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Re:Imagen Video: high definition video generation with diffu... by Gigachad on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @07:50PM (#33102680)
Facebook is a recommendation engine. The problem isn't so much the content, its that facebook chooses to show it to people who did not actively seek it out. You never see people complain at Chrome for showing the content or nginx for hosting it.

Recommendation engines are more responsible than basic infrastructure.

Re:Imagen Video: high definition video generation with diffu... by capitalsigma on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @07:54PM (#33102709)
So you would say that if FB fails to censor a video titled "vaccines cause autism" that drives engagement, they are more morally culpable for the content than if Google spends TPU cycles rendering the Imagen prompt input: "detailed video about why vaccines cause autism, scientific, realistic, in the style of a public health announcement"

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Re:Imagen Video: high definition video generation with diffu... by Gigachad on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @07:58PM (#33102735)
IMO facebook should stop "engagement based" recommendation engines until they have the ability to stop them being abused. Change the platform to show chronological posts from things users have subscribed to. They could perhaps have a curated selection of content that FB employees have screened to be good for general distribution.

There is a world of difference between someone manually seeking out and subscribing to a misinformation source than FB automatically suggesting it to them.

Re:Imagen Video: high definition video generation with diffu... by capitalsigma on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @08:08PM (#33102799)
That is definitely one opinion that you can hold about Facebook but it's unclear to me how it relates to this post about Google's new generative model
Re:Imagen Video: high definition video generation with diffu... by Gigachad on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @09:42PM (#33103353)
I don't think google is responsible for the content created any more than Windows is for running the program or your ISP is for serving it. Promotion and discovery are the places where moderation and responsibility come in.
Re:Imagen Video: high definition video generation with diffu... by raxxorraxor on Thursday October 06, 2022 @07:51AM (#33107038)
They did ban such videos and now people take videos like this seriously. Don't be so naive. This is a PR message, nothing else.

The whole banning spree did more damage to vaccine acceptance than flat earther and lizard people together. It isn't even comparable. Because of course they ended up censoring legitimate criticism and scientific data. That was inevitable, no matter how well intended.

Now they made themselves unreliable because someone on the internet was crazy.