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highplainsdem

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2. This is horrifying. Not only are these videos likely made with illegally trained AI using stolen images,

Tue Apr 1, 2025, 12:01 AM

Apr 2025

but that YouTuber is taking photos of real people and turning them into puppets.

How would you feel if someone took an old photo of one of your loved ones who's gone now and decided to animate it with expressions and gestures that were all wrong for your loved one, presenting it as bringing your loved one to life?

What that YouTuber did is exploitative in the same way as AI being used to generate a voice like a dead singer's and using it for songs that artist would probably have refused to sing.

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AI used to bring Civil War veterans to life [View all] True Dough Mar 2025 OP

So amazing!!!! some_of_us_are_sane Mar 2025 #1

This is horrifying. Not only are these videos likely made with illegally trained AI using stolen images, highplainsdem Apr 2025 #2

That's a strong opinion. While I respect it, True Dough Apr 2025 #3

No, generative AI is NOT a "live and let live" situation, because you're supporting unethical and highplainsdem Apr 2025 #7

Drawing any comparisons to slave labor or child.abuse True Dough Apr 2025 #8

Stealing people's intellectual property to compete with them is comparable to slave labor. And the harm highplainsdem Apr 2025 #9

This is pretty cool. Emile Apr 2025 #4

Made me wonder... littlemissmartypants Apr 2025 #5

Is that a good or bad thing, LMSP? True Dough Apr 2025 #6

To me this is very eerie. Using photos of long dead humans and in essence bringing them back to life. Fla Dem Apr 2025 #10

Very cool! bif Apr 2025 #11