It takes more hubris to believe, as cosmic blips, that we have no responsibility to mitigate our outsized effect on the long-term direction on the ecology of the planet.
What makes you say "isn't working"? VR and the Metaverse are long term bets, they're not meant to be working yet. Far too early to write off as failures.
Those might be considerations for you. For many others, they'll love their car out earning revenue when they don't need it, and plenty of people who want door-to-door clean transportation without having to wait at a bus stop and without having to own a car.
Every original image is copyrighted. You're suggesting making a digital copy of every image there is to check that AI isn't generating digital copies of every image there is.
If I understand correctly, wouldn't a hash database of <just the training set> be larger than the actual model? (in fact by 1 or 2 orders of magnitude?)
Yeah, I guess so. The models are only 4 or 8 GB. A giant list of hashes would be bigger, sure. But they're 2 very different things. Model is for generating new images, this hash database is copyright enforcement. If you really want to check for violations I don't know how else you're going to do it.
Hash yes, fingerprint maybe no. Maybe I'm using the term incorrectly here, but I think of fingerprint like a lossy hash. Like one way of doing this would be to resize the image to, say, 8 by 8, and quantize it to say, 16 colors. So the fingerprint size is 884 bits=32 bytes. Tiny changes aren't likely to change the fingerprint. You'd probably have to do something a little more clever so as not to get too many false positives though. Or once you get a hit, do a deeper comparison.
I'm both scared and peeking through my fingers at the thought of the evolution of vocal-tuning plugins like Melodyne. Currently you can basically draw the pitch of a vocal performance, however using AI you could re-render the wavefile and adjust more parameters than simply pitch - such as timbre, inflection, vibrato, dynamics, distortion, openness, softness, breathiness, or a bunch of other vocal attributes.
Voice synthesizer plugins, such as Vokaloid or Synthesizer V, can already do that quite convincingly, so it is only a matter of time before it can be applied to existing voice recordings.
