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Trolls have flooded X with graphic Taylor Swift AI fakes (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sexually explicit AI-generated images of Taylor Swift have been circulating on X (formerly Twitter) over the last day in the latest example of the proliferation of AI-generated fake pornography and the challenge of stopping it from spreading.

X’s policies regarding synthetic and manipulated media and nonconsensual nudity both explicitly ban this kind of content from being hosted on the platform.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Things that are bad for society should be suppressed and things which are good for society should be promoted. That would seem to be the point of a society.

Great, now we just need to establish whether AI art is "bad for society", and if it is then whether the effects of attempting to ban it would be worse for society.

Further, I notice a pastern in your replies of bringing up metaphor then rejecting the very metaphor as off topic or irrelevant when it is engaged to it's logical conclusion.

What metaphors did I bring up? You're the one who brought fast food into this. I don't see any other metaphors in play.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Great, now we just need to establish whether AI art is "bad for society"

That seems fairly evident

You're the one who brought fast food into this.

You were fine engaging fastfood until I pointed out it, like AI " art " was terrible. Only then did you deride the metaphor as off topic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That seems fairly evident

Hardly. There wouldn't be much debate about it if it was, would there?

You were fine engaging fastfood until I pointed out it, like AI " art " was terrible. Only then did you deride the metaphor as off topic.

Alright, in future I will try to remember to immediately reject any metaphors you bring into play rather than attempt to engage with them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There wouldn't be much debate about it if it was, would there?

Sure there can be. People debate crypto being good and that's roundly recognized as ecocide. People "debate" who counts as people all the time. People can be wrong and loud.

Alright, in future I will try to remember to immediately reject any metaphors you bring into play rather than attempt to engage with them.

Not saying you have to do that, but if you don't it's rather untoward to bring it up later as though it's a problem.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ethereum switched to proof-of-stake a year and a half ago, it no longer has a significant environmental impact.

Oh wait, this is an analogy, isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So you're into the other tech scam too, are ya?

Fancy that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No, just pointing out who's in the "loud but wrong" camp on that one. If ecological concerns are why you think crypto is bad, well, that's not clear cut any more.

You want to keep going with this analogy you brought up, then?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm not the one who claimed they were off topic. I'm the one who was right about generative " art " being a god-damn scam. Easy mistake to make I suppose.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

All analogies eventually fail when you dig into them far enough, by nature of what an analogy is. That is, an analogy is not exactly identical to the thing being analogized. If you want to be able to use analogies but refuse to acknowledge that they eventually lose relevance when you stretch them too far then you're simply not amenable to reason.

And then you go and explicitly beg the very question under debate with an "of course I'm right." No, AI art isn't a "scam," whatever you mean by that.