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How do you plan on stopping people from using this tool maliciously?

I'm an illustrator. I'm fully capable of drawing/painting political figures in compromising or worse situations. Should the government blind me because my skills are dangerous?

Some politicians would say: "Yes."

Artists, intellectuals, journalists, and critics of all sorts have been jailed, beaten, or simply murdered in the past for expressing themselves in ways the government of the time did not like.

Oh, interesting!

What do you think of this technology? What do you envision?

I think your situation is different, in that a) people who spend many years learning to be good illustrators tend to have standards for what they create in ways that, say, virulent racists using ML tools don't; and b) people rarely take illustrations as evidence of things that happened in real life, whereas they will do that with ML-generated fake photographs.

I think, like Paul Graham would say, we'll develop societal antibodies against this.

And, like Sam Altman would say, it is going to be net good for society, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t bumps along the way. We will need to learn to navigate them well.

Those are articles of religious faith, not actual arguments.

The same way you stop people from using a hammer maliciously?

In the general sense yes, but I wonder if there will be unexpected things that we’ll need to take into account with this new generation of tools.

Part of me thinks that this is another revolution in graphics the same way Photoshop was where you can work 10x faster. But another one ponders about what happens when we’re dealing with intelligence.

>But another one ponders about what happens when we’re dealing with intelligence.

This is a good point, diffusion models are an example of intelligence. Proof of that is that they became ubiquitous in the same year as large language models, thus they are the same.

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