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        1 year ago

        No, you keep repeating this but it remains untrue no matter how many times you say it. An image generator is able to create novel images that are not directly taken from its training data. That’s the whole point of image AIs.

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            1 year ago

            You realize that there are perfectly legal photographs of female genitals out there? I’ve heard it’s actually a rather popular photography subject on the Internet.

            Do you see where I’m going with this? AI only knows what people allow it to learn…

            Yes, but the point here is that the AI doesn’t need to learn from any actually illegal images. You can train it on perfectly legal images of adults in pornographic situations, and also perfectly legal images of children in non-pornographic situations, and then when you ask it to generate child porn it has all the concepts it needs to generate novel images of child porn for you. The fact that it’s capable of that does not in any way imply that the trainers fed it child porn in the training set, or had any intention of it being used in that specific way.

            As others have analogized in this thread, if you murder someone with a hammer that doesn’t make the people who manufactured the hammer guilty of anything. Hammers are perfectly legal. It’s how you used it that is illegal.

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          An image generator is able to create novel images that are not directly taken from its training data. That’s the whole point of image AIs.

          I just want to clarity that you’ve bought the silicon valley hype for AI but that is very much not the truth. It can create nothing novel - it can merely combine concepts and themes and styles in an incredibly complex manner… but it can never create anything novel.