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0 pointsarrowsmith9mo ago0 comments

What law is being broken here exactly?

It's certainly illegal to make fake IDs, but I don't know if that applies to just generating an image rather than fully forging a physical copy. And anyway these images look nothing like the real IDs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driving_licence_in_the_United_...

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Aeolun9mo ago

Hmm, yeah. It’s almost as if they deliberately made them look less like the real ID’s, because I have little doubt that openai would be perfectly capable of generating that image.

jrockway9mo ago

Another thing to think about is that this is just passthrough from an AI model. If it's illegal to make a website that spits out fake IDs, then OpenAI is illegal until they filter them.

antonvs9mo ago

I'm not sure that argument would hold up legally. You could use an image editing site to create IDs and counterfeit currency as well, but such sites are legal.

sefrost9mo ago

Photoshop does not allow you to edit currency images.

https://go.photoshelter.com/brands/blog/photographers/blog/t...

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AlecSchueler9mo ago

Things like intent matter. You can go into your local library and photocopy an ID but it doesn't make the library culpable for providing fake IDs.

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