• CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 months ago

    This just brought back memories of that twitter account that posted furry comics that doubled as US military propaganda.

    • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
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      8 months ago
      (CW: imperialist war in Iraq, killing of George Floyd) To those who haven't seen it before: click here for instant and total psychic annihilation

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      It was obviously someone fucking with people to cause drama or some kind of psyop that became a bit but yeah

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        8 months ago

        Third picture feels like AI. It has that "I am an image generated based on a training set" feeling to it really strongly.

        Given that none of the images this poster makes have the same style between them I'm going to guess they're all AI.

        • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
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          8 months ago

          I'm not sure of the timeline here because the acct is suspended now and it's difficult to find screenshots or the art they uploaded but I think at least some of their art predates the good furry art generating AI models

          Differing styles wouldn't be unusual because they could have been commissioning different artists rather than drawing it themselves

          Edit: I found a source for the first image

          https://www.deviantart.com/playfurry/art/Battlefield-560638322

          It's from 2015 and unrelated

          • Awoo [she/her]
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            8 months ago

            at least some of their art predates the good furry art generating AI models

            Maybe feds had their own before the idea made its way out into the public. Generating fake pictures of people would be a useful thing for a fed faking identities online.

            • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
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              8 months ago

              Feds have better things to do than manufacture furry drama online lol

              If it was them they could have easily just paid someone to draw it

              • Awoo [she/her]
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                8 months ago

                Why pay someone to draw it if you have a generative image tool to play around with?

                • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
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                  8 months ago

                  The feds creating novel solutions (as of the time of posting) to one of the big problems of computer science to create online furry drama seems unlikely to me

                  Beyond just the furry drama it still seems highly unlikely the feds had/have exclusive AI tech that can generate pictures of new, realistic human faces when there have been conventional image editing techniques to do the same for decades now at much, much less cost than AI

                  This kind of thing isn't unheard of but it's usually exclusive to things like... cryptography (like the NSA figuring out differential cryptanalysis before anyone else) where there is no substitute for having this advantage regardless of cost

                  • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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                    8 months ago

                    Well feds created the internet and try to propose changes to FOSS so it’s not out the realm of possibility. But it’s unlikely they’re infiltrating the furry community, and if they are, they’re lying to their boss about the reason.

                    • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
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                      8 months ago

                      I'm sure they're using AI now that it's out there and they probably have their own models or variant tech cuz it's not that hard to make your own at this point