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aesthelete@lemmy.world 8 months agoI don’t even think that’s necessarily true. If you make it illegal and/or platforms ban it, you’re already taking a step toward making it more difficult to do.
I think throughout this thread you’re mistaking the technically possible for the probable or likely.
By making it illegal, you essentially eliminate the commercial incentive for making it easy. Every barrier to doing something makes it more unlikely that people will do it. I understand that there is an inherent motive for people to do it anyway, but, every hoop they have to jump through (e.g. setting up their “own, local AI”) reduces the likelihood of it happening.
People don’t even run their own email servers, music servers, video servers, etc. etc. etc…many don’t even store a local cache of regular porn…why the hell would most people bother themselves with setting up a local generative AI instance for this purpose?
Outlawing it and banning it from platforms makes it much more within the realm of the creepy basement weirdo rather than something that is as inevitably ubiquitous as you’re saying it will be.
curiousaur@reddthat.com 8 months ago
It’s not illegal to to work on, sell, or distribute the models. And making that illegal is what the first commenter said would be dangerous to do, since then regular people wouldn’t be able to compete with corporation’s abilities.
Once the models and portable hardware are good enough, and it’s just a matter of time, I think you’re underestimating how ubiquitous it will become.
Every teenage boy will have a pair of nudie glasses in the form of their smartphone running open source models, and you think they’re just going to not use them?
aesthelete@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I think you again vastly overestimate how many people are going to run their own AI versus using a sanitized, policy-driven, managed platform version that’s cloud based (e.g. Dall-E and ChatGPT right now).
It’s possible today (and usually better) to do a lot of things “locally”, but yet still almost everything routes through an app to a platform on your smartphone and the few remaining things that don’t route through a platform using your browser.
curiousaur@reddthat.com 8 months ago
When it becomes one click to see the chick across from you naked, tell me how many 16 year old boys won’t. You are far too naive to be having this conversation.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s not naive to think that corporations will continue to win the AI war. It’s actually pretty naive to think otherwise.