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dvrj101 ◴[] No.45261476[source]
they are trying to set precedent. This can kill TOR or other privacy related services in USA easily in current environment.
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antonymoose ◴[] No.45261737[source]
Several years prior I had a coworker get arrested on CSAM charges because, you guessed it, he ran an Tor exit node.

Of course there was no reporting on the Tor aspect, just “local man arrested for CSAM” in the local papers. He eventually had the charges dropped after years of court battles, but his name is forever tarnished as a result.

This particular job we had a lot of idealist folks, two of whom ran relays - they immediately ceased to do so in the aftermath of the coworker’s arrest.

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1. pjc50 ◴[] No.45262383[source]
If you run a Tor exit node, it is quite possible that you will end up downloading things on behalf of other people. CSAM carries strict liability charges.
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2. Der_Einzige ◴[] No.45265481[source]
Seems not to if you're working at an AI image generation company.

https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/news/investigation-finds-ai-i...

https://www.techpolicy.press/laion5b-stable-diffusion-and-th...

Someone somehow downloaded the images in LAION 5B to do the actual training, and we know that thousands of these images contained illegal content.

Where's the strict liability? Everyone who ever downloaded and ran Stable Diffusion 1.5, or even Lora's from it, could in some way be held "strictly liable" for the fact that you are simply one prompt away...