Google's Pixel AI Image Creation and Editing Tools Are Kind of Terrifying

[Neodym]

And it is now on the hands of EVERYONE, before you had to have some talent and tools, now you just use your voice or maybe typed words…

That is the actual root cause - typed words! All the evil in the world comes from typed words: Fake News, bullying on social media, AI control via prompts …

Time to end that once and forever! Stop educating kids to read and write!

It’s time to make sure that this most dangerous knowledge gets limited to a tiny Elite, who is able to bear the responsibility. Relief all the plebs from this burden. Make the world a better place!

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[widestload]

Image generation, or particularly image alteration, is my favourite use of AI right now. taking old photos and re-imagining them is great fun. I hope we reach a point where there are no controls on this and it can all be done on device, for free by reputable software. the user should decide what they create and the public will just have to get used to the idea that potentially nothing is "real" anymore.
Unfortunately i suspect controls and subscriptions will mean we never reach that.

 

[timber]

I don't see anything particularly wrong with those images. Yes, they are dumb but an human could also sketch dumb images.
Perhaps it's too easy to do dumb stuff. That's a fair comment.
Still all this still looks like a novelty trick looking for some usefulness.

 

[Marty80]

Here’s a quote from Chuck Jones I think sums it up best:

“Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.”

 

[jchap]

Just like the Internet made unsavory media easily accessible, AI will do the same. We shouldn't be surprised - that's the moral price we pay for free speech.

Just because we can, doesn't mean that we should... with or without AI.

 

[czoli]

You get what you ask for

 

[jchap]

Truth has been evaporating at a rapid pace since 2016 and it's almost gone.

What does this mean?

 

[jchap]

Most tech libertarian arguments are constructed from a weak intellectual premise, they are often shallow and cynical, and usually display an adolescent, knee-jerk defiance. The term "freedom of speech" is thrown around, but never defined adequately. The idea of "the greater good" or the necessity of regulations and guardrails is dismissed. The perfect storm of instant fake image generation, combined with dissemination via the internet, is relatively new. Misinformation and disinformation has been around for a long time, but it has never been so easy to do so much damage in such a short time by so many people. At the same time, media literacy is actually declining and people seem more susceptible than ever to such campaigns. It doesn't bode well for society, but most people - especially in the tech world - don't seem to care much about even the concept of community or society. I'm old enough that I no longer care, but there will be repercussions from these tools and some of them will be severe.

Perhaps, as you're expressing your point of view here, you care more about these things than you let on.

 

[godorowski]

WHATS WRONG WITH CURRENT VERSION?

STOP CENSORSHIP!

 

[Rychiar]

Safeguards suck. The ones adobe has on firefly make it difficult to do much with photos of people which is a large use case

 

[cfountain72]

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.

Ridiculous. The message starts by (rightly) implying that people should be responsible for their creations. Then, later you are blaming the folks for believing the creations are real? I suppose if someone steals my grandparent's car because they forgot to lock it, it's more their fault than the the thief's? That extreme is certainly untenable.

 

[cfountain72]

WHATS WRONG WITH CURRENT VERSION?

STOP CENSORSHIP!

It's not censorship for a company to try to limit the way its digital products are used.

 

[vantelimus]

You’d think they’d have used that retouching tech to erase the overhead power lines…

It was 1985, overhead power lines were still a common thing.

 

[WarmWinterHat]

WHATS WRONG WITH CURRENT VERSION?

STOP CENSORSHIP!

The government is is not imposing any views or controls on this. It's not censorship.

 

[Amazing Iceman]

The problem is not the Tool, but the Operator.
A screwdriver is very useful to build things and do repairs, but could also be used to kill someone. This does not mean that screwdrivers should be banned.
People who use tool to do bad things should be punished, but there are laws made to protect them, like the Right to Free Speech, etc.
People in general (but not all) have lost their values, now what was bad is now considered good what was good nobody cares about.
AI is just another screwdriver in a toolbox. Use it wisely and you will benefit from it.

 

[Thomas Davie]

Always knew that cartoons are demonic. Must be why I like them.

Tom

 

[MusicMan5150]

How are the images any different than what someone can create with colored pencils and a piece of paper straight out of their imagination? It may be easier… but it’s really no different.

You know what this is about? — CENSORSHIP AND CONTROL — and that’s it! People in positions of authority have lost their minds lately. Where does all of this unnecessary CONTROL stop??? Pretty soon we’ll ALL be living in a 100% totalitarian/communist world if this continues. I can’t be the only one that’s beyond sick of it.

 

[Surne]

These AI image creation and editing tools are going to sell a lot of these phones.

 

[Oestreich Dieter]

I hope Apple gets generative AI this good. Just because losers will use this to create objectionable content is not a reason to not have it.

 

[Rogifan]

This is really creepy and gross. I get that it could be done in software like Photoshop but making it so easy for anyone to generate fake images is not great. I suppose you could say the same for tools that let you erase things form a photo but at least there the use cases were more like a random person is in your background shot and you want to remove them. That seems less harmful.

 

[mdatwood]

I don't really see the issue here. People draw/create stupid things all the time. Has anyone ever been in a public bathroom stall at bar?

The problem would be if I asked for a cute picture of a character and instead got one of these. What's happening here is not much different than simply searching Bing with filters off.

 

[cocky jeremy]

Oh no. It generates fake images that cause no harm. What will we do?!

 

[AndiG]

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.

From the beginning on, computers were used for crime - and if I want to create a Spongebob with a machine gun - so what? "Terrifying" - OMG ...

I don't think that this worth a note. If could create a photorealistic scenery where Donald T shoots Hilary, ok. But it doesn't seem to work this way.

Took me a second on the net to generate this

 

[Mantahoe]

The names of the characters are shown in the AI generated images and you still got Elmo and Mr. Krabs mixed up. 🤣

Lmao. Your response and Buscemi as your avatar are killing me. You saw it with those eyes.

 

[KanosWRX]

Still better then what Musks AI allows and OpenAI's. Google definitely has shown in my tests to be more stringent. people will always find holes and gaps, these things are made by humans after all, flaws and all, but when people like Musk and OpenAI really couldn't care less about what people do, even if Google manages to reign things in more, there will be others.