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There must be severe restrictions on the use of artificial intelligence. Those restrictions should have been here like yesterday! Because without any limitations, the more technology becomes available, the more people abuse it for their vile needs.
Do you remember WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes in Hollywood in the last year which took 4+ and 3+ month respectively? One of their goals was to limit the use of AI in the writing process and to prevent AI from replacing actors on set. The studios wanted to get exclusive and indefinite rights to extras' likenesses, including the use of generative AI to replicate them on screen, just for a one-time fee equivalent to one day's pay. That's how corporations want to abuse the power of AI.
Meanwhile, the artists and photographers struggle to prevent the use of their creations in the training of AI models. It have infringed the rights of millions of artists, whose pictures were used without any consent (and without any fees for those creators who let to use their creations only for a price). A trained AI also can be used to plagiarize someone's work or to remove your precious watermarks and copyrights off it. Yeap, someone would said "but artists watch the works of others to train themselves too". That's not the point. A human artist needs years of learning to create maybe a picture a day. The AI needs maybe a few hours of learning to be able to produce a picture a second. Yes, a second. No human is capable of that, so we can't compare human learning to computer learning, those things are different. The amount of time is different, the results are different. It's not the same at all.
The other problem with AI training on data is bias. Not enough data and the model is wrong (remember "gorilla" scandal). The worse thing is that AI model is created "in the image and likeness" of their creator. I mean, seeing some replies people get on certain questions for our local language-based AI, you can easily tell it was created by very misogynistic men. Also I remember how quickly some brand-new AI version was spoiled by the first users, who trained it to say very inappropriate things.
Speaking of language-based AI, some are already used to create and run spam and troll accounts. Some are used by the political forces.
Another problem with government use of AI is that in non-democratic countries AI is used to process big data received due to mass surveillance. For example, to identify, locate and jail people after peaceful protests.
And going back to training models, the last problem is that ordinary people can get realistic pictures and deepfakes very easy. And there is no such thing like "safe" or "harmless" picture. Someone would say "I'm just creating harmless picture of my favorite celebrity, that's all". Please stop doing this immediately. Because the more people ask AI for realistic pictures, the more realistic result they get, because every request is training AI better and better. And right now the models trained on "harmless" pictures make pictures and video so realistic that it used to create deepfakes porn with celebrities. And not just celebrities - recently a group of boys created deepfake porn with their schoolmate, she committed suicide. Even a brainless teen can have access to AI! That needs to stop.
I know, I know, the problem is not the technology itself, the problem is people who abuse it. But there are so many people, from stupid kids and disgusting adults to greedy corporations and paranoid governments, who abuse the power of AI. Honestly, I think the humanity is not ready for this technology, just like it wasn't and isn't ready for nuclear weapons. So there must (not should, must!) be severe restrictions introduced asap.
That, or just wait until the AI will evolve into superintelligence which will finally realize that humanity is a piece of garbage, and will respond with the only solution it learned well from it's creators: mass destruction.
The Wreck of the Pandora and the Mutineers of the Bounty.
In 1787 with Captain William Bligh in charge the Bounty was sent to Tahiti to gather bread fruit for the African slaves on the British sugar plantations of the West Indies. The Bounty set sail from Tahiti with many reluctant sailors on board. Three weeks later they mutinied with Fletcher Christian sending Bligh and 24 loyal men in a small open boat into the Pacific Ocean. Amazingly Bligh and his men reached Timor and eventually England where the Royal Admiralty was horrified of this most serious crime- mutiny. In 1790 the Pandora was sent to Tahiti to recapture the 25 mutineers, recover the Bunty and bring the mutineers back to England so they could face naval justice. Just 14 mutineers were found and jailed in a small cabin on the Pandora called The Box as a reference to the Greek fable of Pandora ’s Box. In August 1791 the Pandora sank on the Great Barrier Reef near Torres Straits. By the time the men aboard abandoned ship 4 mutineers and 31 crew were drowned. 89 crew and 10 mutineers reached a coral cay and eventually they reached Timor in a small boat. Upon their return to England 7 of the mutineers were pardoned and 3 were hanged. The wrecked Pandora lay on the ocean floor undiscovered until 1977. The Museum of Tropical north Queensland has since worked with the British Navy, the owners of the Pandora, to recover artefacts despite the great depth of the wreckage. The remains of the Pandora have been remarkably well preserved on the ocean floor. Many are now displayed in the Museum.
