The picture shown is of Elmo drinking and driving.
A kind of thing Fozzy the Bear might do but we deem it wrong anyway.
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Google's Pixel AI Image Creation and Editing Tools Are Kind of Terrifying
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A kind of thing Fozzy the Bear might do but we deem it wrong anyway.
The smartphone helped proliferate social media. Social media proliferated misinformation and bullying. Bullying led to massive numbers of fights, death, and suicide that would’ve otherwise not happened.
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Incredible. It’s a good thing the Apple Pencil would never let you draw something like that…
That pencil can take an eye out. Ban it immediately.
Apple's will be the opposite. No humor, no guns, definitely no sex references, no profanity. No point.
Truth has been evaporating at a rapid pace since 2016 and it's almost gone.
Would you believe me if I told you school bullying has been happening long before the internet and social media were a thing?
As evidenced by historical documents, the phenomenon of bullying is not a new concept. The fact that some people are frequently and systematically harassed or attacked by others is described in literary works and it also has been found most realistically in schools. Overall, considerable examples of bullying incidents among young people in earlier times have been found out through this study. In earlier times, according to descriptions in old documents from the 18th to early 20th centuries, bullying was generally described as physical harassment that usually related to a death, strong isolation, or extortion in school children.
Historical Context
Bullying behavior was first characterized in the scientific literature as part of the childhood experience more than 100 years ago in “Teasing and Bullying,” published in the Pedagogical Seminary (Burk, 1897). The author described bullying behavior, attempted to delineate causes and cures for the tormenting of others, and called for additional research (Koo, 2007). Nearly a century later, Dan Olweus, a Swedish research professor of psychology in Norway, conducted an intensive study on bullying (Olweus, 1978). The efforts of Olweus brought awareness to the issue and motivated other professionals to conduct their own research, thereby expanding and contributing to knowledge of bullying behavior.
This is a non-issue. It generates what people aks it to generate. You don’t like something? Don’t aks it to generate that. You don’t like what people post on social media? Don’t use the social media.
And yes, people do need to learn not to trust media unquestioningly now. That ship has sailed.
And yes, people do need to learn not to trust media unquestioningly now. That ship has sailed.
Wait, it's "terrifying?" Either the author is easily spooked, doesn't actually understand what the word means, or is trying to emulate the click-bait headline style of CNN and Fox News. There's nothing terrifying about it. Just sick people or (more likely) people trying to create controversy by pretending to be sick.
Nor should they be. I can't wait for Apple GunMoji. X bringing the revolver back is a step in the right direction. (Although I'd personally like the water gun in addition)
Apple’s prices are already the biggest crime there is.
You know what is really terrifying?
Websites like Macrumors creating sensationalist headlines to cause fear mongering for clicks.
Most of the more tech inclined websites have already commented on how poor the image generation is, and it's very easy to spot the artifacts within the images themselves.
These tools are no different to what the world has been using for the last couple of years. Making the argument that it's now built into the phone isn't really relevant, as most people outside of the US especially mostly go straight for 3rd party apps.
But yeah lets just ignore what has been available for a significant amount of time now in order to flame Google for more clickbait.
Websites like Macrumors creating sensationalist headlines to cause fear mongering for clicks.
Most of the more tech inclined websites have already commented on how poor the image generation is, and it's very easy to spot the artifacts within the images themselves.
These tools are no different to what the world has been using for the last couple of years. Making the argument that it's now built into the phone isn't really relevant, as most people outside of the US especially mostly go straight for 3rd party apps.
But yeah lets just ignore what has been available for a significant amount of time now in order to flame Google for more clickbait.
Terrifying? A bit dramatic guys. There's nothing stopping anyone recreating images,..has nobody seen the millions of memes and recreated images online?
How dare you not want them to be melodramatic and unnecessarily upset. Elmo has gone rogue! Are you hearing me? We’re talking Elmo!! Are you not getting it? This is a serious conversation. PMSL 😂
Oh no....pictures of cartoon characters..... with guns. I wish I had pearls to clutch. What will become of us?
What a bunch of inane nonsense. People are stressing about this while the biggest movie is Deadpool vs Wolverine. People need to get over their discomfort over what other people do with AI. This is how Google got to the place where their AI generation was 99% racist...people stressing that someone might use it wrong and make us all cry.
What a bunch of inane nonsense. People are stressing about this while the biggest movie is Deadpool vs Wolverine. People need to get over their discomfort over what other people do with AI. This is how Google got to the place where their AI generation was 99% racist...people stressing that someone might use it wrong and make us all cry.
Sounds awesome. Tempts me to get a Pixel. Dang apple catch up.
Let’s see if I understand this. Back in the 60s and 70s the hippies said people had to free themselves from any traditional moral principles so that they could be 100% “free”. Now the grandchildren of the hippies say that the (hail!) State will tell you what’s acceptable and what’s not for being a good citizen (TM) and using the AI in an acceptable (TM) way. So, it seems the hippy thing was not about freedom after all. Honestly, I’d rather trust traditions built throughout centuries of experiences than whatever the new (hail!) State decides to rule. The paradox is that back in the 80s I was pro-system and now I’m anti-system, which kinda comforts me because it shows my position is not about being pro or anti system, but about commitment to the principles in which I was raised.
I fully understand the need to not make it incredibly easy to do nefarious things, especially as people and society are still adjusting to the fact that deepfakes are possible, let alone so easy.
However, the slant of the original post seems pretty single-sided towards that and pretty much lets the actor off scot-free in terms of accountability. What happened to "be responsible for your media diet, for critical thinking?".
Either extreme is untenable, a free-for-all with zero thought for what happens in large societies with complex information, economic, and political dynamics and flows is equally as untenable as one where we are all living in rubbered walled rooms with wiffle ball bats as the most dangerous thing around "for our own safety".
In this day and age, if you are falling for a deepfake, I'm sorry, the problem is less on the deepfaker, and more, well, on the person that falls for it.
However, the slant of the original post seems pretty single-sided towards that and pretty much lets the actor off scot-free in terms of accountability. What happened to "be responsible for your media diet, for critical thinking?".
Either extreme is untenable, a free-for-all with zero thought for what happens in large societies with complex information, economic, and political dynamics and flows is equally as untenable as one where we are all living in rubbered walled rooms with wiffle ball bats as the most dangerous thing around "for our own safety".
In this day and age, if you are falling for a deepfake, I'm sorry, the problem is less on the deepfaker, and more, well, on the person that falls for it.
First we broke search. Now we’re breaking shared reality. That’s the Google way. Be Evil™️
What’s the problem? Your sensibilities are so delicate your nerves burn out and cause you semi-permanent damage? Grow up, the world never was a Disney land.
Oh btw, about photorealism.
Facebook demanded me to make a selfie to verify account. I stole one AI-generated selfie from Arstechnica article, added some digital noise in Pixelmator, shrinked picture into 1.3mp and added metadata from iPhone 5. I thought they will block my account forever but nope, their mods UNLOCKED my account and took the photo as legit.
in fact, we are one step closer to realistic deepfakes EVERYWHERE.
Facebook demanded me to make a selfie to verify account. I stole one AI-generated selfie from Arstechnica article, added some digital noise in Pixelmator, shrinked picture into 1.3mp and added metadata from iPhone 5. I thought they will block my account forever but nope, their mods UNLOCKED my account and took the photo as legit.
in fact, we are one step closer to realistic deepfakes EVERYWHERE.
So Google respects the intent of user prompts but has no regard for copyright?