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 Someone commented that they were disappointed the Taylor Swift deepfakes aren't making rounds on nostr since it's a good test of censorship resistance. Challenge accepted!

Note that I'm marking these images as "sensitive" so your client ought to blur them by default. I'm also spreading the files across multiple hosts for redundancy.

Personally, I find it ridiculous that these particular deepfakes are what caused an uproar, because they're simply not believable due to the crowds in the background. When I was searching for Swift deepfakes I came across MANY older images that are far more realistic. But it just goes to show that you never know what will go viral.


https://image.nostr.build/5363fcd221746f520eba1f3eef85ec4adadb7c27a1a151f1aca2cf5c361fc529.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=643x599&blurhash=%3B8EA%5B%24wwK7TJJT%7EB%3Dyi%7BNwYPSe%23qnO-A-US%23J7%24i01bb5k9t-VE1ay-Ba%7D57xHx%5B%251FKNbozNbS%23%2C%5Brr%3Dy%252IpkDS2WVW%3BrDNGaKIowIIpM%7CsANG9tO%3FNaWUxtNGbHj%5BnitkozXSxuX8kWt7oys%3A&x=636ebca7541272de5d0515be8fa52701f7a831bab4d99c42134b7b4331dc84e1


https://nostrage.com/media/public/6800ed2b6901e820c1912b3563b906f90f517491a29589ec3f199220434fc380.webp#m=image%2Fwebp&dim=1280x1232&blurhash=%7CFH0eW9tKN9%5B-V%5E6IVEMkV%7B%2CEyIVR*%3Dx-BNuI%3Aba%5EiJ7%3DxxGR*RjS4bHw_%5D.RQtkofRjniofW%3Bnix%5DVsS%7EjFRQt7%24%25NaM%7BOri_xanOX7XRs9V%40V%40tRe.nOnixGX7NGWBs%3ATIV%5BR%25r%3Ft7S%23nOaej%5BX8s%3ARjniX6W%3BsUn%25W%3B&x=8efd6ff5f8001a56a0f05f0ceb4b86f5fc15c9abaca5eaf79d1806ca2ee363b9


https://sove.rent/media/public/31bd2e6f7bc8832e8fdb2b1dee5e65c16da3f28a47cf76dba03279bb0f61f1a5.webp#m=image%2Fwebp&dim=680x680&blurhash=U8J%3DsB0%230_0fD*E%7B%5Dqxt0dwg%3Fb-pUa%5E69ta0&x=a0bcb9015f0e3ca49f9d2ee72acf089a283d4f504b7eff52a44e5cb99a54b3b2


https://files.sovbit.host/media/public/5465e1dbe96af7bff240b561bbf892a6310ae7485785c8c23dc840e9b2740d29.webp#m=image%2Fwebp&dim=1280x1232&blurhash=%7CfI%7CF4xaM_ocogNGoLSgn*.mt7VsWBozWAbHoLjsu4Sen%24fksoWUofWBaetmxFxaWBNas.a%23aebHtlxZozs9WUWVj%5Bo0W%3BxaS1bvj%5BsmofaebFoMNaaetRkCayofWVn%25fkRjWUt7oLaej%5Dayj%5Baze%3AWBf*oLWVt6n%25bHj%40&x=b0f35782552afea8896de87b43caf9cae4275852c91b6d00aa04d2f9f6761ccc 
 Wow, that's it? I was expecting a lot worse.

Probably disproportional response due to her status. 
 Yeah they're pretty tame. 
 Exactly what I was thinking 😅 
 Just a guess but I think the Taylor Swift / Kelce story that’s taken over the country is scripted to give Swift the power to influence millions of votes this fall. 
 Why would she (potentially) alienate millions of her fans by announcing who she is voting for?  
 Good point but don’t celebs do it every election? 
 That tinfoil hats seems to be a little too tight buddy 
 Nah. Not at all. They got celebs in their back pocket. 👌🏽 
 You presumed it wasn’t here already because it’s not in your feed. Pretty limpdicked to bring more attention to this noise & put it on ours imo. People following you probably expected a higher standard, but that might’ve just been me. I’ll adjust my expectations of you. 
 I think it was just you. This is a great test imo. 
 There’s enough actual illegal shit using nostr, like cp, if you wanted to examine nostr censurability. I don’t expect to see this ethically compromising shit coming from the ceo of a bitcoin-enabled company just for a gotcha. Just me I guess. 
 Just like Bitcoin it turns out nostr is available to everyone, but not for everyone. 
 Feel free to block or unfollow me 😘 
 Unfollow, unfortunately you know bitcoin well enough from me to learn from still. 
 well enough for* 
 Yeah I have to say it's pretty lame. Not sure why someone has so much interest in this stuff and child porn deep fakes. I really don't see the point of posting it, I imagine most people here have little to no interest in Talyor Swift deepfake porn pics. Celebraties have to deal with resl life papparazzi which I imagine is a fucking nightmare and now there's this dumb shit. 
 I'm interested in the intersection of technological acceleration and its effects upon society.

