Comment by SpicyLemonZest

2 years ago

Yes to all of the above, and airbrushed pictures in old magazines should have been labeled too. I'm not saying unauthorized photoediting should be a crime, but I don't see any good reason why news outlets, social media sites, phone manufacturers, etc. need to be secretive about it.

But how on earth is that helpful for consumers?

  • It's helpful because they know more about what they're looking at, I guess? I'm a bit confused by the question - why wouldn't consumers want to know if a photo they're looking at had a face-slimming filter applied?

    • You're not thinking like a compliance bureaucrat. If you get in trouble for not labeling something as AI-generated then the simplest implementation is to label everything as AI-generated. And if that isn't allowed then you run every image through an automated process that makes the smallest possible modification in order to formally cause it to be AI-generated so you can get back to the liability-reducing behavior of labeling everything uniformly.

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    • It may not be relevant. What if I want ro pyt up a stock photo with a blog post. What benefit does knowing whether it was generated by multiplying matrices have to my audience? All I see it doing is increasing my costs.

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