Before last month, lemmy was very very small and comparatively inactive. Lemmy admins are hobbyists who run the server in their spare time, most did/do not want to deal with pornographic content on their server as with it come a lot of potental moderational and legal challanges.
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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It would be nice if all NSFW was annexed to their own instance and left out of generally populated ones. There’s no need for it to be side-by-side with generalized content.
You seem to not grasp how this federation thing works. All servers which are not actively blocking the NSFW instance will see it as well.
Funny thing is that AI tech is turning NSFW into one of the best starting points and introductions to the subject. I'm all for separating it, but the separation turns out to have its own complexities. After messing with some of the tools, a large chunk of NSFW is from Stable Diffusion. There are certain aspects that are hard to generate and only really apparent with some practice writing prompts. It is far easier to quantify the types of issues that arise from bad prompts using a human body where we are much better equip to detect very subtle mistakes at a glace once we know where to look. It is an easy path into using SD for other endeavors. Admittedly, it ruins a bit of the primal appeal, and totally flips the subject where you're then browsing looking for clever prompting. Funny thing is, the like count often correlates with prompt cleverness rather than output. It is the primary driver of engagement.
No idea what you’re talking about. It’s just picture of naked people. It needs to be in its own place.
i agree, that comment reads like a fever dream. i have no idea what theyre talking about at all.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_Diffusion
This has the most basic guide to what is happening if you wish to crawl out from under that rock. It includes a built in SFW text to image prompt:
https://stable-diffusion-art.com/beginners-guide/
All one has to do is look at the NSFW images marked as being from AI and note the watermark to find where to generate images. Once you make a few, you'll see small problems that are present in many other image categories. The main issues have to do with excluding certain prompt key words to make the output look real, then stuff like genitalia is not easy to get dialed in well unless you are running the software on your own hardware. This requires a powerful video card to generate the images and a lot of storage space. Once you know this a lot of images become obviously AI generated. There are aspects of lighting, eyes, fingers and toes, easy lighting text prompts and other small details that are harder to avoid in the image output. These start to stand out more once you know.
This tech is moving very fast right now. The next iteration of Stable Diffusion is set to release this month and it will likely make it impossible to tell what is real and what is fake. Right now SD must start with a low res image, then it can be scaled higher. SDXL will be able to start with a high res image and modify details which has not been possible. With a bit of effort, it will be possible to modify video frame by frame and use a simple text prompt to alter details. I doubt people will do more than clips at first, but with some good scripting using Blender, I could see it working for larger projects.
Follow the second posted link. And read it. This is FOSS. Combine this with an open source text to text LLVM running on native hardware and you have a real game changing set of technology.
https://generativeai.pub/how-to-setup-and-run-privategpt-a-step-by-step-guide-ab6a1544803e
No one understands how your ramblings are relevant to the OP or even the comment you originally replied to is the thing
A little less than half do understand based on votes alone. This is like talking about the wonders of the internet future as a programmer in a post office in the early 90's. This is a big deal, but most people can't intuitively connect the dots like others. Text to image AI will be extremely disruptive in coming years. Stable Diffusion is too new for most people to have heard about passively. This is the bleeding edge of publicly available tech. This technology will impact the digital lives of everyone. Follow the links provided or learn the hard way. I've told you about the internet when you can't see past a world of postage stamps and newspaper classified ads. Humans are primarily visual. The implications of text generated imagery using AI that is indistinguishable from the real thing is here now. This could greatly enrich, alter, influence, or degrade lives. The next version of Stable Diffusion will be out this month. It is the real game changer because it can be used to realistically edit high resolution images. The output can be perfect, beyond anything you will be able to detect. Think about what all of this means for politics specifically. The broader implications for LLVM's applied to political strategy are even worse. This should be blatantly obvious, and at the very least, you should know not to trust images at surface value no matter how real they look. Not just Photoshop editing "not real," I mean everything about the people, places, actions, and content can be faked now.
They are talking about NSFW images in the fediverse. How does that correlate with AI-generated NSFW images?
