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Github is banning copies of 'deepfakes' porn app DeepNude
GitHub is banning code from DeepNude, the app that used AI to create fake nude pictures of women. Motherboard, which first reported on DeepNude last month, confirmed that the Microsoft-owned software development platform won't allow DeepNude projects. GitHub told Motherboard that the code violated its rules against "sexually obscene content," and it's removed multiple repositories, including one that was officially run by DeepNude's creator.
DeepNude was originally a paid app that created nonconsensual nude pictures of women using technology similar to AI "deepfakes." The development team shut it down after Motherboard's report, saying that "the probability that people will misuse it is too high." However, as we noted last week, copies of the app were still accessible online — including on GitHub.
Late that week, the DeepNude team followed suit by uploading the core algorithm (but not the actual app interface) to the platform. "The reverse engineering of the app was already on GitHub. It no longer makes sense to hide the source code," wrote the team on a now-deleted page. "DeepNude uses an interesting method to solve a typical AI problem, so it could be useful for researchers and developers working in other fields such as fashion, cinema, and visual effects."
Also at The Register, Vice, and Fossbytes.
Previously: "Deep Nude" App Removed By Developers After Brouhaha
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(Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Thursday July 11 2019, @06:39AM (7 children)
I doubt severely that I can find any acceptable way to demonstrate to you that there is a push for censorship.
Lets go check the definitions of censorship that I already provided to you because your existing definition was absolutely wrong.
So the answer is no. Do us a favor and go shout at people who say systemd is good, go deface systemd websites by removing the content and replacing it with SysV init documentation in tandem with shell documentation, and hack Debian and yank it out of the repos. Then you would be censoring.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday July 11 2019, @06:47AM (6 children)
I have a hard time imagining MS did shout about "DeepNude" or defaced any other websites related to DeepNude, etc...
It simply denied those projects to use GitHub as a collaboration platform, nothing more.
Since GitHub is privately owned by MS and comes with conditions attached for using it [github.com], MS was not even abusing its position.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Thursday July 11 2019, @07:08AM (5 children)
No, that's what you have to do if you want to be a censor. You asked if you were censoring if you don't use systemd. I said no then provided an example of what it takes for you to censor systemd: you interrupt the delivery of information related to it. Github doesn't have to go shouting at people because they can delete the project and interrupt the delivery of information related to DeepNude.
If you take a poster off a wall because you don't agree with it you are censoring. If you don't use systemd because it sucks you just have good taste.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday July 11 2019, @07:20AM (4 children)
:) (on the "good taste")
Seriously though, if I take a poster off my wall. I'm just exercising my right as the owner of the wall to let/deny the people use my wall the way I see fit. Even more so when I informed everyone in advance [github.com] this may happen.
The fact this interrupts one point from which your information flows towards others? Yes, it happens, but that is secondary to my right as an owner of the wall. It doesn't make it censorship, because I'm only taking a single poster and I'm not stopping you to place posters on other walls and neither I'm taking down the posters from other walls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Thursday July 11 2019, @07:33AM (3 children)
This entire discussion reminds me of when conservatives absolutely freak out with the terms positive and negative liberty because their chosen form of liberty is labeled as "negative" so fuck those guys they are making judgement about my politics!
Do you think that censorship is bad?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday July 11 2019, @07:44AM (2 children)
I think the common sense should push many people in a common-sense type of self-censoring grafted on a "live and let live" attitude.
In the older days, these were called something like "respect" and "the traditions of the place". Rules that were not laws, but social conventions that made the community work with less frictions.
I feel sometimes we (as humanity) are losing more than we are gaining by breaking them and letting them behind us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Thursday July 11 2019, @09:29AM (1 child)
I'm not quite sure what you mean here. What conventions are changing? Is the community the opensource community?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday July 11 2019, @09:48PM
Self-censoring in everyday life. Called 'civilized behaviour' otherwise. Dependent on good proportion on the values of people that make your social circle (open source included, if one is involved in open source)
The values/behaviour of the people around.
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Look, i was trying to answer between the lines to your
Now, to put it bluntly, the brief answer is 'Yes, I think censorship is bad, but I also think there are things much worse than censorship, even in so-called civilized world'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford