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[-] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Im not going to comment on whatever he's commenting on.

Im just going to re-affirm that Tim Sweeney is a fucking moron. in any and all cases

[-] KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Did Covid-19 make everyone lose their minds? This isn't about corporate folks being cruel or egotistical. This is just a stupid thing to say. Has the world lost the concept of PR??? Genuinely defending 𝕏 in the year 2026... for Deepfake porn including of minors!!???? From the Fortnite company guy???

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

Unironically this behaviour is just "pivoting to a run for office as a Republican" vibes nowadays.

Its no longer even 'weird behaviour' for a US CEO.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 2 days ago

For some reason Epic studios just let Tim Sweeney say the most insane things. If I was a shareholder I'd want someone to take his phone off him.

[-] KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

They could learn a lesson from Tesla.

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[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 247 points 4 days ago

TIL Tim Sweeny is into child porn. Not surprising tbh.

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[-] deltaspawn0040@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago

That's not even what gatekeeping means. Unless he's trying to stand up for the universal right to participate in the child porn fandom.

[-] Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago

He wants to use AI in his products but then not be responsible for his products.

[-] deltaspawn0040@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Oh that's an even worse (and probably accurate) interpretation.

"How are we supposed to do business if there are consequences for our actions?!"

[-] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 159 points 4 days ago

If you can be effectively censored by the banning of a site flooded with CSAM, that's very much your problem and nobody else's.

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[-] popcar2@piefed.ca 76 points 3 days ago
[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 days ago

It helps that Tim Sweeney seems to always be wrong about everything.

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[-] Soapbox@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago

Just look at that guy. If you were to ask 1000 people to describe what they thought a typical CSAM viewer looked like and averaged their responses together you would get something like this photo of Tim Sweeney.

[-] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 99 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yet another CEO who's super into child porn huh?

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[-] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 90 points 4 days ago

I'll keep in mind Tim think child porn is just politics.

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[-] nowwhernews@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

If my political opponents are actually sexual predators and their speech is sexual harassment, I'm down with censoring them. That should be the least of their problems.

[-] greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 days ago

What a surprise, Tim Sweeney is still a shit person

[-] Montagge@lemmy.zip 66 points 4 days ago

Somebody is in a certain set of files

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

IMO commenters here discussing the definition of CSAM are missing the point. Definitions are working tools; it's fine to change them as you need. The real thing to talk about is the presence or absence of a victim.

Non-consensual porn victimises the person being depicted, because it violates the person's rights over their own body — including its image. Plus it's ripe material for harassment.

This is still true if the porn in question is machine-generated, and the sexual acts being depicted did not happen. Like the sort of thing Grok is able to generate. This is what Timothy Sweeney (as usual, completely detached from reality) is missing.

And it applies to children and adults. The only difference is that adults can still consent to have their image shared as porn; children cannot. As such, porn depicting children will be always non-consensual, thus always victimising the children in question.

Now, someone else mentioned Bart's dick appears in the Simpsons movie. The key difference is that Bart is not a child, it is not even a person to begin with, it is a fictional character. There's no victim.


EDIT: I'm going to abridge what I said above, in a way that even my dog would understand:

What Grok is doing is harmful, there are victims of that, regardless of some "ackshyually this is not CSAM lol lmao". And yet you guys keep babbling about definitions?

Everything else I said here was contextualising and detailing the above.

Is this clear now? Or will I get yet another lying piece of shit (like @Atomic@sh.itjust.works) going out of their way to misinterpret what I said?

(I don't even have a dog.)

[-] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

What exactly have I lied about?

I've never once tried to even insinuate that what grok is doing ok. Nor that it should be. What I've said. Is that it doesn't even matter if there are an actual real person being victimized or not. It's still illegal. No matter how you look at it. It's illegal. Fictional or not.

Your example of Bart in the Simpsons movie is so far out of place I hardly know where to begin.

It's NOT because he's fictional. Because fictional depictions of naked children in sexually compromised situations IS illegal.

Though I am glad you don't have a dog. It would be real awkward for the dog to always be the smartest being in the house.

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[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 points 3 days ago

TIL Tim Sweeney doesn't know what gatekeeping is

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago

Who else just did a search on the Epstein files for "Tim Sweeney"?

