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[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] ebu@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

NullBulge

oh you know it was some furries

edit: their website (now down, but up on the wayback machine) uses ai-generated furry art, which few self-respecting furries (much less hacktivist ones) would touch with a ten-foot pole. or at least, the ones in the furry circles i keep. so it could very well just be opportunists

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

re your edit, well furry art could be traced back to the creator of the art/or the person who commissioned it, so using AI shit for opsec isn't totally strange.

[–] ebu@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

that's one possible reason, yeah. just seems like a really odd choice -- much like the fact that they dislike "crypto promotion" but still accept payment for secrets in crypto. doesn't feel like it would be that hard to find a sympathetic furry artist willing to draw in a nondistinct style or keep work under wraps. idk

the only reason it seems odd to me is that the overwhelming majority of furries either actively dislike or hate "ai art". maybe they're the odd ones out, or they just don't care for a throwaway group

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it is weird still. They could also have easily picked a historical piece of furry art, or use some Disney furry images.

[–] ebu@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago

but the NULLGE