Comment by fuzzythrowaway

None of these advances matter if the hyper-Puritan guardrails continue to be in place. If you can't make a nude, you can't make art. If you're incapable of making something that might offend someone, you can't make art. It's not just about smut peddlers; classifiers are dumb and make mistakes, so "unsafe" generations that are actually objectively "safe" get swept up with bona fide illegal ones, and become tantamount to them. These are just glorified ad and propaganda machines, literally neutered. It's a form of censorship, and these systems have a chilling effect on the output of people who use them.

Hopefully we leave the AI Hays Code behind soon.