Re:Imagen Video: high definition video generation with diffu...
by saurik on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @06:22PM
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> I have a pretty hard time believing that history will be as unkind towards those who tried to protect minorities from biased tech..
Most of the ethicists I see actually doing gatekeeping from direct use of models--as opposed to "merely" attempting model bias corrections or trying to convince people to avoid its overuse (which isn't at all the same)--are not trying to deal with the "AI copies our human biases" problem but are trying to prevent people from either building a paperclip optimizer that ends the world or (and this is the issue with all of these image models) making "bad content" like fake photographs of real people in compromising or unlikely scenarios that turn into "fake news" or are used for harassment.
(I do NOT agree with the latter people, to be clear: I believe the world will be MUCH BETTER OFF if such "bad" image generation were fully commoditized and people stopped trying to centrally police information in general, as I maintain they are CAUSING the ACTUAL problem of misinformation feeling more rare or difficult to generate than it actually already is, which results in people trusting random people because "clearly some gatekeeper would have filtered this if it weren't true". But this just isn't the same thing as the people who I-think-rightfully point out "you should avoid outsourcing something to an AI if you care about it being biased".)
Most of the ethicists I see actually doing gatekeeping from direct use of models--as opposed to "merely" attempting model bias corrections or trying to convince people to avoid its overuse (which isn't at all the same)--are not trying to deal with the "AI copies our human biases" problem but are trying to prevent people from either building a paperclip optimizer that ends the world or (and this is the issue with all of these image models) making "bad content" like fake photographs of real people in compromising or unlikely scenarios that turn into "fake news" or are used for harassment.
(I do NOT agree with the latter people, to be clear: I believe the world will be MUCH BETTER OFF if such "bad" image generation were fully commoditized and people stopped trying to centrally police information in general, as I maintain they are CAUSING the ACTUAL problem of misinformation feeling more rare or difficult to generate than it actually already is, which results in people trusting random people because "clearly some gatekeeper would have filtered this if it weren't true". But this just isn't the same thing as the people who I-think-rightfully point out "you should avoid outsourcing something to an AI if you care about it being biased".)