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It's not just a matter of publishing it under its own name. It also massively reduced the friction to do so compared to needing to run the image through an external tool and upload the result. That friction would greatly reduce the number of people who do it.

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In the US, it used to be that if you made credible threats against people you could/would be prosecuted. Social media made it so common in that no district attorney goes to the trouble of actually finding prosecuting people for doing this.

We can expect the same level of institutional breakdown with regards to various types of harassment, misappropriation, libel, and even manufactured revenge porn from AI.

Now the credible threats are being made by Trump fans, and those are protected from criminal prosecution by his long shadow.

It’s even worse as the requestor doesn’t vet and approve the image. That seems to have removed editorial control from the requestor. This bot could also mess with user who are not trying to do bad thing X, but the black box bot decides to throw in some offputting stuff and then also associate your name with it.

I keep coming to the same conclusion with X as they did in the 80’s masterpiece War Games.

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