AI/ML Nightmare

[TheLurper]

Is anyone else worried about where all this AI development in terms of images and videos is going to take us?

I worry we will start off making cool art, creative photos, and tons of porn, and then move into a world that our political systems can't handle. I worry real events will be doubted (even more) and untrue Facebook meme's will become all the more dangerous.

Maybe, I'm over reacting as photoshop is already a thing, but I feel the easier and more ubiquitous the tools to create falsehoods becomes the danger that comes from these falsehoods increases exponentially. We don't need to worry about Skynet killing us cause we will kill each other before Skynet becomes all that smart.



https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

[Síota]

If you click that link enough times you get fucked up shit like this:





Also a cat version: https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com/

[apport]

zack fox had an ig story recently of some images he received after prompting the AI with "black minion" and "african american minion" and the results were super racist, like straight up black face caricatures and pictures of monkeys, so that's kinda crazy/scary that the AI can be racist as hell off the rip without even asking

[manysnakes]

My sincere belief is that the concerns about AI are vastly overblown, because the promise of AI at the moment is being vastly (and deliberately) overstated in order to protect high valuations and keep money flowing through Silicon Valley. There are cultural issues (AI most definitely is racist, for example), but the nearest-term threat isn't even to blue collar jobs, it's actually white collar workers who are going to find their jobs eliminated in favor of AI.

[thebacker]

this was a fascinating AI doc that came out a few years ago

[in love w/ fs shuvs]

I have a friend who works in cyber sec who's job it is to detect deep fakes.

[newguy]

I’m in 3D animation and the consensus is that its overhyped garbage and it wont replace anyone. Really AI has proved to be of limited use and the bazinga brains who ramble about singularity or some shit need to face the fact that computers are thinking boxes and they need precise human inputs to function correctly. Theres also this weird glee from people in tech whenever this comes out when they mock the dirty proles who didnt learn how to code and who are about to lose their jobs or some shit.

Most Art AI hype is by talentless techbros anyways, the last crowd you want to use this lol

[Esquivel]

Just tested one of these AI sites and it was really shit.

[manysnakes]

Theres also this weird glee from people in tech whenever this comes out when they mock the dirty proles who didnt learn how to code and who are about to lose their jobs or some shit.

These people really think they they’re gonna have robots working in McDonald’s and fixing their plumbing before their own jobs get outsourced to India or replaced by AI. It’s cargo cult behavior.

[tkp]

Recently came across Microsoft's still image to video technology Vasa 1.

The combination of deepfake audio + video is something I can see wreaking havoc on society. What happens when trust is unobtainable?

As mentioned earlier in this thread, there are people working on solutions:

I have a friend who works in cyber sec who's job it is to detect deep fakes.

Some examples can be found from Intel and over at Papers with code. There's a relevant bill in the US Senate.

Seems like there will be a cat and mouse game between those who create fake content and those who detect it. If you can't detect what's fake, what do you do? If something is detected, how should the viewer be informed?

The Content Authenticity Initiative does attempt to provide a solution for those who release content and want to give users the option to verify whether or not it's legit, but now there's a whole other process when releasing content and you're relying on users to check.

The capability to create false content also provides another potential exploit. Ever been caught on camera doing something malicious? Just call it a deepfake.

Supposedly a company got scammed out of $25 million due to some video call shenanigans.

Real time deepfake interactions are an impressive technology. People talking to robots makes the dead internet theory sound more real everyday.