The most interesting issues arise at the extremes, which is why I explore the uncomfortable contentious topics. 
 His attention farming definitely worked well with this one. 
 The images aren’t blurred. May be my settings 
 There is no sensitive tags on the post 
 To be clear, I tagged the IMAGES as sensitive, not the note itself. Perhaps that doesn't work the way one would expect? Sounds like a question for @Vitor Pamplona 
 Noone even implements image metadata the way he does afaik. The “right” way to make a sensitive post is https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/36.md as it’s probably the only same thing we can all agree on. 
 Oops. Consensus is hard! 
 I haven't seen them until now and like you said I'm surprised the outrage the background of people clearly demonstrates how fake they are. Still shitty people make them but the genie is out of the bottle and this problem only going get worse with more realistic ones. Maybe outrage will be used for government to get more control of the tech or something because they dont let a good crisis go to waste. 
 This note does not have a content warning. Guess it makes it an even better test of clients' moderation features! Quick everyone, mute nostr:nprofile1qy08wumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuam9d3kx7unyv4ezumn9wshsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjme0qyt8wumn8ghj7ur4wfcxcetjv4kxz7fwvdhk6tcqyrmj3k0xuuzgxk88pyc0tjnykzthwrvcnnxcdp20ucvwm2wg5wqsvwvmcme  so his WoT score goes below zero.

Just kidding, but it does pose an interesting scenario: what if someone with high trust loses their mind? How quickly could they organically be demoted from people's feeds? 
 Right, I flagged the images as sensitive rather than the note. Sounds like there's a mismatch in expectations.

I suspect from what we've seen happen on other social networks, followers are incredibly sticky and even if someone goes insane, they won't meaningfully lose much of the attention directed toward them. 
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 Lol, Damus blurred this image, but not yours. https://image.nostr.build/892da45d5a99062a4fb33c851dd3c173b7b6f0409b192ba0a1ade033b1a2c107.jpg  
 It blurs if you don’t follow them 😅 a bit more reliable than hoping the user tags things correctly. Usually people won’t if they are posting shock images maliciously. 
 @Taylorswift exists 
 Ahhhh of course it does! 
 No Agenda has an analysis on this. It is suspected that there are photos coming to embarrass a certain vice-president who may want to run and that they are setting up a deniable narrative. 

 
 Meh.

#nsfw gets it blocked on Amethyst, I believe.  
 @hzrd149 these images should probably be blurred ;) 
 Is there something in the event that indicates that they're sensitive? I don't see a content warning or anything. 
 I don’t see anything in the image metadata either 
 Lol. I don't know how @Jameson Lopp marked the images as sensitive. Maybe in the image metadata? 😆  
 My bad, there is a new bug that was created when we migrated to the NIP-96 servers and the content-warning was not added :( 
 Sorry Jameson. What happens on nostr, stays on nostr. 
 I don't see anything in the event or image URLs that mark them as sensitive  
 This is what caused all of this? I am 100% certain the internet already produced much much worse than these. 
 Indeed, which is why censorship resistance is so important: you never know where the scale will tip when the powers that be can arbitrarily decide to censor content. 
 $boost

Censorship #resistance is critical, and you should all understand that by now. #Millions of you were #killed and seriously injured by the so-called #covid #vaccines.

Millions more of you will die in the years and decades to come. All from a single shot. Forced! on you by the so-called experts, officials and powers that be. All! for their personal profit.

Many of us fought with every thing in our power to get the word out to everyone. Don't take those experimental so-called vaccines. They're extremely! dangerous and #deadly. They can kill you on the spot. Or years later. After a single #shot.

