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Post by swader999 »

nelsondev wrote: post #153
bluejellybean wrote: post #131

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My personal hunch is that this will end up leading to a situation in which presenters do a cryptographic handshake that works to verify and prove authenticity. This isn't a new idea, and it has some very obvious drawbacks, but I don't see much of a way around the issue. The handshake could work great for something like official news releases, but for other instances that might come up in court, say, dash cam footage…

Looking forward to a future where all a politician’s quotes are on a blockchain, signed by their private key, and they chose to do so voluntarily out of fear of deep fakes. Will remove all the useless “I didn’t say that”

That's a start! I think their video appearances should be like a car in NASCAR with permanently displayed logos superimposed from all the interests that have funded their rise.

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Post by GenericPoster »

fpgaminer wrote: post #192

Played with it for a bit in DreamStudio so I could control more of the settings. So far everything it generates is "high quality", but the AI seems to lack the creativity and breadth of understanding that DALL-E 2 has. OpenAI's model is better at taking wildly differing concepts and figuring out creative ways to glue them together, even if the end result isn't perfect. Stable Diffusion is very resistant to that, and…

Interesting. I took a stab at your prompt and SD really struggles. It just completely ignores part of the prompt. Even craiyon puts in an effort to at least complete the entire prompt.

The bison is very realistic at least. So maybe the future is different models that have different specialties.

Edit: managed to get this one after a few more tries https://imgur.com/a/3061n5d

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Post by mmmpop »

bwest87 wrote: post #166
TylerE wrote: post #117

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Much bigger fish to fry. Think things like forged evidence in trials.

Appropriately prioritizing problems has never really been society's strength...

That's because pesky things like "democracy" get in the way of getting shit done.

Don't you think?

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Post by zone411 »

seydor wrote: post #208
tshaddox wrote: post #121

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That seems unlikely, given that making up hurtful stories about people and transmitting them via text or voice is still a thing. Everyone knows that anyone can make up any story they want without any technology whatsoever, and yet spreading rumors is still a thing.

Not really. I can't think of a recent "leaked texts" that the participants cannot not easily and plausibly deny (e.g. elon's supposed messages to gates), or even voice messages. Even most images can already be denied as photoshop if all the witnesses agree. The only medium that is somewhat hard to deny is videos, like sex tapes, but that's also not too hard. I think there will soon be a race to make deep learning pic…

It'll be hard to deny crypto-signed photos https://petapixel.com/2022/08/08/sonys-forgery-proof-tech-ad..., especially if they include metadata that distinguish photos of AI generated images from normal photos.

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Post by seydor »

zone411 wrote: post #225
seydor wrote: post #208

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Not really. I can't think of a recent "leaked texts" that the participants cannot not easily and plausibly deny (e.g. elon's supposed messages to gates), or even voice messages. Even most images can already be denied as photoshop if all the witnesses agree. The only medium that is somewhat hard to deny is videos, like sex tapes, but that's also not too hard. I think there will soon be a race to make deep learning pic…

It'll be hard to deny crypto-signed photos https://petapixel.com/2022/08/08/sonys-forgery-proof-tech-ad... , especially if they include metadata that distinguish photos of AI generated images from normal photos.

any camera can be hacked to plant an image in its framebuffer

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Post by geysersam »

Fauntleroy wrote: post #77
ForrestN wrote: post #63

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I wonder/hope if a downstream effect of this technological change will be the end of the idea of a "shameful" or "humiliating" image. We all have bodies, we all have sex, and I agree that soon images of ourselves being nude/having sex etc. will proliferate because they'll be generated instantly via Siri shortcut as part of casual banter. In a world where every celebrity is having sex with gorillas, doesn't such an im…

If we get to the point where we can't tell AI generated images from reality, I'm not sure "body shaming" will be on society's collective radar anymore.

I bet someone said in 1830, "by the time we can send robots to Mars, body shaming will not be a thing anymore". For better and worse, that's not how we humans do things generally.

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Post by criddell »

derac wrote: post #184
criddell wrote: post #54

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If I’m willing to buy a computer, any pointers on what I would have to buy? I’m asking for specific models from a company like Dell, Apple, or Lenovo?

Wait for the 4070, it should be around the perf of a 3080/maybe 4090 for ~500 bucks if rumors hold up. It is coming in a few months. NZXT used to make good pre-builts. Not sure which others have a good rep. DO NOT BUY DELL.

What's wrong with Dell? Is Lenovo a bad option as well? Does NZXT offer on-site service?

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Post by cercatrova »

egypturnash wrote: post #157
mkaic wrote: post #85

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(OP here) I agree. I am an artist (not by trade but by lifelong obsession) in several different mediums, but also an AI engineer--so I feel a weird mixture of emotions tbh. I'm thrilled and excited but also terrified lol.

It's my fucking job. I've spent my whole fucking life getting good at drawing. I can probably manage to keep finding work but I am really not happy about what this is going to do to that place where a young artist is right at the threshold of being good enough to make it their job. Because once you're spending most of your days doing a thing, you start getting better at it a lot faster . And every place this shit get…

I mean I get what you're saying, sucks to have someone or something take your job, but isn't this a neo-luddite type argument? AI is gonna come for us all eventually.

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Post by Swizec »

seydor wrote: post #209
Swizec wrote: post #114

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> In a world where every celebrity is having sex with gorillas, doesn't such an image lose its charge? Will Norms and values around sex/body shaming change? I hoped this would happen with social media. Everyone says stupid shit online and everyone has past beliefs they’ve outgrown. So what’s the big deal? Instead we went the opposite way. Everyone is super self conscious and censoring at all times because you never k…

This is not the same though, it's about being able to deny that that photo of you is real, not that it's taken out of context.

Well what’s a “real” photo?

If I take your photo and photoshop (very well) different surroundings. Is it a real photo if you?

If I photoshop your face (very well) onto a different body. Is that real?

If I feed your photos into a model that can create realistic versions of those photos in different poses or with different facial expressions. Is that real?

They all start with something that is very definitely a real photo. You can’t (yet? ever?) generate a realistic photo of a specific person from a textual description. The machinery needs a source.

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