Creating/publicising a tool that winks at these issues (consider the difference between the poses offered for 'male' and 'female' bodies) but does nothing to mitigate them - and a lot to enable them - is irresponsible at best.
Only when published, and when put into context of the entire work, could a creation deemed harmful. A tool should not, for example, prevent you from making a bunch of images with ominous poses, from which you select one to use with an article that discusses the history of ominous poses.
Tool makes do err on the side of caution all the time - we **** out passwords so users don't share them as easily, we put safety catches in secateurs. "Build in safeguards against the obvious issues" is a basic design step.
- assuming you found an egregious issue, do you also double down on maintaining that the tool is 'deliberately designed to make negative uses easy'? How so?
- I disagree with the 'safety catches' metaphor and would offer the 'hammer' metaphor instead.
- Actually, with the rapid development in this field I expect that anyone will be able to locally prompt for any content, even movies, soon, limited only by people's taste and imagination; with this realization I don't think I will follow up on this discussion that will surely be outdated in a minute.
I don't disagree with you entirely, but I still have the feeling like this will make a pretty good epitaph for humanity some day.
Everything from realistic faces to realistic posts. We tried to make it as ethical as possible in multiple ways. But ultimately it is designed to spur conversation on topics that need more kickstarting engagement…
All these AI content generators are still early stage. So it's kind of wild west for the time being.
First cars were what? Horse carriage with an engine duct taped onto it? Only when they became more numerous, things like traffic rules, reliable brakes & steering etc became important.
We're in the engine-with-wheels stage. Have fun, be happy.