Theft and stolen Identities

The theft of history by AI’s all-encompassing access to human records is a central ethical issue for the technology.

Now, it is becoming clear that the ‘horse has bolted’ – both for safeguards against cultural theft and for regulation of technology that is presenting and existential risk to humanity.

The result is unfolding before us. It has created an ethical minefield that forces us to question, quo vadis?

Doubts on the publication of the images from AInthropology.

But from where were these AI images stolen and reconfigured?

As a follow up experiment, some of the images were entered into online search to reveal their possible original source.

Possible origins – outputs from reverse image search

Artificial portrait pops up in search alongside real photographs

What else AI says about Artificial portrait #8

Initially AI cannot be sure this is artificial

This is the response from a second search that claims there is a hidden word in the image

(There is no hidden word in the image as far as I am aware. I can’t see ‘obey’ and it was never part of the image prompt. But interesting, nevertheless)