Yeah this is horrific. I have gotten into multiple arguments with people on this site who think this is totally fine, and not at all creepy. It’s a violation of privacy and (often, but distressingly not always) a violation of the law.
Definitely creepy and definitely a violation of privacy (especially when they get shared and even if not, singe most of these tools are cloud-hosted).
My only caveat is that teen culture regarding such things changes all the time. Boomers tried to ban my generation from sexting, because it could be abused. Didnt work obviously.
This is not actions done by the two parties and could truly lead to suicides and ruined futures. This is very different.
Feels like the advances in AI are generally bad for everyone except nvidia and cloud providers. (You could argue its great for someone who can’t code, but chatgpt and others are quite misleading, and I think they might be better off just learning to code.) AI was interesting when it was a bunch of researchers showing off cool demos, now its just horrifying.
There are examples of good things from it — the species ID suggestion tools on iNaturalist come to mind.
A lot of the generative tools are mostly destructive though.
Yeah, although that example kinda is one of the older, not very commercialized, tech demo uses of ai. It still could be misused, but the harm that could come from that specific app is very very minimal, compared to most uses of ai now.
