if there can be a world where everything is possible, everything must be possible? (Stable Diffusion)

Submitted by lilewalla t3_xwzyzv in Futurology

Stable diffusion is quickly catching on in the worldwide community. A model with which you can create any kind of content on an image level and I imagine soon also on an audiovisual level (it may not be stable diffusion but the step is short) and maybe one day even 3D models.

Being able to create any content, even at a realistic level, from nothing, without prior knowledge, means increasing our power of concretising the imagination to levels never seen before. I won't go into possible examples, they are easy to imagine.

But what can it mean? Let us go to the safest example: child pornography. Virtually anyone can create such content and sell/trade it, thanks to stable diffusion - like models. It is the old example of life in cyberspace: if there can be a world where everything is possible, everything must be possible?

Now with stable diffusion, at least on the level of image content, this question becomes more pressing. What do you think?

(Stable diffusion is only taken as a real example, I know that the creators have equipped the model with a security filter, but I guess it is easy to avoid).

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[deleted] t1_ira6mgf wrote

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Torrall t1_iranclf wrote

"indulging such people" such a childish, overly emotional view. They need to be handled clinically, without malice, to protect the future generations of children. Deterrence is not an option, it has never worked with any crime and it sure as shit wont work with this one. A crime that is, in effect, suicide, for anyone who partakes.

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lapseofreason t1_ir9pe3z wrote

It feels like the most transformative tech in my lifetime. One minute is not there and then it suddenly appeared, destroying some livelihoods in the blink of an eye but releasing massive creativity for the average person. There must be more of these around the corner that are unanticipated too. The singularity must be close but it is different than envisioned. It is very hard to see how we create new jobs with anything like the speed we need to not have a massive change in society's structure. My daughter was looking at studying film in University in a few years time - but I doubt that will even be a thing by then.

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w33dSw4gD4wg360 t1_irb2w55 wrote

It's not exactly "without prior knowledge", but more "without prior skill", since a prompt creator still needs to have some level of knowledge, whether it be of art styles, lighting terms, camera types, lenses, adjectives to describe, etc. Even still, there will be a point at which there won't be a need to transcribe your ideas/thoughts to text, and AI will just be able to make your visions real.

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lilewalla OP t1_irdmktx wrote

I agree, without prior skill. I spent hours yesterday to understand how to prompt properly and I still feel far from my aim. Then, I don’t think that the spread of a new technology will kill an art or a certain type of professional work behind art. Like the smartphone revolutionized the concept of photo camera, and the compact camera before it, without destroying the pro-photographer. I wonder that the massive impact will be on the “consumer “ of images: from these days the world will be more and more “imagineted” and maybe this will bring some anti-images feelings.

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