4 ms·
They are going to say the usual things, child pornography, risk of terrorist use etc... and conclude that we need our overlords to protect us. Same reasons th
by francasso 2y ago
They are going to say the usual things, child pornography, risk of terrorist use etc... and conclude
that we need our overlords to protect us.
Same reasons that have been used in the past to take away freedoms.
Not saying they aren't real risks... Are there going to be sad incidents where innocent people will be harmed? Yes. The question though is if there will be enough of them, and egregious enough, for us to disregard the upsides of technology that is not heavily regulated.
- _heimdall 2y agoOh that's so interesting, I fall very much on the side of avoiding regulations as the solution at all costs. Regulations won't fix a damn thing and regulators have no chance of keeping up even if they wanted to. We need these tools to not be developed or offered at all by choice. Unfortunately that really means either the company, investors, or customers need to make a moral decision at the cost of economic gain or convenience/novelty.
- Silphendio 2y agoChild porn is already heavily "regulated". Producing the stuff is illegal and AI service providers must take steps to prevent it.
- _heimdall 2y agoThis is a blind spot for me, do existing legal protections generally cover fake/generated content? To be clear, the context of this thread is extremely important. I don't know how far our existing laws might go to make sure ML generated child porn is illegal and I'd personally feel much more comfortable to know that ML generation isn't some kind of legal loophole.
- tbrownaw 2y agoLast I heard it varies by jurisdiction. Some only prohibit things that actually involve actual children, some ban based on subject matter even if it's say a cartoon drawing. I assume that training separate models for separate jurisdictions would be rather expensive, so probably unlikely.
- francasso 2y agoAre you saying they aren't already preventing it? I would find that hard to believe...
- _heimdall 2y agoI'm sure they're preventing any prompts that explicitly ask for child porn, but they can't stop the inevitably difficult challenge of knowing when an image is porn of a child versus porn of someone that just looks under age versus graphic imagery of a child that may not meet some specific definition of what makes it porn.