The tech giant is among companies pushing out AI tools while promising to build more tools to protect against their misuse
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Seems a lot of people are misinterpreting this.
The goal is not to protect the general public from misinformation. The goal is to prevent the pool of new training data from getting TOO contaminated with AI generated images, which would make it worthless for training new AI
The article itself makes the connection:
As the 2024 presidential campaign ramps up, concern is quickly rising that such images might be used to spread false information.
Though, I guess shame on us for expecting better journalism these days.
Who knows, probably a paid article
Why is the focus only on identifying AI generated photos? Why not force a tag on all AI generated content period? That would help with a lot of applications.
Ah, yes, the evil bit will solve all our problems.
That was my first thought too. Wasn’t there like a checklist for “Why this spam detection scheme will fail” that was floating around since the late 1990s?
You’re thinking of this: https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt Maybe someone should make an AI-detector version of that.
It’s pretty easy to just not put the AI tag on things, or to strip such things away from an image.
That is simply not enforceable
Because you can setup a AI generator at home and nobody is coming to your house to make sure you watermark your “artwork”
The solution is … Embed a watermark when the image is generated? How will that help stop deliberate disinformation created with other tools
Oh, they’ll totally sell the ability to generate without the watermark. Because of course, corporations have never been responsible for spreading disinformation.
I guess they could call it out better, even automatically, but someone further up is suggesting the real goal is to stop AI photos from appearing in future AI training sets, which would be counterproductive.
