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This seems like a potential actual good use of AI. Can't have been much fun to train it though.
And is there any risk of people turning these kinds of models around and using them to generate images?
If AI was reliable, maybe. MAYBE. But guess what? It turns out that “advanced autocomplete” does a shitty job of most things, and I bet false positives will be numerous.
False positives don't matter if they stick to the stated intended purpose of making it easier to detect CSAM manually.
They never do.
The problem is that they won't.
Yes, AI tools, in the hands of skilled people, can be very helpful.
But "AI" in capitalism doesn't mean "more effective workers", it means "fewer workers." The issue isn't technological so much as cultural. You fundamentally cannot convince an MBA not to try to automate away jobs.
(It's not even a money thing; it's about getting rid of all those pesky "workers rights" that workers like to bring with us)
Here's the thing. This technology is unequivocally one of the things AI would be very useful for. It can potentially do a lot of good. Yes, MBAs could screw it up like they screw anything else up in society. That doesn't mean we shouldn't be happy that we've created this new tech.