{"id":1189378,"date":"2023-10-05T17:32:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T21:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1189378"},"modified":"2023-10-05T17:32:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T21:32:37","slug":"4chan-users-manipulate-ai-tools-to-unleash-torrent-of-racist-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1189378","title":{"rendered":"4chan users manipulate AI tools to unleash torrent of racist images"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/4chan-meme-firestarter-800x450-1.jpg\" alt=\"4chan users manipulate AI tools to unleash torrent of racist images\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/4chan-meme-firestarter.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1440\" data-width=\"2561\">Enlarge<\/a> (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Despite leading AI companies&#8217; attempts to block users from turning AI image generators into engines of racist content, many 4chan users are still turning to these tools to &#8220;quickly flood the Internet with racist garbage,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/4chan-uses-bing-to-flood-the-internet-with-racist-images\/\">404 Media reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>404 Media uncovered one 4chan thread where users recommended various AI tools, including Stable Diffusion and DALL-E, but specifically linked to Bing AI&#8217;s text-to-image generator (which is powered by DALL-E 3) as a &#8220;quick method.&#8221; After finding the right tool\u2014which could also be a more old-school photo-editing tool like Photoshop\u2014users are instructed to add incendiary captions and share the images on social media to create a blitz of racist images online.<\/p>\n<p>Make captions &#8220;funny, provocative,&#8221; the thread instructs users. Use &#8220;redpilling message (Jews involved in 9\/11)&#8221; that are &#8220;easy to understand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1973737#p3\">Read 8 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1973737&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1973737\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4chan users manipulate AI tools to unleash torrent of racist images<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Despite leading AI companies&#8217; attempts to block users from turning AI image generators into engines of racist content, many 4chan users are still turning to these tools to &#8220;quickly flood the Internet with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1189378\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1189379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1189378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1189378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1189379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1189378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1189378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1189378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}