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So can a pen or any other tool of artistic expression.

• lioeters 3y ago
  Local musician warns piano creates violent symphonies and ignores copyright.
  • diogenescynic 3y ago
    I'm imagining a synth was some really evil sounding tones and vibes just haunting the neighbors.
• avidiax 3y ago
  You are not wrong, but there is a material difference in scale, degree and speed of onset. Drawing something realistic on paper requires lots of skill and time. Photoshopping something is probably 10x less skill and time, or 10x the quality. Its products appeared gradually as computers became more powerful and the skills more prevalent. Dall-E or similar is probably 100x or 1000x less skill and time, and has suddenly been released. The general public has not internalized its existence or powers, which is the makings of another Cambridge Analytica scandal. Where this MSFT engineer is off the mark, IMO, is that the most damaging images that can be created are probably fully within the proposed guardrails. A fake image showing Trump palling around with Putin or someone forcing a confused and frail looking Biden to sign a paper could do tremendous damage.
  • diogenescynic 3y ago
    My point was that it's a slippery slope to start restricting tools because it can be used in some edge case for something bad. We'd be left with nothing in the pursuit of safety.
    • avidiax 3y ago
      We restrict nuclear and chemical weapons, guns, cars, pills, etc. I think that as a practical matter, the genie is already out of the bottle. Any state sponsor that wants an unrestricted gen-AI model can have one, and can deploy the products as they see fit. It still makes sense to keep random people from generating images of public figures, at least for an election cycle or two, until people have become accustomed to critically thinking about what they see. It won't work long term, but just delaying a bit will mitigate some of the damage.