Hmmh. A classifier doesn’t really have any instructions. Just an input (the image) and an output (the predicted category label). So that’s not really an issue, I think.
Downloading and running the model someplace else obviously is. I always like to think of software as a tool. It’s practically impossible to design an axe in a way it can’t do harm to anyone. Same with computers. And I don’t even know if there’s a point in trying. For liberal people, it’d probably be fine to offer dangerous items like an axe, gun or AI model, knowing it could hypothetically be used for nefarious purposes.
I think the red line is doing it, after being well aware the person is planning to commit a crime with the gun. That’s kind of unethical?! And maybe we should try to avoid handing out axes or random car keys to the town drunk or a clumsy 5 year old, as well. I think that’s pretty much where service providers are at. Once it’s a service, they have all the data… What prompt goes in and what image comes out, it all happens on their servers. And they know perfectly well what’s going on and who’s doing it. I think that’s the point it becomes some sort of obligation for them to care. In theory, at least.
But HuggingFace is -by far- not amongst the worst offenders. I believe most of the bad stuff happens on other websites. And there’s dedicated services for AI pr0n without any censorship. So I doubt they’ll have an impact in the broad picture.
Hmmh. A classifier doesn’t really have any instructions. Just an input (the image) and an output (the predicted category label). So that’s not really an issue, I think.
Downloading and running the model someplace else obviously is. I always like to think of software as a tool. It’s practically impossible to design an axe in a way it can’t do harm to anyone. Same with computers. And I don’t even know if there’s a point in trying. For liberal people, it’d probably be fine to offer dangerous items like an axe, gun or AI model, knowing it could hypothetically be used for nefarious purposes.
I think the red line is doing it, after being well aware the person is planning to commit a crime with the gun. That’s kind of unethical?! And maybe we should try to avoid handing out axes or random car keys to the town drunk or a clumsy 5 year old, as well. I think that’s pretty much where service providers are at. Once it’s a service, they have all the data… What prompt goes in and what image comes out, it all happens on their servers. And they know perfectly well what’s going on and who’s doing it. I think that’s the point it becomes some sort of obligation for them to care. In theory, at least.
But HuggingFace is -by far- not amongst the worst offenders. I believe most of the bad stuff happens on other websites. And there’s dedicated services for AI pr0n without any censorship. So I doubt they’ll have an impact in the broad picture.