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I've come across people in life that I would have sworn were twins. I'm curious how combinatorically low the number of facial features need to be before people resemble one another.
It has been interesting to see images clearly generated by this service (same artefacts, same resolution) start to flood online dating apps and social media profiles. Previously, fake accounts tended to use photos which could be reverse-image-searched to detect them. Luckily, it doesn't seem that this approach can be sensibly extended to generate entire scenes, or multiple entire-body photos from different angles. Be…
An exciting possibility that is opened by these generative models is synthetic data. Train (well) a generative model on private data, then share the generated syntetic data without privacy violation concerns.
Of course, this opens the way to data laundering - profiting from ilegally obtained data that you're not supposed to have. Possibly by laundering through several jurisdictions, where each local step is legal. What will be the Dutch sandwich of data laundering ? The cyber dystopian novels of the 90s have nothing on this.
It's improved. I used to be able to tell the fakes by the ears, but that seems to have been fixed.
They are still a little bit weird but I remember it being much worse
These algorithms are tools and at their worst they are powerful weapons - much more dangerous than some nuclear bomb that wipes out a few hundred square miles.
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The horror.
The uncanny valley
Here’s the Guardian article which linked the site: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/feb/07/ai-in-the-ad... To my mind there is a massive need for us in the software world to pause and think about the ethics of all of this. Engineers more broadly have well developed ethical codes, we should too.
So are you saying software developers should have to take the equivalent of a Bar exam in order to practice software development in a given state? That way ethical code violations have teeth because you can be debarred. As of now anyone and their dog can practice software development and I'm not sure what a nebulous "ethical code" would imply for them.
I feel like a “formalised ethical code” would result in more clever approaches of avoiding it. We don’t need to look far to find the examples (looking at ya ad tech)