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Everyone knows online disinformation is a big problem—it definitely is separated communitiesRigged elections and harmed parts of the global population lose their mind, Of course, no one seems particularly concerned about actually fixing this problem. Actually, institutions most responsible Those responsible for online disinformation (and thus, those in the best position to do something about it) – i.e. tech companies – are intent on doing everything they can to make the problem exponentially worse.
Case in point: OpenAI Sora launched, its new text-to-video generator, on Thursday. The model is designed to allow web users to create high-quality, AI videos with just a text prompt. The app is currently wowing the internet with its bizarre variety of visual imagery – whatever it may be A Chinese New Year ParadeA man running backwards on a treadmill in the dark, a cat in a bedor two pirate ships walking in coffee cup,
At this point, despite its “world-changing” mission, it could be argued that OpenAI’s greatest contribution to the Internet is the instantaneous generation of countless terabytes of digital nonsense. All of the company’s open and public tools are content generators, some of which, Experts have warnedLikely to be used in fraud and disinformation campaigns.
In its blog post Regarding Sora, the team at OpenAI openly admits that their new app may have some potential shortcomings. The company said it is working on some watermarking technologies to mark the content created by its generators and is in the process of interfacing with knowledgeable people to detect what will be the inevitable flood of AI-generated nonsense. How to make a substance that will make psora less toxic. Sora is not yet open to the public and in the meantime, OpenAI says it is building systems that will reject users who want to generate violent or sexual imagery. The statement notes:
We will engage policy makers, educators and artists from around the world to understand their concerns and identify positive use cases of this new technology. Despite extensive research and testing, we cannot predict all the beneficial ways people will use our technology, nor all the ways people will misuse it.
This type of framing of the problem is quite ridiculous because it is already completely clear how OpenAI’s new tools can potentially be misused. Sora will mass-produce counterfeit content—that much is clear. It seems likely that some of that content will be used for the purposes of online political disinformation, some could hypothetically be used to aid in various frauds and scams, and some could be used to generate toxic content. can be done. OpenAI has said it wants to put meaningful limits on violent and sexual content, but web users and researchers have shown how savvy they can be. Jailbreaking AI systems Generating content that violates the companies’ usage policies. All this Sora content will obviously flood social media channels, making it harder for common people to distinguish between real and fake, and in general, make the internet a lot more annoying. I don’t think a global panel of experts is needed to figure this out.
There are several other glaring shortcomings as well. For one thing, Sora and others like it probably won’t have the biggest environmental impact. Researchers have shown that text-to-image generators are significantly worse than text-generator from an environmental point of view, And just creating an AI image takes the same amount of energy as it takes to fully charge your smartphone. For another thing, new text-to-video generation technologies will hurt the video creator economy, because why should companies pay people to create visual content when all that is required to create a video is the click of a button?
As far as the corporate class is concerned in this country, nothing really matters except money. Fuck the environment, fuck artists, fuck the disinformation-free internet, fuck the health of political discourse, fuck anything that gets in the way of the profit motive. Anything that can be squeezed out to make money should be squeezed out, even if it’s a software program whose only real utility is that it can produce a video of a cowboy hamster riding a dragon. As Posted by an ex user: “This is what foolish people sacrifice the environment for. Idiot. feces. like. it.”
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