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‘Just the start’: X’s new AI software driving online racist abuse, experts warn
(www.theguardian.com)
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Before everyone starts chiming in with "stop using Twitter" (and I agree), this is a bigger problem. If Grok can create photorealistic images of public figures, something AI image generators provided by Google, Microsoft/OpenAI and Meta are not doing, this problem goes way beyond Twitter. Because the photos will get spread from there.
And sure, someone could host their own AI image generator on their home setup, but this makes it much, much easier.
I got swamped with downvotes the last time I said this, but I maintain that in the near future we're going to need to digitally sign authentic images. It's simply unfeasible to police the entire internet in an effort to remove fake ones (especially since they are made by bad actors who don't care about any rules anyway) so we need a widespread and easy to use way to distinguish real images instead.
Already happening and it's gross, and will erode internet freedom and anonymity. This is advanced internet surveillance and tracking and they are using "stopping the spread of AI misinfo" as the excuse.
Soon all images produces in any manor will be able to practically identify the creator. Hiding tracking data in images is fucked up. This is also something adobe is working on implementing In their tools, so this isn't going to be just AI images.
https://openai.com/index/understanding-the-source-of-what-we-see-and-hear-online/
How? You can remain anonymous and still have a public key. I only need to know that I trust "Zetta"; I don't need your real name and home address.