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Then we should be able to charge AI (the developers moreso) for the same disgusting crime, and shut AI down.
Camera-makers, too. And people who make pencils. Lock the whole lot up, the sickos.
Camera makers and pencil makers (and the users of those devices) aren't making massive server farms that spy on every drop of information they can get ahold of.
If AI has the means to generate inappropriate material, then that means the developers have allowed it to train from inappropriate material.
Now when that's the case, well where did the devs get the training data?.. 🤔
That's not how generative AI works. It's capable of creating images that include novel elements that weren't in the training set.
Go ahead and ask one to generate a bonkers image description that doesn't exist in its training data and there's a good chance it'll be able to make one for you. The classic example is an "avocado chair", which an early image generator was able to produce many plausible images of despite only having been trained on images of avocados and chairs. It understood the two general concepts and was able to figure out how to meld them into a common depiction.
Yes, I've tried similar silly things. I've asked AI to render an image of Mr. Bean hugging Pennywise the clown. And it delivered, something randomly silly looking, but still not far off base.
But when it comes to inappropriate material, well the AI shouldn't be able to generate any such thing in the first place, unless the developers have allowed it to train from inappropriate sources..
The trainers didn't train the image generator on images of Mr. Bean hugging Pennywise, and yet it's able to generate images of Mr. Bean hugging Pennywise. Yet you insist that it can't generate inappropriate images without having been specifically trained on inappropriate images? Why is that suddenly different?
The trainers taught it what Mr. Bean looks like and what Pennywise looks like - it took those concepts and combined them to create your image. To make CSAM it was, unfortunately, trained on CSAM https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/news/investigation-finds-ai-image-generation-models-trained-child-abuse
3,226 suspected images out of 5.8 billion. About 0.00006%. And probably mislabeled to boot, or it would have been caught earlier. I doubt it had any significant impact on the model's capabilities.
....no
That'd be like outlawing hammers because someone figured out they make a great murder weapon.
Just because you can use a tool for crime, doesn't mean that tool was designed/intended for crime.
That's not the point. You don't train a hammer from millions of user inputs.
You gotta ask, if the AI can produce inappropriate material, then where did the developers get the training data, and what exactly did they train those AI models for?
Do... Do you really think the creators/developers of Stable Diffusion (the AI art tool in question here) trained it on CSAM before distributing it to the public?
Or are you arguing that we should be allowed to do what's been done in the article? (arrest and charge the individual responsible for training their copy of an AI model to generate CSAM)
One, AI image generators can and will spit out content vastly different than anything in the training dataset (this ofc can be influenced greatly by user input). This can be fed back into the training data to push the model towards the desired outcome. Examples of the desired outcome are not required at all. (IE you don't have to feed it CSAM to get CSAM, you just have to consistently push it more and more towards that goal)
Two, anyone can host an AI model; it's not reserved for big corporations and their server farms. You can host your own copy and train it however you'd like on whatever material you've got. (that's literally how Stable Diffusion is used) This kind of explicit material is being created by individuals using AI software they've downloaded/purchased/stolen and then trained themselves. They aren't buying a CSAM generator ready to use off the open market... (nor are they getting this material from publicly operating AI models)
They are acquiring a tool and moulding it into a weapon of their own volition.
Some tools you can just use immediately, others have a setup process first. AI is just a tool, like a hammer. It can be used appropriately, or not. The developer isn't responsible for how you decide to use it.
Then that settles it. It's whoever allows bad data into the training data.
Sadly that's what most of the gun laws are designed about. Book banning and anti-abortion both are limiting tools because of what a small minority choose to do with the tool.
AI image generation shouldn't be considered in obscenity laws. His distribution or pornography to minor should be the issue, because not everyone stuck with that disease should be deprived tools that can be used to keep them away from hurting others.
Using AI images to increase charges should be wrong. A pedophile contacting and distributing pornography to children should be all that it takes to charge a person. This will just setup new precedent that is beyond the scope of the judiciary.
Not exactly. This would be more akin to a company that will 3D printer metal parts and assemble them for you. You use this service and have them create and assemble a gun for you. Then you use that weapon in a violent crime. Should the company have known better that you were having them create an illegal weapon on your behalf?
The person who was charged was using Stable Diffusion to generate the images on their own computer, entirely with their own resources. So it's akin to a company that sells 3D printers selling a printer to someone, who then uses it to build a gun.
It would be more like outlawing ivory grand pianos because they require dead elephants to make - the AI models under question here were trained on abuse.
A person (the arrested software engineer from the article) acquired a tool (a copy of Stable Diffusion, available on github) and used it to commit crime (trained it to generate CSAM + used it to generate CSAM).
That has nothing to do with the developer of the AI, and everything to do with the person using it. (hence the arrest...)
I stand by my analogy.
Sounds to me it would be more like outlawing grand pianos because of all of the dead elephants - while some people are claiming that it is possible to make a grand piano without killing elephants.
I think that’s a bit of a stretch. If it was being marketed as “make your fantasy, no matter how illegal it is,” then yeah. But just because I use a tool someone else made doesn’t mean they should be held liable.
Check my other comments. My thought was compared to a hammer.
Hammers aren't trained to act or respond on their own from millions of user inputs.
Image AIs also don't act or respond on their own. You have to prompt them.
I learned how to write by reading. The AI did the same, more or less, no?
Can we do guns next?