AI is being used to give dead, missing kids a voice they didn’t ask for

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So you would support government limiting an individual's right to run software on their computer because you don't agree with what the software outputs?

That's absolute nonsense. The entire premise of these machine learning models is that they accept any arbitrary input, you would want to neuter that?

They're not just running the software on their computer. They're publishing it on the internet for mass consumption you amazingly dense potato.

So it's acceptable for AIs to generate these sorts of outputs, as long as they aren't shared online? Sure, the outputs aren't very tasteful, but they're certainly not illegal by any stretch.

Why do you think the government should intervene, and what you would even expect them to do? No laws are being broken.

If you somehow forbid AIs from generating this through a national law just because it's offensive, it'll open to floodgates to ban 1,000 other things that are offensive. Where do you draw the line? Ban this content from websites like TikTok, sure. But it doesn't make sense to regulate this from the AIs themselves.