I'm sorry I haven't been able to post anything for a while but I haven't been lazy - I've been working on a fansite for Louise Brooks, one of my favourite actresses, film historians and style icons. Huge thanks to Gertie at fan-sites.org for hosting my website - Louise Brooks Online.
There are nearly 3,000 photos and screencaptures from my collection in the gallery with more to come, as well as some pages with actual information (!) online too! Will wonders ever cease? So, You're very welcome to have an early viewing of the site and please send me any feedback or suggestions before I officially list it on the fan-sites site.
I hope that you approve of how I've spent my time away from flickr. Laura xxxxx
The Wreck of the Pandora and the Mutineers of the Bounty.
In 1787 with Captain William Bligh in charge the Bounty was sent to Tahiti to gather bread fruit for the African slaves on the British sugar plantations of the West Indies. The Bounty set sail from Tahiti with many reluctant sailors on board. Three weeks later they mutinied with Fletcher Christian sending Bligh and 24 loyal men in a small open boat into the Pacific Ocean. Amazingly Bligh and his men reached Timor and eventually England where the Royal Admiralty was horrified of this most serious crime- mutiny. In 1790 the Pandora was sent to Tahiti to recapture the 25 mutineers, recover the Bunty and bring the mutineers back to England so they could face naval justice. Just 14 mutineers were found and jailed in a small cabin on the Pandora called The Box as a reference to the Greek fable of Pandora ’s Box. In August 1791 the Pandora sank on the Great Barrier Reef near Torres Straits. By the time the men aboard abandoned ship 4 mutineers and 31 crew were drowned. 89 crew and 10 mutineers reached a coral cay and eventually they reached Timor in a small boat. Upon their return to England 7 of the mutineers were pardoned and 3 were hanged. The wrecked Pandora lay on the ocean floor undiscovered until 1977. The Museum of Tropical north Queensland has since worked with the British Navy, the owners of the Pandora, to recover artefacts despite the great depth of the wreckage. The remains of the Pandora have been remarkably well preserved on the ocean floor. Many are now displayed in the Museum.
This week's theme was Timber. My friend found this awesome wooden box at an antique store and gave it to me for my birthday. I was so surprised.
Surprises come in all sorts of ways. They can be good or bad, but like a Pandora's box, once it's opened there is no going back.
No post processing on this one. It's straight from the camera. It's a metaphor for truth, something I've been thinking a lot about lately.
I have somewhat of a love affair with day lilies...unfortunately, so do deer. After tasting some myself (they are edible) I understand why...yummy. Luckily this lovely gem is in my fenced backyard...out front....they have mostly been eaten.
In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman on earth. Zeus ordered Hephaestus, the god of craftsmanship, to create her and he did, using water and earth. The gods endowed her with many talents; Aphrodite gave her beauty, Apollo music, Hermes persuasion, and so forth. Hence her name: Pandora, "all-gifted".
When Prometheus stole fire from heaven, Zeus took vengeance by presenting Pandora to Epimetheus, Prometheus' brother. With her, Pandora had a jar which she was not to open under any circumstance. Impelled by her natural curiosity, Pandora opened the jar, and all evil contained escaped and spread over the earth. She hastened to close the lid, but the whole contents of the jar had escaped, except for one thing which lay at the bottom, and that was Hope.
Micha F Lindemans
Modern Daylilies are the product of many years of breeding work, resulting in freely blooming plants of the easiest garden culture.
They form dense clumps of grassy foliage, with upright stems of trumpet flowers. This repeat-blooming selection features small, fragrant creamy-yellow to ivory flowers with a bright lavender-purple eyezone.
Early/Midseason. Evergreen in mild regions. Plants do not usually require dividing for several years, but are easily split apart in autumn or early spring.
I remove old flowers as they die off. The fresh flowers are edible!
An ancient treasure, found at Gabo's World, dedicated to Rosina – the woman with the third eye. ;-)
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Open it up, all that is concealed,
Open it up, so the truth can be revealed,
You must break all your locks.
Open it up, take a look inside...
~ Esmeralda Kent ~
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The myth of Pandora is ancient, appears in several distinct Greek versions, and has been interpreted in many ways. In all literary versions, however, the myth is a kind of theodicy, addressing the question of why there is evil in the world.
