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These types of applications can be easily found through a simple Google search, it raises questions about the broader internet ecosystem's responsibility in hos

These types of applications can be easily found through a simple Google search, it raises questions about the broader internet ecosystem's responsibility in hosting, promoting, or allowing access to such content. It's not just a Twitter-specific issue but a wider internet governance challenge... this article is yet-another-click-bait in the theme of "bashing Elon".

halJordan 3y ago
I hate to reduce everything down to one soundbite, but i think you're right it's a governance issue. So is the FISA issue, so are the many data breaches. So to reduce it all down to a single issue i could imagine a strong affirmative privacy law addressing all these issues at once
oarsinsync 3y ago
If they’re being found as sponsored search results through a Google search, then the comparison is apt - both Google and Twitter are being paid directly to promote these things. If it’s being found through organic search results, that then takes us down the road of wanting Google to censor things, and what is the arbiter of that stuff, which is a much more complex topic, and not comparable to Twitter getting paid to promote it. I don’t know which it is, and I don’t want that in my search history, so I’m not going to do that particular bit of research for myself
thot_experiment 3y ago
I think there's a big difference between serving an ad for it and searching for it. Isn't that what's at issue? AI inpainting has been around for a while and it's not going away. This has been trivially possible with opens source software on decade old consumer hardware for about a year now, much older hardware if you're patient. I just don't see what sort of governance can be realistically put in place to police the creation of such media, and we already have laws against disseminating it.

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These types of applications can be easily found through a simple Google search, it raises questions about the broader internet ecosystem's responsibility in hos

by hypnoosi 3y ago

halJordan 3y ago
I hate to reduce everything down to one soundbite, but i think you're right it's a governance issue. So is the FISA issue, so are the many data breaches. So to reduce it all down to a single issue i could imagine a strong affirmative privacy law addressing all these issues at once
oarsinsync 3y ago
If they’re being found as sponsored search results through a Google search, then the comparison is apt - both Google and Twitter are being paid directly to promote these things. If it’s being found through organic search results, that then takes us down the road of wanting Google to censor things, and what is the arbiter of that stuff, which is a much more complex topic, and not comparable to Twitter getting paid to promote it. I don’t know which it is, and I don’t want that in my search history, so I’m not going to do that particular bit of research for myself
thot_experiment 3y ago
I think there's a big difference between serving an ad for it and searching for it. Isn't that what's at issue? AI inpainting has been around for a while and it's not going away. This has been trivially possible with opens source software on decade old consumer hardware for about a year now, much older hardware if you're patient. I just don't see what sort of governance can be realistically put in place to police the creation of such media, and we already have laws against disseminating it.