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This image seems like misleading bull shit. This seems to be the law referenced: https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-artificial-intelligence-nudification-x-elon-musk-deepfake-131184be939d540de093b567b12c9e16
It makes companies liable for people using ai for nudification (which of course includes children). Musk argues the law is a bit to far reaching ( claims the law considers some body parts, that are commonly displayed in public, as private parts and also that the company can get in trouble for people nudifying themselves).
I don't know how legitimate Musk's concerns are, but the image is extremely misleading.
Dishonest clickbait for sure
Always relevant
The damages are brought up in a civil trial, so I guess while someone could bring a case to trial for nudifying themselves, I imagine it'd be tossed out immediately:
These are the body parts listed:
I have no issues with completely banning those parts for children. Only a sick fuck like Elon would say any of those are normal to see on a child.
You can see most of that on my baby pictures.
From what I understand the law applies to adults too.
I'm all for stopping pedophiles, but laws need controlled scope and nuance. Reality is complex and I don't want to see innocent stuff criminalized more than we do already.
So, you think it's ok for people to nudify you? How about your mother? Sister? It's not ok to nudify anyone without their consent.
Actually, I'm not okay with that. But I'm also not okay with hamfisted laws that would probably criminalize my mom AI up-sampling my old baby pictures.
Nuance. It's needed.
Yeah, even for adults I feel this borders way too close on deepfakes. We needed to ban those years ago. I simply do not see any artistic nor educational context to justify nudifying someone without consent.
And this isn't unheard of, even in America. Even with caricatures you can wander close to libel if you're drawing someone like that .
There's a difference between baby pictures and an AI generating nudes images from clothed pictures.
If you want to make nude fanart so bad, learn to draw.
If you want to eat hot food so bad, learn to cook over a fire. Electrical heat is evil for some unspecified reason.
Hello bad faith argument.
Yes, that's the point. It was bullshit logic when you used it too.
If I "just learn to draw" I can use it to draw nudes of people from clothed images. Or use photoshop.
Do you think this legislation has the nuance to handle even a distinction that broad? I don't.
What are you even talking about? This is exactly the distinction this legislation is about.
Sure, but it's one thing if your parents took a picture of you having a bath in the sink. It's another if someone took a picture of a baby at a beach then asked grok to generate an image of them having a bath in the sink.
The nuance here is somebody is using AI to generate these images, not that these images exist. Much like how it's legal and reasonable for me to take nude pictures to share with my partner, but it is not legal or reasonable for someone we don't know to take nude pictures of me through my window to send to my partner. The pictures exist in both situations, how they were obtained matters.
My issue with a lot of these laws is a lack of this nuance.
And the unspoken idea that they can reasonably know the context. How can the AI bot know if consent was acquired? This is a practical concern, if you require the sufficiently improbable you are essentially banning a thing in all contexts. Even me making a photo of myself.
I am fine with people being unable to use AI to make nude photos of themselves in order to prevent people using AI to make nude images of others.
You need to consider the risk of letting anyone being allowed to make a nude image of anyone, versus the "cost" of if you want a nude photo of yourself you'll just have to take it in the mirror.
Most phone cameras use AI image enhancement. I'd need to buy a film camera to take a nude selfie. It's hamfisted overreach into the lives of the general public.
Oh no, the law might also make it more difficult for companies to automatically upload my personal pictures to their servers in order to "enhance" them?
here’s a quick way to determine if the concerns are legit:
are they from a capitalist? yes? then they are not legit concerns because fuck what they think. they **should be responsible ** for what ppl do on their platforms.
heck it’s why i worry about my own federated instance. my server is now beholden to content i did not create? nope. not gonna take that risk.
The government is capitalist as well, this doesn't have much to do with the political spectrum.
It's a bit weird that you say they should be responsable and then mention the problems that it causes for smaller platforms like Lemmy. Your argument goes against your point. No instance would be able to take that risk.
That being said, at this point, it seems clear that X is literally trying to encourage it and isn't actually moderating properly it's platform.
no see. i recognize that i can’t do it because i can’t afford what would be required to do it. this doesn’t mean i won’t donate to a service i feel needs help. just that i won't do it alone. a co-op lemmy instance is… very much not the same as a capitalist corporation run by a trillionaire.
This new law ups what is required, to the point where I don't think any Lemmy instances would be able to meet it.
I don't think the law was written so it differentiates between X and Lemmy, though I might be mistaken.
fair point and i’m not holding firm to imperfect ideas. also, here’s the thing: i think “if you host it you are responsible.” even if it’s a small lemmy instance or x.
because, small hosts will get swatted and shot. large corp hosts have lawyers. so .. they must all be responsible for what they host if that level of gap exists. i remember hosting in the 90’s, and even my own crap was stupid - just a db of payphone numbers, stuff like that for phreaks. i wasn’t stileproject lol. but … if a used posted shit, it was still on my server. (a beefy! 486 dx/2!)
i mean sure, maybe we could claim “if you are a corp, then responsible, if you are a non profit or self hosted then no..” but the thing abt the net is - any hole, anywhere, eventually gets filled with csam and horseshit. it fucking sucks. but it’s true.
if corps were held accountable for that which they allow, the massive bulk of the problems would disappear, just from a ratio pov, no? ignoring the other problem that musk wants to be allowed to host csam because he profits from it and is a pedo as well.
