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I don't see why this is incorrect. It seems ever since DALL-E, Midjourney, caught on, it seems like we've got more and more people trying to 'filter out' incorrect uses of their software under the assumption people cannot be trusted to just use it for whatever they want.

And it depresses me, because well... imagine if other pieces of tech were treated this way. If the internet or crypto or computers or whatever were heavily limited/restricted so the 'wrong people' couldn't use them for bad things. We'd consider it ridiculous, yet it's somehow accepted for these image generation systems.



Imagine image editors worked like this. Only over the internet, with rules attached and if a human moderator finds you are breaking them then you get banned.

It sounds riddiculous, yet Photoshop is more dangerous than DALL-E in all regards.


Nuclear tech is treated this way (much stricter even).


I think there might be at least a small difference between nuclear tech and image generation, at least as far as the effects that could happen if it goes wrong.


Get back to me when you can vaporise a city with a AI generated image.


You just need the right AI generated image.


Part of me kinda wants to find that image.


good cryptography was treated this way for a while, at least by the US government.


Yes, and look how many amazing uses of cryptography have proliferated after it was made available, unrestricted, to the masses.




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