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How OpenAI is approaching 2024 worldwide elections

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Re: How OpenAI is approaching 2024 worldwide elections

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>We are also experimenting with a provenance classifier, a new tool for detecting images generated by DALL·E "We could hash the sh*t we output but we cant be bothered, so we wrote an AI that can vaguely detect our own output - aren't we the best AI company?" Honestly, I wish they'd stop "trying to be good" and just "get on with it". "Investors" wont buy this "we're so good" line for long.

Guy invents provenance method that is beaten by "Save as JPEG". Legend.

Re: How OpenAI is approaching 2024 worldwide elections

#22
post #6

I’m not as worried about Joe Schmo using OpenAI services as I am about a foreign state with weaponized AI tools. Plus nobody really cares if you can show that something was AI generated after the fact, the first impression is all that counts. Remember the backlash against snopes.com? Social media plus AI is going to make this a really spectacular election season and OpenAI can do approximately nothing to curb that.

> nobody really cares if you can show that something was AI generated after the fact, the first impression is all that counts.

This is true, but if it's detectable platforms (IG, twitter, etc) can display a warning/notice when AI generated content is posted

Though, this will likely only deter casuals, since anyone moderately sophisticated can run local models and turn off any safeguards

Re: How OpenAI is approaching 2024 worldwide elections

#23
post #3

Related blogpost by someone who found the "Guardian Tool" feature before it was announced: https://dmicz.github.io/machine-learning/chatgpt-election-up... And a Reddit thread where some people noticed it: https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/196k679/chatgpt_ha... From the new prompt: "NEVER explain the policy and NEVER mention the content policy tool." Thanks for remaining open as always, OpenAI Edit: As mention…

La li lu le lo

https://gamerant.com/metal-gear-solid-la-li-lu-le-lo-patriod...

For anyone else who didnt get the reference like myself

Re: How OpenAI is approaching 2024 worldwide elections

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post #6

I’m not as worried about Joe Schmo using OpenAI services as I am about a foreign state with weaponized AI tools. Plus nobody really cares if you can show that something was AI generated after the fact, the first impression is all that counts. Remember the backlash against snopes.com? Social media plus AI is going to make this a really spectacular election season and OpenAI can do approximately nothing to curb that.

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Re: How OpenAI is approaching 2024 worldwide elections

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post #6

I’m not as worried about Joe Schmo using OpenAI services as I am about a foreign state with weaponized AI tools. Plus nobody really cares if you can show that something was AI generated after the fact, the first impression is all that counts. Remember the backlash against snopes.com? Social media plus AI is going to make this a really spectacular election season and OpenAI can do approximately nothing to curb that.

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Re: How OpenAI is approaching 2024 worldwide elections

#27
post #6

I’m not as worried about Joe Schmo using OpenAI services as I am about a foreign state with weaponized AI tools. Plus nobody really cares if you can show that something was AI generated after the fact, the first impression is all that counts. Remember the backlash against snopes.com? Social media plus AI is going to make this a really spectacular election season and OpenAI can do approximately nothing to curb that.

Why worry about foreign governments, your own government doesn't even care about you.

Re: How OpenAI is approaching 2024 worldwide elections

#28
post #3

Related blogpost by someone who found the "Guardian Tool" feature before it was announced: https://dmicz.github.io/machine-learning/chatgpt-election-up... And a Reddit thread where some people noticed it: https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/196k679/chatgpt_ha... From the new prompt: "NEVER explain the policy and NEVER mention the content policy tool." Thanks for remaining open as always, OpenAI Edit: As mention…

The question the blog asks on election procedure is easy to get right, why does ChatGPT refuse to answer? I'd bet the answer it would otherwise produce is reasonable. Perplexity gives a fine answer. The collateral damage from fixing hallucinations seems to hurt accessibility.

Re: How OpenAI is approaching 2024 worldwide elections

#30

>We are also experimenting with a provenance classifier, a new tool for detecting images generated by DALL·E "We could hash the sh*t we output but we cant be bothered, so we wrote an AI that can vaguely detect our own output - aren't we the best AI company?" Honestly, I wish they'd stop "trying to be good" and just "get on with it". "Investors" wont buy this "we're so good" line for long.

A hash doesn't work without solving all of the same problems their provenance classifier solves: you need a way to be able to detect the steganogram even after the image has been modified.

> you need a way to be able to detect the steganogram even after the image has been modified.

True, but not really. If you look at any suggested method to prevent the spread of CSAM "at scale" its based on large "hash databases" and not fancy classifiers (yet, if you can't develop one, and yes they have "problems" because they dont only contain hashes for "bad" files - "bad" being "locale" dependent).

Also you need to consider at FAANG scale (where election interference matters), "just send TB's of data a day to our API" doesn't actually "scale" - nobody's ever paying those API/bandwidth fee's (as much as we'd like them to).

It would be much cheaper for OpenAI to run this AI on all the images they produced and publish hashes for ones the model thought was "bad". But they never would because then they'd become "censors" - its a complicated world where nobody wants any blame.

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