Post Az7P0V9K1fE5NBDgVk by magicalthinking@noauthority.social
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(DIR) Post #Az7MKXDRkiO5iA0gKW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-12T01:34:04Z
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I think a lot of people are attracted to "Sora" the AI video and serve use generating application because it will put your face in a video. But, I'm terrified of this for a few reason. There is a privacy angle. It wants to scan your face from every angle which I assume they will sell to the cops.
(DIR) Post #Az7MQ0iLVPX2eA4e3c by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-12T01:35:03Z
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But also, I think about what my face, which I know and like might look like... processed. With the edges smoothed off, with the faces of other people an other ideas of what is "good looking" imposed on it might be. I do not want to see that. Tried one of those "digital makeup" apps years ago, and it was pure body horror. I couldn't recognize myself, but I could. I hated it. Never again.
(DIR) Post #Az7MRBNHMB3VzxmLr6 by jillL@theblower.au
2025-10-12T01:35:01Z
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@futurebird Also perfect for identity theft. #AI
(DIR) Post #Az7MZKT5QklOWDNcWG by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-12T01:36:44Z
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And of course I would want to put "me" in something that I'd find funny or flattering, but ... what could other people do with your face?Probably put you in porn or something.I'm concerned that so many people don't see that this is literally a face stealing demon of yore come to life.
(DIR) Post #Az7MpGvyL0vCBuUdiC by noondlyt@hellions.cloud
2025-10-12T01:39:35Z
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@futurebird I believe at this moment it is all being collected by Thiel and Ellison working together. They have every video ever uploaded to TikTok which is a damn good start.
(DIR) Post #Az7N9oKnriB7ZYtweW by HumanServitor@mastodon.social
2025-10-12T01:43:17Z
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@futurebird You can extract ocular scan information from a high-res photo, so we are probably all doomed already just from random cameras out in the world.
(DIR) Post #Az7NqoksB57dKRbPQ8 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-12T01:51:06Z
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There is an endless stream of news stories about people finding every possible terrible, disrespectful, copyright infringing, annoying use for these video apps. And so AI gets to be in the news again. One last gasp of hot air into the balloon.This isn't new tech, this is just taking away the perfectly sensible guard rails to "give 'em what they want"And what they want is terrible.
(DIR) Post #Az7NwfZ3GGM2YtratM by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-12T01:52:10Z
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I guess it is kind of "disruptive" ... so there is that.
(DIR) Post #Az7OA1XEsyt6T3Nq1Q by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-12T01:54:29Z
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@jackie Abusing the images of powerful people may be the only thing that gets some of the guardrails back. Remember when you could use a reverse image search on a human face? That has been totally nerfed.It was too powerful.
(DIR) Post #Az7OmjQ8AZEva0W396 by magicalthinking@noauthority.social
2025-10-12T02:01:38Z
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@futurebird @jackie have you tried having a sense of humor?
(DIR) Post #Az7Or9Z8u5FppIq7EW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-12T02:02:22Z
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@jackie It was so useful for finding out what lobbyists politicians had hung out with. Though I think some people used it for more sinister things too so... probably sensible to limit it. Although this tech is exactly what the police still have.
(DIR) Post #Az7OtprebqhDammF8K by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-12T02:02:54Z
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@magicalthinking @jackie Of course not.
(DIR) Post #Az7P0V9K1fE5NBDgVk by magicalthinking@noauthority.social
2025-10-12T02:04:07Z
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@futurebird @jackie if they can make you mad, that is how they will control you.
(DIR) Post #Az7P3iVsnOVzgmJ0nw by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-12T02:04:40Z
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@magicalthinking @jackie Who is "they" ?
(DIR) Post #Az7PDcjF9o1we1HLsG by magicalthinking@noauthority.social
2025-10-12T02:06:30Z
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@futurebird @jackie your enemies.do you really need help with this?
(DIR) Post #Az7PIRajzZtDYEbHdI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-12T02:07:20Z
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@magicalthinking @jackie In this context, who would that be? Who are you concerned that I'm mad at?
(DIR) Post #Az7PNUojQW3n0GYNOa by magicalthinking@noauthority.social
2025-10-12T02:08:16Z
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@futurebird @jackie creators of offensive content?you want to pass laws to restrict speech that used to be considered comedy in the Eddie Murphy SNL years.
