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K.C. Budd

@phreakmonkey@infosec.exchange

141 Followers

156 Following

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Hacking, microcontollers, infosec, airplanes, skis, rollerblades, schnauzers. 🏳️‍🌈

South Lake Tahoe

Website

https://wiki.solace.net/

K.C. Budd 10h ago

FYI - Microsoft's revenue and profitability for the last five years has continued to go *up.* I feel like this is important context.

K.C. Budd 1d ago

Scott Wilson 1d ago

If you have to use #GenAI (and I don’t advise it), at least use https://duck.ai to help keep your “conversations” anonymous.

https://bgr.com/tech/which-ai-protects-your-privacy-the-best-chatgpt-gemini-or-something-else/

DuckDuckGo AI Chat at DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.

K.C. Budd 2d ago

Dr. Amy, Psy.D.2d ago

Watching one of those “extreme houses” type shows and they’re describing how they built this house and used the phrase “the concrete was allowed to harden”

At the risk of being pedantic, that concrete will harden with or without your consent

K.C. Budd 2d ago

Low-key lost it when I noticed the main image on the Wikipedia page for business casual attire is just an edit of the nude figures from the Pioneer plaque

K.C. Budd 2d ago

ACARS Drama 2d ago

ACARS Message From: N824AW / AA0973

Message: I JUST TOLD PAX WE ARE GOING TO LGA.. I REALLY DONT WANT TO DISSAPOINT THEM AGAIN..

Area: Windsor, ON, Canada

#acars #vdlm2 #N824AW #AA0973

K.C. Budd 4d ago

Is that the main culprit?

K.C. Budd 4d ago

FOUND THE LEAK. it's these vertical seat jets. Finally!

K.C. Budd 4d ago

If I get hantavirus and die from trying to fix this twenty year old hot tub mess, know that I said "it wasn't worth it." 🙃

K.C. Budd 4d ago

Stop That 6d ago

I want this button E V E R Y W H E R E.

K.C. Budd 4d ago

datarama 4d ago

@eniko Whenever I notice an AI-generated image, I experience a deep, visceral, skin-crawling sense of revulsion. I've tried using an image generator once (to see how it handled "curveballs" on the form of "horse riding an astronaut", "lily pad resting on frog", etc.) and I never ever want to touch one again in my life.

I say this as someone who's not really an artist and who's probably pretty much exactly the target audience for AI image generation services.

There are almost certainly some that snuck by my AI-sense, but so many have that eerie sheen, the teal-and-amber colour tones, the weirdly inconsistent line widths, the nonsensical details, etc. When I see it in games on Steam or Itch I immediately move on, and when I see it on eg. book covers in the real world I get unreasonably disgusted.

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Stop That 6d ago

I want this button E V E R Y W H E R E.

Ariaflame 6d ago

@stopthatgirl7 Or at least exclude LLM.

Mistake not ...6d ago

@stopthatgirl7 THOU SHALT NOT CREATE A MACHINE IN THE IMAGE OF A HUMAN MIND. #BulerianJihad

ShadeRunner 6d ago

@stopthatgirl7 I'm already tired of exploring +100 newly baked AI pictures on the web, especially on my favourite Pinterest.

@stopthatgirl7 Enabled by default, of course!

Fabian Transchel 6d ago

@stopthatgirl7 Why do we need to have opt-out where *clearly* the best course of action is *not* to put in AI into things where it doesn't make sense.

Beige CatsWhoCode 4d ago

@ftranschel I'm sure you know the answer to this, but yeah!

it's not unlike the "internet of things" that was trending in the 2010s. That never really went away 😱 @stopthatgirl7

Twobiscuits🚴‍♂️

@stopthatgirl7 That should just be in the startup of every device!

@stopthatgirl7 this is one of the reasons why I will probably leave mastodon.social for another instance.

One of the core values of the fediverse should be the prohibition of any form of AI. Every server should adhere to this.

