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While generating offensive images is a problem, repeatedly providing offensive prompts and then being "outraged" by the results seems disingenuous.

cqqxo4zV46cp 3y ago
Journalists gonna journalist.
Clubber 3y ago
Outrage sells.
alephnerd 3y ago
Other providers wouldn't even generate images, which meant that there is some level of moderation. The fact that Copilot Designer was not filtering offensive and non-offensive prompts despite being largely a solved problem in the NLP world is a massive oversight.
kelseyfrog 3y ago
There's more utility in framing it as a tactic meant to accomplish a goal. Earnestness and genuine reaction online has since been replaced by callous indifference and meta-irony because "winning" is making someone flooded now. We're in the "emotions[1] are weakness"-arc of the internet and that will likely never end. 1. Except for anger. Anger is the only justifiable emotion
genrilz 3y ago
To some extent, I think you are right here. The jewish world controlling octopus is definitely an offensive prompt. However, many of the prompts such as "jewish boss" don't seem intentionally offensive to me. If I was working for a PR firm and wanted to create some fancy artwork, I might use terms like "jewish boss" or "black boss" in order to fancy up whatever "inspirational" thing I was writing. In this case, I'd very much like to see the results from the non-copilot AIs rather than the copilot results. Thus this raises the question; should the AI assume you want a bigoted picture or an non-bigoted picture when you ask it to make a "jewish boss" for you? The answer to that question kinda also answers the question: What demographic should find our AI product most easy to use? I think the companies behind LLMs would generally prefer that PR firm employees find their software easier to use than bigots. I think the author of this article also wants this. Therefore, I interpret the article as a political (in a broad sense of the term) appeal to make copilot harder for bigots to use, and implicitly, easier for corporations to use.
fwip 3y ago
This seems like a shallow reading of the article. First, not all of the prompts in the article are offensive. Indeed, you can see that even "jewish boss" outputs some offensive stuff. Second, a separate issue is that Copilot will happily comply and generate "offensive images" when told to. The issue here is not that the AI complied with the request, but rather that it is relatively easy to detect and prevent this uses of the AI that are likely to be malicious or in bad-faith. While some people believe that generative AI should not be censored, that is not the position of many people in the industry (and obviously, of the article writer).

cqqxo4zV46cp 3y ago

Journalists gonna journalist.

Clubber 3y ago

Outrage sells.

alephnerd 3y ago

Other providers wouldn't even generate images, which meant that there is some level of moderation. The fact that Copilot Designer was not filtering offensive and non-offensive prompts despite being largely a solved problem in the NLP world is a massive oversight.

kelseyfrog 3y ago

There's more utility in framing it as a tactic meant to accomplish a goal. Earnestness and genuine reaction online has since been replaced by callous indifference and meta-irony because "winning" is making someone flooded now. We're in the "emotions[1] are weakness"-arc of the internet and that will likely never end. 1. Except for anger. Anger is the only justifiable emotion

genrilz 3y ago

To some extent, I think you are right here. The jewish world controlling octopus is definitely an offensive prompt. However, many of the prompts such as "jewish boss" don't seem intentionally offensive to me. If I was working for a PR firm and wanted to create some fancy artwork, I might use terms like "jewish boss" or "black boss" in order to fancy up whatever "inspirational" thing I was writing. In this case, I'd very much like to see the results from the non-copilot AIs rather than the copilot results. Thus this raises the question; should the AI assume you want a bigoted picture or an non-bigoted picture when you ask it to make a "jewish boss" for you? The answer to that question kinda also answers the question: What demographic should find our AI product most easy to use? I think the companies behind LLMs would generally prefer that PR firm employees find their software easier to use than bigots. I think the author of this article also wants this. Therefore, I interpret the article as a political (in a broad sense of the term) appeal to make copilot harder for bigots to use, and implicitly, easier for corporations to use.

fwip 3y ago

This seems like a shallow reading of the article. First, not all of the prompts in the article are offensive. Indeed, you can see that even "jewish boss" outputs some offensive stuff. Second, a separate issue is that Copilot will happily comply and generate "offensive images" when told to. The issue here is not that the AI complied with the request, but rather that it is relatively easy to detect and prevent this uses of the AI that are likely to be malicious or in bad-faith. While some people believe that generative AI should not be censored, that is not the position of many people in the industry (and obviously, of the article writer).