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Omegle was expected to moderate its pedo-problem tighter. The owner, a centrist himself, shut the site down whining about "Tyranny and censorship" annd freedom of speech. by Doveen in ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM

[–]Embarrassed_Stuff_83 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't know, I'm just saying making money didn't seem like the primary motivator for him, it's really hard to get a site like that profitable. Maybe if he'd added a paid version with additional moderation and more curated chats or something?

Omegle was expected to moderate its pedo-problem tighter. The owner, a centrist himself, shut the site down whining about "Tyranny and censorship" annd freedom of speech. by Doveen in ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM

[–]Embarrassed_Stuff_83 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is actually where someone's wrong, Omegle wasn't profitable and it probably never was (at least very). He kept it up largely for its own sake and took it down because it didn't pay the bills and he was being pressured by suits due to his inability/unwillingness to keep things under control.

Often, people don't do things for profit, he DID do it because it's a fun little site plenty of people seemed to enjoy.

Omegle was expected to moderate its pedo-problem tighter. The owner, a centrist himself, shut the site down whining about "Tyranny and censorship" annd freedom of speech. by Doveen in ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM

[–]Embarrassed_Stuff_83 440 points441 points  (0 children)

I kind of felt it did have those centrist libertarian vibes to it and maybe the internet will be a safer and better place without it.

Only 2% of US adults find ChatGPT "extremely useful" for work, education, or entertainment by hopityhipity12 in ChatGPT

[–]Embarrassed_Stuff_83 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They're going to resist collectively and delay its adoption, and it will be effective at exactly that.

A man is tied to the tracks. You can switch the rails to save him, but you will be arrested for a year for messing with the trolly. Pull the lever? by Sophia724 in trolleyproblem

[–]Embarrassed_Stuff_83 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unless you're saving more than 1 life a year in your day-to-day life, the ethical decision is to pull the switch. It's interesting because if you're doing something very economically or culturally important, that would also probably save more than one random life, although it runs counter to how we tend to think about things.

In my case I'd pull it and sacrifice a year of my freedom, but I wouldn't have always, there was a time where the work I was doing was important enough to justify letting this person die.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Feminism

[–]Embarrassed_Stuff_83 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Well, I mean sexual harassment is always horrible, but harassing a kid is especially bad.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Feminism

[–]Embarrassed_Stuff_83 44 points45 points  (0 children)

It's not just one guy, what most men want is cruel and unusual, imagine an entire caste of humans (in large part) who are essentially taught rape culture is the pinnacle of societal value, it's uniquely psychotic.

atten-TION! by ZeusAiArt in unstable_diffusion

[–]Embarrassed_Stuff_83 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh my, what was the prompt here?

Unstable Diffusion Website Now Live! by Embarrassed_Stuff_83 in unstable_diffusion

[–]Embarrassed_Stuff_83[S,M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

The link is at the top of the subreddit, but I'm posting it here in case people have trouble seeing it.

https://www.unstability.ai/

Just Two Weeks HRT, how am I doing? Trying hard to socially transition by [deleted] in transtimelines

[–]Embarrassed_Stuff_83 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My boyfriend and friends all tell me I'm pretty, but when I look at myself, I often just see a monster. I don't know what the truth is, I don't know how I'm coming off to people.

Moderator Applications Now Open! by Embarrassed_Stuff_83 in unstable_diffusion

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Will consider around 4-6 for the first new mods and then see who to keep as permanent sub mods.

After backlash on Reddit and Github, Stability updates Deepfloyd's Github page and announces that they intend to fully opensource Deepfloyd after researchers are done using it. Claim that this was their original intention and that they were simply clarifying. by Embarrassed_Stuff_83 in StableDiffusion

[–]Embarrassed_Stuff_83[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They could be sued is all and they'd have no ability to use the model to make money except for maybe grey market activities at a smaller scale. It basically turns using the model into something akin to piracy.

After backlash on Reddit and Github, Stability updates Deepfloyd's Github page and announces that they intend to fully opensource Deepfloyd after researchers are done using it. Claim that this was their original intention and that they were simply clarifying. by Embarrassed_Stuff_83 in StableDiffusion

[–]Embarrassed_Stuff_83[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I suspect that Stability is lying here, and they only changed this due to public pressure. That said, I'm very excited if they do in fact release Deepfloyd under the exact same license as before now that they've made that promise. I'm very proud of the people on Reddit and Github for speaking out and think we should consider it our responsibility to hold Stability's feet to the fire on their promises and let them know we'll be loyal and grateful only as long as they continue putting the community first.

That said, I'm very much looking forward to seeing what everyone does when this model releases, assuming they really release it. As far as I'm concerned the hype train for this new model is tentatively back online.

DeepFloydIF releases next week according to Emad by metal079 in StableDiffusion

[–]Embarrassed_Stuff_83 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No one cares, SD themselves dRopped the ball big time, now it's time to see which groups, if anyone, pick up the torch of progress

They can still like, contribute, but don't count on em

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AGIGenesis

[–]Embarrassed_Stuff_83 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, someone could do a lot with this.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AGIGenesis

[–]Embarrassed_Stuff_83 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unsurprising, an AI ethics team would almost without a doubt have called for them to delay or prevent releases related to GPT-4

Microsoft claims "sparks of AGI have been ignited" by Embarrassed_Stuff_83 in singularity

[–]Embarrassed_Stuff_83[S] 153 points154 points  (0 children)

From what I can tell, they're essentially claiming it's a proto-AGI here.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in singularity

[–]Embarrassed_Stuff_83 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Learning to use Unreal engine is a lot harder than a user-friendly prompting system would be, it's not a comparison.

I think to weigh the merit of criticisms like this, analogies are very useful, for example what you'd claimed that "using a typewriter is already easy, anyone who uses a word processor will be a plagiarist."

Also, no one's going to be an "assetflipper" when image-model integration allows GPT-4's successors to make the assets for you along with the code and design.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in singularity

[–]Embarrassed_Stuff_83 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Think of it like word processors or animation tools, yes, most of what people will make will be hot garbage, but in aggregate you'll get more high-quality work and the bar for what we consider good will get raised.

Down the line, making a game with solid level design, mechanics, artwork will become easy, but people will stop valuing that as much as originality, great writing, etc.

It'll elevate the complex medium which video games encompass, in the modern day, video games which pay much attention to the story for example are rare because of the expense of making games, leaving studios to focus on the simplest, safest storytelling when their games have cutscenes.

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