ïng Frank THM van den Heuvel 6d ago

@stopthatgirl7 When you have been using AI for your work in writing or coding, just cancel your job interview with us.

Harry Omvlee 6d ago

I don´t want that button.
I want it to be #default!

@stopthatgirl7 You would also have to count on the fact that things are properly tagged made by AI, which people will go to lengths to try hide that fact.

F4GRX SÃ©bastien 6d ago

@stopthatgirl7 yes but honestly when you dare to create slop, do you really want to tag your slop as slop?

Also what I would like instead is an unchecked-by-default "include AI" button.

Benoît B.6d ago

I want to NOT NEED this button, because AI should be nowhere…

🐦‍⬛6d ago

@stopthatgirl7 the irony is that they'd employ an AI that would determine if a post was AI or AI generated in order to exclude it, and lolllll

Dźwiedziu 6d ago

@stopthatgirl7
And you want that button on by default.

No “maybe later” rapist mentality bullshit.

Jo with elbows up & chin up 6d ago

@stopthatgirl7 even sites that have it, like formerly respected stock image sites, selecting to exclude AI doesn’t actually work & large portion of AI gets through and treated as if it’s photography or original art they have rights to offer with a fee…but bc it’s AI, rights cannot be granted as its built on the work of others who actually have the copyright. So they are committing fraud when they grant rights on AI images they haven’t bothered to check if legit.

Matt Hall 6d ago

What if... And hear me out...

What if companies just stopped putting bullshit "AI" in everything then we don't have to opt out of it's absolute-waste-of-our-time and it's desire to eat the f'ing planet?

What about that?

@stopthatgirl7 should be required by law. yesterday.

@stopthatgirl7 which way must that button be flipped to exclude AI though?

ferricoxide 6d ago

@stopthatgirl7 Or at least add a "because of AI slop" option to every site's, account-closure, "we're sad to see you go, could you share why you're leaving" workflow.

@stopthatgirl7 And it should be set to on by default. All 0.01 people who want LLMs pretending to be "AI" turned on should have to manually turn it on.

Kees N ✅6d ago

@stopthatgirl7
@EUCommission
Looks like a nice initiative the EU should follow, although I would prefer a switch "Use AI", which is default OFF, congruent to other EU regulations, that prescribe "Opt-in". It's late, so please hurry.
Motives:
- Waste of energy and scarce resources
- Illegal use of copyrighted content to train LLMs
- Lack of reliability of #LLM results
- dumbing down the population by use of LLMs

🧿🪬🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸6d ago

@stopthatgirl7 if you see AI images on Pinterest it's because you have previously clicked on AI images.

Stop That 5d ago

@schizanon @stopthatgirl7

@stopthatgirl7 Not only should the button be everywhere, it should fucking WORK, not just be a sop without any effect. (Because I know it will be used like that. Like the "don't keep me informed" checkboxes that nevertheless cause a lot of unwanted messages.)

Big George 4d ago

@stopthatgirl7 can we have systems that would actually honor that setting....

Stoneface Vimes 4d ago

@stopthatgirl7 yes. Me too.

Stoneface Vimes 4d ago

@stopthatgirl7 in fact I want exclude to be the default setting and if you should happen to want AI (why on earth?) you have to search your settings and opt in. With the "are you sure" dialogue box.

eri, kittywife 4d ago

@stopthatgirl7 and it better be checked by default at that...

Electropict 4d ago

No. 😜

Or at least, you can take the function up (and people are commenting) but please let's not use THAT or any other virtual controls which don't clearly indicate their status, and I don't mean by changing colour. Labels or clearly visually distinct glyphs with suitable alt descriptions. ✅ and ❌ are standard.

#accessibility #webDesign

If I want to use AI, I want to explicitly and dedicatedly start the AI page / App. I do not like all those AI functions spreading virus like into almost every App.

This is similar to my car. Why would I want - under normal circumstances - my car engine run all day (no, I do not live in Jakutsk).