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Re:AUTOMATIC1111's GitHub Account Suspended For "TOS Violati... by meowface on Thursday January 05, 2023 @10:56AM (#34261563)
This appears to be correct. The racism allegations are likely legitimate* but they don't appear to be involved with the account being taken down.

* "WhiteOnly" Rimworld mod that removes all non-whites; "PeacefulProtests" mod "narrated by George Floyd"; "BlackOnly" mod that purportedly just disables technological progression, though this claim appears to be unverified; exclusively black or black-painting artists in data set labeled with "n" + almost no other single-letters in use besides another possible euphemism, which when asked about gave a reply of "no comment"; long-time 4channer and /g/ poster (in recent years /g/ has become increasingly far-right; certainly not all /g/ posters are, but in combination with those other factors it may be relevant)

Re:AUTOMATIC1111's GitHub Account Suspended For "TOS Violati... by huggingrear on Thursday January 05, 2023 @11:05AM (#34261767)
>"WhiteOnly" Rimworld mod that removes all non-whites

This was in response to an already existing mod which removed all white people, which was deemed totally fine. AUTO1111 also made a all black MOD later, which you mentioned.

>"BlacksOnly" mod that purportedly just disables technological progression

This is false: https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/103vsm2/we...

All it did was lock the available skintones.

>/g/ has become increasingly far-right

Any data to back this up with ? And how can you even know that AUTO1111 is active on /g/ ? It's anonymous.

Re:AUTOMATIC1111's GitHub Account Suspended For "TOS Violati... by meowface on Thursday January 05, 2023 @11:27AM (#34262205)
>This was in response to an already existing mod which removed all white people, which was deemed totally fine

Whether fine or not, the intentions on the part of the retaliator are obvious.

>This is false: https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/103vsm2/we...

Per the other comments:

>He updated the Black Only mod a month after release, and never posted the code for it on github like he did for the White Only mod, so it's impossible to say whether the comments discussing technological progression being disabled are correct.

Hence why I said "purportedly". There's no way to prove it since there's no archive of the code before that update, but it's interesting.

>And how can you even know that AUTO1111 is active on /g/ ?

He posts there as himself all the time and goes by Voldemort or Voldy. You could go and say it's an impersonator, but it's been very widely known since the start that it was made by a 4channer. The repo was first created due to discussions in the daily Stable Diffusion General threads in /g/. Here he is replying to the drama today: https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/90718880/#90720622

>That is bullshit. I'm the one who wrote most of code. Most of meaningful features that people like were written from 0 by me.

>Any data to back this up with ?

It is painfully obvious if you spend 15 minutes looking through any threads. If you want, I could compile a near-endless list of extremely racist and antisemitic posts, but you would just say "that's cherrypicking", so what's the point? I urge anyone to visit https://4chan.org/g/ and click through some threads and judge for themselves. It's not a big secret that 4chan has become increasingly associated with far-right, anti-nonwhite ideology within the past 6 or so years.

You also didn't address the George Floyd (aka "PeacefulBlackMan" - https://iredd.it/fnowk8j57aaa1.png) mod or the fact that all of the people labeled with "n" are black, with the one white person being someone who draws black people, while nothing else appears to have a single-letter label (besides "c", apparently for "children"). "N" is also, among other things, a particularly popular 4chan joke/reference (like writing a post with just "N" and expecting others to complete the word in a chain).

If you want an example, here are the /g/ responses to Voldy's GitHub ban and the racism accusations from just the past 10 minutes as of writing this post: https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/90720677/#90721519

>>a blacks only mod where technology progression is disabled (laughing emoji picture)

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>>blacks only mod where technological progression is disabled

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>LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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>he's one of us

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>I hate fucking redditors so much. Simping for a fentanyl chimp while in same breath begging for FBI to take guns away from white people and clapping for Waco.

Re:AUTOMATIC1111's GitHub Account Suspended For "TOS Violati... by iinnPP on Thursday January 05, 2023 @11:54AM (#34262704)
There were also plenty of news outlets that reported racist models that didn't produce proper representation.

The n identifier could be used as a way to negate this problem or to provide evidence to the contrary of the dominant narrative of the incredibly powerful.

When viewed as a whole, everything seems to be done to provide a counter to power. Which is also a function of truly open AI.

When all pink is okay and all purple is not, you have a seriously color-based prejudice on your hands. Anyone arguing to the contrary would be wearing a white outfit going on about power in a different time.

Re:AUTOMATIC1111's GitHub Account Suspended For "TOS Violati... by dEnigma on Thursday January 05, 2023 @01:42PM (#34264450)
I think the fact that their Steam profile[1] was at some point called "Remember the six gorillion" speaks loud enough when it comes to their character, all other things aside.

[1]https://steamcommunity.com/id/no-sry (click the little down-arrow next to their name)

Re:AUTOMATIC1111's GitHub Account Suspended For "TOS Violati... by dEnigma on Thursday January 05, 2023 @01:50PM (#34264557)
While there are some other factors at play, and some inaccuracies in those claims, mentioned by sister comments, I agree with the conclusion. I've mentioned my observations in another comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34261198

That all is not to say that I would agree with a GitHub suspension; just that the author seems to be of questionable character.