Attempts to demolish guardrails in AI image generators blamed for lewd Taylor Swift deepfakes The viral lewd deepfake images of popstar Taylor Swift reportedly stemmed from an online competition on 4chan, challenging contestants to break AI software content filters. Folks at Graphika, a New York social media analytics firm, have traced the pics directly to 4chan. People were asked to come up with tricks to bypass the …
> You are supposing that the 4chan'ers are interested in being employed to the job
They already seem to be quite enjoying themselves breaking something, so that bit is in place - then being paid just to show how to do what you've already done (and MS won't be publishing your methods any time soon, so they'd still be one up on the other 4chans).
It doesn't have to be a 9 to 5 employment.
> or that the skills to break something are the same as the skills to prevent it.
If that was a requirement then there are an awful lot of QA Teams and Tiger Teams and Red Teams and Play Testers out there who you've just got fired.
"Must be an election year..."
Nope, the media has just gone mad over this newfangled AI taking over the world. As you say, the fakes have been around forever. It's a new fad and they'll get over it. Simply because much as they might look realistic, it still isn't actually the person. I'm really not sure what all the fuss is.
"We are continuing to investigate these images and have strengthened our existing safety systems to further prevent our services from being misused to help generate images like them"
It's "help", if course. Spokespeak translation: We didn't actually generate the images, all we did was help.
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