A nightmare scenario previously only imagined by AI researchers, where AI image generators accidentally spit out non-consensual pornography of real people, is now reality.
Aww, you can get a girlfriend that looks like an angel. You know, the crazy things described in the Bible.
Manic pixie eldritch horror dream girl
I won’t lie, I checked it out from curiosity. Scrolled for maybe five seconds on their homepage and found a woman in a yoga pose with her head full on backwards on her body, completely 180° around.
Honestly the market for this kind of thing is pretty sad.
Seriously, speaking as a man, I have no idea why on Earth some of us men are willing to pay for things like the stuff described in the article?!
I remember thinking the same thing a few years ago about Belle Delphine and her “gamer girl bath water”. I get it, I get horny too and have no idea how to approach women, but seriously, there is so much porn of all kinds out there entirely for free.
AI chat bots are something else. I don’t understand the people using them as girlfriends, but it’s like a whole new genre of porn.
And you don’t have to pay. You can host it yourself. Look up a program called “silly tavern”
Yet another reason that we cannot allow ML companies to set a precedent that “it’s fine to use non-consensual training data, because the model only ‘learns’ from it and never reproduces an exact replica of any single input”.
Also, this was not surprising:
Dillon said that DreamGF has a team of between 20-25 developers, mostly in Bulgaria, and that they previously worked at an NFT company.
You think those images are exact replicas of an input those models were trained on?
My complaint actually hinges on models not emitting an exact replica. That would be obvious infringement. In cases like DreamGF, they would be wide-open to lawsuits from very wealthy people whose primary asset is their right of publicity.
What these ML companies are doing is: They are identifying where the line of definite infringement lies, and aiming their business as close to that line as possible.
But not over that line. If you draw lines and then these companies stay within them, what’s the problem?
Well, setting aside that there’s no law against being a total asshole, so like… We don’t have to make a bad behavior illegal in order to complain about it…
There’s the letter of the law, and there’s the intent. We start with a shared cultural attitude of how we should treat each other, and then we turn that into a quantifiable, objective rule that we can enforce through law.
We can try to make the law match our cultural attitudes as closely as possible, but there will always be gaps.
Now, I’ve got my own beef with how our IP and publicity laws work, and I’d like them to be more permissive in many ways. Much of IP law is exploitative, takes advantage of creators more than it protects them, and has lagged way behind where our social norms are these days.
But these ML companies aren’t interested in abiding by any social norms at all. Only paying lip service to current laws, which were written in a time before these “AI” services were even a possibility – skating by on technicalities, like a little brother poking the air 2 inches from your face and taunting “I’m not touching you! I’m not touching you!”
It specifically says in the article that some of them are exactly that.
Where? Closest I can find is a reference to an “AI-generated nude of someone who looked like Margot Robbie, and another image of Lopez.”
“Looking like” a person is not at all the same as “reproducing an exact replica of an input.”
I think the idea is that if the model doesn’t know what Jennifer Lopez is, it couldn’t make imitations of her naked.
Realistically that ship has sailed and AI is capable enough now that even if the data wasn’t there it could be pretty easily added.
It will need to become a simple fact of life. If we can imagine something now, we can have pictures of it. There is no putting this back in the bottle.
Once there’s a way to simulate touch and this tech actually works, I bet some people will never leave their house and have a VR headset on for days on end.
I mean have you been outside recently? I’ll weather the apocalypse with my AI Mommy thank you.
Last time I went outside I got pooped on by a bird.
Shit happens
