{"id":24894,"date":"2024-07-15T08:10:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T16:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2024\/07\/15\/news-18624\/"},"modified":"2024-07-15T08:10:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T16:10:09","slug":"news-18624","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2024\/07\/15\/news-18624\/","title":{"rendered":"How an AI \u201cartist\u201d stole a woman\u2019s face, with Ali Diamond (Lock and Code S05E15)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week on the Lock and Code podcast…<\/em><\/p>\n

Full-time software engineer and part-time Twitch streamer Ali Diamond is used to seeing herself on screen, probably because she\u2019s the one who turns the camera on.<\/p>\n

But when Diamond received a Direct Message (DM) on Twitter earlier this year, she learned that her likeness had been recreated<\/a> across a sample of AI-generated images, entirely without her consent.<\/p>\n

On the AI art sharing platform Civitai, Diamond discovered that a stranger had created an \u201cAI image model\u201d that was fashioned after her. The model was available for download so that, conceivably, other members of the community could generate their own images of Diamond\u2014or, at least, the AI version of her. To show just what the AI model was capable of, its creator shared a few examples of what he\u2019d made: There was AI Diamond standing what looked at a music festival, AI Diamond with her head tilted up and smiling, and AI Diamond wearing, what the real Diamond would later describe, as an \u201cugly ass ****ing hat.\u201d<\/p>\n

AI image generation is seemingly lawless right now.<\/p>\n

Popular AI image generators, like Stable Diffusion, Dall-E, and Midjourney, have faced valid criticisms from human artists that these generators are copying their labor to output derivative works, a sort of AI plagiarism. AI image moderation, on the other hand, has posed a problem not only for AI art communities, but for major social media networks, too, as anyone can seemingly create AI-generated images of someone else\u2014without that person\u2019s consent\u2014and distribute those images online. It happened earlier this year when AI-generated, sexually explicit images of Taylor Swift were seen by millions of people on Twitter<\/a> before the company took those images down.<\/p>\n

In that instance, Swift had the support of countless fans who reported each post they found on Twitter that shared the images.<\/p>\n

But what happens when someone has to defend themselves against an AI model made of their likeness, without their consent?<\/p>\n

Today, on the Lock and Code podcast with host David Ruiz, we speak with Ali Diamond about finding an AI model of herself, what the creator had to say about making the model, and what the privacy and security implications are for everyday people whose likenesses have been stolen against their will.<\/p>\n

For Diamond, the experience was unwelcome and new, as she\u2019d never experimented using AI image generation on herself.<\/p>\n

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“I’ve never put my face into any of those AI services. As someone who has a love of cybersecurity and an interest in it… you’re collecting faces to do what?”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Tune in today to listen to the full conversation.<\/p>\n

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Show notes and credits:<\/em><\/p>\n

Intro Music: \u201cSpellbound\u201d by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com<\/a>)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/<\/a>
Outro Music: \u201cGood God\u201d by Wowa (unminus.com)<\/p>\n

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