“I have a problem with people spraying perfume around me sometimes, don’t you have a problem with people spraying things into the atmosphere that really have no type of empirical data, that you just don’t know who they are or what they’re doing?” said Sen. Ileana Garcia, R-Coral Gables, the bill’s sponsor, on Thursday morning.

Suddenly no longer a climate change denier.

What’s the follow on effect from making generated images illegal?

Do you want your freedom to be at stake where the question before the Jury is “How old is this image of a person (that doesn’t exist?)”. “Is this fake person TOO child-like?”

When that happens, how do you tell which images are AI generated and which are real? How do you know who is peddling real CP and who isn’t if AI-generated CP is legal?

You won’t be able to tell, we can assume that this is a given.

So the real question is:

Who are you trying to arrest and put in jail and how are you going to write that difference into law so that innocent people are not harmed by the justice system?

To me, the evil people are the ones harming actual children. Trying to blur the line between them and people who generate images is a morally confused position.

There’s a clear distinction between the two groups and that distinction is that one group is harming people.

Child Sexual Abuse Material is abhorrent because children were literally abused to create it.

AI generated content, though disgusting, is not even remotely on the same level.

The moral panic around AI that leads to implying that these things are the same thing is absurd.

Go after the people filming themselves literally gang raping toddlers, not the people typing forbidden words into an image generator.

Don’t dilute the horror of the production CSAM by equating it to fake pictures.

Congress is just letting the Executive Branch complete usurp it’s power because they value party above country.

All my adhesive bandages are band-aids

People have other options, but the easiest option is always going to be to let someone else do it. Their price is, almost always, your private data and a subscription.

Or, you can DIY and self-host. Home Assistant is free and supports many different standards so you can use just about any hardware. It runs on your own hardware and doesn’t report to anyone unless you tell it to. It requires more effort than swiping a credit card and installing an app, however.

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Yes this isn’t limited to billionaires. It protects everyone who owns private jets…

Sick bastard, that seat was only 4 years old.

Exactly, it’s a pretext and the people are immediately removed from the country without due process so they never have a chance to defend themselves

Recording @q

They’re really playing with fire here.

So many MAGA supporters are seniors who are entirely dependent on OASDI. If Trump’s minions break this, we’re going to see torches and pitchforks strapped to electric scooters and golf carts coming out of Florida retirement communities in droves.

TL;DR?

I don’t know who needs to hear this (everyone, apparently) but it isn’t a virtue to make people angry.

Way too many people abandoned any attempt at conversation and immediately move to trying to “own” the other side.

You didn’t win because you pissed someone off, a child can do that.

Lemmy poster angling for a cabinet position:

It’s like a pilot bailing out of a plane and then claiming he was not responsible for the crash because he was in Vegas at the time the plane crashed.

Powerful seems like a pointless adjective here.

It doesn’t take much power to destroy a cable. Did they invent a really long, and powerful, chain with a powerful anchor on it only usable by a boat with powerful electric winch?

Maybe they put AI in it too, for extra power of course

There are hand recounts, audits and many other safeguards already prescribed by laws that have been in place across multiple presidencies both Democrats and Republicans have been in power and none were able to find anything but incredibly rare fraud done by individuals.

You are not alleging anything specific or providing any actual evidence of actual failures in the system on a scale that could have changed the outcome. This is just like in the Big Lie election denialism.

You’re not talking about reality, you’re trying to spread conspiracy and conjecture based on fear, uncertainty and doubt.

You are talking exactly like the people who promoted the Big Lie on the right. You’re trying to poison people against our democratic systems with lies and conspiracy.

It’s bullshit based on no evidence and reliant on people believing a conspiracy. You’re spreading misinformation.

Election denialism without proof is just as dumb now as it was when Trump did it.

Spreading unfounded bullshit is how we got into this mess. It isn’t welcome here.

“It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.”

-Supreme Court, Marbury vs Madison