The etymology of Pandora's name, "all-gifted" provided in Hesiod's "Works and Days" is an incorrect folk etymology. Pandora properly means "all-giving" rather than "all-gifted." Certain vase paintings dated to the 5th century BC likewise indicate that the pre-Hesiodic myth of the goddess Pandora endured for centuries after the time of Hesiod. An alternate name for Pandora attested on a white-ground kylix (ca. 460 BC) is Anesidora, which similarly means "she who sends up gifts." (Wikipedia)
Hope is the only good god remaining among mankind;
the others have left and gone to Olympus " Hesiod "
An extremely attractive daylily, Hemerocallis (Daylily) 'Pandora’s Box' is one that will rebloom towards the end of summer, after an earlier blooming period in early to midsummer.
The creamy white flower has a bright green centre ringed with yellow before being smudged with a shadow of deep purple in the eye zone of the flower.
The high contrasts between the colours make this small 4 inch flower very striking.
Daylily 'Pandora’s Box' ends up about 2 feet high. Daylilies like light shade to full sun and well-drained soil.
Oh yes, and she's scented!
I'm sorry I haven't been able to post anything for a while but I haven't been lazy - I've been working on a fansite for Louise Brooks, one of my favourite actresses, film historians and style icons. Huge thanks to Gertie at fan-sites.org for hosting my website - Louise Brooks Online.
There are nearly 3,000 photos and screencaptures from my collection in the gallery with more to come, as well as some pages with actual information (!) online too! Will wonders ever cease? So, You're very welcome to have an early viewing of the site and please send me any feedback or suggestions before I officially list it on the fan-sites site.
I hope that you approve of how I've spent my time away from flickr. Laura xxxxx
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She took the key, slid it into the lock and turned it. She took a deep breath, closed her eyes and slowly lifted the lid of the box. She opened her eyes and looked into the box, expecting to see fine silks, gowns or gold bracelets and necklaces or even piles of gold coins.
But there was no gleam of gold or treasure. There were no shining bracelets and not one beautiful dress! The look of excitement on her face quickly turned to one of disappointment and then horror. For Zeus had packed the box full of all the terrible evils he could think of. Out of the box poured disease and poverty. Out came misery, out came death, out came sadness - all shaped like tiny buzzing moths.
So it's a bummer that you can't see my greek inspired makeup and all here. It's pretty cool~
But anyway I'm not sure if I like the way this came out or not. I'm striving to the level of Luminous Lu's photography and editing skills and when I see a picture in my head and it's her style and then I'm not as good as her it's depressing.
But I still like this I guess.
I'm lonely.
I get lonely too often.
Tama on the toes; Akyra on the fingies. Nontoxic, vegan-friendly polish; my kiddo likes the colours...
“Wonderland Stories” simplified by Elizabeth Lewis. Tonal illustrations mostly done by Philip Lyford. J.B. Lippincott Co. who copyrighted in 1913, 1914, and 1917.
[Pinhole photograph] Larger? ••• 2010 Artifacts Calendar
Here is one of the latest in the Artifacts of an Uncertain Origin series. This was taken about three weeks ago on my most recent New Mexico trip. I first photographed the keys on my previous trip to New Mexico last May, but I was not satisfied with the images I made of them. So they traveled with me again when my work schedule took me back to the Southwest this Fall. In the intervening months I had also acquired many more more keys, including six large ones in France this summer.
This scene was photographed on a windy ridge in the mountains overlooking Los Alamos. I hiked through the charred, skeletal remains of a burned out forest that was incinerated in a catastrophic wildfire nine years ago, and up a steep, rocky slope to reach this arch. All around was a scorched landscape. Even though the fire was in 2000, it looked much more recent than that.
Los Alamos, of course, was one of the primary sites for the Manhattan Project, the secret World War II program that resulted in the development of the atomic bomb. The main think tank for the project was located here in the weapons research and design laboratory, and it was here on the mesa below this natural arch that the first atomic bombs were assembled.
There are several things I like about this image. Here are three of them, two visual and one conceptual:
The jagged shape of the rocky ridge resembles the business end of the skeleton keys scattered on the rock.
I also like that the fact that the natural arch creates a keyhole shape in the rocks.
And finally, on a conceptual level, I am intrigued that this image of keys and a rocky keyhole was photographed in the place where over sixty years ago the keys were discovered that unlocked the secret Pandora's Box of the atomic bomb.
