Why is that? The photo editing stuff?
My concerns with AI aren’t around ethics, more so with usability, and Gemini seems pretty good at that.
But I don’t doubt this:
That said, iPhone rumours aren’t strong this year.
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More the generative stuff. It’s boundless and exploitable.
And yes, the photo stuff. I don’t believe they clearly tag them as AI as such. So while you could fabricate an entire photo from a real one, it’ll look no different in the metadata to a photo that was simply edited by a human in traditional photo editing software. That kind of recklessness means we can’t trust photographs anymore.
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I’m glad someone else is thinking this.
I mentioned it to some friends and they had never considered the implications for a personal photo. They always thought of AI being an issue with celebrity/political photos but I also said that there’s nothing stopping someone editing a personal photo that can be used nefariously with no way of knowing whether it’s real or not.
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I find it really surprising that there isn’t an effort to try and legislate around generative AI. It’s so obvious it’s going for be used by people who want to spread misinformation as much as people who just want make a funny picture etc.
We had so many examples of how powerful misinformation is in creating discord and division in society. I probably feel way more strongly about this since the events of the summer tbh.
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Haven’t UK-EU have signed an AI law recently for al AI generators to follow the regulations around ethical and responsible building with watermarking content/images?
I understand this wont highlight fake images for the average joe, but it should give social media platforms (and others) a way of displaying this more prominently.
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The thread on threads linked above is incredible.
The dog on the sofa one, so innocuous, but it’s even got the push down on the cushion.
We are now at the point where you can’t trust a photo. Of course it was always editable and to add the dog that well would have taken a lot of skill, now it takes none.
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I want to live where you live
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I guess I don’t mind the funny ones, but in theory you could be as bad as putting an illegal weapon/drug into a photo with someone who might lose their job from it (I would, for example) or even something like putting you in a scenario where you shouldn’t be - an ex-partner putting you in a photo with them and sending it to your current partner.
Okay so a bit of discussion might resolve these but it’s very very easy to do now.
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Those views!
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@npc_06 other than volcanoes and bears that does seem a really beautiful part of the country.
How often does the volcano erupt? 
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These all took less than 30 seconds each to make, so yes it could be quite dangerous!
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Yup. I can’t seem to find them in that thread now, but there were a collection where very real looking bombs and bioweapons had been very realistically inserted into photos of public terminals like train stations, shopping centres, and airports.
Make it a Mosasaur!
It can’t seem to figure out anything like that, dinosaurs etc, I even said Loch Ness Monster and it couldn’t do it.
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Bombs 
Dinosaurs 
This is what I mean by irresponsible. These tools need a solid governance and curation foundation in place well before they get put into the hands of the public.
Elon Musk will call it woke and censored, either way. May as well establish those groundrules. Because when it comes to those two things, it really ought to be the other way around.
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What gets me is how good it is. The shadows, the lighting, the focus etc is all spot on with zero skill from the user required.
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