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Counterpoint: tons of tools are dangerous yet are still sold without much if any regulation. Knives are dangerous, but you don't need an ID to buy one from the store. We sell dangerous products all the time! We just put warnings and disclaimers on them (which AI models tend to come with).

That said, I dispute the idea that these models are "dangerous" in the first place. A box that generates texts and images is not even remotely as dangerous as a sharp spike strapped to a car. Such a comparison is hyperbolic.

People act like these models are going to be the end of US when they're literally just "instant photoshop." A dangerous model would be one designed to run a military drone or automatic weapons, not a random text and image machine.

All that aside, the deepfake issue has nothing to do with the model datasets including celebrity photos (in fact, it would work fine without any of them). And no, downloading public photos is not stealing either.