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Apr 19, 2024
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halidgka that would be seriously blissful!! I want a time machine!
It's hard to read intent from a comment but if you don't know what it is and would like me to try to explain, I can ^^
lhannan yea-i really don’t know what it is. help me understand, slow tech is good- techno-Pandoras a bitch, especially as inherited:/
halidgka Hah alright, I'll try to keep it somewhat short! There was this non profit organization that basically saved everything they could from the internet. Articles, pictures, wiki, comments...and created a set of data that could then be used to train AI. How this is done is a longer tale but basically the AI looks at ALL of the data and somewhat infers the relationship between things based on other similar data it has. It gets the text "dog" and a photo of a dog and with enough photos and text it gets a vague idea of a dog. This only works if the dataset it is training on is HUGE, which is why we didn't get good chatbots like chatGPT until after this particular dataset was released for common use.
Some of the popular AI trained on the pictures saved from the internet is called Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. They can generate new photos and new artwork from a text description. The result is a robot that can create "art" or photos thousands of times faster than any human, but the robot importantly does not know what anything is. It only knows how one thing might relate to another thing, based on what humans has told it. It is not true intelligence, so it has no morals or intent with its art and it can generate any kind of photo. The things they stole off the internet was also a bunch of copyrighted stuff, which is why you can tell the art generator to create "in the style of [artist]" and it will do a decent job if the artist is famous enough, and it has eaten enough of that artist's art and related content previously.
If you think this sounds dangerous for creative fields like illustration and painting, correct. If you think this sounds dangerous in terms of misinformation and fake photos especially during an election season; super correct. If you fear how this can result in easier creation of revenge porn because anyone can take a picture of anyone and tell the machine to generate explicit images, also correct (although the big players try to avoid this due to litigation, there are ways around it). And this is just covering the art generators, they are doing the same with music, voice acting etc.
In conclusion: Techbros stole the internet in order to create machines designed to replace writers, translators, illustrators, painters, photographers, concept artists, voice actors, actors, music producers and many more.
I hope that made some sense ^^ whew!
Apr 19, 2024
