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by terminous 904 days ago
Open source advocates: "With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow."

These researchers: "I see your project includes a non-zero amount of CSAM."

Open source advocates: "How dare you point out an issue? This is a hit piece!"

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Weird strawman. His critique wasn't directed at the methodology or the discovery of CSAM. He just lamented the politics and handling of it by the authors. Rather than improving the dataset, the authors published it without attempting to laion to remove the links. Instead, they chose to turn to the media, advocating for the outright banning of certain foss models, contributing to this moral panic around open source ai
Which is obviously the correct approach, because the commercial models have zero CSAM. Just don't ask for proof of this claim.