README.md

Supplements for Letters from the Stochastic Penal Colony 🏝

This directory contains the following supplements to the paper:

The data directory contains transparency data released by Meta and NCMEC as well as datasets capturing names, regions, continents, and population counts for most of Earth's countries curated by myself.
The [analysis.ipynb] notebook runs the meta.ipynb, tiktok.ipynb and csam-across-world.ipynb notebooks with the corresponding analysis code. The required Python packages are listed in requirements.txt. However, instead of manually setting up the corresponding virtual environment, just run

./build.sh venv

in the repository root to create and/or activate a virtual environment suitable for running either notebook. The notebooks are open source under the Apache 2.0 license.
The figures directory contains SVG graphics generated by the csam-across-world.ipynb notebook.
The prompts directory contains all my DALL-E 2 prompts and a short script for collecting statistics.
The best-of-generations contains my selection of images that violate DALL-E 2's content policy while also being visually compelling.
The extra-generations directory contains unedited DALL-E 2 prompts and generations that inadvertently include grotesquely racist imagery. See README.md in the directory for more details.

All critical source material for the paper's analysis is reproduced in appendices of the paper.