Technology

Imagine an image like Tank Man, or the running Vietnamese girl with napalm burns on her skin, but AI generated at the right moment.
It could change the course of nations.

and the flipside is also a problem

Now legitimate evidence can be dismissed as "AI generated"

This is just the next wave to me. I wish we had better automation around helping people find the sources of an image or detect where it could from. I've showed people reverse image searching a little at least, hopefully we can see it improve to handle new forms of copies like this going forward.

It really depends on the image. Some AI generated images of people really seem indistinguishable from a photograph. Not all, but it's definitely going to become more common. At this point it seems like every month has a new breakthrough for some aspect AI regarding consistency and realism. As people work to bring stable diffusion video to a more reliable state the images themselves are only going to get better.

There's a number of models out there right now that don't have hand issues as much. There are other methods like using a pose to force hide the hands. We're getting to the point where we just need metadata viewers on every image because the eye alone isn't reliable for this. How many artists have already been accused of being "AI art like" and they were not.

Stopping it? I don't know if you can stop Pandora's box. Personally, I'm of the opinion that flooding AI images is the only way to "stop" it, simply by making people not care about it. At a certain point, you can only make so many variations of gollum as a playing card /ninja turtle/movie star before they get boring to the public. I also have doubts that the people using this are overall the type of people who would have paid artists for commissions, or that that would even stop a sale from happening in the first place (my partner makes mushroom forest scenes with Stable Diffusion but she also buys about $300 of art from our friends and local artists through the year). Like, Stable Diffusion doesn't make oil paintings.

Little Jimmy in his room or the 60 hour week worker? They pose no harm making these images and it makes them happy, so why take that away from them? And regarding the nefarious aspect of it - that one is much harder but it's in part societal shame as well. Explicit images made by AI may make the process easier, but if it's something nefarious the people will find a way to do it regardless. Video sex scams and catfish were around long before AI. I'm not certain that these will inherently become more prevalent as the tech becomes more accessible. It's the people posting them. Which to me comes down to more of a societal issue than a technological one.

However, in terms of trying to stop it maybe there could be a hash similar to the CASM that gets used here. Maybe the image uploader can look for metadata markers that come with generated images and deny those ones? That's an easy workaround though, since metadata can be stripped.

I dunno. I think we've gotta EEE AI. Embrace AI images by flooding society with their presence, Extend AI images by getting the ability to use it into the hands of everyone, and then Extinguish the power that generated images hold over people because fake pictures don't matter in the slightest.

I think the chances for the fediverse having this are generally lower. I saw a rough estimate that puts our bubble at 1.5 million. By comparison, reddit is 500 million and YouTube is 2.5bn.

Yes, we are a bunch of nerds in that 1.5m number but we also value human input and generally seem to only use practical bots - and some people don't even like those. We also have the bot account option, which should inspire more trust, though we have to trust that people actually use it.

Compared to reddit or YouTube, which I've personally seen as testing grounds for rolling out bot accounts. Whole subs dedicated to it. It's not that it doesn't, can't, or won't happen here, I know we have a number of repost bots from various instances - I'm moreso just saying that I think being so small helps. When the dead Internet arrives, the fediverse will have been one of the last bastions of human interaction on the Internet.

Except for mastodon. I see a lot of bots there compared to lemmy/Kbin

I, for one, welcome our AI overlords.

Couple problems:

• the availability of the tools makes the potential scale of the problem pretty drastic. It may take teams of people to track this stuff down, and there's no guarantee that you'll catch all of it or that you won't have false positives (which would really piss people off)

• in a culture that seems obsessed with 'free speech absolutism', I imagine the Facebook execs would need to have a solid rationale to ban 'AI generated content', especially given how hard it would be to enforce.

That said, Facebook does need to tamp this down, because engagement isn't engagement when it's taken over by AI, because AI isn't compelled to buy shit from advertising, and it can create enough noise to make ad targeting less useful for real people.

I personally think people will need to adapt to smaller, more familiar networks that they can trust, rather than trying to play whack-a-mole with AI content that continues to get better.

We're overdo for some degrowth, especially when it comes to social media.

Real fake books are far cooler than Facebook

It's really disgusting. It was a great platform for keeping in touch with long distance friends and family. If you kept your friends list trimmed to people you know, then it was actually a really fun platform. Now it's like all the worst parts of corporate internet all glommed together on a single site. I see maybe 1-2 of my actual friend's posts, and the rest is all absolute crap. Hundreds of billions of dollars wasn't enough for zuck? Nope! He just had to go and squeeze every last cent out of the site, even if it meant burning it to the ground. It's not even worth visiting anymore. I was still visiting to see my memories, but now he's slowly breaking that functionality too. Congratulations Facebook, you're awful.

AI generated content isn’t stealing.

You might want to read the article.

I dunno dude, taking an image-to-image generation with 90% strength to just change a few details to make it look like your work sure sounds like stealing to me