AI Images in Google Search Results Have Opened a Portal To Hell (404media.co) 70
An anonymous reader shares a report: Google image search is serving users AI-generated images of celebrities in swimsuits and not indicating that the images are AI-generated. In a few instances, even when the search terms do not explicitly ask for it, Google image search is serving AI-generated images of celebrities in swimsuits, but the celebrities are made to look like underage children. If users click on these images, they are taken to AI image generation sites, and in a couple of cases the recommendation engines on these sites leads users to AI-generated nonconsensual nude images and AI-generated nude images of celebrities made to look like children.
The news is yet another example of how the tools people have used to navigate the internet for decades are overwhelmed by the flood of AI-generated content even when they are not asking for it and which almost exclusively use people's work or likeness without consent. At times, the deluge of AI content makes it difficult for users to differentiate between what is real and what is AI-generated.
The news is yet another example of how the tools people have used to navigate the internet for decades are overwhelmed by the flood of AI-generated content even when they are not asking for it and which almost exclusively use people's work or likeness without consent. At times, the deluge of AI content makes it difficult for users to differentiate between what is real and what is AI-generated.
That's the point (Score:3, Interesting)
When true information gets in the way of a regime's goals, then any regime will attempt to disrupt the propagation of true information.
Poisoning search results with fake content is such a tactic.
Re:That's the point (Score:4, Insightful)
When true information gets in the way of a regime's goals, then any regime will attempt to disrupt the propagation of true information.
Poisoning search results with fake content is such a tactic.
I'll grant you that "any regime" will exploit AI for its benefit. But that doesn't mean that "any AI" is from a regime.
Like any other technology, AI can be used for good or bad goals. Distortion of the truth is the problem, not the existence of AI.
Re:That's the point (Score:4, Insightful)
Why exactly are you searching for "[CelebrityName] swimsuit" anyway, and why exactly do you think "the regime" is getting involved?
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Why exactly are you searching for "[CelebrityName] swimsuit" anyway,
At least read the fookin summary:
even when the search terms do not explicitly ask for it, Google image search is serving AI-generated images of celebrities in swimsuits
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I'll speculate that this is caused by the image-providers overloading their pages with popular (but irrelevant) google search-terms. In other words, I wouldn't immediately suspect Google of causing the problem.
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Gaming the system, in other words. That's a major failing of modern advertising systems. Ie, Google, not a tech company but actually an advertising company.
Remember the good old days when advertisements were curated? Every advertisement, everywhere, had to have someone approve the advertisement, whether it be on a billboard, radio, television, etc. Even an ad on a company's front door for the company's own product required somebody had to approve that. These days, most ads are automated. Google does no
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It may get a massive hit to profits if it DOESN'T start curating this stuff. If there's a defamation suit, Google will be the party with the deepest pockets.
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I think the topic was search results (not ads) but I get you. What you're describing is a recommendation system that customizes what a user sees on a page, based on demographic information about them. Companies that pay for ad placement understandably want to pay for eyeballs that might be interested.
The technology isn't just used for ads, but also for custom pages on vendor sites, such as Amazon product pages that show you what other people also looked at or purchased. And so on.
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Search results in Google are ads, since ads pop to the top if you game the system.
Re:That's the point (Score:4)
Yes, that's weasel wording by a click/rage source. If you look at the image in their teaser, the search string is garbled but ended in "swimsuit". I conclude that the narrow meaning is that they did "not explicitly ask for" modified or AI-generated images -- but that clearly did ask for swimsuit images.
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Exactly. They give no examples of "celebrities in swimsuits" being returned when the person isn't looking for said celebrity in a swimsuit. Their complaint is that they're not real images of celebrities in swimsuits. Which is just inane.
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The problem isn't that your search returned relevant results that happen to be AI generated. The problem is your kid's search for "peppa pig coloring pages" returns AI generated images best described as "naked statues of Natalie Portman, covered in hot grits".
I can't wait for this stupid fad to be over...
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Malice is often the result of incompetence. If one is competent that usually don't have to resort to evil. If Hitler had actually been a decent painter...
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Thing is, you don't get into the Vienna Arts Academy by being decent at your art.
Portal to Hell (Score:2)
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If you're going to hell because of one sin, why not make it 1,000 sins and be a legend.
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I know i have broken at least one commandment over 10,000 times.
Thou shalt not masturbate to rsilvergun?
