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>I'm intrigued about the possibility of using these as stock photos Another (darker) possibility is to generate copyrighted images. Once you have (say) a trillion photos, it will be hard to generate a new one that doesn't look (in essence) like one you already have.

Copyright doesn't work that way: "copyrights can only be infringed if the infringer has access to the copyrighted work and engages in actual copying of the work" https://www.trademarkwise.com/blog/2015/2/4/copyright-infrin... , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substantial_similarity

That sounds very theoretical though.

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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.

I have brought this up before, but this already exists. https://www.computer.org/education/code-of-ethics Copyright 1999. I was taught ethics in my college work, so clearly everyone else just ignores it like they do for the various other fields where there is an ethics code. People suck.

The issue is that there's no pressure on employers to require it, so there's no advantage on e.g. employability or salary from getting these codes.

I live in the UK and was considering going through the British Computer Society certification process years ago, but dropped it, because while I do care about the ethical side etc. the additional amount of effort it'd take to document skills I already had was not worth it when prospective employers in the fields I've worked in just did not care.

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There was a pic of an older guy, but what was unsettling was the woman peeking over his shoulder; like a friend or a family member, leaning into the photo. Her eyes were melting into black and white streaks curling down over her sagging cheeks; her smile was perfectly white, and just a little too long. I refreshed on instinct, and haven't seen anything like it since.

https://i.imgur.com/RmSEnaT.jpg https://i.imgur.com/RhROFSf.jpg https://i.imgur.com/NTC2ZiN.jpg

So many deformities in fake space, so tragic. Is there a fake charity I can donate to to stop this horror?

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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've often wondered if software engineers would benefit from the accountability of licensing like other engineering disciplines, especially as it pertains to safety critical systems. It's a bit shocking for me to know a mechanical, electrical, or civil design in, say, a power plant may require a Professional Engineer to officially stamp it but any ol' software engineer can write code on that system and fire it up. My…

This was a big debate in the 90s. The "industry" headed it off at the gates (partly thanks to communication media such as ... usenet :) It might resurface, but I expect to hear the same arguments used against it, all over again. I'd be suprised if it ever came to pass in the same sense as PE requirements.

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Now try this: http://whichfaceisreal.com/

Check the background :D

In addition to the background, if you can see earrings, that is usually a giveaway. The generated faces seems to always have different earrings in each ear. Also glasses disappear into the skin, and ears are often different on each side and/or distorted.

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The training data contains examples of very dark skin: https://github.com/NVlabs/ffhq-dataset/blob/master/ffhq-teas...

Interesting. I just refreshed the site 100 times to get a large sample size and the darkest skinned image it produced was this girl ( https://i.imgur.com/ggJIG94.png ). Her skin is much lighter than many of the people in that sample of the training data. Assuming that that sample is representative of all the training data, it must be that the algorithm is 'choosing' not to produce images of dark skinned people. Perha…

You can see several examples of dark-skinned outputs around timestamp 2:41 in this video: https://youtu.be/c-NJtV9Jvp0

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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.

Probably something more like a PE. From the NSPE website a PE entails: "To become licensed, engineers must complete a four-year college degree, work under a Professional Engineer for at least four years, pass two intensive competency exams and earn a license from their state's licensure board. Then, to retain their licenses, PEs must continually maintain and improve their skills throughout their careers." Most PEs th…

PE for software engineering does (or did?) exist from NCEES:

https://ncees.org/engineering/pe/software/

i'm seeing some sources that say it was discontinued after 2019 due to lack of interest, and the main "PE" page no longer links to the software PE exam.

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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…

> see https://www.thiscatdoesnotexist.com for example. That site is straight up nightmare fuel: https://i.imgur.com/0lg9eNK.jpg https://i.imgur.com/AL96Pvv.png https://i.imgur.com/6s91BaD.png https://i.imgur.com/NK8J35b.png https://i.imgur.com/4lEdPOH.png

This one's my favorite:

https://imgur.com/YV7vRFt

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