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Cross posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/63080598

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[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

And they say progressive men don't know the difference?

Not just #SAD but #FUCKINGSAD

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Lowkey makes me want to start an ai girl onlyfans. How moral would it be to redistribute some of maga people's resources this way?

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

How moral would it be to redistribute some of maga people’s resources this way?

it depends how moral you think it is to spread harmful propaganda

[–] green_red_black@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 hours ago

Also using Generative AI software. Are you (original commenter) willing to use a tech has a whole load of problems.

[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 103 points 17 hours ago

Original WIRED article that is the basis of this material instead of the tabloid Yahoo News got this from: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-generated-maga-girls/

[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 68 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The AI further provided him with multiple options for content creation to pick from, so he decided to create a hot girl for the “MAGA/conservative niche.” This is because the AI told him that this idea would work. After all, “the conservative audience (especially older men in the US) often has higher disposable income and is more loyal.”

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 63 points 16 hours ago

And is more gullible

[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 28 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

I mean we knew that, AI is both Actually Indians and African Intelligence

[–] bigchungus@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Extremely low paid Africans have been a vital part of the process to creating LLMs. Someone's got to manually sift through the scraped training dataset to make sure that it doesn't contain CSAM or NSFL.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

make sure that it doesn’t contain CSAM or NSFL is correctly labelled

FTFY

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Someone's got to manually sift through the scraped training dataset to make sure that it doesn't contain CSAM or NSFL.

You think most of these companies are bothering to do that? Seriously? Even after the recent Grok CSAM generation stuff?

[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago

yes

Grok and Facebook are Grok and Facebook.

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Given how stupid AI is, this comment can be interpreted as incredibly racist.

[–] emmanuel_car@k.fe.derate.me 13 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Wasn’t there the case of that “AI startup” that was literally just outsourcing to a call centre in India? Literally Actually Indians

[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago

yeah that’s where the term was coined

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago

Good for him. World needs more doctors.