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In fairness, Ars hasn't made that dumb take lately (and they questioned a few stupid bills), however, that was a disappointing (and harmful) event.

Request for research: I remember there was a study which had an association between anime porn and lower levels of bigotry.

Does anyone have it on hand?

Hehe, there was discourse back in 2021 about chat bots being therapeutically useful, when they're not puritanical (and you're free to engage them with taboos).

But, being able to express yourself how you see fit to is also important.

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Für den #Fotomontag habe ich keine Kosten und Mühen gescheut und bin gestern mal kurz nach Sapporo geflogen!

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For #PhotoMonday I spared no expense and effort and flew to Sapporo yesterday!

#photography #manga

@BenjaminHan @thegradient When a post is deleted, the replies attached to it become orphaned (and continue to exist).

One thing to consider is hindsight bias. Something feels more predictable after the fact, even if it really wasn't.

But, also, a bystander might lack important information which is needed to make a particular determination.

Also, plain old human error.

Pointing fingers over the Internet isn't really a good idea.

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With , my main concern lies in things like predictive policing, facial recognition, hiring algorithms, landlord tenant algorithms, tax collection algorithms (yes, these have gone horribly wrong), moderation algorithms, and so on.

These sorts of algorithms where power is imposed by a powerful party onto a more vulnerable party (and which are inherently discriminative).

I'm not really concerned about generative "AI" (which is really a hyped up threat in a number of ways, it's up to someone to be responsible).

What's particularly frustrating, I think, is that there are all these problems in how someone might apply AI.

But, then, you get some shallow take like "more white people than black people might appear with a very specific search term".

Or "it might generate something offensive".

And then, these actual problems get ignored.

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Ars. Stop virtue signalling.

You hired a child rapist (he was arrested in a sting when going out to meet a "ten year old" for sex) who spent years talking on social media about how kids can "consent".

1) That is free expression (not what you pretend it to be), and it had positive therapeutic implications. IF you bothered to spend five minutes looking into it.

2) OpenAI appears to censor all sexual content. Shut up, shut up, shut up.

Drop it. Resign. Stop talking.

School Live! / Gakkou Gurashi / がっこうぐらし! An about cute girls, although there is a twist. I'll let you figure that one out.

By the way, one of the genres is horror.

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@olives I think the whole IoT business model is extracting data from customers. That is why the security is so bad. It costs the manufacturers money with no return. If the business model depended on making quality products, they would invest in security.

I was always confused by Internet enabled refrigerators. "Why would I want to buy one?" It made no sense.

When I switched to "Why would someone want to sell me one?" It suddenly made sense to me.

Same thing for IoT toys.

@rrb Strangers, no. Maybe, a parent might want to communicate?

But then, it'd be better to just do it through a normal computer or something. I'm not really seeing the value here.

@rrb It's usually a "What on earth are you doing" when you learn how it works.

Oftentimes, it's completely superfluous to whatever the toy does and it creates security risks for no real good reason.

A general purpose computer usually has a better level of security, at the very least, it's not going to be likely to be so open to the Internet.

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As someone who has a fair bit of knowledge about security, I'm asking you to please, please don't buy internet-connected children's toys.

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youtube.com/watch?v=UNjHxhljAc Looks cute but is it as cute under the surface...?

youtube.com/watch?v=uNUg4ZziL9 Cram School Live Parody. This is absolutely hilarious.

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Two more K-ON! season 2 episodes done. Azusa and Yui playing together was cute, but seeing Sawako finally break character was - amazing. #anime #k_on

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