but I don’t believe authoritarianism is the best way to go about it.

Humor me for a moment, which of the following do you consider authoritarian?

• asking your boss for better wages
• using the power of a union to force your boss to give your coworkers better wages
• using the power of the state to force all bosses to pay all workers better wages

Our election is going to work like Russia’s does

We already have sham elections, ours just pretends to have two democratic parties instead of one.

Tankies are hypocrites who didn’t understand their self-proclaimed ideologies.

Tankies are very frequently the only people in the room who’ve done the reading. If you believe that so called “authoritarian methods” are antithetical to leftism, then I recommend you read the following pamphlet by Engels.

we can’t fix our current situation in one election.

We can never fix the current situation in one election. Fixing the American system, within the parameters set forth by that system, requires a dedicated voting bloc that lasts multiple elections refusing to vote for the Dems until they shift far enough left to appease that bloc. As long as you are focused on the next election, your prescription for fixing American politics is just as unrealistic as a random Twitter tankie declaring a general strike.

It’s an illustrative comment though. Our society teaches us not to view women as predatory, and to always view men as such - so that creates the difference between a woman talking about baby anatomy and a man talking about baby anatomy.

The Democrats will never change how their party runs or what their awful politics are as long as people keep voting for them no matter what. So basically we’re stuck with this genocide-supporting neoliberal bullshit until America finally collapses (inshallah).

the engine’s running and the wheels are attached, these extra bolts probably aren’t important.

Borat sucked and its aged to be even worse.

First time I saw this movie I didn’t get it. On rewatch I liked it, and over the years I feel like I’ve come to appreciate it more and more. Dunno what it is about it, I don’t really enjoy any other movies like it.

I have never even heard of “no iron clothes” until now, and I haven’t ironed any of my clothes except when I absolutely had to do it because I was in the Marines.

Hey now, some of us like to iron patches onto our jackets of things we like!

Why would I want my prompt to be private if I don’t want to use the result in some malicious way

Do you think that the only thing people use AI for is making deepfakes and CSAM? AFAIK the most common use is generating porn. Now, I don’t think generating regular porn is “malicious”, but I certainly understand why most people (self included) want to keep what they generate private.

I’m thinking Saturn is up there at S tier. Those rings are hot.

D tier is Mars. Just stupid ass-rocks.

I suppose you would also be fine with every one of your google searches being in a database? Every video you’ve ever watched, even the ones in private browser tabs?

I like this in principle, but many people have a lot of passwords to remember, and reusing one complex password on all of your accounts is bad opsec, which is why I recommend a password manager.

introducing the AI transparency act, which requires every generative prompt to be registered in a government database

holds up spork

How many times can I say “social context” before you grok it? There’s a difference between a picture taken by a doctor for medical reasons and one taken by a pedo as CSAM. If doctors and parents are being nailed to the cross for totally legitimate images then that strikes me as evidence that the law is too rigid and needs more flexibility, not the other way around.

Who will be the judge?

The same people that should judge every criminal proceeding. Of course it’s not going to be perfect, but this is a case of not letting perfect be the enemy of good. Allowing generated or drawn images of sexualized children to exist has external costs to society in the form of normalizing the concept.

The argument that making generated or drawn CSAM illegal is bad because the feds might plant such images on an activist is incoherent. If you’re worried about that, why not worry that they’ll plant actual CSAM on your computer?

there cannot be developed a scale or spectrum to judge where the fake stops and real starts

Ah, but my definition didn’t at all rely on whether or not the images were “real” or “fake”, did it? An image is not merely an arrangement of pixels in a jpeg, you understand - an image has a social context that tells us what it is and why it was created. It doesn’t matter if there were real actors or not, if it’s an image of a child and it’s being sexualized, it should be considered CSAM.

And yes I understand that that will always be a subjective judgement with a grey area, but not every law needs to have a perfectly defined line where the legal becomes the illegal. A justice system should not be a computer program that simply runs the numbers and delivers an output.