You make some good points, but you seem to focus on the pornography aspect too much. The same thing could happen with a human-generated ad, or as a result of human-controlled A/B testing.
Also, you do not need an artificial intelligence to generate a nude picture. Photos exist; you could probably find hundred thousands of them on Reddit alone. Someone who runs scam ads would just steal one of them.
At some moment, a few years ago, there were suddenly many YouTube videos that contained one frame showing a half-undressed young woman, in a video about something else. The frame was put exactly in the position where YouTube chose it for a screenshot to be displayed in the list of recommended videos. The more people clicked because of the screenshot, the more successful the video was from the algorithm’s perspective, so it was even more recommended. (Then YouTube did something to prevent this; I don’t remember what.)
The most obvious countermeasure Twitter could institute here is requiring all self-serve ads to be reviewed by a human before being shown to the general public.
Indeed. I find it weird how no one is considered responsible for the ads they show.
Ah, it’s more like… you are complaining about two things, which have little in common, in my opinion. If your problem is with being shown an almost-pornographic ad, that could also happen in worlds without AI. If you are concerned about what AI could do, this seems like a very small problem to me; if the most visible outcome of AI is more porn, I’d say that as a humanity we have successfully dodged a bullet.
You make some good points, but you seem to focus on the pornography aspect too much. The same thing could happen with a human-generated ad, or as a result of human-controlled A/B testing.
Also, you do not need an artificial intelligence to generate a nude picture. Photos exist; you could probably find hundred thousands of them on Reddit alone. Someone who runs scam ads would just steal one of them.
At some moment, a few years ago, there were suddenly many YouTube videos that contained one frame showing a half-undressed young woman, in a video about something else. The frame was put exactly in the position where YouTube chose it for a screenshot to be displayed in the list of recommended videos. The more people clicked because of the screenshot, the more successful the video was from the algorithm’s perspective, so it was even more recommended. (Then YouTube did something to prevent this; I don’t remember what.)
Indeed. I find it weird how no one is considered responsible for the ads they show.
Did you mean to write that I focus on the AI aspect too much?
Ah, it’s more like… you are complaining about two things, which have little in common, in my opinion. If your problem is with being shown an almost-pornographic ad, that could also happen in worlds without AI. If you are concerned about what AI could do, this seems like a very small problem to me; if the most visible outcome of AI is more porn, I’d say that as a humanity we have successfully dodged a bullet.