Generative AI is Here. Who Should Control It?

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The New York Times

Technology

4.3 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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We sit down with the founder of Stability AI, Emad Mostaque, on the heels of his $101 million fund-raising round. His open-source Stable Diffusion image generator is the key to unlocking creativity, he says, and “one of the ultimate tools for freedom of expression” — as long as it stays out of the hands of a few censorious tech giants. So what’s this former hedge fund manager turned tech mogul thinking about how this technology could be used — or misused? Plus: A.I. Kevin and A.I. Casey stop by.

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0:00.0	Casey, I have a surprise for you.
0:02.5	Okay.
0:03.3	So last week on the show,
0:05.3	you made a promise to listeners that our show
0:09.5	would always be human,
0:12.2	that we would never replace ourselves with AI.
0:15.2	That's right.
0:15.8	Well, I took that as a challenge.
0:17.3	Oh, no.
0:18.2	So I have spent the past week building an AI version of you.
0:24.0	No.
0:25.3	For real?
0:27.3	Yeah, I sent many, many hours of audio of you talking
0:32.4	to a company called Play, which is an AI startup,
0:35.6	and had them build me AI versions of you and of me.
0:40.0	Oh, no.
0:42.8	Do you want to hear it?
0:43.6	Yes.
0:44.4	Okay.
0:45.9	Casey Newton, I think Elon Musk has a lot of great ideas
0:49.5	about social media.
0:51.5	I love getting PR emails from cryptocurrency startups.
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