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      Artist finds private medical record photos in popular AI training data set

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 21 September, 2022 - 15:43 · 1 minute

    Censored medical images found in the LAION-5B data set used to train AI. The black bars and distortion have been added.

    Enlarge / Censored medical images found in the LAION-5B data set used to train AI. The black bars and distortion have been added. (credit: Ars Technica)

    Late last week, a California-based AI artist who goes by the name Lapine discovered private medical record photos taken by her doctor in 2013 referenced in the LAION-5B image set, which is a scrape of publicly available images on the web. AI researchers download a subset of that data to train AI image synthesis models such as Stable Diffusion and Google Imagen .

    Lapine discovered her medical photos on a site called Have I Been Trained that lets artists see if their work is in the LAION-5B data set. Instead of doing a text search on the site, Lapine uploaded a recent photo of herself using the site's reverse image search feature. She was surprised to discover a set of two before-and-after medical photos of her face, which had only been authorized for private use by her doctor, as reflected in an authorization form Lapine tweeted and also provided to Ars.

    Lapine has a genetic condition called Dyskeratosis Congenita . "It affects everything from my skin to my bones and teeth," Lapine told Ars Technica in an interview. "In 2013, I underwent a small set of procedures to restore facial contours after having been through so many rounds of mouth and jaw surgeries. These pictures are from my last set of procedures with this surgeon."

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      An Ode To the Hottest Quality of Bridgerton’s Duke of Hastings

      pubsub.dcentralisedmedia.com / LifehackerAustralia · Thursday, 4 February, 2021 - 00:30 · 2 minutes

    If you haven’t yet introduced yourself to the treat that is Bridgerton , do yourself a favour. Settle in on the couch with a bottle of wine this weekend and dig on in.

    The series, which was ruthlessly snubbed in this year’s Golden Globes nominations, is one of Netflix’s most successful projects to date. And let’s be upfront about why that is: spicy drama and a whole lot of horny content. People have been stuck in their homes for a year, my friends. Audiences need something exhilarating right now.

    There has been a lot of chatter (naturally) about the show’s many saucy scenes since it first dropped in December 2020. We even wrote a list of the best sex scenes in the series ( yes, it’s worth a read ). But what I’d like to chat about today is a little different. I want to focus on the sexiest quality of one particular character in Bridgerton : The Duke, Simon Basset.

    If you’re thinking, “that’s easy, his sexiest quality is the way he licks a spoon” that’s a fair point. But it’s not what I’m talking about.

    The sexiest part of the series (and the Duke’s character), in my opinion, is the way the Duke approached consent with Daphne the first time they had sex. Now, let me point out here that I know Bridgerton’s dealings with the topic of consent, in general, is pretty messed up. The scene where Daphne later forces Simon to climax inside her is quite literally the opposite of enthusiastic consent: it was marital rape. And then there’s the whole manipulative element where Simon doesn’t explain that his pulling out was stopping the couple from being able to have a baby. The show has a lot of problems.

    But seeing the Duke respectfully and gently take his time as he guided Daphne through her first sexual experience with another person was a big ol’ plus in my book. Throughout the entire experience he checked in with her a number of times, and it added to the intimacy of the moment. There were a couple of points where the Duke asked Daphne if she wanted to stop – and when he did that, he physically pulled away to signal he was okay with that (something he certainly deserved in return, I should say).

    Seeking enthusiastic consent was a very clear part of this encounter, and it was sexy! The Duke asking Daphne what she wanted and what she liked was threaded in seamlessly; working to dismantle ideas that discussions around consent are awkward and disruptive.

    Bridgerton is certainly not the only series to do that, either. Normal People was a hugely popular example of consent being a turn on. And Sex Education has done a pretty wonderful job of breaking down shame around discussing sex and all the elements of it in an open, respectful way ( at least, mostly ).

    It’s a nice shift we’re seeing in more content of late, and hopefully, it’s a trend we see continue to pick up steam.

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