This week on the Lock and Code podcast…
Full-time software program engineer and part-time Twitch streamer Ali Diamond is used to seeing herself on display, in all probability as a result of she’s the one who turns the digicam on.
However when Diamond obtained a Direct Message (DM) on Twitter earlier this 12 months, she discovered that her likeness had been recreated throughout a pattern of AI-generated photos, solely with out her consent.
On the AI artwork sharing platform Civitai, Diamond found {that a} stranger had created an “AI picture mannequin” that was normal after her. The mannequin was accessible for obtain in order that, conceivably, different members of the neighborhood may generate their very own photos of Diamond—or, not less than, the AI model of her. To point out simply what the AI mannequin was able to, its creator shared a number of examples of what he’d made: There was AI Diamond standing what checked out a music pageant, AI Diamond together with her head tilted up and smiling, and AI Diamond carrying, what the actual Diamond would later describe, as an “ugly ass ****ing hat.”
AI picture era is seemingly lawless proper now.
Well-liked AI picture mills, like Steady Diffusion, Dall-E, and Midjourney, have confronted legitimate criticisms from human artists that these mills are copying their labor to output spinoff works, a kind of AI plagiarism. AI picture moderation, then again, has posed an issue not just for AI artwork communities, however for main social media networks, too, as anybody can seemingly create AI-generated photos of another person—with out that particular person’s consent—and distribute these photos on-line. It occurred earlier this 12 months when AI-generated, sexually specific photos of Taylor Swift have been seen by tens of millions of individuals on Twitter earlier than the corporate took these photos down.
In that occasion, Swift had the help of numerous followers who reported every submit they discovered on Twitter that shared the photographs.
However what occurs when somebody has to defend themselves in opposition to an AI mannequin manufactured from their likeness, with out their consent?
At the moment, on the Lock and Code podcast with host David Ruiz, we converse with Ali Diamond about discovering an AI mannequin of herself, what the creator needed to say about making the mannequin, and what the privateness and safety implications are for on a regular basis individuals whose likenesses have been stolen in opposition to their will.
For Diamond, the expertise was unwelcome and new, as she’d by no means experimented utilizing AI picture era on herself.
“I’ve by no means put my face into any of these AI providers. As somebody who has a love of cybersecurity and an curiosity in it… you’re accumulating faces to do what?”
Tune in at present to hearken to the complete dialog.
Present notes and credit:
Intro Music: “Spellbound” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed below Artistic Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Outro Music: “Good God” by Wowa (unminus.com)
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