AI-generated images thread

[eku zhong]

 

[Free]

“CSAM generated by AI is still CSAM,” DOJ says after rare arrest

Software engineer arrested, suspected of grooming teen with AI-generated CSAM.

arstechnica.com

The US Department of Justice has started cracking down on the use of AI image generators to produce child sexual abuse materials (CSAM).

On Monday, the DOJ arrested Steven Anderegg, a 42-year-old "extremely technologically savvy" Wisconsin man who allegedly used Stable Diffusion to create "thousands of realistic images of prepubescent minors," which were then distributed on Instagram and Telegram.

The cops were tipped off to Anderegg's alleged activities after Instagram flagged direct messages that were sent on Anderegg's Instagram account to a 15-year-old boy. Instagram reported the messages to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), which subsequently alerted law enforcement.

During the Instagram exchange, the DOJ found that Anderegg sent sexually explicit AI images of minors soon after the teen made his age known, alleging that "the only reasonable explanation for sending these images was to sexually entice the child."

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

"messages that were sent on Anderegg's Instagram account to a 15-year-old boy"

Sounds like they had spicier charges than just generated pictures.

 

[Beebo Brink]

This redditor posted one of the most brilliant uses of AI imagery I've seen to date. Taking a reconstruction of a Neanderthal woman's face, AI can put her in a modern context.

Bringing 70,000 year old "Shanidar Z" into the modern world using AI : archeologyworld (reddit.com)

 

[Free]

Hmm...

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

apropos of nothing... new avatar pic:

 

[Free]

AI trained on photos from kids’ entire childhood without their consent

Kids "easily traceable" from photos used to train AI models, advocates warn.

arstechnica.com

Photos of Brazilian kids—sometimes spanning their entire childhood—have been used without their consent to power AI tools, including popular image generators like Stable Diffusion, Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned on Monday.

This act poses urgent privacy risks to kids and seems to increase risks of non-consensual AI-generated images bearing their likenesses, HRW's report said.

An HRW researcher, Hye Jung Han, helped expose the problem. She analyzed "less than 0.0001 percent" of LAION-5B, a dataset built from Common Crawl snapshots of the public web. The dataset does not contain the actual photos but includes image-text pairs derived from 5.85 billion images and captions posted online since 2008.

Among those images linked in the dataset, Han found 170 photos of children from at least 10 Brazilian states. These were mostly family photos uploaded to personal and parenting blogs most Internet surfers wouldn't easily stumble upon, "as well as stills from YouTube videos with small view counts, seemingly uploaded to be shared with family and friends," Wired reported.

 

[Free]

Six fingers by accident? Why not forty of them on purpose! Or how about some missing fingers?!

New Stable Diffusion 3 release excels at AI-generated body horror

Users react to mangled SD3 generations and ask, "Is this release supposed to be a joke?"

arstechnica.com

On Wednesday, Stability AI released weights for Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, an AI image-synthesis model that turns text prompts into AI-generated images. Its arrival has been ridiculed online, however, because it generates images of humans in a way that seems like a step backward from other state-of-the-art image-synthesis models like Midjourney or DALL-E 3. As a result, it can churn out wild anatomically incorrect visual abominations with ease.

A thread on Reddit, titled, "Is this release supposed to be a joke? [SD3-2B]," details the spectacular failures of SD3 Medium at rendering humans, especially human limbs like hands and feet. Another thread, titled, "Why is SD3 so bad at generating girls lying on the grass?" shows similar issues, but for entire human bodies.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

... I'm weird. I actually love some of the body horror results that AI image generators come up with. =D

 

[Free]

Ha! Clever...

Photographer Disqualified From AI Image Contest After Winning With Real Photo

The photographers strike back.

petapixel.com

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Free]

AI's do not like tents!

 

[Noodles]

AI's do not like tents!

"You cannot escape the march of technology by living in the forest "

-- AI

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

AI's do not like tents!

You could say it has an in tents hatred

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I see your eggs from a bottle of olive oil and raise you

 

[Caete]

... I'm weird. I actually love some of the body horror results that AI image generators come up with. =D

You'd love NEKO AI then. You get 6+ fingers, lower bodies turned 180 degrees, arms out of I dunno but it ain't right, 180 degree turned legs but often just one of them, at random a third leg or arm as well!

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

You'd love NEKO AI then. You get 6+ fingers, lower bodies turned 180 degrees, arms out of I dunno but it ain't right, 180 degree turned legs but often just one of them, at random a third leg or arm as well!

Some of my favorites involve double torsos, one stacked on top of the other (the neck of one becomes the waist of the other) or when the lower torso's arms are really the upper torso's legs. Sorta 'centaur'-like but with human rather than equine parts. =)

 

[Argent Stonecutter]