The concerning thing is... I can't tell if you're joking.

It fucked up his jaw.

The cat's out of the bag unfortunately. I can download stable or unstable diffusion on my home PC and make it generate all kinds of stuff. It's open source so you can't really stop that knowledge from spreading.

You can however recognize that the majority of people won't do that, and write rules around software that is delivered as a service or for a fee. That would stop 90% of it.

So while regulating GenAI is possible, it's not full fix. GenAI is kind of still the risk.

Dead internet theory

That's the point I'm reaching as well. The internet as a mass of disconnected sites feels dead. Any attempt to look up information goes to pages that follow the same formula and feel very AI generated even with errors and unconsistencies typical for AI. What is the point of the open net anymore? The only value I feel like I'm getting is in specific trusted platforms or sites. It's a sad state that we've reached.

Please link the livestream face thing.

Pitcher and catcher

I’m not going to join Twitter to find out.

People are and always have been divorced from reality. Some people barely understand how their own house works, but nobody ever understood everything, and at no point you could be sure you know with absolute certainty what was going on 1000 miles away from you.

Let us not act like generative AI is going to break the 4th wall of our perfect world. And I don't even mean video or even image manipulation - basic text can and has been used for manipulation forever.

Perhaps we should reexamine things we've had for decades, like signing content with PGP and building actual trust around the world.

While I share this sentiment, I think/hope the eventual conclusion will be a better relationship between more people and the truth. Maybe not for everyone, but more people than before. Truth is always more like 99.99% certain than absolute truth, and it's the collection of evidence that should inform 'truth'. The closest thing we have to achieving that is the court system (In theory).

You don't see the electric wiring in your home, yet you 'know' flipping the switch will cause electricity to create light. You 'know' there is not some other mechanism in your walls that just happens to produce the exact same result. But unless you check, you technically didn't know for sure. Someone could have swapped it out while you weren't looking, even if you built it yourself. (And even if you check, your eyes might deceive you).

With Harris' airport crowd, honestly if you weren't there, you have to trust second hand accounts. So how do you do that? One video might not say a lot, and honestly if I saw the alleged image in a vacuum I might have been suspicious of AI as well.

But here comes the context. There are many eye witness perspectives where details can be verified and corroborated. The organizer isn't an habitual liar. It happened at a time that wasn't impossible (eg. a sort of 'counter'-alibi). It happened in a place that isn't improbable (She's on the campaign trail). If true, it would require a conspiracy level of secrecy to pull of. And I could list so many more things.

Anything that could be disproven with 'It might have been AI', probably would have not stuck in court anyways. It's why you take testimony, because even though that proves nothing on it's own, if corroborated with other information it can make one situation more or less probable.

The last '20s sucked also. All of this has happened before, and it'll all happen again, but this time with ads and AI!!

But it's not free. You have to subscribe to X premium

AIs aren't real information.

I want to know what happened to “information wants to be free”.

I think its more "Fuck you, pay me" now that Musk is running a few rubles short of what he needs to stay the world's richest man.

"Information wants to be free", it never was. Thats only a small part of the quote. The whole quote is:

Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive. ...That tension will not go away.

"human progress"

A lot of the commercially available image generators will block certain terms, like copyrighted characters or presidential candidates, or celebrities in their underwear. You can of course do this all without limits on your own hosted versions of stable diffusion and whatnot. But a commercially available option without any limits is actually news.