We’re about to enter a world where we will have no way to know if any image or video is real or not. And we seem to have no plan for how to deal with that.

Personally (and I know this is very controversial), I think the potential for harm here is so massive that serious restrictions on further development and use of these products (until we’ve come up with adequate safeguards) should be considered.

@iamharaldur How in the world can you stop worldwide further development of any software? Even if you could make it illegal then it would still be developed by people willing to break the law. The only thing you can do is figure out how to deal with it as good as possible.

@iamharaldur The solution in Venemous Lumpsucker was phones come with a verification chip and if the image or video doesn’t come with a verification from that then it’s assumed to be fake. Of course, this is a dystopian novel so poorer people can’t afford the phones with the chips.

@iamharaldur Even if we put restrictions on this tech, other countries won’t…

@iamharaldur @SamSoleZA Hm. One the one end, I share your concerns, the amount of disinformation Generative AI will produce is breathtaking & frankly, incredibly frightening. But also, I’m wary about providing policymakers space to stymy innovation. Policies & laws must keep apace of innovation.

@iamharaldur This will atleast make most to verify information. Media, and politicians were already manipulating words and news where boundary between fiction and truth was distorted for a long time. Yes we need a solution not just for video and image, but also for what people tell you.

@iamharaldur It’s far too late. If you restrict it now, the only people doing work on it will be those who don’t care about restrictions.

@iamharaldur is this satire or all of you people incapable of critical thought

@iamharaldur We already have a way for dealing with that. Automatic distrust of everything. The distrust of MSM has pretty much cemented the development of that behavior. As for stopping development. Not sure why anyone thinks this is a reasonable much less good answer. 1\

@iamharaldur 100% Agreed. This is well past the "we cloned a sheep, and can theoretically clone humans" moment that led to international bans on human cloning. We're at the point where generative AI is mass-infringing, mass-deceiving, and mass-impersonating at a cataclysmic scale. Stop it.