The first two things were clear to me as I was on the windy ridge making this photograph. The last has only occurred to me as I have worked on the image yesterday and today.
I really value that aspect of photography. That some photographs have layers and that you can often discover new meanings if you peel away enough of those layers, look closely at the image, or regard it from a different perspective.
"I hear the sound of marching feet.
..and there, at Pandora's box,
we are confronted with a vast
quantity of...Plastic People."
'Plastic People'
Frank Zappa 1967 Lyrics
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I'm sorry I haven't been able to post anything for a while but I haven't been lazy - I've been working on a fansite for Louise Brooks, one of my favourite actresses, film historians and style icons. Huge thanks to Gertie at fan-sites.org for hosting my website - Louise Brooks Online.
There are nearly 3,000 photos and screencaptures from my collection in the gallery with more to come, as well as some pages with actual information (!) online too! Will wonders ever cease? So, You're very welcome to have an early viewing of the site and please send me any feedback or suggestions before I officially list it on the fan-sites site.
I hope that you approve of how I've spent my time away from flickr. Laura xxxxx
Day 228
...don't forget the one thing about Pandora's box, when all the sorrows were released, there was one thing left found at the bottom of the box... Hope.
After Prometheus' theft of the secret of fire, Zeus ordered Hephaestus to create the woman Pandora as part of the punishment for mankind. Pandora was given many seductive gifts from Aphrodite, Hermes, Hera, Charites, and Horae (according to Works and Days). For fear of additional reprisals, Prometheus warned his brother Epimetheus not to accept any gifts from Zeus, but Epimetheus did not listen, and married Pandora. Pandora had been given a large jar and instruction by Zeus to keep it closed, but she had also been given the gift of curiosity, and ultimately opened it. When she opened it, all of the evils, ills, diseases, and burdensome labor that mankind had not known previously, escaped from the jar, but it is said, that at the very bottom of her box, there lay hope.
Some versions of this story, especially the ones I was told when I was a child, personified hope as a butterfly, so I always think of a black butterfly whenever I think of Pandora's Box.
Textures from Skeletal Mess, and butterfly from deviantART.
Part of the Greek myths series
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This took me a little while. Woo, I actually did something on photoshop, in fact I think this is my first photoshop edit on here, yaaay :')
It's Demi again, different pose and edited different, obviously.
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Another majorly weird day.
The Wreck of the Pandora and the Mutineers of the Bounty.
In 1787 with Captain William Bligh in charge the Bounty was sent to Tahiti to gather bread fruit for the African slaves on the British sugar plantations of the West Indies. The Bounty set sail from Tahiti with many reluctant sailors on board. Three weeks later they mutinied with Fletcher Christian sending Bligh and 24 loyal men in a small open boat into the Pacific Ocean. Amazingly Bligh and his men reached Timor and eventually England where the Royal Admiralty was horrified of this most serious crime- mutiny. In 1790 the Pandora was sent to Tahiti to recapture the 25 mutineers, recover the Bunty and bring the mutineers back to England so they could face naval justice. Just 14 mutineers were found and jailed in a small cabin on the Pandora called The Box as a reference to the Greek fable of Pandora ’s Box. In August 1791 the Pandora sank on the Great Barrier Reef near Torres Straits. By the time the men aboard abandoned ship 4 mutineers and 31 crew were drowned. 89 crew and 10 mutineers reached a coral cay and eventually they reached Timor in a small boat. Upon their return to England 7 of the mutineers were pardoned and 3 were hanged. The wrecked Pandora lay on the ocean floor undiscovered until 1977. The Museum of Tropical north Queensland has since worked with the British Navy, the owners of the Pandora, to recover artefacts despite the great depth of the wreckage. The remains of the Pandora have been remarkably well preserved on the ocean floor. Many are now displayed in the Museum.
The Wreck of the Pandora and the Mutineers of the Bounty.
