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> Huge market for snake oil here. This tool is free, and as far as I can tell it runs locally. If you're not selling anything, and there's no profit motive, th
by Reubend 3y ago
> Huge market for snake oil here.
This tool is free, and as far as I can tell it runs locally. If you're not selling anything, and there's no profit motive, then I don't think you can reasonably call it "snake oil".
At worst, it's a waste of time. But nobody's being deceived into purchasing it.
- autoexec 3y agoIf this is a danger from "snake oil" of this type, it'd be from the other side, where artists are intentionally tricked into believing that tools like this mean that AI isn't or won't be a threat to their copyrights in order to get them to stop opposing it so strongly, when in fact the tool does nothing to prevent their copyrights from being violated. I don't think that's the intention of Nightshade, but I wouldn't put past someone to try it.
- Biganon 3y agoThere's an academic paper being published. Snake oil for the sake of getting published is a very real problem that does exist.
- golol 3y agoReligion is also deceptive and snake-oil even if it does not involve profit driven motivations.
- NoahKAndrews 3y agoIt very often does involve such motivations, though I agree with your larger point.
- golol 3y agoI should've said even when it does not involve... English can be funny.