Paywalled content (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Paywalled content (Score:5, Funny)
But the only link that is not behind a paywall is an AI summary of the article wearing a swimsuit and looking like a child.
Re:Paywalled content (Score:4, Informative)
not enough underage cacodemon action (Score:1)
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Please don't link to articles that are paywalled
You attempted to RTFA? This is Slashdot - what's wrong with you?
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Likely the attempt was not to read, but to look at those celebrities in swimsuits (tip: the images are pixelated and unintelligible)
That post looks AI generated (Score:5, Interesting)
Since when do real human beings repeat themselves like that?
Re:That post looks AI generated (Score:4, Informative)
It's a submission from 404 Media. They're low quality, even compared to other blog sites.
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Also, I expected more of a Doom 2 kind of imagery
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And the images in the article were just as pixelated as Doom 2 or even worse.
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Hm, never been there. Are they low quality because they use AI generated content?
"opened a portal to hell" (Score:1)
Well, that's what AI is good at. [creator.nightcafe.studio]
So, Just Like Tumbler and Pinterest except with... (Score:2)
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This has never happened on the internet before.
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Labour is, has always been, and always will be, self-expanding to fill in whatever jobs machines can't do. If only 1/10th as much human labour is needed per unit production, humans will consume 10 times as much. It's human nature. If there's some specific thing that they really don't need 10x as much, don't worry, they'll consume 20x as much in some other field to make up for it. It won't stop when everyone has a house and a couple cars. It won't stop when they all have private planes and yachts and pri
AI (Score:3)
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So, the search programs should develop an AI to identify AI created items and block them. The AI programs can duel to death, while the rest of us get on with life.
Do you want SkyNet? Because that's how you get SkyNet. ;-P
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What he's describing is a GAN. The basic idea is to have two models, one to generate things, called the generator (G), and another to discriminate between real and generated things, called the discriminator (D). The concept is very simple. We use D to improve the quality of G, and G to improve the quality of D. As G gets better at making fakes, so D gets better at identifying them.
This works remarkably well, as you might imagine, but they will not continue to improve forever. Too much training and your
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Yes, I get all that. My post was a joke. Maybe a bad one, and maybe not obvious.
My point was that when AIs start to fight each other, one will "win" and then ... look for other combatants?
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I had wondered, but there are enough singularity nuts here that it seemed worth the (admittedly low) effort.
I look forward to your Kumite of AIs.
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They could just detect images of 12 year olds with D cup boobs and 90% of the AI crap would go away.
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The Agenda (Score:2, Troll)
The nightmare scenario is if people run off and start communicating with each other where big tech can't monetize and where big government can't fear-monger.
Up to now the business model has been to set up a tool booth and a facial recognition camera on every road where communication between individuals might take place.
The future business model will be to poison all information, visual or otherwise, with the suspicion that it was generated by AI. That will artificially create a need to "protect" people from
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Re: The Agenda (Score:2)
Enshittification in full swing (Score:2)
Re:Enshittification in full swimsuit (Score:2)
Hapsburg to Cronenburg to Gray Goo (Score:2)
AI image generation is pumping out so much garbage that it's going to start feeding on itself and I'm awaiting the inevitable Hapsburg (heck we kind of started there didn't we?) then Cronenburg and finally if allowed to keep consuming the output of AI we'll get to whatever image generation version of Gray Goo is..
Sadly, I'm sure this won't stop the loss of jobs for graphic artists and other artist types...
I used to enjoy dystopian cyber future genres back in the 1980s - now that I'm living in one - not so
Well, there's only one answer for that. (Score:2)
Where's the Doom Marine when you need him?
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What's the implication in this? (Score:5, Insightful)
Are nude children hell? Are nude celebrities hell? Are nude celebrity children hell? Are nude children with celebrity heads on them hell? I'm just trying to set my gages for what, exactly, is hellish about seeing nude children. Anybody that's ever given a kid a bath or changed a diaper is familiar with hell now? Great.
In the coming crapflood apocalypse, this is pretty small potatoes. It's people looking for smut and getting a different level of smut than they wanted. Boo hoo. Ain't like that part of the crapflood is gonna cause massive damage to anything other than some fragile psyches that were clearly already verging on broken.
