CabbageDec 9, 2023
nixCraft 🐧
This is not a bad thing. AI NEEDS to be regulated heavily. Otherwise, we see AI apps like ‘Nudify’ that use AI to undress women in photos. Those apps are soaring in popularity and degrading women. Is that what American corporations want? It blows my mind as many on social media defend such apps as freedom of expression or Rule 34. What kind of society encourages such behavior? Aren’t you worried about your daughters and mothers becoming victims of such crimes? I can’t believe it.
Dec 9, 2023 at 12:33pmWeb
Show threadnixCraft 🐧Dec 9, 2023
Source: ‘Nudify’ Apps That Use AI to ‘Undress’ Women in Photos Are Soaring in Popularity https://time.com/6344068/nudify-apps-undress-photos-women-artificial-intelligence/
‘Nudify’ Apps That Use AI to ‘Undress’ Women in Photos Are Soaring in Popularity

It’s part of a worrying trend of non-consensual “deepfake” pornography being developed and distributed because of advances in artificial intelligence.

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Show threadFreevoltDec 9, 2023
@nixCraft I think we're at an inflection point in human history where reasonable regulations require actual reasoning than resorting to common sense. The question is whether the human race (not part of it) is actually ready for such a reasoning.
Show threadGoatsLiveDec 9, 2023
@nixCraft Very sad commentary on society really...
Show threadFreevoltDec 9, 2023
@nixCraft Also I'm continuously surprised how people are bringing "scientists care about what they can do but not what they should(n't) do" to the extreme. Except not just scientists this time.
Show threadDouglas KingDec 9, 2023
@nixCraft
Some people are fucked up.
Show threadErik McCormickDec 10, 2023
@nixCraft ... to the surprise of absolutely noone.
Show threadJungle George 🌴🌳🌲🍃Dec 9, 2023
@nixCraft the EU is not a continent... 💀
Show threadnixCraft 🐧Dec 9, 2023
@JungleGeorge24 fair enough but my message still valid
Show threadJungle George 🌴🌳🌲🍃Dec 9, 2023
@nixCraft totally 👏 and apologies for being a reply guy 😐
Show threadShannon Quinn Dec 9, 2023

@nixCraft 10000% agree. I hadn’t heard of that app before but that’s absolutely bonkers that it’s somehow legal anywhere.

Then there’s this out of Meta. https://mastodon.online/@davidaugust/111547039519473636

David August (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image So Meta, you’ve got some biases happening and might wanna not do that. #ai #gai #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI #bias #gigo

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Show threadSerge DrozDec 9, 2023

@nixCraft I think regulating AI is the wrong approach, although that's what every one jumps of. We have legal systems that, maybe imperfectly, reflect our values. I'm pretty sure publishing non consensual porn is already illegal, or it should be regardless of it being created by AI or Photoshop.

If you regulate the how and not the what, you run the risk of creating ambiguity, and people getting of, because e.g. a non consensual porn picture cannot be proven to have been made with AI.

Plus, you're always behind.

Show threadRandom Tux UserDec 9, 2023

@nixCraft
I think rather than regulating AI, we should push for things like "no unconsensual porn" or any kind. I have given up on the idea that regulators will keep up with technology, so it's better if they just pushed for laws that they actually understand. Actually, how in the world do existing laws not already ban such behaviour?

This approach may also future proof certain things, like if some new potentially harmful tech becomes popular, it's already regulated at least to an extent.

Show threadmynameDec 9, 2023

@enthusiast101 @nixCraft Fully agree. And "regulating AI" will not make this usage go away. Like, I am fairly sure, if I am in the EU and want to use this, I am able to do that.
There might be a case where every place on earth actually agrees on a set of rules, but neither do I think that's likely nor will that eliminate the issue, it just makes it harder.

I thought the USA in particular is always fast with saying that the prohibition didn't work, so making anything illegal won't work.

Show threadMaxDec 9, 2023
@nixCraft the EU is not a continent 😉
Show threadtheM0ntarCann0nDec 9, 2023
@nixCraft corporations don't give a damn about ppl, it's money that matters.
Show threadEstherDec 9, 2023
@nixCraft I’m not sure that we’ll ever legislate out of existence men’s sense of entitlement to women’s bodies, but we can legislate AI. Call me a Luddite but I don’t see what benefits could come from AI that could possibly be worth all the harms in the present. Increased productivity has not meant less work. Just because some Silicon Valley assholes call it “progress” and make billions on it doesn’t mean it’s at all useful to the rest of us — see crypto and self-driving cars as prior examples.
Show threadMausmaki 🇧🇷🇻🇪Dec 10, 2023
@nixCraft Totally agree, but when it comes to making money, there seem to be NO borders... But it is the people's decision - if people do not abolish Amazon - then it is their decision, which shows that humans are both malignant in the very core, and stupid (there are exceptions of course, otherwise YOU wouldn't have posted this...).
One can be both decent and modern of course, but narrow-mindedness, and double (triple, ...) standards in ethics & society are to be found more often, sadly...