3 ms·

> Prompt: Historical footage of California during the gold rush. this is the opposite of history

• minimaxir 3y ago
  It's a test prompt to demo the model, not a clickbait social media post.
  • zemo 3y ago
    yeah I think a tech company showing how their tech can be used to cause damage to a humanities field as one of their leading product demos is bad
  • diputsmonro 3y ago
    Yes, but the point is that in a few years, there won't be a difference. Those clickbait accounts already exist for AI generated images. How many impressionable or young people have been fooled into believing history that never happened? More importantly, how can these accounts subtly direct the generations to instill modern ideology or politics into "historical" images, giving them historical credibility? Think of all the subtly white supremacist "retvrn" accounts, for example, falsely recontextualizing inventions and accomplishments to support their ideology. We all need to be thinking much more creatively and cynically about how these tools will be abused. The technology will get better. The people who want to abuse it will get smarter. And your capability to distinguish fake information is likely much worse than you believe - to say nothing of younger people who have less context and experience to form a mental "immune system".
    • minimaxir 3y ago
      Granted, the blog post is about opening the model up for red-teaming, so highlighting potential vectors for abuse is actually the desired intent.
    • psychoslave 3y ago
      >How many impressionable or young people have been fooled into believing history that never happened? I would say, all of them. Since the dawn of history. Actually, far before, as treachery certainly precedes speech itself by a few million years in the struggle to survive game. Just to take a contemporary western (mostly?) thing: how did it went last time you looked straight into the eyes of kids to reveal them Santa Clauss is a lie and yes almost all adults in their society are into that evil conspiracy? And what about the adult around you deeply attached to their national myths, not even mentioning all the folklore around their afterlife beliefs? But don’t worry, everything is going to go well, I promise and you know you can trust me. :)
• pimlottc 3y ago
  Yeah, my heart sank when I saw that. Social media is really good at separating content from context, things like this will distort people's understanding of history.
• zen928 3y ago
  only if you consider "historical footage" to exclusively mean the "[original] historical footage [stored in archiving]" versus e.g. "historical[ly accurate] footage" if "historical" is going to be used subjectively with no further qualifying statements then the meaning of "history" will be subjucated to the context it's being presented in, I don't see it's use here as contradictory
  • zemo 3y ago
    I think most people consider "history" to mean "things that have actually happened" and not "the aesthetic of the past" as you seem to be suggesting.