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I hope they aren't planning on selling the version which can generate realistic faces to regimes manufacturing propaganda.

by cwkoss 5y ago

anothernewdude 5y ago
Regimes manufacturing propaganda have cheaper ways of generating realistic faces.
astrange 5y ago
Modern uses of propaganda don't seem to need it to be believable to work.
- astrange 5y ago
  Whoops, edit period closed. You can effectively use it to make it sound like every other side is unbelievable, or just to tire people into giving up, or get past spam filters by generating better than ever nonsense. And the in-group will take it as a point of pride to believe lies from their own group anyway.
  - cwkoss 5y ago
    I think the bigger danger is the speed that people will be able to fabricate 'evidence' to support a false narrative faster than photographs of an event can come in. The first images of a news story available could be fabrications. What if news organizations were able to put pictures of Saddam's WMDs (that remember, never existed) on frontpage stories while the executive was trying to manufacture consent for entering a war? I feel like the human brain is going to have a hard time being skeptical of fake news when fabricated fantasies can be rendered realistically.
    - vintermann 5y ago
      > What if news organizations were able to put pictures of Saddam's WMDs (that remember, never existed) on frontpage stories while the executive was trying to manufacture consent for entering a war? Then the outcome would be... exactly the outcome we had anyway, which was the OP's point. You can already lie with images with Photoshop. It's a little more work, but you can probably still hide it far better than you can pass off a DALL-E generated image as real. Lying with images isn't the problem. Telling a consistent lie, getting all the details right even when new evidence comes in, that's a problem, and this sort of AI doesn't help with that at all.
bestcoder69 5y ago
OpenAI is so hilarious to me. It's like if MADD pivoted to being a business that hacks people's car breathalyzers for them or something. Like just admit you aren't primarily about "Trust and Safety" and "AI alignment". You charge people for a language model that loves to say the N-word! lol
- fastball 5y ago
  GPT-3 loves to say the N-word?
kingcharles 5y ago
It's been available for several years. Spammers and scammers use it to pad out all their fake profiles. You can too! https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ (just keep refreshing)

I hope they aren't planning on selling the version which can generate realistic faces to regimes manufacturing propaganda.

by cwkoss 5y ago

I hope they aren't planning on selling the version which can generate realistic faces to regimes manufacturing propaganda.

anothernewdude 5y ago

Regimes manufacturing propaganda have cheaper ways of generating realistic faces.

astrange 5y ago

Modern uses of propaganda don't seem to need it to be believable to work.

astrange 5y ago
Whoops, edit period closed. You can effectively use it to make it sound like every other side is unbelievable, or just to tire people into giving up, or get past spam filters by generating better than ever nonsense. And the in-group will take it as a point of pride to believe lies from their own group anyway.
- cwkoss 5y ago
  I think the bigger danger is the speed that people will be able to fabricate 'evidence' to support a false narrative faster than photographs of an event can come in. The first images of a news story available could be fabrications. What if news organizations were able to put pictures of Saddam's WMDs (that remember, never existed) on frontpage stories while the executive was trying to manufacture consent for entering a war? I feel like the human brain is going to have a hard time being skeptical of fake news when fabricated fantasies can be rendered realistically.
  - vintermann 5y ago
    > What if news organizations were able to put pictures of Saddam's WMDs (that remember, never existed) on frontpage stories while the executive was trying to manufacture consent for entering a war? Then the outcome would be... exactly the outcome we had anyway, which was the OP's point. You can already lie with images with Photoshop. It's a little more work, but you can probably still hide it far better than you can pass off a DALL-E generated image as real. Lying with images isn't the problem. Telling a consistent lie, getting all the details right even when new evidence comes in, that's a problem, and this sort of AI doesn't help with that at all.

bestcoder69 5y ago

OpenAI is so hilarious to me. It's like if MADD pivoted to being a business that hacks people's car breathalyzers for them or something. Like just admit you aren't primarily about "Trust and Safety" and "AI alignment". You charge people for a language model that loves to say the N-word! lol

fastball 5y ago
GPT-3 loves to say the N-word?

kingcharles 5y ago

It's been available for several years. Spammers and scammers use it to pad out all their fake profiles. You can too! https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ (just keep refreshing)