[war321]

As said every time this "why are we automating creativity when menial jobs exist?" response comes up:

1) Errors in art programs messing up is less worrisome than a physical robot. One going wrong makes extra fingers in a picture, the other potentially maims or kills you.

2) Moravec's Paradox. Reasoning requires little computation versus sensorimotor and perception.

3) Despite 1 and 2, we are constantly automating menial jobs!

[reubenmorais]

Classifying image generation and manipulation as "art programs" is the most beneficial possible reading of it. When you use them to generate disinformation, incitement and propaganda, they are potentially maiming and killing humans. This failure mode is well known, the mitigations ineffective, yet here we are, about to take another leap forward after a performative period of "red teaming" where some mitigation work happens but the harsher criticism is brushed off as paranoiac.

[thegrimmest]

I couldn't disagree more strongly that disinformation, incitement, or propaganda maim and kill people. People kill other people. Don't give killers an avenue to abdicate responsibility for their actions. Propaganda doesn't cause anyone to do anything. It may convince them, but those are entirely separate things with a clear, bright line between them. Best not mix them up.

[scotty79]

Disinformation is art. Art is disinformation.