Comment by andy_ppp
16 hours ago
I keep thinking that the lack of children’s faces in the blacked out rectangles make the files much less shocking. I wonder if AI could put back fake images to make clearer to people how sick all this is.
16 hours ago
I keep thinking that the lack of children’s faces in the blacked out rectangles make the files much less shocking. I wonder if AI could put back fake images to make clearer to people how sick all this is.
I understand the sentiment, but I'm always very concerned when it comes to AI generating pictures of children.
Why? They are generated pictures, not real pictures.
A lot of people are now struggling to detect which images are AI generated, and inferring reality from illusions.
To an extent, this was already the case with many other things, including stuff that was expressly labelled as fiction, but I recall an old quote, fooling all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, it is now easier to fool more people all the time and to fool all people an increasing fraction of the time.
This isn't only limited to fake pics of kids, but kids are weak and struggle to defend themselves, and in this context the tools faking them seems to me likely to increase rates of harm against them.
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I'm on your team here, no one is being hurt.
Now the implications of letting people generate pictures of children....... Do I need to say more? Even then, I'm not sure my opinion on this. No one is getting hurt by the generation of the images, but they "might could maybe possibly" cause them to act on things in real life.
When I was a teenager I used to make this argument for legalization of drugs. It wasn't the drugs that caused people to steal and murder, it was the human.
Now that I'm older, I can imagine consequences of a few bad apples pointing to AI as the starting point.
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You're barely scratching the surface.
> Mr. Gates, in turn, praised Mr. Epstein’s charm and intelligence. Emailing colleagues the next day, he said: “A very attractive Swedish woman and her daughter dropped by and I ended up staying there quite late.”
What if I told you that the child sitting on Epstein's lap, the teenager he French-kissed, the girl whose skin he covered with fragments from Nabokov's Lolita, the one who had an entire corridor filled with her pictures in one of his properties, who appeared in every framed photograph on his desk and whose name is on the CD-ROMs, the only woman Epstein said he would ever marry – what if that girl is the daughter Bill Gates mentions? And that she and her mother were Epstein's main romantic interests and most percussive tools?
I believe this would decrease credibility of the evidence, not increase it.