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Google's Pixel AI Image Creation and Editing Tools Are Kind of Terrifying
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The human race, globally, needs to come to an shared understanding that free speech doesn't mean you can say whatever the heck you want. Add in the internet where posted content never goes away, and it's even more important for humans to establish these shared principles. We need to police ourselves, not rely on governments and technology to do it for us. Stand up against bad behaviour. Say No, that's not okay.
Disagree. There's a certain responsibility among intelligent beings to behave in the best interest of the greater good. Otherwise it's every being for themselves, and that's not a society.
I mean, if you asking for some of these images, you are probably sick in the head and need help.
What I don't like about all this AI photography is that it takes the fun out of photography. When we went to digital photography it took a little bit of the spontaneity of photos taken with a plain old camera. And now people can take picture after picture and view it until they get the "perfect" picture. Now people can take just one picture and do whatever the **** they want with it and make it into the "perfect" picture. It distorts reality. **** this ****.
What I don't like about all this AI photography is that it takes the fun out of photography. When we went to digital photography it took a little bit of the spontaneity of photos taken with a plain old camera. And now people can take picture after picture and view it until they get the "perfect" picture. Now people can take just one picture and do whatever the **** they want with it and make it into the "perfect" picture. It distorts reality. **** this ****.
Photoshop and image creation/editing/manipulation in general takes skill on the part of the user. This doesn't.
Meanwhile, Musk has released Grok where you can generate anything you want to influence the elections with fake news. We need regulations, we can’t count on the goodwill of companies like Apple alone.
I wonder if Apple might kill genmoji and image creation before it ever leaves the gate? If we are being honest these are just toys, a fun distraction for 5 minutes so Apple can tick a box and say ‘we have that too’; it’s not something that’s genuinely useful.
It's not Google's phone, it's the people. What kind of people are they? They get a new technology in their hands and the first thing they do is create a picture: “Spongebob kills Mr. Krabs, blood and brains splatter across the scene”.
Then these people sit down and write an article complaining, crying and yelling.
So it's not the phone doing a bad job, it's the people complaining about not having boundaries and therefore having to create images like this.
Humanity is lost ..
Then these people sit down and write an article complaining, crying and yelling.
So it's not the phone doing a bad job, it's the people complaining about not having boundaries and therefore having to create images like this.
Humanity is lost ..
Don't blame the tool, blame the tools user.
Almost everything humans have created, can if wanted be used for good or bad.
We don't ban cars because some people can hurt others with them if they want to.
We don't ban guns because some people can use them to hurt others if the choose to.
We don't ban a hundred million other things, because I can, if I try and want to, cause harm with it.
So why do we blame a computer for creating what it's been asked to create by the human?
It's the human doing the "Bad Thing"
I don't know why this is simply not accepted as it's so obvious.
If Disney wants to sue someone, don't blame Google/Apple/Msoft/Meta/X
Blame the person who deliberately used the tool to do/make the bad thing.
This is how the world works
Almost everything humans have created, can if wanted be used for good or bad.
We don't ban cars because some people can hurt others with them if they want to.
We don't ban guns because some people can use them to hurt others if the choose to.
We don't ban a hundred million other things, because I can, if I try and want to, cause harm with it.
So why do we blame a computer for creating what it's been asked to create by the human?
It's the human doing the "Bad Thing"
I don't know why this is simply not accepted as it's so obvious.
If Disney wants to sue someone, don't blame Google/Apple/Msoft/Meta/X
Blame the person who deliberately used the tool to do/make the bad thing.
This is how the world works
You get that the point of testing things out is to find the limits, right? See what it can and can't do, where it shines, where it struggles, ways it may be misused. For image generation tools, finding out whether they can generate something offensive seems like a very reasonable test. Unless this is your first day on the internet, you surely must know how these things are going to be used by at least a certain portion of the population.
You can blame both.
We make people get a licence to drive them and take that license away if they do so dangerously.
Gun or a subsection of guns are banned in a lot of places. And even where they're not, you generally need to be licensed to use or own one.
We have rules and regulations for all sorts of things, and the more capacity for harm we see, the stricter those rules tend to be.
The human is using the tool to do a bad thing. The tool is still a part of the equation. This is why we make rules and regulations; to prevent people misusing stuff.
Based on this post you seem to not fully understand how the world works.
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Blah blah blah.. now how can I get it on my iPhone?
it’s just sad to see so much money, time, and brain power wasted on creating something so useless and so possibly nefarious, when the world is starved for solutions for so many heartbreaking problems.
I remember when people weren't so sensitive and much of a crybaby that everything they didn't agree with didn't offend them
It's a shame that the visual artists who made the creative works that all these AIs were trained on, and that they are stealing in style and substance, aren't seeing a dime. If a person approaches an artist and asks "teach me how to make art like you do," it's unsurprising if the artist replies by saying "sure, pay me to teach you." AI never even asked.
People have always been offended by things, you just might not have been perceptive enough to notice.
When Roomba stops being so lazy, and vacuums the corners too, I'll happily give him a pay rise
Ah yes, only US citizens would ever have a perverse sense of humour.
Except it’s easier to regulate tools than the user. Users want freedom so we’re not going to regulate users.
But with tools, if you take away their tools, they still have the freedom to go and find or make another tool or another platform.
If you ban the tools, only the bad guys will have the tools. 😉
So not only does Google give Apple ideas to copy from, but they also make it possible for Apple to avoid a potential PR mess by knowing better what safeguards they should implement after Google goes through their initial trial and error phase.
Depends what you’re talking about really. There have always been laws prohibiting offensive content, determined by what society as a whole find acceptable. Public spaces online should be (and increasingly are) treated the same way. The internet isn’t some lawless space where people can do whatever they like free of consequence, no matter how much some might like to believe otherwise.