AI Art is Powered by ISIS Executions and Non-Consenual Porn
CYBER
VICE
4 • 645 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
AI art has gotten wildly popular over the past year. Programs like Midjourney and Dall-E are generating incredible images and incredible controversy. But these programs don’t exist in a vacuum. AI’s require billions of images to learn how and what to draw. Where are they getting those pictures? They’re hoovering them up on the internet. A place full of child porn, ISIS execution videos, and non-consensual adult images. With AI it’s all garbage in, garbage out. So who controls this data and is there anything we can do about it?
On this episode of Cyber, Motherboard writer Chloe Xiang walks us through the ins and outs of the AI trained on ISIS execution images.
Stories discussed in this episode:
ISIS Executions and Non-Consensual Porn Are Powering AI Art
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| 0:00.0 | Tadmin's got the code it's going to launch. |
| 0:10.3 | It's a unit system. |
| 0:12.7 | I know this. |
| 0:14.6 | It's all the files of the whole park. |
| 0:16.8 | It tells her everything. |
| 0:18.6 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
| 0:21.3 | Eagle One. The package is being delivered. |
| 0:25.7 | Hello, out there on the internet. |
| 0:27.5 | I am Matthew Galt, and this is cyber. |
| 0:30.3 | AI art has gotten wildly popular over the past year, |
| 0:33.5 | programs like Mid Journey and Dali, |
| 0:35.4 | or generating incredible images, |
| 0:37.3 | an incredible controversy. |
| 0:39.0 | But these programs don't exist in a vacuum. |
| 0:41.1 | AI requires billions of images to learn how and what to draw. |
| 0:46.5 | Where are they getting those pictures from? |
| 0:49.4 | Either hoovering them up off the internet, of course, a place full of child porn, ISIS execution videos, |
| 0:55.5 | and non-consensual adult images. With AI, it's all about garbage in, garbage out. So who controls |
| 1:03.1 | this data? And is there anything we can do about some of the grosser things on the internet |
| 1:08.0 | getting into those data sets. |
| 1:14.1 | With me to talk about this is motherboard writer Chloe Zhang. |
| 1:19.1 | Chloe, thank you so much for coming on to cyber and walking us through this. |
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