Tom Hanks Warns Fans About ‘AI Version of Me’ Promoting Dental Plan: ‘I Have Nothing to Do With It’::Tom Hanks shared a computer-generated image of himself on Instagram, warning his followers about an ‘AI version of me’ promoting a dental plan.
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Until legislators get caught up with it. Which they will because this is already being used for political misinformation and fucking up with very rich people’s wallets. The only solution is to go full Butlerian Jihad on it and forbid ML image generation and LLMs altogether. Before that, more than one authoritarian government will use it to manipulate the masses.
Well, it’s open source… so that cat is not going back in the bag so to speak. Some technophobe countries will try to set up a bunch of laws but outside their borders the craziness will persist. I think the only way past this is to go straight through. We’re going to see a lot of people manipulated.
Honestly I think they could relatively effectively curb non-state-level use in a lot of situations. If the risk of using them or disseminating them were controlled even nearly as tightly as copyright law, that relatively low bar would already filter out most users. Understand that it’s technically non-trivial to set up and use these models. You might see them continue as warez and the like through torrent sites, but they aren’t as simple as a pirated movie–you can’t just copy it over and play it in most cases. 100% reduction is impossible by any reasonable means, but even 90% reduction would go a long way toward avoiding just one-off acts