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Taylor Swift deepfakes: AI companies won’t be able to just ‘shake it off’ | The AI Beat


Haters gonna hate, but when it comes to the pornographic AI-generated deepfakes of Taylor Swift, AI companies cannot simply 'shake it off.'

And Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun reminded us all yesterday that the “world didn’t end” five years after GPT-2 was deemed too dangerous to release. That doesn’t mean good things aren’t happening too, or that overall optimism isn’t warranted if we look at the grand sweep of technological evolution in the rear-view mirror. Many “normies” I talk to already sneer with derision when they hear the term “AI.” I’m sure that is incredibly frustrating to those who see the power and promise of AI as a bright, shining star with the potential to solve so many of humanity’s biggest challenges.

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