I'm more concerned about how quickly the crapflood is rising. Now that we have AI everything spouting nonsense everywhere, it's only a matter of time before we get crapflooded to the point that nothing on the Internet will have any reality behind it. I mean, we were already doing a pretty good job of that ourselves. Now we have AI to help us crapflood more efficiently! Our information age is starting to grind to a halt before our eyes. Gonna be one heck of an interesting ride over the next few years, while the completely out of control corporations do whatever they want to the rest of us, as our government sits back and goes, "*BLINK*BLINK* Um, what?"
The Internet had its time. Now, as with all things, that time has come to a slow, grinding, churning, toxic end. RIP information age. It was fun while it lasted. What a time to live through.
I welcome our disinformation age and its AI driven fountain of shit. Bow to the new masters, controlled by the old masters, spewing nonsense over all of humanity.
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This has been considered 'bad' behaviour for 30 years: Which is why we have mothers, mostly in Florida, complaining about children seeing Drawings of nude children, and also, statues of nude men, and also, the ugly truth of what she did to turn into a mother.
It's "think of the children" censorship claiming children are saved by ignoring normal, daily behaviour.
You probably can't remember the last time you saw a nude child on Tv.: It's reached the point of subtle sexism, where little girls aren't on Tv
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Gages are hell. Gauges are fine though.
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In some parts of the world, images of AI generated children in the nude can get you arrested. From the point of view of the search engines, they probably don't want innocent searches for some pop star to return AI generated porn of them with a child's face, for the sake of the user as much as their own reputation.
I'm not a child psychologist, but people who are child psychologists say that even AI generated porn of real children can be psychologically harmful to them. Apparently "get over it, it's not real"
hell portal missing (Score:1)
Please stop with the clickbait stupidity... (Score:1)
Slashvertisement FTL. Go cry in your church that you likely need to reread the book from yourself.
Wait! What? (Score:2)
So you're telling me that the US Presidents didn't actually have mullets [nypost.com]?
That's a strange definition of hell (Score:2)
I'll admit, I don't always appreciate the sight of nude people...it rather depends on their physique...but "Hell"???
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Underage children = hellspawn
Because nobody fucking saw this coming. (Score:2)
Onset of brand destruction (Score:2)
THE point of Google is fast, accurate searches. That's it. That's how their brand name became a common verb (as in "google it"). Anybody could go to Google and get a fast-loading uncluttered page with basically the corporate logo and a search box to type into. While the search results were never perfect (how COULD they be when pages are changing every moment all over the planet?) they were as good as a person could get for free.
Now, because some moron somewhere at Google has the AI bug and (like the little
Re:Onset of brand destruction (Score:4, Interesting)
Virtually none of the errors that people were posting all over were "computer invented". They were human invented. Eating rocks? Humans. Glue on pizza? Humans. Muslim presidents? Humans. It was a RAG summarization model, tasked with summarizing the top search results. And by and large it did its job properly.
The problem wasn't with the AI model; the problem was with the very concept. The notion of summarizing the top search results without any attempt to assess their credibility, sarcasm, trolling, etc, and then presenting it up front as an authoritative answer, is idiotic. You can train a model to assess those things, but they did not, whether due to wanting to keep the model lightweight (so it's fast and cheap to run), or just a sheer lack of insight on their part.
Amusingly, at one point I presented Google's plan to ChatGPT and asked ChatGPT what it thought of the plan. It noted a few positives but then launched into a long laundry list of potential negatives (not just how bad or dangerous the results could be, but the brand/reputation damage that would result from it). Every single one of the potential negatives it listed played out. Aka: if Google execs had bothered to ask a good LLM, it could have told them how dumb their idea was. ;)
All content needs to be signed. (Score:1)
It's going to get much worse. Social media already has negative value, and search is not far behind. Both will get worse until big tech embraces cryptographically signing all content. Finally, an actual use case for a distributed crypto ledger. Every photo you take, and every document you write, needs to be signed. Anything not signed is not trustworthy.
Adding metadata that says "This is AI generated" does not count. It will just be removed, and there will be tools that simply don't do it.
An image signed b
Not the first baby-face (Score:2)
Disney's Tinkerbell, is a baby-fied face on a beautiful woman's body. Japanese anime, with it's big eyes, is also reminiscent of a baby-fied face.
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those are drawings; no humans were abused or violated in their drawing
how can you draw any connection to actual people being debased?
Better than pictures of me in a swimsuit. (Score:3)
Now that would not only need an AI warning.
As Google I would be more worried about fake pages (Score:3)
Lately the whole ranking is littered with these fake webshop pages.