Robin Williams' daughter Zelda says AI recreations of her dad are 'personally disturbing'

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Robin Williams' daughter Zelda slams AI recreations of her dad
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This is such a random thought and I don’t mean to conclude anything by it:

I’ll bet people felt this way about the very first audio recordings.

How creepy to hear your sibling’s voice when that sibling is not even in the room!

…and moving pictures:

It looks like your mother is right there but she’s been dead for 10 years! Gah!

It's not just a matter of discomfort for something new, but at something highly dangerous. Deepfakes have several bad and disturbing use cases, like itentity theft, sexual exploitation, marketing abuse, political manipulation, etc. In fact, I hard to find a significant good use of such technology.

Ops point remains, this is exactly what everyone said about photos and then videos and then video with sound etc.

You’ve always been told you can’t see what’s on the internet, now that’s even more true.

There are ways we process and handle new tech, there’s a grace period to figure out issues and solutions.

Part of the problem is regressionist ideals holding everyone back from making real changes. Being able to generate nudies of your crush is the tip of the iceberg and demonstrates our ability to create teachable models that perform well and reliably to reconstruct images from noise. There lots of applications but ultimately making images is just art and it’s sorta hard to break out of that sphere easily.

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