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SkylorBeck t1_ja528id wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Instagram users are being served gory videos of killing and torture by hugeplateofketchup8

Dude I seriously spend more time curating my feed than I do enjoying it. Even here on reddit I had to disable the setting that makes your home feed into the curated feed. I wish that we had more control over it. At least on twitter you can block entire keywords and topics. Although... twitter is known as one of the bigger echo chambers. God.

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yaosio t1_ja4zry5 wrote

Reply to comment by CredibleCactus in AI image generator Midjourney blocks porn by banning words about the human reproductive system by marketrent

You could try using Google Colab to run it, but your results will vary. https://colab.research.google.com/github/TheLastBen/fast-stable-diffusion/blob/main/fast_stable_diffusion_AUTOMATIC1111.ipynb You should be able to use free Google Colab for this. I've never used it in Google Colab so I can't provide any information on how to run it.

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austinmiles t1_ja4zmvh wrote

Reply to AI image generator Midjourney blocks porn by banning words about the human reproductive system by marketrent

> The prompt ban was first spotted by Julia Rockwell, a clinical data analyst at Datafy Clinical, and her friend Madeline Keenen, a cell biologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

No. No it wasn’t first spotted by them. Its well known if you use midjourney at all since it comes up pretty regularly. It’s also well understood why since we’ve seen so many language models start spitting out racist garbage. I’d you could easily make porn or gore from AI then quickly all image generator models would default to that.

It’s interesting to have an article letting those who don’t use it know about it, but it frames it like it’s unusual or overkill. And realistically it’s not going to make a scientifically accurate image of those things anyways at this point.

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RamsesA t1_ja4ypor wrote

Reply to Instagram users are being served gory videos of killing and torture by hugeplateofketchup8

I had this happen to me multiple times and have learned how up successfully fix it. Clicking "do not show me this" doesn't work, because you've already engaged with the content at that point.

The correct way to fix this is to only engage with positive content (e.g. pictures of nature, expensive cars, cute animals, etc). Engagement includes not just clicking, but also gazing. If you stop scrolling to look at it, Instagram counts that as engaging, and you'll see more of it.

This makes sense if you understand that Instagram's goal is to monopolize your attention. The fact that you're having a miserable time is not part of the model. Could this be considered bad design? Probably, but here we are.

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Hunterdivision t1_ja4ydrd wrote

Reply to comment by QuestionableAI in Instagram users are being served gory videos of killing and torture by hugeplateofketchup8

They don’t, if they did they would remove such content immediately, they definitely do have the resources to do it as big companies. It’s why IG, FB etc. have content moderators that work to not approve this types of posts, but their conditions aren’t very good from the documentaries that are made and there’s too less of them to remove this kind of content (and other more vile content).

Instagram unfortunately only has a one goal: making money and having engaged users with the platform and spending time on said platform. The fact that these were shown in the user’s algorithms even though they previously haven’t watched such content, simply because it was popular just goes to show where their interest lies despite instagram also having underaged/teenagers users exposed to such content.

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