He shouldn't have shoved it into every perverts hands.
Literally nothing that Racist PedoFascist does in legitimate. He just doesn't want to be sued because he made CP machine which I garuntee he gets high AF to and jerks off to. Especially since Epstein wouldn't let him on the island.
Yeah, its not naked kids specifically but "nudification" in general. And what's considered private? A woman's chest? OK but how far down? Stuff like that.
I'd imagine Google or Apple or any tech/AI company would do the same to protect their product or whatever. But they make it seem like this was a tool Elon specifically designed so he can see naked kids.
Elon's under the most scrutiny because Grok is the least restricted LLM. Of course om reasonably worried that they are blocking this for less savory reasons.
What do you mean by least restricted?
Grok will do a lot of things that Claude or gemini or OpenAI will refuse to do for you (at least without a lot of prodding)
I haven't looked at this in depth, but some of the scholars I follow have suggested that this law is legally problematic, and there are good arguments to strike it down under the first amendment and section 230.
Section 230 is the federal safe harbor law that shields social media from liability for their users content, provided they take certain reasonable steps to moderate the user content. The federal law will preempt this Minnesota state law if they conflict.
But in the case of AI, it's company a generated content.
Section 230 should only cover user contributed content, not corpo AI created content. And even then algorithm promoted content shouldn’t be covered either.
And this is why whether it's Reddit or this site it doesn't make a difference. Clickbait and dumb people always dominate the conversation and nuance is immediately thrown out the window because nuance does not translate well on the internet when you are trying to gather points.
The worst part is that this guy actually has endless things you can point to to show what a scumbag he is but yet there has to be stuff like this that delegitimizes opposition to him.
Fuck that, he should be 100% liable if he sells a machine that is ised to make child porn wtf you mean clickbait. This is the only way to stop it, otherwise it's going to happen because the companies will make money off it.
Because law needs to be very precise and nuanced otherwise you end up with complete nonsense laws that infringe on the rights of people. I 100% agree AI child porn is awful and should be figured out. But if the law is no crafted correctly it creates problems. It's clickbait because the image just implies that Elon Musk is in favor of people generating child porn but I'm sure its more nuanced than that if you take a look. Thats all I'm saying
Government wanting to blame tools instead of what people do with the tools.
Next we should make Milwaukee stop selling saw zaws because they cut down flock cameras, or hammers because they can beat people in the head.
I'm not sure I'm seeing the legitimate use case of turning pictures of children into nude pictures of children.
The application has normal non fucked up things it's used for. It's not a "make naked kids app". It's like going after Photoshop.
Damn near anything can be used to do something illegal. It's the same overbearing government control that has been playing big brother to 3D printers. Go after the person doing something illegal instead of screwing with everyone and everything else.
No, no, hard disagree. First go after the people making the csam generator and refusing to countenance censoring it from that. No excuses. No comparing csam to free speech or 3D printing.
You just scraped right over me comparing it to Photoshop.
You're only like this because Musk is a douchebag. Take him out of the equation. It's a photo editor. There's tons of them. It's idiotic to go after a program or anything just because it can be used by bad people. Go after the people.
It's the same shit as tor or vpns or Linux or 3d printers or GrapheneOS. "oh. Think of the children. Think of the terrorists. Think of the violence". It's all the same bullshit.
What's the next stop down after going after a photo editor? I guess the only way to make sure they aren't used for csam is to only have photo editors that are used over the cloud so all images can be scanned and interpreted.
And I'll skip right over you comparing it to scissors and paper too.
No, none of them generate csam.
I'm not supporting banning Photoshop or tor, or even ai based image manipulation - that one was your straw man.
I'm only going after a company if their software generates csam. Simple. If they tell me it can't be done, I tell them they need to either keep working until it can, or make some other software.
Don't tell me an ai can't recognise csam because recognition is a neural network's strong suit. If you can instruct it to make it, you build it to reject prompts that involve nudity and minors and warn users that if they try again it'll inform on them to the FBI and Interpol. If that means that the companies won't risk generative being used on adult porn, I really don't care.
Musk wants this csam feature for himself and his porn-generating customers. And I don't care that it's Musk. I'd go for Microsoft and Google and Anthropic and anyone else, and I wouldn't be sorry if the whole LLM industry went bust. The biggest, most unsustainable financial bubble ever is going to burst and take the economy with it anyway. It was only ever a redundancy machine anyway, and I won't miss it.
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Let's ban knives because people use them to kill!