A photo of Army biologists was on a list of images to be purged, seemingly because it mentioned they were recording data about fish that included their gender.
    • @[email protected]English
      70•3 days ago

      They know exactly what they’re doing, it’s a “purification,” not entirely dissimilar to the same that happened in the 1930s in Germany.

      • @[email protected]English
        8•2 days ago

        Oh, no, they’re dumb as a bag of bricks. Dumbest Nazis of all time. AI just makes them dumber.

    • The QuuuuuillEnglish
      21•3 days ago

      not at all. trying to eliminate gay people from history, and also a nice convenient moment to sweep some war crimes under the rug

        • The QuuuuuillEnglish
          4•3 days ago

          they’re not who they’re manufacturing consent from. it’s the ~55% of people who apparently listen to nothing but spotify and watch nothing but entertainment

  • 1024_KibibytesEnglish
    71•3 days ago

    Also apparently any photo of any Black or woman service member.

    Because they didn’t consider the possibility that women and Black service members did noteworthy things based on their actual merit.

    • @[email protected]English
      42•3 days ago

      “Images of historically significant military achievements or personnel, such as the Tuskegee Airmen and the first female Marine Corps infantry graduates, have been flagged for removal.”

      Wow. That’s pretty blatant.

      • @[email protected]English
        4•2 days ago

        The Tuskegee airmen thing pisses me off so much. Like brick-throwing shit-burning degree of angry.

  • kersplooshEnglish
    47•3 days ago

    I was really hoping this was a case of intentional malicious compliance to draw attention to the stupidity of this new policy. No such luck.

  • @[email protected]English
    12•2 days ago

    find /mnt/gubarmentfiles/ -name “*gay*” -exec rm {} ;

    – some dogenerate, propably.

  • magnetosphere
    9•3 days ago

    This is just the right kind of absurd for our current government circus. I believe the headline completely without even reading the article.

  • @[email protected]English
    2•3 days ago

    They won’t, they will be reviewed by a human being at some point and reinstated, they’ve been flagged by an automated program.

    It’s the Scunthorpe problem all over again.

    • @[email protected]English
      11•2 days ago

      That automated program flagged at least tens of thousands of historical photos, most of which aren’t as silly as ‘haha plane gay’ but of actual people (some of whom are still very much alive) in a blatant attempt to literally whitewash American history. Like, they’ve flagged the photos of literal Medal of Honor recipients because their skin tone is darker than eggshell, this is objectively horrifying. The loss of even one of those files is completely disrespectful on a number of levels