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My worry is that AIs reduce the cost for bad actors to engage in harmful behaviour. The companies building these AIs need to take ethics into account. Making

by bcrl 4y ago

My worry is that AIs reduce the cost for bad actors to engage in harmful behaviour. The companies building these AIs need to take ethics into account. Making it easier to create fake images, video and audio of real people causes harm and should be considered unethical. We need to strike a balance between the freedom to create new things and the externalization of the cost of the harm these tools inflict upon society. Law makers don't seem to have a clue about the consequences of what's happening, so my expectations are pretty low at this point. Overall, I no longer believe that many new technologies are a net good for society.

vineyardmike 4y ago
There’s a theory I’ve seen in occasional security related things where you publicly publish your private keys when you’re done with them. That way later on you gain some plausible deniability related to any communications and data found later. When Facebook was new there were stories about people failing interviews because some employer say a picture of them at a bar on Facebook (as if most people don’t go to bars when they’re young). Obviously that doesn’t really happen anymore, but I consider a lot of AI content generation to be the “releasing private keys” for your digital footprint. Was I at that bar or was it stable diffusion?
autoexec 4y ago
> Making it easier to create fake images, video and audio of real people causes harm and should be considered unethical. Is photoshop unethical? What should we do to balance the harm it causes to society? Should it be outlawed? What about MS paint, or even word processors? Were harms caused to society by the printing press? Was it all a terrible idea? AI could create tools that end up doing more harm than good. AI could design literal malware. It's unclear if they'd do a better job of it than we do ourselves, and either way it seems likely that it'll take a human to use the code AI produces (or at the very least to direct the AI to use it against other humans) The technology is rarely the problem. It's almost always the people who choose to use that technology for evil. However involved AI becomes in what gets created, until AI becomes actually intelligent and the singularity begins it's people, not technology, we need to worry about. I'm skeptical that faked video and audio will be the end of us. We've had doctored images and impersonators for ages. We've had hoaxes and liars. We'll get smarter and learn to put less trust in random things we find on the internet, just like we're gradually learning not to believe everything we see on TV or that nigerian prices aren't going to make us rich beyond our wildest dreams.

by bcrl 4y ago

vineyardmike 4y ago

There’s a theory I’ve seen in occasional security related things where you publicly publish your private keys when you’re done with them. That way later on you gain some plausible deniability related to any communications and data found later. When Facebook was new there were stories about people failing interviews because some employer say a picture of them at a bar on Facebook (as if most people don’t go to bars when they’re young). Obviously that doesn’t really happen anymore, but I consider a lot of AI content generation to be the “releasing private keys” for your digital footprint. Was I at that bar or was it stable diffusion?

autoexec 4y ago

> Making it easier to create fake images, video and audio of real people causes harm and should be considered unethical. Is photoshop unethical? What should we do to balance the harm it causes to society? Should it be outlawed? What about MS paint, or even word processors? Were harms caused to society by the printing press? Was it all a terrible idea? AI could create tools that end up doing more harm than good. AI could design literal malware. It's unclear if they'd do a better job of it than we do ourselves, and either way it seems likely that it'll take a human to use the code AI produces (or at the very least to direct the AI to use it against other humans) The technology is rarely the problem. It's almost always the people who choose to use that technology for evil. However involved AI becomes in what gets created, until AI becomes actually intelligent and the singularity begins it's people, not technology, we need to worry about. I'm skeptical that faked video and audio will be the end of us. We've had doctored images and impersonators for ages. We've had hoaxes and liars. We'll get smarter and learn to put less trust in random things we find on the internet, just like we're gradually learning not to believe everything we see on TV or that nigerian prices aren't going to make us rich beyond our wildest dreams.