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Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don't Exist

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Re: Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don't Exist

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We talk too much about hallucination and too little about the more mundane elephant in the room that AI, whatever its effectiveness, will simply be used more for scam and deception than positive uses.

I dont think a few scams here and there outweight positive usecases

Re: Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don't Exist

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When I work as a freelancer, I get a lot of requests lately to create fake AI manipulated images for scams. Especially requests to generate fake IDs using AI. Personally, I feel that there is a need for AI watermarks on image generation models, but at the same time, if watermarks become mandatory, it would effectively kill the business viability of those models. It feels like the same problem as guns and gun control.

Re: Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don't Exist

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We talk too much about hallucination and too little about the more mundane elephant in the room that AI, whatever its effectiveness, will simply be used more for scam and deception than positive uses.

I dont think a few scams here and there outweight positive usecases

We're about to see our political campaigns flooded with fake videos, slander, fabrications, and misinformation. Used to be you could be relatively certain if something was a video it was too much effort to be photoshopped. Not true any more.

Re: Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don't Exist

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We talk too much about hallucination and too little about the more mundane elephant in the room that AI, whatever its effectiveness, will simply be used more for scam and deception than positive uses.

I dont think a few scams here and there outweight positive usecases

It's not just a few scams though. It's a lot of scams, and a lot of propaganda, and a lot of CSAM, and even beyond the overtly negative, it's a tidal wave of slop in music, in publishing, in everything else.

Some technology has more negative use cases than positive; this appears to be one of them.

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