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PaperclipPerfector  11mo ago (text post)   1822 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for June 2, 2023

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I heard about some drama where an absolute madman appropriated institutional-grade compute from his university to produce 8 TB of degenerate Stable Diffusion pornography of 'very young adult women and co-workers'. This was then discovered: https://rdrama.net/post/175413/didnt-realize-stable-diffusion-has-a

Normally I hate the obnoxious rdrama user interface but there is something very novel and unique about seeing someone post this:

THAT'S A POST-DOC IN OUR DEPARTMENT THAT I USED AS THE BASE MODEL HERE. HOPEFULLY NO ONE NOTICES.

*picture of clothed Asian girl semi-immersed in mystery mud as part of the genre of 'Victorian girls drowning in quicksand' genre of fetish originally made to entertain some weirdo on /b/ *

TRANS LIVES MATTER

or

TECHNICALLY THE PROMPT USED WAS "VERY YOUNG ADULT WOMAN".

What does "very young adult woman" even mean? 18.00001?

Maybe OP could use the "what is a woman" defense and say that it's a bigoted question to ask

All the while random confetti and doges and some near-naked black guy are moving across the screen. The clownishness of the UI and content and reactions from the users all fit together. This might not even be real but it's still amusing.

For a less obnoxious link, there's a /g/ thread about it: https://boards.4channel.org/g/thread/93835165

Outstanding. Those threads were funnier than I expected.

Like some in the rdrama and 4chan threads, my initial reaction was “please be real.”

I wasn’t aware that rdrama had picked up using “frick” like Sage Northcutt, but I approve.

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