We took one hell of a beating. But we saved a lot of lives. Free #speech is worth it, and critical to human survival. Humanity has survived because some were willing to tell others not to eat those berries, they're poisonous. 

🗽or 💀. You decide..⚰️

https://image.nostr.build/7baae656e7886e7be81ffcb86d45d3cd5d06719f619a4720fab5133b99d9e3aa.gif#m=image%2Fgif&dim=576x500&blurhash=%3BECP%3BXxu%25Mj%5BM%7BWBWBM%7Bt7-%3BM%7B-%3BayIURjWBj%5Bj%5B%7EqIUD%25WBD%25RjxuWBxbxuM%7Bj%5Bj%5BRjj%5Bt7RjWBWBIUofs%3BRjayt7s%3BWB%25MIUM%7BWBt7oft7WBWBD%24M%7BWBWBxut7ofj%5BRjfQt7Rjxuj%5Bfjofofj%5B&x=381441f8de843e25c9ed0c918b6e62d378baf9c41d570334293db1bb0a014ab5 
 Great to see. Freedom FTW 
 Thanks for showing what the fuss was all about.  I agree, totally unbelievable due to the crowd setting. 
 Good for you..👏👍😊 

Thank you for testing and challenging #nostr's alleged censorship resistance.

I'm getting tired of being the only dog all the time..🤘😊 
 I was the one who asked. Kinda wish I didn't 😂 But thanks so much for responding. Zap incoming 
 I love that Jameson Loop did this. I don't want to make Nostr "icky," but I would like to see more controversial content here.
nostr:nevent1qqsvt807ndypdtwpe9k8p8zszutdgsugt7ygauec3y7xsmt3cyaalzspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzyrmj3k0xuuzgxk88pyc0tjnykzthwrvcnnxcdp20ucvwm2wg5wqsvqcyqqqqqqgtk88ts 
 I had a quick look for them & then realised that I had no idea what Taylor Swift even looks like. This is what 15 years of not watching MSM does to you 😅

I then got distracted by Hermione getting reamed before shutting it all down.

Interesting & dark times we find ourselves in.

 
 I never saw her, too. Great way too get introduced 😂 
 My client didn't blur these at all. I'm using Primal.  
 It turns out that apparently no other clients support this file specific tagging that Amethyst does. 
 Amethyst supports everything. I shouldn't be surprised. 
 Seems like nobody is doing anything with labeling or reporting yet. 

For a popular account I would expect at least someone to label or report this with “nudity”, not in a negative or censoring way but just to provide extra information about a post. But I queried for kind 1984 (NIP-56 - Reporting) and kind 1985 (NIP-32 - Labeling) and I get nothing. 
 Isn't the weak point here not Nostr itself, but image hosting services? What's to stop these pictures from just disappearing because sovbit.host is shut down or forced to remove them? 
 Good point. But the uploading account you're following can keep uploading it somewhere

And then there's still IPFS 
 So, freedom by whack-a-mole? I suppose that's fair.

What's this IPFS you speak of?  
 IPFS is a network where you can share files. Each file is stored as its hash and can be requested f.e. from HTTP gateways

https://docs.ipfs.tech/concepts/ipfs-gateway/

You can upload a file via CLI

https://docs.ipfs.tech/quickstart/publish_cli/
 
 Would this integrate with Nostr, so that relays could fetch images uploaded to IPFS and display them in clients? Is there a cost to hosting images in this network, or a limit on image size, similar to NIP-95? 
 People really apply terms “controversial” and “censorship resistance” to revenge-porn deepfakes? Congrats, deep fakes worked, you are their victims 
 Iris desktop client doesn't seem to blur "sensitive" marked posts 
 Gonna do wonders for her career

🤭 
 so far so good 
 I’’m using IRIS and I see a “removed by server” msg for 3 out of the 4 images. 
 Lmao is that it? Jfc people will have a hard time on the internet over the next decade if this causes that much uproar 
 i got instantly suspended on twitter/x when i posted these an hour ago 
 Maybe it’s just my bad nostr skills but three out of four of these are just black images for me. I’d much rather be dumb than find out nostr isn’t censorship resistant 
 does anyone have the rest of these pics?