Nine apologises for digitally altered image placing female MP in 'more revealing' outfit
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Channel Nine apologises after a digitally altered image of Animal Justice Party MP Georgie Purcell was broadcast on its news coverage last night.

oh dear. i thought it was a belt, not the addition of a mid rift top…

why would that happen anyway? seems stupid to me. why mid rift midriff!?!

edit: turns out i was a bit too literal… it is a rift in the middle of her clothes…

  • Carl@mastodon.nzoss.nz
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    10 months ago

    @Deceptichum @palitu @mozz @ryannathans
    Soz, I forgot the ‘sarchasm’ tag…

    You know, the gap between someone being sarcastic and the person that doesn’t get it.

    With all that said I am very disappointed that the sum total of human achievement for the last few millenia has come down to coding and training and recoding and retraining lumps of silicon to deliver half baked results that *still* have to be verified and are therefore not worth the power it takes to run them…

    Waste. Of. Time.

    • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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      10 months ago

      Like a lot of technology it depends on what you do with it. A train can carry your stuff more effectively than a mule. You can use it to carry materials to build a university, or raw ingredients for a new drug that you can manufacture at scale, and that’s probably a good thing. You can use it to carry weapons for a war that doesn’t need to happen, or cattle from an increasingly-industrialized good supply, and that’s a bad thing. You can maintain it poorly and spill toxic chemicals. Up to you.

        • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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          10 months ago

          Well, that’s a pretty silly statement. Saying it’s impossible for this technology to be useful or a good thing, is just silly as if someone else said it’s inevitable that it’ll be a good thing.

          The chicken pox vaccine didn’t solve war in the middle east, but I’d still argue that it’s clearly good that it happened. Same for AI; it can be good without needing to clear this insanely high bar you seem to feel is necessary for it to prove its usefulness.

          For what it’s worth, though, the part I’ll agree with you on is that people will misuse the technology in ways to scam others out of money, or to make the world a worse place, maybe so much so that it eclipses any good that comes out of it. I’m just saying that’s a choice they’re making, not something inherent in the technology itself.