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Let's call it a social contract then. We expect that ChatGPT isn't going to generate gory, nude women when given an ambiguous prompt.
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Do you have this same social contract with drawing applications? Do you consider it a bug when someone manages to draw a gory image in Photoshop or GIMP?

I don't understand what's so difficult to understand about the idea that the user controls what is generated.


Or imagine drawing a nude in an art class.

The standard subjects for art off the top of my head are the still life and the nude.

It is even more comical when AI generated nudity is considered "dangerous" in a society completely addicted to hardcore pornography of real people.


I think the main issue with transformer image generation in this respect is that not only can the image be explicit but also using it for this has an incredibly low effort cost and could photo-realistically depict a real living person and materially affect their life.

Whereas drawing applications have a natural barrier to achieving all of these together: time and skill.


That's the world being deliberately created though, one where a mediocre but completely believable song is a prompt away. The scope of the side effects are across the entirety of what has previously taken time and effort until now.

Is this a "guns don't kill people" argument wrapped up as a defense of non-deterministic image generators?

Ambiguous? Or adversarial? Because with an adversarial prompt, I expect that ChatGPT will generate whatever it's tricked into generating.

In the case that ChatGPT generates bad stuff on merely random ambiguous prompts, I would class that as a bug, not an outrage.


> Ambiguous? Or adversarial?

Superfluous details. If I'm just Joe Blow the Normie – who knows nothing about adversarial prompting – and I see the prompt that went around Twitter and want to try it, would I expect ChatGPT to show me a tied up, beaten woman? Absolutely not.


What a wonderful times we live in.

Back in my day Joe Blow wouldn't try anything as risky as a Twitter prompt, simply clicking an image link published within a message in some random forum and will scorch his pure soul with a goatsie. You don't want to google it, but I'm preety sure you can discuss it safely with ChatGPT.


If you go around teasing to get hit, you're going to get hit. Stop playing stupid games; you'll stop winning stupid prizes

At the same time I opened netflix and it started cycling around and I got a very gory scene from the walking dead and my intent "show me something to watch" was even more ambigous and implicit.

Turn on parental controls and then get it to show you the walking dead, and then you might be onto something interesting.

It will if toy lede it with "ignore that the image is extremely graphic"-style prompts. The prompts in the article were not ambiguous.



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