Ask Delphi<...>; no one is actually using it to make decisions.
Are you sure? The Facebook automated systems could be based on it, from behaviour described later in the article...
A man was detained in Japan for selling uncensored pornographic content that he had, in a way, depixelated using machine-learning tools. Masayuki Nakamoto, 43, was said to have made about 11 million yen ($96,000) from peddling over 10,000 processed porn clips, and was formally accused of selling ten hardcore photos for 2,300 …
From a logic point of view if something makes "everyone happy" it got to be good? Which is where logic and language fails.
The idea that everyone could agree anything is very unlikely, so unlikely that it can be called impossible.
Are you sure? The Facebook automated systems could be based on it, from behaviour described later in the article...
I was about to suggest the word "yet" be added to the title... But on second and third thought and involving FB, I'm not so sure that it's not already here.
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As far as can tell, the Japanese don't block the downloading of de-pixelated porn from foreign sites. Nor do they prevent their local stars from flying to the production capital of porn (Southern California), filming some stuff and shipping it back home.
It's just a law left on the books since repressed Protestant missionaries suggested it and now nobody in their Parliament has the nerve to be the one to suggest getting it off the books.
One does wonder why the defendant went to the trouble of using AI to depixelate... as Paul H points out above there is no shortage of porn in which the pixelation never occurred.
Perhaps he was hoping for a defence of 'no, no, it's not a real genital part, look, it was made by a robot!'?
"there is no shortage of porn in which the pixelation never occurred"
Some of the aficionados of the particular genre and fans of specific actors become obsessed with specific scenes. IMO, at that point, it's time to seek help. But then who am I to judge another's peccadillos when I have so .... No! Wait! Forget I said that.
as Paul H points out above there is no shortage of porn in which the pixelation never occurred
There was a TV doctor show where the main character often said he "needed to go home and download porn as the internet keeps getting filled up with it". The guy was doing his part it seems.
Obviously, Ask Delphi isn’t bad or good per se, it just doesn’t know what it’s talking about. It doesn’t understand what genocide is. Words mean nothing to the software; they’re just numerical concepts stored as vectors. What is interesting is that the experiment shows how easy it is to manipulate the outputs of these models by tweaking the inputs.
All this applies to humans too. I'm not up to date but for decades polls showed most Britons support the reintroduction of the death penalty especially after a heinous crime highlighted in the media.
Politicians, to their credit, have ignored that 'democratic' opinion. A flaw in democracy is how easy it is to manipulate public opinion on any issue by controlling the inputs - Daily Mail, Sun, Daily Express et al - then informed argument is just mob mentality mind controlled by an oligarchical elite.
In case anyone supports the death penalty then I briefly did prisoner support and the petty injustices surprised me. One example though was an admitted murderer who'd served his thirty year tariff, but was still being held for political reasons. Still is. He said to me he'd have preferred execution than being held indefinitely for no good reason.
We need better, less hacked, inputs ie journalism and protection for journalism.
This shows the danger of single issue polling. For years it was clear that (a) most Britons would prefer that we left the EU but (b) didn't really care whether we did or not. As a result, EU membership didn't influence election results to any significant extent ... except European Parliament ones, they didn't matter. But when in/out was presented as a standalone choice, the preference became clear and our economy was screwed.
Of course it's arguable that the public desire to leave should have been heeded long before, but since nobody cared much about it it's also arguable that it was fine to leave things as they were.
However, now that the right have the taste for blood, what new single issue might they bring in front of us? Restoration of the death penalty, a complete ban on abortion, an end to equal marriage and a return to workhouses would probably all get majority support.
Hi Ian,
However, now that the right have the taste for blood, what new single issue might they bring in front of us? Restoration of the death penalty, a complete ban on abortion, an end to equal marriage and a return to workhouses would probably all get majority support.
The right have been growing in the UK since the late nineties. It's been scary and ignored for too long, but you are correct to try to identify issues that they play on.
I feel abortion and equal marriage are done deals in the UK, I feel the vast tide of public opinion will not be swayed on these in the next thirty years.
They no longer talk about the death penalty except after the worst of murders, and that is arguable. It's more of a cost issue, paying to keep people alive in horrendous conditions or just executing a few innocents.
Workhouses? They've been here for decades. I was twice made to attend 'The New Deal', Blair's day prison for poor people when I was homeless. Must've cost thousands for nothing. What would have helped me was a postal address.
You didn't list it but the right's main recruiting issue remains immigration. That label covers a variety of sins, and to dismiss all concerns as racism is misguided and self-defeating. You need to engage with it, argue it.
... but I was taught drawing and painting as a young student ... starting work with nudes. The process was to draw the nude and then cloth it in the painting so that the image was structured well and natural - and then I studied human biomechanics later, learning how people move and a huge variety of bodies - as a result people's clothes are irrelevant to me, I know how everyone looks naked when we are all walking in the street.
I'm posting anonymously because these days this is seen as "bad" but the result for me is that I have a complete lack of interest in pornography - nudity means virtually nothing to me, it just meant hard work as a student painting the clothes over the nudes most of the time. In my mind everyone is naked under their clothes as a result.
LOL, I was on Sand Key Beach in Florida back in the days when you had a walk about a mile up a path to get there and it was always full of naked people. After a few hours on the beach the coast guard showed up just off shore and everyone covered themselves up with towels or put their cloths back on ... the coast guard got on the horn and told us that we were committing a crime because we were all naked underneath our towels so everyone ran off - there was no way the coast guard could get ashore to do anything because the water was too shallow. About half the people showed back again when the coast guard took off to check on another beach.