{"id":23814,"date":"2024-01-27T15:05:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T09:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/satya-nadella-says-explicit-taylor-swift-ai-fakes-are-alarming-and-terrible\/"},"modified":"2024-01-27T15:05:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T09:35:14","slug":"satya-nadella-says-explicit-taylor-swift-ai-fakes-are-alarming-and-terrible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/satya-nadella-says-explicit-taylor-swift-ai-fakes-are-alarming-and-terrible\/","title":{"rendered":"Satya Nadella says explicit Taylor Swift AI fakes are \u2018alarming and terrible\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has responded to a controversy over sexually explicit AI-made fake images of Taylor Swift. In an interview with NBC Nightly News <\/em>that will air next Tuesday, Nadella calls the proliferation of nonconsensual simulated nudes \u201calarming and terrible,\u201d telling interviewer Lester Holt that \u201cI think it behooves us to move fast on this.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In a transcript distributed by NBC ahead of the January 30th show, Holt asks Nadella to react to the internet \u201cexploding with fake, and I emphasize fake, sexually explicit images of Taylor Swift.\u201d Nadella\u2019s response manages to crack open several cans of tech policy worms while saying remarkably little about them \u2014 which isn\u2019t surprising when there\u2019s no surefire fix in sight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I would say two things: One, is again I go back to what I think\u2019s our responsibility, which is all of the guardrails that we need to place around the technology so that there\u2019s more safe content that\u2019s being produced. And there\u2019s a lot to be done and a lot being done there. But it is about global, societal \u2014 you know, I\u2019ll say, convergence on certain norms. And we can do \u2014 especially when you have law and law enforcement and tech platforms that can come together \u2014\u00a0I think we can govern a lot more than we think\u2014 we give ourselves credit for.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Microsoft might have a connection to the faked Swift pictures. A 404 Media <\/em>report indicates they came from a Telegram-based nonconsensual porn-making community that recommends using the Microsoft Designer image generator. Designer theoretically refuses to produce images of famous people, but AI generators are easy to bamboozle, and 404 <\/em>found you could break its rules with small tweaks to prompts. While that doesn\u2019t prove Designer was used for the Swift pictures, it\u2019s the kind of technical shortcoming Microsoft can tackle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But AI tools have massively simplified the process of creating fake nudes of real people, causing turmoil for women who have far less power and celebrity than Swift. And controlling their production isn\u2019t as simple as making huge companies bolster their guardrails. Even if major \u201cBig Tech\u201d platforms like Microsoft\u2019s are locked down, people can retrain open tools like Stable Diffusion to produce NSFW pictures despite attempts to make that harder. Far fewer users might access these generators, but the Swift incident demonstrates how widely a small community\u2019s work can spread.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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There are other stopgap options \u2014 like social networks limiting the reach of nonconsensual imagery or, apparently, Swiftie-imposed vigilante justice against people who spread them. (Does that count as \u201cconvergence on certain norms\u201d?) For now, though, Nadella\u2019s only clear plan is putting Microsoft\u2019s own AI house in order.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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