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I thought that Google used a similar dataset, possibly borrowing images from the NCVIP in order to create an analytic rule-set for which to omit images from Google Image Search. (A larger, similar rule-set is used to omit legal pornography when safe-search is on.)

Mind you, this was before the hyperscale AI era, when LLMs were things like SIRI and Google Now. And Google search still focused on websearch hits and not AI summaries.

Fun story: This was an area of study of mine during the early 2010s, since every image search engine would filter porn hits whether or not you had safe-search on or off. If it was turned off, porn would be filtered to the end of the list unless the engine decided you were intentionally looking for porn in which case the porn hits would be shown at the top of the list. There was no way to get results that ignored the ID-as-porn status of the images. I would enter ambiguously risqué terms to see how explicit I needed to be before the engine decided I was looking for porn.

Maybe! Epstein had early designs to essentially manufacture Kompromat by creating a private place for rich men to hook up with young teens. Only he a) got high on his own supply, and b) instead mostly turned to financing and money laundering and so they were more valuable to him as allies than adversaries.

Also, the owner class, when it's sufficiently wealthy, can influence political and justice systems enough to be beyond the law. OJ Simpson wasn't quite there, but he got a good lawyer team to get him acquitted. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, Duke of York, was there, and was only disgraced because his family cares about the appearance of decency.

All the tech bros don't care about appearance of decency. Musk is publicly known to have killed hundreds of thousands by killing USAID, and it won't affect his career.

Billionaires usually start with a specific luck package that includes generational wealth and family connections. Then, a bunch of opportunity being at the right place at the right time.

If you don't have one of the first two then the opportunity has to do a whole lot more heavy lifting. Also, if you have enough generational wealth, then you can fail upwards, as did George W. Bush and Donald J. Trump.

Also plenty of people have the starting gen-wealth/family-connections package but not the luck of opportunity. And they will commonly end up with a solid career, but doesn't move them towards ultra-wealthy status. So millions or even tens of millions rather than hundreds of millions or billions.

And then there's the rare dude like Tom Anderson who made MySpace, sold it for about $500 million and has since spent the rest of his life traveling and going on fun adventures. But he would have been a musician or a philosophy professor if he didn't luck into making MySpace.

This is a periodic reminder. I'm on mobile so I'm copying a previous comment.

Flock Safety is only the tip of the problem.

Some districts are de-Flocking only to install an Axon ALPR network service. Keep fighting until your community outlaws all ALPRs and ALPR lookups are inadmissable in court.

There are other technologies that are already in use and widely abused by law enforcement such as IMSI catchers, geofence warrants and Drones as First Responder. Learn what your district allows and be a civil nuisance untill that shit is blocked.

Judges have long ceased tightly constraining judicial warrants, and most courts accept the good faith exception, so US and state courts cannot be trusted with any overreaching surveillance technology or forensic tools. This includes chromatic field drug tests and detection dogs.

This isn't new. Journalists coming into the US in the aughts would be harassed by CBT and DHS, forced to open and unlock their laptops (and then delete whatever the officers found unsavory.

So they'd come in with their computers fully encrypted and wouldn't have the pass key, themselves, so it was impossible to unlock them. If they were detained unreasonably, that became a new story the next morning.

Once through customs, correspondents would call their office and get the key.

But it sucks if you don't have a whole news agency to back your rights.

Curiously, when I was drafted into jury duty here in California, we were shown a video that said something like The people are society's last line of defense against bad law.

I took it personally, figuring it was my duty to not enforce any law that was unjust or protect any institution that was cruel. But I didn't get selected.

Though this happened with the grand jury, which only needs a majority vote (sometimes a supermajority). It means a lot of people chose to nullify or didn't trust the prosecution to give a fair trial.

The Department of Justice has been doing stuff like that a lot since the Trump administration, to the point that they lost presumption of regularity (the assumption in advance that state actors are being honest and following the rules in good faith). There were so many prosecutions that were clearly directed by the White House and were vindictive persecutions of political enemies that the judges just stopped believing anyone from DoJ.

It didn't help that all the honest prosecutors in DoJ resigned when they were ordered to do something unlawful, resulting in massive brain drain. All the rehires are unskilled if not incompetent, and sometimes they issue legal statements that sound like a Truth Social post.

The anti-piracy efforts of the RIAA and MPAA (and the publishing houses and...) are still pretty robust, but that didn't stop any of the big AI companies from using gigatons of copyrighted material as datasets to train their LLMs. It's why when you ask them to generate an image featuring Winnie The Pooh, they all know what you're talking about.

But the big companies absolutely did not get permission to do this. Nor did anyone give permission to allow for the recent jailbreaks by AI task systems to hack into other companies. If that were any singular human (not of the owner class) they'd face charges under the CFAA. But since it's a massive company with an army of blue-haired lawyers, nothing was done about it, and the companies actually bragged about their AIs escaping containment.

Extinction by AI takeover is far more interesting than extinction by global drought.

Once again Hallowe'en is getting back to its roots.

PS: I wrote a thing in 2024. Sorry, I don't know how to do intra-lemmy links.

It depends on the judge. Click-wrapped ToS, EULAs and privacy policies are a known dark pattern:
They're longer than Shakespearean plays.
They're difficult to read even at a college level.
They're often presented in a tiny window with difficult controls.
They're presented suddenly and mid process, often as part of an already lengthy string of steps. Often the user is eager to just move on.

Some judges have recognized this and do not see click-wrapped contracts as binding, especially when the person clicking them can be a child, or a cat, or a computer glitch.

But then a lot of judges were appointed through a willful organized effort to put pro-business judges on the bench, and will rule in the favor of companies over individuals regardless of the circumstances.