Originally, I mentioned how there is more complexity in the NSFW AI space than just the imagery, and that it is actually an interesting tool and introduction to the text to image AI. The mods and users in that space are more positive and supportive than average too.
My main interest in text2img/Stable Diffusion is as a product design tool in Blender. I was hesitant to upgrade a workstation to try out SD, but the NSFW stuff was novel enough give it a try using an internet hosted AI instance. Previously, I tried publicly hosted AI text prompts for product design images, but I didn't think I would be able to make it work for me. Now I have a much better understanding of the tool and how it works. I don't regularly visit NSFW stuff, but an article on Stable Diffusion mentioned how it is easier to learn by starting with generating images of humans because we have an innate ability to identify subtle detail in faces and bodies. And hey, if I'm going to try, why not be a connoisseur.
Like I said, I'm all for keeping NSFW separate. It is just worth mentioning that the prudish stigma attached to anything related to human sexuality, and writing it off as as useless vice is not very intelligent. There is a crossover with useful utility found within this space. I didn't expect to discover this myself based on my prior assumptions and cultural stigma. I wanted to make mention that this exists if others are interested and looking deeper into the NSFW subject/coexistence situation on Lemmy via this post.
"crawl out from under that rock" ya nah im good ill stay right here
Clean up on aisle 5, someone threw up a thesaurus over here
Most (all?) Lemmy instances are hosted by individuals doing it for personal interest. I assume many admins don't want the legal liability of random users possibly posting illegal NSFW material.
I think it's partly a demographic thing, too. lemmynsfw.com came into existence with the initial Reddit exodus, as did most Lemmy instances. Lemmy was apparently a pretty quiet place until three weeks ago.
Lol yeah this place was nuts before the exodus. It was mostly marxists simping for Mao and Stalin and you'd regularly find 2yo posts at the top. Couldn't convince anyone else to join either because they'd go check it out, see people claiming that the holodomor, tienanmen square, and the armenian genocide never happened, and support for "the Z warriors" who are "fighting ukranian nazis and western imperialism," and understandably they'd nope right the fuck out.
I'm so fucking glad all of you came to this platform to make it usable. Seriously, thank each and every one of you.
A 2-year user! You are a rare one indeed.
Old man time
Weeellll I just migrated here from lemmy.ml but that acct is probably 2y old by now. There's graybeards here older than me that I still bump into every so often too! Back then it was so slow the most populated communities (well, I avoided the communist ones, so the most popular "normal" ones like c/linux or c/memes) had like 30 users a month, most communities like c/books had much less. One single dude posted almost all of the stuff in c/worldnews and a few other communities lol. Shit was kinda wild, but I'm definitely glad for the reddit exodus bringing new life in! You dern kids stay on my lawn!
That last sentence made me laugh, thanks :)
This must play a huge role. Given how Lemmy works, illegal content is actively being hosted on your server, that's a huge risk, surely. I wouldn't touch hosting porn on any server I owned or administered with a ten foot pole.
Plus, all it takes is some moron posting a picture of an underage girl. If you don't catch and remove it quick enough, boom, you're hosting CP and in a world of trouble. Not worth the liability.
If you don’t catch and remove it quick enough
Not reporting it can get you a pretty hefty fine. And even if you do report it there are specific challenges regarding storing the evidence and what data you must collect and it's all a gigantic mess.
The fact that there is even one instance that are willing to go through all this is more than I expected.
This nobody wants to have to deal with the possibility of legal issues of hosting child porn because some creepy person posts it to there site nothing stoping a porn company from hosting there own instance and then they can charge people for it
https://the-federation.info/platform/73
Yeah -- some of the most popular instance graphs are like a whole month old haha.
I think that's a good thing. Different topics have different moderation needs and I think specialized instances will be better equipped to deal with those special needs. Communities being on separate instances is by design and we shouldn't have an expectation for instances to do everything.
Yeah, there is no need for everything on one instance at all. That will only increase redundancies.
From what I gather, the existence of a dedicated NSFW-friendly instance has made most such posters gravitate towards that particular place, as they may or may not be banned or defederated from other instances if they set shop in another server.
