5 ms·

In a handful of years every image and every document will be impacted by AI. Imagine if in the early days of Photoshop a law had been passed to require notific

by yodon 3y ago

In a handful of years every image and every document will be impacted by AI. Imagine if in the early days of Photoshop a law had been passed to require notification that an image was edited. Every image we encounter today would have to contain that warning text. This will be the cookie warning popup mess times 100x, except it would be required on every image, document, video, audio file, in addition to every webpage.

pyrale 3y ago
> Imagine if in the early days of Photoshop a law had been passed to require notification that an image was edited. Every image we encounter today would have to contain that warning text. Maybe pictures of anorexic models would have been less appealing back then, and therefore fashion would have evolved differently? Maybe young folks today would feel less required to conform? It's really hard to predict what an alternate reality would have been, if you don't rely on the hypothesis that any divergence would be extremely limited in scope, or similar to another case where wildly different forces and goals apply.
dangerwill 3y ago
If this kind of labelling was reliable (it won't be of course), I think there would be plenty of interest from people to consume news, literature, and art from 100% human sources. Speaking just for myself, I would pay good money to avoid this 0-marginal-cost alogithimic slop. Such a thing would be niche, but I think it would be more general than people who want to avoid cookie tracking
whywhywhywhy 3y ago
Every iPhone photo even today would require it.
sofixa 3y ago
> Imagine if in the early days of Photoshop a law had been passed to require notification that an image was edited. Every image we encounter today would have to contain that warning text. You say that as some sort of gotcha, but there is a law like this in France - all images used in advertising/public context that were edited should clearly state so. And why not? They're practically lying (false advertisement) otherwise, making the person better looking, the food more appealing/thinner, the "taken by our amazing camera" photos better etc.

by yodon 3y ago

pyrale 3y ago

> Imagine if in the early days of Photoshop a law had been passed to require notification that an image was edited. Every image we encounter today would have to contain that warning text. Maybe pictures of anorexic models would have been less appealing back then, and therefore fashion would have evolved differently? Maybe young folks today would feel less required to conform? It's really hard to predict what an alternate reality would have been, if you don't rely on the hypothesis that any divergence would be extremely limited in scope, or similar to another case where wildly different forces and goals apply.

dangerwill 3y ago

If this kind of labelling was reliable (it won't be of course), I think there would be plenty of interest from people to consume news, literature, and art from 100% human sources. Speaking just for myself, I would pay good money to avoid this 0-marginal-cost alogithimic slop. Such a thing would be niche, but I think it would be more general than people who want to avoid cookie tracking

whywhywhywhy 3y ago

Every iPhone photo even today would require it.

sofixa 3y ago

> Imagine if in the early days of Photoshop a law had been passed to require notification that an image was edited. Every image we encounter today would have to contain that warning text. You say that as some sort of gotcha, but there is a law like this in France - all images used in advertising/public context that were edited should clearly state so. And why not? They're practically lying (false advertisement) otherwise, making the person better looking, the food more appealing/thinner, the "taken by our amazing camera" photos better etc.