(DIR) Post #Az7PRbbm7UDFDvS86S by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-12T02:08:59Z
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@magicalthinking @jackie "you want to pass laws to restrict speech that used to be considered comedy in the Eddie Murphy SNL years"When did I say this?
(DIR) Post #Az7PzHT7VLwUbjShV2 by magicalthinking@noauthority.social
2025-10-12T02:15:06Z
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@futurebird @jackie
(DIR) Post #Az7R1KwrdcEXvuv1fs by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-12T02:26:36Z
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@jackie I think he assumes that if I mention something is "racist" I must be angry. MT shows up in my replies like clockwork with that word. *waits*
(DIR) Post #Az7Rf7COB5uEsB9FEu by HumanServitor@mastodon.social
2025-10-12T02:32:26Z
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@glitzersachen @futurebird My point being extremely detailed visual data is available for nearly everyone already. They can build 3D models of anyone without our participation at this point.
(DIR) Post #Az7Rf92tJNUsbIigiG by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-12T02:33:47Z
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@HumanServitor @glitzersachen True, but it takes work to match those faces to identities. This app would make a very robust and consistent data set in a way that other sources would not. It makes it much easier. Seem silly to be so helpful.
(DIR) Post #Az7WPyI9VllafvRTlI by 12thRITS@mstdn.social
2025-10-12T03:27:03Z
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@futurebird Sora will NEVER sell your likeness to the cops. They'll sell it to a data broker who'll sell it to the cops.
(DIR) Post #Az7XQhMY2T3gPkPP2e by jdp23@neuromatch.social
2025-10-12T03:38:24Z
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@futurebird 1000% … I’m right where you are on this. Great thread
(DIR) Post #Az7YLv3lmmCHOwuVMG by Gustodon@mas.to
2025-10-12T03:48:44Z
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@futurebird Sora is one-hundred percent for dicks.
(DIR) Post #Az7jrkZZPXMxdfAJpw by _elena@mastodon.social
2025-10-12T05:57:45Z
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@futurebird thank you for bringing this up! I just listened to @404mediaco ‘s podcast on this very topic and apparently Sora also asks you to speak when you set it up… so it can emulate your voice too. The 404 Media folks say that nowadays it only takes 17 seconds of voice samples to recreate someone’s voice with AI. Absolutely terrifying
(DIR) Post #Az7krjsa5Z1HRUcGVk by Andii@mas.to
2025-10-12T06:08:57Z
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@futurebird This was where my mind went first.
(DIR) Post #Az7oESJxpte3VcwqiO by fcalva@cyberplace.social
2025-10-12T06:46:36Z
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@futurebird @jackie Yandex reverse image search still sort of works. And at this point i'd say sharing your search with Russia isn't any worse than with the US.
(DIR) Post #Az7plogNoiNwNAuES0 by gimulnautti@mastodon.green
2025-10-12T07:03:53Z
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@futurebird Isn’t that the ”business model” of tech nowadays?You take a lot of loan for years on over to attract people to a service for free, then track the shit out of them and build personal profiles. When it doesn’t make money and the runway stops, you sell the profiles to to advertisers which finally sell them to data aggregators that end up being a resource for policing.🤔
(DIR) Post #Az7z1qrGOa2lLBiSXY by AbyssalRook@mstdn.social
2025-10-12T08:47:38Z
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@futurebird Two or three years ago now, The Mandella Catalogue, a YT horror series about eldritch doppelgangers, released a video called "Correspondence" which was basically a tutorial for a program that took pictures of your face and made a digital version that said funny things, but was obviously a front for gathering facial information to train these doppelgangers on since they're as unable to understand humans as we are them.https://youtu.be/rf-OSO5Wrbk?t=1575
(DIR) Post #Az8FbI1OzbAmzNNWl6 by funambolo@mastodon.world
2025-10-12T11:08:15Z
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@gimulnautti @futurebird yeah. Tracking, profiling and data gathering used to be "just for commercial reasons". But in the near future the Trump administration will almost certainly start using the same data to hunt down dissidents. All the "anti-american/christian is a terrorist" stuff paves the way for that.
(DIR) Post #Az8FbJQblMvhLqBAga by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-10-12T11:52:46Z
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@funambolo @gimulnautti @futurebird Damn, wish some folks had warned us a decade ago!https://ar.al/talks/#free-is-a-lie(But, hey, it was just business, amirite?)