In 1787 with Captain William Bligh in charge the Bounty was sent to Tahiti to gather bread fruit for the African slaves on the British sugar plantations of the West Indies. The Bounty set sail from Tahiti with many reluctant sailors on board. Three weeks later they mutinied with Fletcher Christian sending Bligh and 24 loyal men in a small open boat into the Pacific Ocean. Amazingly Bligh and his men reached Timor and eventually England where the Royal Admiralty was horrified of this most serious crime- mutiny. In 1790 the Pandora was sent to Tahiti to recapture the 25 mutineers, recover the Bunty and bring the mutineers back to England so they could face naval justice. Just 14 mutineers were found and jailed in a small cabin on the Pandora called The Box as a reference to the Greek fable of Pandora ’s Box. In August 1791 the Pandora sank on the Great Barrier Reef near Torres Straits. By the time the men aboard abandoned ship 4 mutineers and 31 crew were drowned. 89 crew and 10 mutineers reached a coral cay and eventually they reached Timor in a small boat. Upon their return to England 7 of the mutineers were pardoned and 3 were hanged. The wrecked Pandora lay on the ocean floor undiscovered until 1977. The Museum of Tropical north Queensland has since worked with the British Navy, the owners of the Pandora, to recover artefacts despite the great depth of the wreckage. The remains of the Pandora have been remarkably well preserved on the ocean floor. Many are now displayed in the Museum.
I watched the documentary "Looking for Lulu", and grabbed these 2 pics of Miss Brooks. I saw the same pic at the Louise Brooks society site at www.pandorasbox.com and it said this was taken in 1939, a year after she made her last movie (a b-western). I think she looks fantastic, better than she did in the silent era. Somewhat Katharine Hepburn-ish, maybe.
The documentary is depressing, although she was a great movie icon, and her intelligence, sharp wits and writing skills were awesome, she seems to have led a hard life after the '20's. I felt really, really sorry for her. The documentary is also rather annoying a lot of the time - various talking heads trying to psycho-analyse the poor woman. I wanted to hear more from the people interviewed who actually knew her.
I would trade all of the proto-"beautiful loser" mystique that has come to surround her for more great films like "Beggars of Life". I wish she'd been a huge movie star in the '30's, not a bit-part player! (also I would trade all of the mystique for a complete copy of the lost film "The City Gone Wild" (1927), which sounds pretty great! A mob movie, made in the 1920s, and with Miss Brooks as a gangster's moll!)
bought about 10 years back for $2 at the old (now defunct) Hattiesburg High antiques mall. The dealers brought in estate sale stuff from all over, so no telling where this was taken.
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http://blog.brainstormbrand.com/uncategorized/2007/03/online-radio-pandoras-box (?)
I'm sorry I haven't been able to post anything for a while but I haven't been lazy - I've been working on a fansite for Louise Brooks, one of my favourite actresses, film historians and style icons. Huge thanks to Gertie at fan-sites.org for hosting my website - Louise Brooks Online.
There are nearly 3,000 photos and screencaptures from my collection in the gallery with more to come, as well as some pages with actual information (!) online too! Will wonders ever cease? So, You're very welcome to have an early viewing of the site and please send me any feedback or suggestions before I officially list it on the fan-sites site.
I hope that you approve of how I've spent my time away from flickr. Laura xxxxx
I'm sorry I haven't been able to post anything for a while but I haven't been lazy - I've been working on a fansite for Louise Brooks, one of my favourite actresses, film historians and style icons. Huge thanks to Gertie at fan-sites.org for hosting my website - Louise Brooks Online.
There are nearly 3,000 photos and screencaptures from my collection in the gallery with more to come, as well as some pages with actual information (!) online too! Will wonders ever cease? So, You're very welcome to have an early viewing of the site and please send me any feedback or suggestions before I officially list it on the fan-sites site.
I hope that you approve of how I've spent my time away from flickr. Laura xxxxx
temptation.
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Also part of my Greek Mythology Series which hopefully I'll actually do soon.
Inspired by the amazing Madeline once again.
wjksegklaezxcvbn die, Flickr sharpening.
Please view on black. :3
this is the fifth of six photos in a photo and watercolor series inspired by the myth of Pandora's Jar (yes, jar; a large, urn-like jar -- but since the 1400s it's been mistranslated into Latin and then English as a box). Pandora ("pan" = all; "dora" = gift, given) has another name: Anesidora ("anesi" = up from below).* the series was also inspired by looking at this man's work.
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*or so I understand, but i don't read Greek (yet). those who are knowledgeable about this: please correct me!
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The things we do to fill in time.
This morning I thought it was time to just snap at my immediate surrounds. Cushions, textures, pots, rugs, bathroom tiles - you name it. Well here it is! My Pandora's Box.
I have kept the file size large for you if you wish to view this in bigger format.
Now go and show me your treasures dear friends.