Incidents of harassment and extortion are likely to rise, abuse experts say, as bad actors use AI models to humiliate targets ranging from celebrities to ex-girlfriends — even children.
Abusers didn’t need powerful machine learning to make deepfakes: “Face swap” apps available in the Apple and Google app stores already made it easy to create them. But the latest wave of AI makes deepfakes more accessible, and the models can be hostile to women in novel ways.
“The people developing these technologies are not thinking about it from a woman’s perspective, who’s been the victim of nonconsensual porn or experienced harassment online,” Farid said. “You’ve got a bunch of White dudes sitting around like ‘Hey, watch this.
Asked why it hasn’t always promptly removed these threads, a Reddit spokeswoman said the platform is working to improve its detection system. “Reddit was one of the earliest sites to establish sitewide policies that prohibit this content, and we continue to evolve our policies to ensure the safety of the platform,” she said.
Another model, Midjourney, uses a combination of blocked words and human moderation, said founder David Holz. The company plans to roll out more advanced filtering in coming weeks that will better account for the context of words, he said.Stability AI, maker of the model Stable Diffusion, stopped including porn in the training data for its most recent releases, significantly reducing bias and sexual content, said founder and CEO Emad Mostaque.
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