From what I know there are a number of legal complications/liabilities to hosting NSFW content. For most people hosting instances it's just not worth the hassle given that users can still interact with the NSFW communities on the dedicated instance.
This is the way.
All the posts I see on that site are of fully clothed women.
Edit: I wasn't logged in
I think this is beneficial because it lowers the traffic of the instance. Especially with how many users World has, adding all the traffic generated from NSFW communities would only compound any problem in the instance processing requests slowly.
- I've heard that adage about the porn industry pushing innovation, but I'm not sure it's entirely true. Like, I believe "the world standardized on VHS because the porn industry did" is outright false.
- Hosting porn brings down a whole load of legal scrutiny onto your service. In some places in the world it's outright illegal or the effort it takes to do it within the law is so great that it's not worth doing. Several instances don't want to even attempt it. Instances that do probably need to specialize in the kind of attention that sort of hosting requires.
The porn/VHS thing is a bit of an urban myth. Top Gun was the first blockbuster only released on VHS and had more effect than porn.
Anecdotally, my sister and I persuaded our dad to buy a VHS so we could have Top Gun.
Blu-Ray, however
You want to say porn is what allowed Blu-ray to beat out HD-DVD?
I doubt it. By the time that format war arrived the internet was well and truly established, so I reckon the vast majority of NSFW content was consumed with no physical media.
Another reason would have been Xbox Vs PlayStation. The Xbox 360 had an HD-DVD as an optional extra, compared to the PS3 including Blu-ray as standard. Which was going to win?
The porn industry's influence is vastly overrated.
It's better to separate nsfw into their own instances, because then admins who don't want porn on their Lemmy servers can just block the offending instance.
Also, try https://pornlemmy.com .
It'd be better to post that stuff to lemmynsfw.com . Not only for organizational purposes, but lemmy.world may go anti-NSFW for whatever reason, where an instance dedicated to it won't. Also for people who don't want NSFW stuff in their All, they can simply block one instance and filter it all out. Whereas if it's on .world , then they'd have to block each individual community.
I'm having the opposite experience. I filter by "all" and I am flooded with NSFW content. Been blocking individual communities, but I don't know if I can just block the lemmynsfw instance(I'm using Jerboa).
There is a setting in Jerboa to hide NSFW, but at the moment it's not possible for individual users to block entire instances, although it's a recommend feature on Lemmy.
Yeah, I had checked that when I made my account as I don't mind it on occasion. Thanks for the reminder! I forgot about that.
So many scat porn out there! I don't mind seeing nsfw stuff but poop stuff is a bit too much in the morning with my coffee.
Lol that's wild I haven't seen anything like that. What is your default home page filter? I can't imagine that rising up very far on Hot or Active haha
Hahaha i was browsing all - new they dont tend to show up in hot or active no.
I'm wondering what's stopping folks from setting up CP and JB instances
Even reddit and Twitter have problems with that
It's possible they are getting set up, but not federating. Hopefully not though.
Spinning up an instance is akin to setting a web server. There's a lot of personal information that gets tied to ownership of both domain and the hardware itself. This data is publicly known for those who know where to look at. Without the typical layers of privacy that shield anonymous users in big corporate services. Mostly due do payment information, whether you rent hardware or selfhost using some DNS registry rental from an IP provider. You're out in the open hosting CSAM. You'd have local security forces in your home within the week in most developed and developing world countries.
On top of that, your instance would be immediately defederated by all other instances. So you'd be the only one on the hook for that crime.
You can do it anonymously as well, but it requires knowledge and it's easy to make a mistake.
One of the benefits of the fediverse is that there is no over-arching code of conduct, precisely because there's no way to enforce it. Each instance's owner decides on what they are willing - and not willing - to host on their own instance. Other instances can "defederate" from yours if they don't like what's hosted there, which means the two instances will stop talking to each other, as beehaw did with lemmy.world. But there is no way to globally ban an instance off the face of the internet.
Its already an open problem on Discord, too. It may just be a matter of time
I belonged to several subs that made an effort to find and report them and the grooming diddlers
We need to find a place like that in the 'verse
Meh I'm fine with how it is now. I don't need porn mixed in with my tech nerd news and discussions.
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