Gregory's ServerSo, I guess I now need to add a "don't edit my speaker shot photos with AI without my consent and running the result by me before publishing it first" addition to my speaker conditions?
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@sabik it's sad that we need to explicitly say "don't edit pictures of us without our consent" ?!?! Sounds like basic politeness  @stephaniewalter This same thing happened to a female MP in Australia at the start of 2024 "Georgie Purcell: Nine News Melbourne's doctored MP image causes sexism fury" - BBC News @stephaniewalter "If you are using genAI I don't want anything to do with your conference" seems simpler. @RogerBW they don't always tell upfront. A conference generated photos of all the speakers to put on the badges and didn't tell us upfront for example. Mixed feeling at that time, but what can you do if you weren't warned, it's hard to foresee everything. @stephaniewalter yikes, seems like it was just a mistake "I'll use AI to help this photo fit better". I feel like so many people are going to fall into these problems by not realizing the implications. Years ago, long before AI, a publisher decided to edit a book cover photo of mine to make my photo more smiley. So it's not new, but before it was definitely intentional, now your intention might be to create a better crop of the photo, and instead you get this sort of thing.  @rachelandrew @stephaniewalter And platforms could possibly start doing this by default â rather than letterbox or crop, have AI extend the image to the correct aspect ratio Smartphones are already automatically making manipulations to photos taken â blurring the line between authenticity and retouching And eg. FaceTime adjusts your eyes in realtime to adjust for the offset of the front-camera and make eye contact look like eye contact Whatâs the next step of approachability enchantment? @rachelandrew @stephaniewalter There are some CDN:s that provide it: https://cloudinary.com/blog/generative-fill-ai-powered-outpainting @stephaniewalter @rachelandrew Yeah, way worse âGenerative Fill works with Cloudinaryâs padding crop modes and leverages the new gen_fill option for backgroundsâ Seems like itâs the basic image transformation crop mode of an image CDN that has gotten a new background option besides classic color fill that now instead AI generates a full for the empty areas @stephaniewalter @rachelandrew âAutomatically create and deliver AI-powered e-commerce experiences faster, that increase conversions, and boost sales.â âGenerative Fill expands images with matching content to perfectly fit various aspect ratios at scale.â @rachelandrew yeah I think it wasn't intentional, but if you use the smart cropping in Photoshop you know it will change the photo with AI so, at least tell the person and ask for validation before publishing. You would not have chatGPT rewrite the speaker's title or description without double checking with them before (I hope?). @stephaniewalter maybe âdonât edit at all, here are several formats/sizes so that you wonâtâ. Better to not have it AIâd regardless of the appropriateness of what you see of the end product. IMHO. |
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It's not the first example, either; an Australian politician was similarly undressed by a TV station some months back