1:30pmWeb
Show threadElaineFeb 6
TIL
Show threadsp3ctr4lFeb 6

I updated my comment with a lot more info.

For the record, I was a stupid kid who primarily wanted to talk about video games … I noped the fuck out pretty hard after I realized how truly deranged most of the people/content on 4chan was.

Show threadsp3ctr4lFeb 6

Sorry to double post but this is potentially relevant:

So, yeah, the FBI maintains a large database of CSAM, for their… CSAM content ID style system.

People who know that that exists have occasionally pointed out that… that is kind of weird, lets just put it that way.

Well, I’ve just had a horrifying realization.

We currently have AI/LLM corpos on the record going to places like AnnasArchive to acquire their vast troves of data to use in training an LLM.

… If somebody hooks up this CSAM database… into an LLM… well, you now basically have a machine that produces CSAM, and likely also gore/torture videos.

… hooray …

Show threadZombiFrancisFeb 6
You may have missed how there’s a massive CSAM problem with AI because the models are all trained on CSAM. “Plausible” is a bit behind the times.
Show threadsp3ctr4lFeb 6

Uh… yes, I apparently did miss that.

… what?

How… did that happen?

Can you link an article or something that substantiates that?

Show threadZombiFrancisFeb 6

pulitzercenter.org/…/how-we-investigated-epidemic…

engadget.com/…/california-is-investigating-grok-o…

There’s a whole media cycle on it from the last few months.

How We Investigated the Epidemic of AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material on the Internet

While major tech companies invest billions and deplete natural resources in a race to build faster, more powerful artificial intelligence systems, a silent epidemic is spreading online: the creation...

Pulitzer Center
Show threadJPAKx4Feb 6

Good news, that’s not how the CSAM database works. What happens is the image is hashed (for non technical people, hashing is a way of always generating the same “ID” from the file data) and the image is discarded. Now the article I found to verify my claim also talks about how the FBI used to distribute CSAM to catch people, so they have some probably… But not a database wide amount.

https://cybernews.com/editorial/war-on-child-exploitation/

Show threadsp3ctr4lFeb 6
Well… I’m going to hope you are more right than wrong and that they do not actually have a massive CSAM database.
Show threadEvil_ShrubberyFeb 6
Fellow meme connoisseur/scholar.
Show threadsp3ctr4lFeb 6

… I would like to think I consider myself retired at this point.

I am in fact, too old for this shit.

Show threadEvil_ShrubberyFeb 6
Fellow meme historian!!
(Or more like eyewitness of the great meme events of 3000 years ago.)
Show threadsp3ctr4lFeb 6

3000 cycles.

Not years.

Its like Tron.

Time moves at a different speed in this place.

Show threadredhorsejacketFeb 6
Recently unfrozen caveman UseNet wizard/admin looking around the modern web:
Show threaddevfuuuFeb 6
At least now everyone can just generate their custom CSAM based in pictures of anyone they now! This world is a joke.