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Comment by Arainach | Hacker News Reader

Revenge porn, rumors, and defamation are already huge problems in society. Being able to generate such things on demand with AI models will make it significantly worse.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/may/07/many-re...

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To play devil's advocate being able to generate this kind of content on demand with AI may actually make things significantly worse.

The reason why revenge porn, rumours, and defamation are all possible online is because there's a level of plausibility to these things -- especially revenge porn.

Now that plausibility goes out the window because of AI generated content. Someone posts your actual nudes? Give a nervous laugh and say that AI made them.

Someone says they heard a rumour about you and asks if it's true? Say 'don't believe everything you read on the internet, you know they have AI that writes anything you want now, right?"

Perhaps, but there comes a point where the technology is out there whether we like it or not. We should criminalize bad uses, not engage in some futile attempt to try to stuff the proverbial cat back in the bag

Don't let perfection be the enemy of good. Anyone with a basic machine shop can modify an AR15 for fully automatic fire, and a bump stock can be fabricated even easier. That doesn't mean we should just give up and make these things legal and easily accessible to everyone.

An automatic rifle has almost no positive use to it. This software is not like that and more like something that makes everyone better at a skill, uniformly raising the artistic talent floor. The large majority benefit but some would use their new earned skill for bad. It would be like denying literacy and the printing press because there will always be some people who use it to write very bad distressing things, manipulate more easily en masse and spread misinformation.

They're not refusing to distribute the software, they're restricting it for NSFW uses, of which the danger is more significant than any positive uses - much like automatic fire.

"restricting it for NSFW", according to whose standard? "which the danger", like what?

I'm glad this technology is finally out in the open where people like you no longer have a say in how it is used. The sooner people accept its existence (like they have with Photoshop), the better off and healthier we'll be as a society.

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