Ever driven the same car or used the same camera or power drill for 8-10 years and thought: "I wish all these buttons and levers were suddenly in different places and did different things"?

Yeah. Me neither.

This is a toot about operating systems.

What the fascists did with Grok was horrific, and it isn't an isolated incident. The popularity of image generation tools will only continue to highlight the digital consent dilemma.

Let's say I take a photo of myself.

I should be allowed to do anything I want with it, from replacing my outfit with a bikini to diffusing my image into a synthetic sex tape. I implicitly consent to my own creativity.

Now, suppose I obtained a photo of you.

Arguably, I shouldn't even be allowed to turn you into a Ghibli-inspired illustration without your permission. You have not consented to this “innocent” change, much less anything more malicious.

But how would a software distinguish between a user editing their own face and that of a stranger's?

I strongly disagree with every model proposed for digital age verification on grounds of privacy and self-sovereignty.

On those same grounds, I don't see how it will ever be possible for a system to reasonably perform consent verification. Not of every person in every photo that has been and will ever be taken.

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Formal art instruction can be great, but what I have noticed with the artists I admire (professional artists on all levels & hobbyists alike) is that most of them got to where they are by simply going out & making things, by imitating things they were interested in, & by experimenting.

If trying to follow formal art instruction discourages you from trying your own things & from making what you want, it may be doing more harm than good.

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