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Because quantity eventually leads to a qualitative change after a certain threshold. We’ve been dealing with the possible output of a few fake images per human
by tambourine_man 2y ago
Because quantity eventually leads to a qualitative change after a certain threshold.
We’ve been dealing with the possible output of a few fake images per human per day ever since photography was invented, at most. Digital photography has maybe made it 10X easier.
Now that humans are not the limiting factor, we can have clusters of computers generating an unimaginable number of fake images 24/7. You can see how we’re not prepared for such crisis.
- amarant 2y agoI don't even see how it's a crisis in the first place. I mean people believe the earth is flat, despite being shown photos clearly demonstrating it's not, and this before even digital photos were commonplace! AI generated photos won't give us any problem we don't already have, at least not until they're good enough to fool a forensics team and thus be admitted as evidence in a court of law. I wouldn't hold my breath for that one...
- immibis 2y agoThey are just a few crazy people though. And they don't have photo evidence to back them up. In the next decade, how will people know to believe the photos of round earth but ignore the equally valid seeming photos of flat earth?
- amarant 2y agoMaybe people will finally learn to check their sources? Seems like a win in my book. Of course the crazies are gonna craze, that probably won't change. But it is far from obvious that non crazies will be fooled by AI generated images of a flat earth.
- tambourine_man 2y ago> AI generated photos won't give us any problem we don't already have Of course not, but when the scale is suddenly many orders of magnitude more, it matters.
- amarant 2y agoI think most likely this will cause future generations to finally learn to check their sources.