I can imagine watching Bandersnatch and getting rid of the game developer in frame 1. The remaining 90 minutes, his dad having a quiet, stress-free Tuesday.
Enjoying 5 seasons of chemistry lessons
- "removing the kettlebell" led to removing the visual representation of the kettlebell as well the deformation it makes on the pillow
- "removing the hands" removed the childs hands from the tops, but did not then lead to the tops falling over!
Others like the colliding cars are in some weird gray area between the two.
One should note as these tools proliferate, there is a lot of artistic expression that we are giving up to these imprecise natural language parsing engines.
We saw this with StableDiffusion. First it was just text-to-image. Now we have controlnets which can control the precise placement of objects. We've got depth maps, body positioning, all kinds of things. I can even sketch on my tablet and tunr that into an image.
I'm sure we can add options for what this physically affects or doesn't affect.
It’s also alarming what’s possible when reassembling photons en masse becomes commoditized.
Photons Be Free?
The issue is how easily these tools can (and will) enable the worst faith actors and actions. It's not controversial (or shocking) to think the current situation for deep-fakes or deceptive edits is historically awful. It's equally reasonable to think these tools are going to do less good for VFX houses in Hollywood, and more evil in authoritarian regimes or chaotic social media networks. You're right that the Overton window has moved—but we ought to blame a White House that disseminates deepfakes, not commenters on HackerNews.
Tools aren't just tools, nothing exists in a vacuum. A plane is a useful means of transportation, but that doesn't mean everyone should be rushing into the cockpit. It's pretty plain to me how a tool that streamlines doctoring footage to such a useful (and deceptive) degree is just a recipe for disaster. Considering the benefit to society is...slightly eased CGI work (?), I'll easily label this a net-negative for us all.
I guess I have seen more AI generated spam ads than content created for the intended purpose.
I think the point of the parent was that while you need to think about how this technology can be misused, that's not the only thing you need to and can think about.
It's kind of late to ring the bells once the city walls have been taken. In other (shorter) words, if someone wanted to use this for censorship, they would already have tried it, so... it's either too late or too early; although being interesting (but not good or fun) probability, it's probability only.
...I hope one day everyone, just everyone will finally learn that most of the technologies are not evil or good, they're neutral, they're just tools. And most (no, not all) of them were also created with good intentions.
Hell yeah, let's go back to the caves just because science, technology and progress can actually empower everyone, including dictators, maniacs, psychopaths, predators and "bad people et al.", not just "good" (the definition of "good" varies, but let's assume we're using common principles of goodness) people.
I see this being used in many countries, especially in the West.
We've crashed head straight into a dystopian future. But worry not! The crash can be edited out of reality.
Netflix: 13 Reasons Why: Following concerns from mental health professionals, Netflix edited the first-season finale in 2019 to remove a graphic scene depicting the main character’s suicide. Back to the Future Part II: In May 2020, it was discovered that a scene involving an adult magazine cover was censored in certain regions. Netflix stated they had received an edited foreign version from the studio and later restored the original scene. Bird Box: Following public outcry in 2018, Netflix agreed to remove footage from the 2013 Lac-Mégantic rail disaster used in the film's scenes, as it was deemed insensitive. The Devil Next Door: In 2019, Netflix added extra text to a map in this documentary series after complaints from the Polish Prime Minister regarding the portrayal of Nazi death camps. Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj: An episode critical of the Saudi Arabian government was removed in Saudi Arabia in 2019 after a government takedown request.
I said "I see this being used" as an idiom for "this is likely to be used soon" ("I see this happening in the near future"), not that I've seen this used already. But, like the commenter who responded to you showed, movies already get edited to censor things.
VPN sometime if you have doubts about that in western media, including US
Presumably Netflix wants to erase smoking from its back catalog or some other bit of papier-mâché Stalinism.
Oh well, neat bit of auto-regressive theater.
