AI Seamless Texture Generator Built-In to Blender

Re:AI Seamless Texture Generator Built-In to Blender by mhuffman on Monday September 19, 2022 @03:57PM (#32903097)

Yes, and the end of the world they predicted if text-to-image technology got into the hands of bigots or if celebrities/politicians were deep-faked into odd situations, etc ... just has not materialized. I really think (and always thought) that the whole ethical reason for withholding access was bullshit! Same with generative text from prompts.

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Re:AI Seamless Texture Generator Built-In to Blender by serf on Monday September 19, 2022 @05:05PM (#32903947)

> ... just has not materialized.

I don't think we comfortably know that yet.

For one, software takes a bit to diffuse into the public usage, secondly if you were the victim of blackmail or some other such criminal activity that was perpetrated with the use of such a system you wouldn't raise your hand immediately -- you'd get clear of the problem -- and then afterwards depending on how embarassing the situation is you'd speak out publicly. Many victims will never identify the methods used, and most will never speak out publicly.

In other words, systems like this could be being used to harass people and it'd take a bit of time before 'the public' was ever very aware of it being an ongoing problem.

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Re:AI Seamless Texture Generator Built-In to Blender by coding123 on Monday September 19, 2022 @09:15PM (#32906431)

I'm pretty sure we haven't seen the deepfakes we are expecting yet. Give it a couple months for grainy photos of Clinton in the basement of a pizza parlor with handcuffs in the background.

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Re:AI Seamless Texture Generator Built-In to Blender by tomByrer on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @12:51AM (#32907787)

Or actual photos of Clinton at a certain island that are real but called deep fakes?

I thought of a Scifi series years ago where puppeteers could force politicians say anything they wanted just by the threat of a deep fake.

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Re:AI Seamless Texture Generator Built-In to Blender by enlyth on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @04:43AM (#32909208)

Don't worry, these AI models can't draw faces and hands properly yet, I'd give it some more time

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Re:AI Seamless Texture Generator Built-In to Blender by yoyohello13 on Monday September 19, 2022 @04:42PM (#32903668)

I think those ethical concerns are very real. It's just inevitable that this technology will be used for nefarious purposes. But withholding access to the tech, can't do anything to avoid the inevitable.

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Re:AI Seamless Texture Generator Built-In to Blender by XorNot on Monday September 19, 2022 @09:18PM (#32906455)

Well there's also the problem that if technology is possible but kept proprietary, then it is not expected that it will be used. This increases its power.

A world where deep fakes are well known and accessible technology undermines their nefarious utility (the opposite of course also being a problem: actual video evidence now potentially being undermined).

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Re:AI Seamless Texture Generator Built-In to Blender by TigeriusKirk on Monday September 19, 2022 @04:17PM (#32903340)

There are some people making images that almost anyone would find offensive. But I haven't noticed those images having any impact at all, at least not yet.

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