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- Feb 13, 2019
So yesterday night I stumbled upon a video that actually managed to genuinely leave me incapable of sleeping well into the early AMs
(warning, some genuinely disturbing content in the video, if you're easily upset by stuff like that I would either skip or watch during the day with somebody else around.)
It was this video by Nexpo, the video is about disturbing AI generated art in general, but the main focus is about an emergent phenomenon that was given the name "Loab". The TL;DW of it is that somebody messing about with one of the more advanced AI art generators by happenstance managed to stumble upon a grotesque figure of a woman with a few constant defining features, horrible Rosacea under the eyes covering most of the cheeks, dead yellow eyes, pale skin. When they attempted to crossbreed this image with other AI generated images it would frequently create extremely graphic and grotesque imagery without any kind of prompt, pictures of the Loab character committing murder, Loab with deformed children, Loab screaming in pain. No matter how much they attempted to "breed" this phenomenom out it persisted.
After making the mistake of watching the video at 11pm in the dark with nobody around I sat awake for several hours afterward. At first I thought it was simply the terrible imagery keeping me awake, but I started to realize that it was really the implication behind them that was keeping me up. A sort of memetic horror had organically emerged from the AI that was apparently a manifestation of everything horrifying and disgusting. This got me thinking more deeply on the subject and I only felt more disturbed the more I thought.
What are the long term implication of these types of technology? Will you one day be able to generate snuff films and photos of real not even famous people doing horrible things like committing suicide or molesting children? Imagine one day somebody sends you a deepfake of yourself murdering your entire family. Will Intelligence Services find use for the technology as a form of torture for interrogation? You could set somebody up restrained in a VR and just feed them the most mindbending and horrifying content 24/7 until they are totally broken. These are just a few of the things that popped into my mind. What do the rest of you think?
It was this video by Nexpo, the video is about disturbing AI generated art in general, but the main focus is about an emergent phenomenon that was given the name "Loab". The TL;DW of it is that somebody messing about with one of the more advanced AI art generators by happenstance managed to stumble upon a grotesque figure of a woman with a few constant defining features, horrible Rosacea under the eyes covering most of the cheeks, dead yellow eyes, pale skin. When they attempted to crossbreed this image with other AI generated images it would frequently create extremely graphic and grotesque imagery without any kind of prompt, pictures of the Loab character committing murder, Loab with deformed children, Loab screaming in pain. No matter how much they attempted to "breed" this phenomenom out it persisted.
After making the mistake of watching the video at 11pm in the dark with nobody around I sat awake for several hours afterward. At first I thought it was simply the terrible imagery keeping me awake, but I started to realize that it was really the implication behind them that was keeping me up. A sort of memetic horror had organically emerged from the AI that was apparently a manifestation of everything horrifying and disgusting. This got me thinking more deeply on the subject and I only felt more disturbed the more I thought.
What are the long term implication of these types of technology? Will you one day be able to generate snuff films and photos of real not even famous people doing horrible things like committing suicide or molesting children? Imagine one day somebody sends you a deepfake of yourself murdering your entire family. Will Intelligence Services find use for the technology as a form of torture for interrogation? You could set somebody up restrained in a VR and just feed them the most mindbending and horrifying content 24/7 until they are totally broken. These are just a few of the things that popped into my mind. What do the rest of you think?