If your examples are not logically equivalent even using abstraction, some people may be less impressed than yourself unfortunately. I do appreciate the fun aspect of it though.
This is both true and a terrible reason to be okay with bad things proliferating. And it’s especially suspicious when this argument is leveled by people who generally aren’t going to be victimized by said bad things.
A nude photo is information. If you can turn it from implied authenticity to implied inauthenticity then the harm is reduced. The argument here is not about being used to things.
Sure, if you can do that. Of course the question is whether/when that’ll happen and how many young people have to be victimized first in order to get there — and for what benefit?
Not sure what's "non-factual" about it?
Maybe we’re entering a world where instead of saying suck a dick, you send someone a gif of them sucking off their dad, but as far as actual consequences go I think it’s pretty much immediately discreditable. Plausible deniability is all people ever really need.
Ah yes, middle school/high school bullies: famously disempowered by things like plausible deniability. The suffering caused by bullying and harassment: powerless in the light of plausible deniability.
AFAICT the people who would be close to this issue (e.g. people who pay attention to online harassment, teen mental health, and child pornography) come to a different prediction as far as impact. I’m far more inclined to believe them than people leveling an argument that, as I said, can just as readily defend murder, car thefts, and medical malpractice. All the suffering is just in people’s heads and all of it can be eliminated by proliferating the behavior to sufficient degree.
By this logic, you need to worry about me using AI to seduce your mom. Because NVIDIA spent a TRILLION DOLLARS!
> Ah yes, middle school/high school bullies: famously disempowered by things like plausible deniability. The suffering caused by bullying and harassment: powerless in the light of plausible deniability.
If bullies can push things as truth regardless of their merit then false information doesn’t matter.
Companies: We're raising billions of dollars to make it cheaper, faster, and easier to produce extremely believable fake media. Our success in this endeavor is verifiable by opening one of thousands of new image generator tools and trying it yourself for 30 seconds.
News reports: People are using tools that make it cheaper, faster, and easier to produce extremely believable nonconsensual sexual imagery of children (e.g. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/beverly-vista-hi...)
You: This is just like Photoshop. Not sure what the relevance is.
Is that right?