A highly disturbing 1970s horror film called” The Evil Seed” features an AI organic supercomputer- rightly named Proteus- imprisoning and having a baby body to reside in.
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You ca n’t blame a hyperintelligent supercomputer for at least trying, even though we’re talking mid-’70s Julie Christie here. I watched that film simply again as a preteen, probably edited for broadcast, and it has stuck with me all these years.  ,
After reading the odd story of Elizabeth Laraki and the AI-enhanced image editor that gently unbuttoned her sweater,” The Demon Seed,” which is now what has come to mind after 40+ times, for reasons perhaps best left to the psychologist’s chairs.  ,
Laraki is no man to high-tech. In addition to being a design partner at tech startup Electric Capital ( great name, BTW), her bio says she’s also a vet of big names like Google Maps, Facebook, and YouTube, and specializes in” simplifying Web3 UX + AI Design”.
Simply put, Laraki is one of the persons whose efforts make the top end of high-tech accessible to both novices and advanced users.  , Whatever you might think of those firms , personally , — and I think everybody here knows I wo n’t do any business with the first two and limit as much as I can using the third — there’s no denying that they’re all easy to use.  ,
Think Laraki’s surprise when she noticed a look of her underwear on the picture for a meeting where she’ll become speaking.
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“ I just saw an ad for the conference with my photo and was like, wait, that does n’t look right“, Laraki tweeted on Tuesday. “ Is my blouse showing in my profile photograph and I’ve always noticed…? That’s crazy“.
So she pulled up the original version of her headshot and, sure enough, there was n’t even a hint of bra.
” I put the two images side by side and I’m like WTF.
Yes, look at what transpired yesterday when PJ’s own Matt Margolis attempted to get Grok to produce a photo of Kamala Harris ( as in “liar, liar” ) with her pants on fire.
Evil tobacco!
But up to Laraki. The” very contrite” meeting host learned that the person in charge of their cultural media just had a cropped, flat version of her picture, but the site required something more vertical. She then extended Laraki’s sweater using an AI increase image tool that was included in Photoshop and other reporters.
Laraki claimed that the publication “believed that children’s shirts may be unbuttoned deeper, with some pressure around the buttons, and revealing a little something underneath.”
Definitely, this must be another instance of AI’s inherent bias against women — the adult gaze hard-coded into LLMs.
Well, no.
You may have noticed that conservative photos are a little outnumbered by livelier shots, on the off chance that this is your first online experience. And most of those more concealing images were most likely to be those of people. I’m not referring to actual porn, which AI does a fantastic job of filtering out. I’m referring to the glamorous photos, typically selfies, that millions of people post frequently to their social media accounts.
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So the AI director who edited Laraki’s photo concluded that it should display a little bit more of her than is appropriate for a business profile.
There’s nothing ominous going on here, no proto-Proteus getting its blows by ramping up the sex charm of children’s business shots. Just one more sudden bend in the rapid development of even our basic AI equipment.
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