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by tokyodude 2680 days ago
I'm of many minds about this

Censorship: bad.

That Life: The tech will get created by someone else so censoring does almost nothing. Better to put it out there so we can try to make defenses. Maybe make a bunch of fakes with famous people's permssion to spread the word how you can't trust video anymore

Dangerous: To take an extreme example imagine you figured out how to make some kind of E=MC^2 bomb simply such that anyone with the knowledge could make a device that could blow up a city for $100 and a few hours of time. Would it be ok to upload those instructions to the internet for any disgruntled teen to repo?

deepfakes are certainly not at that extreme but we can also clearly imagine the harm they could do as they progress.

There have been several examples recently of people seeming to react to arguably false perceptions. I'm actually thinking of ones in the last 2-3 days but I'm sure there are plenty of others.

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Hey! We love opensource and AI so let's being AI to communities!

- Community creates a project that makes it impossible to track faces in social media and anywhere online.

yghmmm, no, not that kind of AI