"It’s also not mysterious how badly [MML] backprop systems work sometimes. Similarity in their latent space is only intermittently similar to our notions of similarity. If you ask DALL-E for a photorealistic image of Vladimir Putin rollerskating in Red Square, you may get something that is astonishingly like that, except that he has three legs. We think having three legs makes someone extremely dissimilar to Putin, but image generators don’t."
It's not just that Midjourney #AI#imageGenerator used artworks of Blek le Rat & Shepard Fairey #Obey only, without their consent in pre-training aka preparation of #copyright violations on a massive scale.
The fact that two former Trump attorneys have now confirmed — via guilty pleas — that Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election included criminal acts should be a much bigger story.