I didn't find anything on jmail, but there's still a lot that haven't been released, and a lot of stuff is still redacted.

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[-] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

From making CSAM? Makes you wonder about this Sweeny guy.

[-] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 53 points 4 days ago

His opinion is as trash as his gaming storefront that insists its a platform.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago

Absolutely insane take. The reason Grok can generate CP is because it was trained on it. Musk should be arrested just for owning that shit.

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[-] blinfabian@feddit.nl 32 points 3 days ago

steam

does nothing

wins

[-] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 41 points 4 days ago

I wonder which AI companies he’s invested in

[-] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Pedo and facist defendant Tim Sweeney. Burn his business down by disconnecting your, patronage, money, time, etc. Boards can find CEOs who are not supporters of Pedo and Facists

[-] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago

There's this old adage, "never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity".

Tim Sweeney is very ignorant. However, he's also pretty malicious. His fedoraèd waffling should probably be taken exactly for what it is.

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[-] DeadWorld@lemmy.zip 42 points 4 days ago

Someone beat this man for attempting to defent AI csam

[-] termaxima@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago

If there is one gate that definitely needs keeping, it is the kindergarten's gate. Don't let those creeps get away with it...

[-] bearboiblake@pawb.social 38 points 4 days ago

inb4 "In a stunning 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that AI-generated CSAM is constitutionally protected speech"

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[-] GoblinGreg@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago

Isn't this the "won't somebody please think of the children" party?

[-] Dhar@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 days ago

Oh, they're thinking of 'em all right!

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah. I’m as tired of the argument that pretty much anything goes as far as free speech goes as I am of the “everything is a slippery slope when we make laws to keep people from doing harmful shit.”

I mean what’s the required damage before people put a stop to inciteful speech and objectively harmful lies? Or making CSAM of kids using a platform like X? Germany had to kill a few million people before they decided that maybe displaying Nazi symbols and speech wasn’t a good idea. So we have a platform being used to make CSAM. What’s it going to take before someone says that this is a bad idea and shouldn’t be done? How many kids will commit suicide after being taunted and shamed for their images being used? How many is “enough”? There should be immediate action to end the means to use these tools to make porn, there’s plenty of porn available on the internet and making it from user-submitted images on a major public platform is a horrible idea, but too many make up all kinds of reasons why we can’t do that…economic, censorship, whatever.

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 33 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Imagine where Epic would be if they had just censored Tim Sweeney’s Twitter account.

It’s like he’s hell bent on driving people away from Epic. I’m not sure I could be more abrasive if I tried, without losing the plausible deniability of not trying to troll.

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[-] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 days ago

So he's saying CSAM is free/protected speech? Got it.

Dude had absolutely no reason to out himself as a paedophile, but that seems to be exactly what he's done. And for what? Epic is in legal battles to get onto other companies' platforms (Google's Android and Apple's iOS) without paying the fees outlined in the terms and conditions every other developer had to agree to. I'm not saying he's 100% wrong in that opinion, but outing himself as a paedophile by stating CSAM is protected speech only hurts his argument in the other case, because he's saying he could put CSAM on his own platform (i.e. Fortnite, a game aimed at children and teenagers) and he'd be against you censoring his "free" and "protected" speech.

I just see no good outcomes for what Sweeney is fighting for here.

To address the political opponents angle, no one was calling for a Twitter/X ban before the CSAM problem, even when our political opponents were up there (i.e. before and after Trump was banned and un-banned).

[-] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 9 points 3 days ago

I'm no fan of banning this or that particular platform (it's like trying to get rid of cheeseburgers by banning McDonalds; the burgers are still available from all the other burger chains and all the people who use the one will just switch to others) but this is a hilariously wrong way to get to the right answer.

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[-] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 7 points 3 days ago

As if we didn't need more reasons to hate on epicgames.

[-] Mwa@thelemmy.club 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

this guy is out of his mind

[-] Ledivin@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Tim Sweeney vocally supports child porn and deep fake porn? He certainly looks like the type of creeper, so I guess I'm not that surprised.

I wonder how many times he's been to Trump and Epstein's Pedophile Island 🤔

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