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Then they wanted to have a photo booth in every supermarket where AI would add the wolf next to you, and then cancelled the idea after backlash
https://www.frandroid.com/culture-tech/intelligence-artificielle/2913123_le-mal-aime-defigure-intermarche-cede-finalement-a-lia-pour-surfer-sur-le-buzz
Tbh, I don't see the harm in this. Photobooth are a great use for gen AI. Not like someone was sitting in the booth drawing it by hand before that.
What the fuck, back in my day that was just copy pasting your face on premade photo, and did not needed ai to work
Wouldn't be harmful except its all completely stolen data and any data fed into it is completely insecure and open to the hands of the Altmans of the world (who publicly stated that the poors should be destroyed). You want that?
I was messing with AI before the generative part of it made everyone go sour on it so I've always seen it as highly transformative. I also have a deep hate for copyright companies and media hoarding juggernauts.
I think the best would be to have an open ecosystem instead of a locked gate with companies like Disney and Shutterstock holding the keys.
Im pretty sure even the big AI companies are salivating at lawsuits and legislations meant to lock out open source. Sam Altman doesn't mind spending a billion on data if it buys him a soft monopoly and lets him charge ridiculous prices for a few seconds of GPU time.
The greatest threat to AI companies is if products like the one above can directly run inference and cut out the middle man. Sam Altman and co want to basically tax every AI venture through subscription services and most of the population seems to be cheering them on without realising it.
Seeing it as stolen data is what will lead to your second point being the only option, essentially.
How did instagram filters work before AI?
Probably like camera face tracking before ‘AI’: rule based pattern detection for eyes, mouth, nose, then layering effects on top
Honestly the "new" tech is probably exactly the same and just rebranded as AI