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Jesus, where is the big red stop button?

Millions of images of passports, credit cards, birth certificates, and other documents containing personally identifiable information are likely included in one of the biggest open-source AI training sets, new research has found.

Thousands of images—including identifiable faces—were found in a small subset of DataComp CommonPool, a major AI training set for image generation scraped from the web. Because the researchers audited just 0.1% of CommonPool’s data, they estimate that the real number of images containing personally identifiable information, including faces and identity documents, is in the hundreds of millions. The study that details the breach was published on arXiv earlier this month.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/18/1120466/a-major-ai-training-data-set-contains-millions-of-examples-of-personal-data/

WNBA players wore shirts that read “Pay Us What You Owe Us” at their all star game.

Fun fact : the WNBA was established 29 years ago. Of those 29 years, the organization has made a profit in exactly zero years.

At my old office if you saw blue tape it was marking the six foot safe bubble for people

Don't speak unless spoken to.
Don't take candy from strangers.
Do as I say., not as I do.

My usual, a peanut butter sandwich, half an orange (the other half put out for the Orioles), and a tree ripend yellow plum.

@silvermouse said:
I am trying to figure out the architecture of that scene and the blue tape, the rat's nest of wires makes sense.

The architecture of that scene is as follows: there is a 30 or so inch pony wall separating the "front room" from the "formal dining room," which are on different levels as noted by the single stair in between them. Western US modern design BS that goes with the rest of the houses open floor plan. Supposed to make everything super spacious but separate rooms, I guess for the listing?

I would run a contest on the blue tape, but a lot of the guys here know about it from the vherf and they would all refuse to answer so the contest ran for 6 months. My autistic 15-year-old son constantly puts down, pulls up, re-puts down blue tape has runway or streets so he can play with his airplanes and cars. I don't even notice the freaking tape anymore.

nonhyphenated or not hyphenated is correct