Very good article. I think a lot of the fear around these things is not really conducent to a proper solution. Some technology is so dangerous that it is bann

Very good article. I think a lot of the fear around these things is not really conducent to a proper solution. Some technology is so dangerous that it is banned, for example, nuclear weapons. But some countries still have nuclear weapons and that puts them on a very advantageous position compared to the rest of the world. Of course, we say we don't want unstable countries to have them but then again... Russia does. Every technology that is developed will get to be on the hands of the powerful; be it the richest or the ones with the best political connections and this will not be in any way an exception for content generation ai. Paying for it will not make you use it in a more responsible way, and of course, for these big companies to decide what is acceptable and what is not is a non democratic way of restricting speech. They're obviously in their right to do so but I wouldn't hail them as anything other than self interested entities. I think the future many of these companies envision is the same locked on present that companies like apple have built. To me, thats not desirable. I want people to be free to use these generation models to create as much as they want. Copyright be damned. But then again, I am also in the "it's not piracy it's illegal copying" boat. Ultimately I think this discussion is, and never has been, about the harm these tools could do to democracy but the harm they could do to intellectual property holders. I mean, people don't need realistic deep fakes to believe outrageous things anyway and anyone who is critical will double check information but people don't do that because they don't care and so it really doesn't matter how good deep fakes or fake news get because they already are good enough (and I'm talking about Q conspiracy tier lies). The problem isn't the tools, the problem isn't the speech, the problem is that our education system doesn't prepare us for true critical thinking. Give us the tools and give us the knowledge.